Johoda makes all Indians sound like defenseless children. ... This book educates the audience on how there were brave Indians. ... The Trail Of Tears is an interesting book and a little boring at the same time. The audience would have liked this book more if Jahoda put a little action in to it. If Jahoda would have gotten into details about the deaths and adventures I would've been more interested in this book. ...
Ted Steinberg, in his book, American Green, depicts the lives and thoughts of numerous Americans and their obsessiveness over their gardens amid a time of incredible advancement. The book furnishes the reader with stories and articles that vary from outrageously tremendous yards, trimmed by hand and scissors, to lawn-mower racing. ... Albeit it might sound ridiculous, Steinberg also expresses that, "Even in the wake of Rachel Carson's smash hit Silent Spring, Americans in 1963 used about as much cash battling crabgrass with concoction weed controls as they helped the American Cancer Socie...
In Steven Haver's book, "Hip Hop; the illustrated history of Break dancing, Rap music and Graffiti," he states that there were three major events that took place in the Bronx which led to the birth of hip-hop. ... Dick Hebdige in his book, "Cut N" Mix" describes Jamaican "toasting" as when the DJ talks over the music he played. ... With the increasing demand for R&B and the absence of a band on the island that could play this kind of music, Jamaicans adapted and created sound systems. ... Dub musicians such as King Tubby isolated percussion breaks because dancers at sound systems prefe...
Why not let a person purchase a book and place the text on the internet? ... First, if the library purchases several copies of a book, when a person, checks out the book numerous times, the library still owns only two copies. When the book is handed over to the person, the copyright follows as well. On the other hand, when a book is bought, either by a company or individual, and is displayed on the internet, numerous people have the ability to access the book. People have the ability to copy or download the book onto their computer, thus creating numerous copies of the book from th...
Whether you are listening to music or reading a book, newspaper, magazine you will come across something that has been censored. ... Censorship in the United States, like in Fahrenheit 451, prohibits people from hearing all the facts, puts limits on one's creativity and expressions, and conforms different works to make it all sound the same. ... In Staples article, What Johnny Can't Read, parents are pointed out as a reason for book censorship. ... What they do not understand is that it is not a library's job to keep the book out of the reach of public, it's theirs. ...
She pays a great deal of attention to detail, which although historically irrelevant, does give the book flavor. For example, the book begins by telling us of the uncomfortable humidity in Philadelphia prior to the Convention. ... This made kept the book interesting as I found the somewhat irrelevant side facts quite intriguing and it actually made the book more like a story. There are many things that I really enjoyed reading in my book. ... Not just another book on the Constitution, Miracle at Philadelphia is superb historical writing by an author well versed in the primary sources. ...
Periodically, the US Intelligence service picks up cavatation sounds, compressions and decompression waves in the water with it sonar bouyies that are located throughout the Atlantic Ocean. ... A series of thrilling and very technical discussions and explainations of the naval vessals and their design and use is detailed int he book to much effort by the author and far more detailed than can be included in a book report. ... The book ends with the loss of life of one of the senior crew members who desired to see Montana, and now to be buried there. ... The book is of greater length and deta...
Journal Response "Hunger for Memory" Richard Rodriguez in his book "Hunger of Memory" writes about the psychological impact of lack of heritage in his adulthood for trying to blend both heritages, American and Hispanic in his childhood. ... Rodriguez states, "My parents would say something to me and I would feel embraced by the sounds of their words." (396) It was his language, and the only one that made sense to him. ... I remember many times feeling home sick for the need of familiar sounds and understanding which led me to spend long nights on the telephone. ...
According to the World Book Encyclopedia, euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases. ... Although, euthanasia sounds like a wonderful thing, many people are opposed to the idea of taking another persons life. ... Also doctors are only allowed to get permission from a patient who is of sound mind and not suffering from depression. ...
For a book that seems to look down upon racism, these passages are rather confusing. ... That is not to say that the book is not exciting, quite the contrary in fact. ... Another appreciable characteristic of the book is the reference to the "Last of the Mohicans". ... Cooper believes that Native American languages favor the sound of silence, the kind of silence looked down upon in disdain by French and English languages. ... For this reason, the book is not deserving of its genre classification, "Historical Fiction". ...
This book tells about his life growing up in America, and it tells a lot about the discrimination he dealt with growing up. ... This book is good in helping non-minorities understand what minorities do go through, and it helped me understand some of the different things they endure. ... The word minority is sometimes used to sound like a bad thing. ... I think his book did a good job of portraying to the reader how it actually was for him and his family. ... Through reading this book I understand somewhat more of what minorities in our country have to go through. ...
However, this book sold more copies than anything else Whitman published in his lifetime. ... The first edition of the book was paid by his own, so he only printed 795 copies. The book appeared on the fourth of July, as a kind of literary independence day. Nevertheless, the book had very poor sales. ... I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book i...
The reason that he joined the Air Corps is because the recruiter made the Air Corps sound more interesting that the Navy recruiter. ... He skipped right over the pilot school and was picked to fly the jet propelled X-1 to break the sound barrier. Three months later it was done, and Chuck's name was in the record book. ...
"Try as I might, I could never control my reflexes and keep them from reacting to those sounds"(p.270). ... After reading this book, one realizes just how early many of these soldiers were leaving to go of to war, many of which had very little training. ...
My personal thought about this is that this sounds too good to be true. ... Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis in their book "Democracy and Capitalism" write: "The key to understand democracy is to find a way to present the mutual evolution of democracy rules and democratic sentiments and capacities, not as a teleological imperative but as the positive outcome of the constrained project of collective social actors". ...
There are many people that realize what problems Native Americans deal with that are expressed in the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. ... To begin, one of the problems expressed in the book, is the living conditions of the Native Americans, this a huge problem because majority Native Americans live in low quality houses, this are major problem because it has a huge impact on the family and the community. ... Now that sounds crazy but with the lack of vitamins, the crippled immune system and the enclosed living space there is a high chance of sickness spreading. ...
To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy " a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. ... Copies of his book being found in the possession of slaves led to ...
The book documents how meat is perceived by people of different class, race and gender, as well as going behind the scenes of the American meat industry. ... Purcell's voice started to sound like a woman's and even started growing breasts because of the antibiotics injected into the chicken (Ozeki 117). ... Jane who is biracial, half Japanese and half white, and her mother were the only few Asian Americans in the novel as well, but their implications on meat and class were not mentioned; although Jane does turn into a slight vegetarian at the end of the book for political reasons reg...
Whitman's first book received mixed reviews due to the subject matter of the material. ... In the last few verses of "Song of Myself", for example, he glorifies the differences between himself and others by writing, "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Compare this with a more rhymed and classical sounding piece by Whitman's contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodious": "Ye deliverers of Athens from shame! ...
Is it Just, or just another way to bend the rules? Is capital punishment just? The death penalty is a controversial issue for most people. Supporter's claim that it eliminates repeat offenders, deters potential murderers and is the ultimate retribution. Opponents denounce it as murder, say that i...
At first the little book of strange verse seemed a failure. Emerson, however, recognized its greatness, and now most people agree that it was the first book of truly American poetry. ... Some condemned the book, but Ralph Waldo Emerson saw its merit. In the 1856 edition, Whitman printed Emerson's letter of praise, which called the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom yet contributed to American literature.""... With its cloud of skirmishers in advance, With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now and irregular volley, The swarming ranks...
Gilderhus, author of History and Historians and expert on the subject, states in his book "History as a field of knowledge is broad given that there are virtually infinite possibilities to history inquiry...you can fill in the blanks that's what makes history come alive is that you may seek to research your interests. " Professor John Ulloa, instructor of history and anthropology, states "History is like a multifaceted diamond. ... In the book we are reading, Major Problems In Latina/o History, the essay written by Pedro Caban, "Chicana/o Studies and Puerto Rican Studies to Latina/o Studi...
In the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez, we learn about how four girls grow up: moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. ... Her parents thought she was "carried away with the sound of her voice." ...
First Encounters: The Confrontation between Cortes and Montezuma In the book Discovering the American Past, Wheeler does an extraordinary job detailing the events that took place some 20,000-40,000 years ago. ... It seems that when Cortes is describing the Native Americans in his letter to King Charles I of Spain he almost sounds disgusted, like they are scum of the earth. ...
"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... John De Crevecoeur takes on an interesting outlook on the American Identity Crisis in his book The Language of Literature: American Literature; "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. ...
