How the Other Half Lives Book Report I think that the introduction did a very good job of preparing the reader for the stories about the tenements in New York. ... This book was influenced strongly by the writer's perspectives and opinions. ... Without the advances this book would not have been as powerful. ... This book would not exist without flashlight powder and the detective camera. ... I could use this book very effectively in the classroom. ...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Overall the book is eloquently written and the wording is perfect as so that the reader is not cause up in terminology and language and can instead focus on the premises and ideas. ... The book is well written and offers many alternate sources of information. ... Census Bureau published a report called Changes in Areas with Concentrated Poverty. The report tracks income changes due to poverty throughout the country. ... Hellmann does not offer a countered view to the findings in the report she is just offering up the information that the report states. ...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1963 the commission issued a report detailing employment discrimination, unequal pay, legal inequality, and insufficient support services for working women. This report led directly to the passage of the Equal Pay Act that same year. ... Friedan gained her first public attention when she published the infamous book "The Feminine Mystique". In her book Friedan addressed the question on women's minds everywhere "Is this all?" ...

• Word Count: 564
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In 1963 the commission issued a report detailing employment discrimination, unequal pay, legal inequality, and insufficient support services for working women. This report led directly to the passage of the Equal Pay Act that same year. ... Friedan gained her first public attention when she published the infamous book "The Feminine Mystique". In her book Friedan addressed the question on women's minds everywhere "Is this all?" ...

• Word Count: 560
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Book Report: "Where the Domino Fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-1990" BY MARK T. TRUST Topic of The Book The topic of the book is the Vietnam War, specifically dealing with American involvement in the war. ... Central Ideas of The Book The book attempts to offer a full and unbiased view of the history of the Vietnam War. ... Opinion on the Book One thing noticeable about the book is that the story is told with little bias, considering that it is an American account. The book manages to present the many sides of the Vietnam story. ...

• Word Count: 909
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... Later that year, the New York Times reports that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed. ... Huts were reported to be covered with dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth. ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However the report was false because they had expended only 15 shells, which was miniscule compared to what they had aboard all 4 of their protected cruisers. ... "The action terminated shortly after three o'clock and, of about one hundred men reported fit for duty in the morning, twenty-one were found dead, and sixty-three wounded."(Parsons 226) This excerpt from Parson's surgical account wasn't uncommon during the early 1800's and prior, but with the New Navy's technological advantage over the Spanish at Manila Bay in 1898, the reported 1 death in such a na...

• Word Count: 1192
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"A parent asks that a book be banned because he does not want his child to be exposed to it- (Coatney 17). As a matter of fact "the past eighteen months have brought a sharp increase in attempts to censor and ban books from schools - at least triple the number reported in the late 1970's- (Banning 6). ... It should be up to the individual whether they want to read a particular book, not their parents. ... Teenagers are competent enough to comprehend a book's theme, overall meaning, and lesson. If they decide a book is objectionable, then and only then, they may choose not to read...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Author Juliet Schor, who wrote the book " The Overworked American" in 1992, concluded that in 1990 Americans worked an average of nearly one month more per year than in 1970. Moreover, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics report released last year, more than 25 million Americans – 205 percent of the total workforce – reported they worked at least 49 hours per week in 1999 and now in 2014 it's up to 65 hours per week. ... As reported by International Business Time, American workers also aren't guaranteed a paid day off if they or their family members get sick,...

• Word Count: 731
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to the book, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Implementation, Significance, and Impact (by Wilma H Fletcher, Theodore Plette, Preface, para. 3) state, "Since the market's peak in early 2000, U.S stocks have lost about $7 trillion in value". ... Before SOX was mandated, companies would self maintain their own financial reports, making it easy for them to hide and maneuver numbers around to make it look good on paper. ... Both the third party auditor and company management have to report sufficiency of the internal controls and finances. ... According to Sarbanes-oxley-101.com, &...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the book there are many racist remarks made. ... John Corey: "Well, the Muslims don't drink, I can't spell their f-ing names on my reports, and the women can't be seduced... Throughout the book racism and sexist remarks are made quite frequently. ... John changed the course of the book by attempting to be one step ahead of Asad's moves. ... Without these three factors this book would have been effected greatly....

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A book was written for him about him, and Timothy McVeih wanted to be caught. ... For people to go in and tell him that they want to write a book about his life story and the bombing, in his mind it's making him feel like a hero. ... In the book that I read about terrorism by Steven Anzovin, he gives ten ways to fight terrorism, and I think that they are great ways. ... The media loves the blood and gore, so it reports all the details. ...

• Word Count: 715
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Another weakness of the book, in my point of view, is the literature itself. ... This book actually bored me to death. ... Sometimes when I read a book about something that I real don't know, it attracts me. ... The book explains McCarthyism to the T but, I wanted to know what was behind all of this. ... The book focuses a lot on McCarthyism and it's affects. ...

• Word Count: 1965
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. ... Many critics say that the Department of Defense, namely the CIA influenced his writing of this book at the very height of the Russian American arms race. ... This doesn't seem very important in Frank's book at first, but it's most likely a very realistic picture of how our society thinks in some ways. ... They began to be self sufficient in as little as a month though the book is not clear they su...

• Word Count: 1812
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Reports from the Front: The Battle for Verdun, 1916 shows that the Germans were resolved to accomplish their goals of the war by any means necessary. This account comes from the book, Source Records of the Great War, vol. ... At the time, it was hard for the rest of the world to not be disparaged by such reports. ... The book makes allusions to reasons why the agreements that were achieved after the war were not whole efforts of peace, but efforts to fortify France's already weak defenses against any future onslaughts. ...

• Word Count: 1028
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The reporting cause of the collapse was that the burning fire weakened the structure and that the jet fuel started to burn which melted the steel columns and thus leading to the collapse. ... The damage reported at the Pentagon was a "single hole, no more than 16 feet in diameter" (Molé 8). ... A firefighter on scene reported, "From my close-up inspection, there's no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon" (Molé 8). ... Included in these materials is a few wooden desks, a wooden stool with an open book on the top of it, and a white computer monitor, al...

• Word Count: 1527
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As the Presidents open top motorcade traveled down past The Texas School Book Depository shots were fired, the President was killed. ... As the Presidents open top motorcade traveled down past The Texas School Book Depository shots were fired, the President was killed. ... This causes people to believe that Oswald was desperate to find a place in history (Warren Commission: Report (1964), n.p.)....

• Word Count: 700
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Church and is an even-keeled figure through the book. ... The court trial is a major plot crescendo in the book. ... Although the book is fiction, one does think that trials like this probably did happen. ... Feraris "Ray" Golden was found hanging from a tree, and some reports say he was found with his hands bound. ... It was then reported that Ray was dating the daughter of a white police officers. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The thesis I am going to be focusing on in this report is the difference between 1st generation Chinese-Americans and 2nd generation Chinese-Americans. ... She won the Commonwealth Club gold award in 1989 and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in 1990. Both awards were for her most popular book, The Joy Luck Club. ... One of the more popular and significant works that Amy Tan has made is The Joy Luck Club, which was finished in 1989, which is Amy Tan's most popular book. ... Amy Tan also made a screenplay on her book The Joy Luck Club. ...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

According to our text book, The Challenge of Democracy there is a lot of history behind civil rights. ... News and World Report minorities are proving that they deserve a chance to be given equal opportunity. ... News and World Report 10/98, 2). ... According to a 1995 government report, white males make up only 29 percent of the workforce, but they hold 95 percent of senior management positions, (Skylar 1995, 115). ...

• Word Count: 1454
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It was, the reports say, scheduled to hit the White House, the residence of the US president. George Bush, the President of the USA, swung into action and ordered US air force to attack Afghanistan and bring the terrorists to book. ...

• Word Count: 606
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. ... Early reports from aerial reconnaissance, returning soldiers, escaping citizens, prisoners of war, neutrals, as well as reports from Polish, Dutch, French and Czech intelligent services, all reported 'unofficial stories' - the State Department viewed them as rumo...

• Word Count: 4346
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Richard is also an editor at Pacific News Service, contributing editor for Harper's magazine, US News, World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. ... Jennefer Hernandez There, are great books that Rodriguez has written such as Hunger of Memory his first book published in 1982. ... In this book he offers him self as an example of the long labor of change about his loneliness, but also his triumph. In his other book, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father publish in 1992, Rodriguez explores the dilemmas of ethnicity and cultural identity. ...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

It was not until Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, written in 1967, that people started to question the use of pesticides. ... In her book, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? ... Broley reported a healthy eagle population until 1947, when he began to notice changes in the eagles" behavior and a decline in the number of eaglets. ... Reports began coming in from all over northern Europe about dead seals washing up on the beaches. ...

• Word Count: 2382
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School