Nonetheless, the essence of her book makes presence in the 113 photographs, exempli gratia, East of San Antonio and its varying features. ... This book of Flanagan's sheds light over Sam Houston with difference. ... The pictures are sent in a chronological manner within the book. ... Her book is without a shade of doubt, visually delightful. ... She made him sound as a hero and a great leader. ...

• Word Count: 2430
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 753
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He kept quiet, listening to the sounds of middle-class American speech, feeling alone. After school he would return to Spanish, to the pleasing soothing sounds of his family language. ... 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 identi...

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

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. ...

• Word Count: 817
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 3041
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Language uses symbols (words) which are given sounds varying from culture to culture. ... Each language has its own sounds and rules for using their symbols. ... There are five major functions of non-verbal communication that can be found on pages 170-171 in the book. ...

• Word Count: 1022
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"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. ...

• Word Count: 819
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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". ...

• Word Count: 734
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1294
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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! ...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

There are many different words they could have used to describe the sounds going off but a vast majority of the reporters used the word explosion. ... 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, all of which are open to the hole where the 757 had crashed and disintegrated due to the jet fuel. If 8600 gallons of highly flammable jet fuel burned hot enough to disintegrate the 900,000-pound airplane then why were the exposed wood and even pages of the book not even singed or show any type of fire damage at all...

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

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...

• Word Count: 3004
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. ... Kiowa is always there to listen and offer sound advice. ...

• Word Count: 2300
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2288
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Despite our own personal efforts, mobility through the classes is mainly based on a persons status, and overcoming the "labels", such as the ones discussed in Herbert Gans" book The War Against the Poor, that go with a persons status makes mobility extremely hard if not nearly impossible. ... This surely does not sound like "the land of opportunity" to me. ...

• Word Count: 1278
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sanctions are an important topic in the world today, especially with U.S. relations in Iraq. Sanctions put pressure on countries to change something they are doing wrong such as nuclear arms or human rights violations. Sanctions may sound like a great tool to use, but many things need to be change...

• Word Count: 1142
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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." ...

• Word Count: 968
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Media plays a large role in arousing the public's interest in the fantastic.21 The novels of Anne Rice, a gothic-horror writer, appeal to a large audience, and her three book series have quite a cult following. ... Finally, she sobs that she "danced for the Devil [and] wrote in his book."42 Thus begins the string of names cried gleefully by Betty, Abigail, and Tituba to insure their own freedom from blame. ...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He wrote a book called "The Wilderness Hunter," and it is said to be the first written account of Bigfoot killing a human (Glen). In his book, Roosevelt wrote of two trappers who were stalked, and one of them killed, by a tall, bipedal creature (Glen). ... It makes eerie sounds, but has not developed a language, and it has great physical strength (Gaffron 96). ...

• Word Count: 1785
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School