Abstract "The Book of Margery Kempe" will be discussed in such a way that the unfamiliar text will become familiar to the reader. ... Two different, unnamed priests transcribed and made revisions to the book. ... The use of anecdotes and dialogue in the development of her narrative prove to be effective in The Book. ... Born in 1373, she marries John Kempe, a cloth maker and has fourteen children with him. ... Near the end of "The Book of Margery Kempe," when her husband is aging, he has a terrible fall causing him to become handicapped. ...

• Word Count: 1321
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Instead of a major event, the book opens with a series of letters from Robert Walton. ... The articulate figure challenges his maker: both reader and Frankenstein recognize the justice of the creature's demands. ... The book questions the morality of Frankenstein's attempt to cheat death, one that our society can easily identify with. ...

• Word Count: 814
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the text of this racially biased book Macdonald repeatedly criticized the intelligence of Jews, Blacks, and any other race if not pure white as if they are less than human. ... But it is still moderately comfortable, and comfort is the great corrupter, the great maker of cowards" (p. 64). ...

• Word Count: 316
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Weiss believes the necessity of a scale of uncertainty for scientific groups in order to convey their ideas to the public and to the policy makers more explicitly. ... He published a book titled, "The True State of the World", which is really pretentious. He was named as "skeptical environmentalist" after the book. ... He used researchers" ideas in his articles and book. ... So Lomborg bases his conclusions in his book and in his articles on the scientific research that are no more relevant. ...

• Word Count: 1020
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In actuality, there are markets having vast number of makers rivaling one another with a specific end goal to offer their item in the business sector. ... MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION Monopolistic competition is a sort of imperfect competition such that contending makers offer items that are separated from each other as great however not perfect substitutes, for example, from marking, quality, or area. ... The "establishing father" of the hypothesis of monopolistic competition is Edward Hastings Chamberlin, who composed a spearheading book on the subject "Hypothesis of Monopolistic Competition" (...

• Word Count: 2996
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Browne and Keeley in their book, Critical Thinking: Asking the Right Questions, critical thinking consists of an awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions, plus the capacity and readiness to ask and answer them at appropriate times. ... Critical thinking can be used to help individuals and organizations to be better decision makers because it involves a thought process that is analytical and logical. ... According to Morgan and Kaplan in their book, Whatever It Takes: The Realities of Managerial Decision Making, decisions are made and problems are solved in fits and st...

• Word Count: 1035
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The definition of the word in this context is "Presenting facts objectively without editorialising or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film" (Dictionary.com) However no documentary is totally objective, decisions on where to place the camera, editing choices and use of devices such as narration, music and close ups all serve to create a narrative of sorts serving the purpose the director intends. ... During the previous decade a new type of documentary maker has emerged, these film makers are celebrities in their own right and in the case of Michael Moore more identifiable than th...

• Word Count: 2396
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book "Labor Control and the Postwar Growth Model in Latin America," Ian Roxborough argues that the economic model known as import substitution industrialization (ISI) was employed amongst the Latin American countries after World War II as a compromise to meet the ever growing social and political demands within those countries. ... As these two forces engaged in this political struggle, Latin American policy makers were also seeking outside capital from the United States further causing the implementation of the ISI model to be more conservative. ...

• Word Count: 571
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

First published in 1976 and made into a film in 1978,The Boys from Brazil was the first successful book toexplore the possible consequences of cloning and the re-emergence of Nazi ideas.Born in New York City on 27th August 1929, Ira Levin isone of America's most successful living authors. ... The themeof supernatural forces invading everyday life was taken upby many writers and film-makers in the following decade,most notably in films such as "The Omen" and "TheExorcist". ... But in its themes this book ishighly original, for it takes real characters and situationsand mixes them with scie...

• Word Count: 870
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book is based on the life of the 'one minute manager' who never seems to have time for himself. ... The book attempts to point out a number of ways to deal with these monkeys and management. ... The book offers a four step procedure to accomplish this. ... In the book, "The Truth About Managing People", Robbins attempts to draw attention to common faults of the field of management. ... This includes the policy makers in the government, top executive in banks, insurance companies, and other agencies. ...

• Word Count: 1614
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wallace Stegner makes this statement at the end of "Coda", a letter included in his book The Sound of Mountain Water. ... This paper is mostly concerned with the first part of this book in which Stegner writes directly about his experiences with landscape. The book is a collection of writings that come from many different points in Stegner's life, and therefore, throughout Part I of the book the reader is able to see the authors views change regarding certain environmental issues pertaining to the west. ... Most of the essays in Part I of this book simply describe the authors surroundings...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the text book Readings In Critical Thinking; Strategies In Decision Making, (1994) Critical thinking is defined as "an awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions, plus the ability and willingness to ask and answer them at appropriate times"" (Browne, Keeley, McCaw, and Kaplan, p. 5). ... The decision maker must first identify the problem and then using critical thinking provides an appropriate solution. ...

• Word Count: 771
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It portrays the father as the sole incomer-earner and decision maker, while the mother is the homemaker, economically and socially dependent and the children are dutiful and respectful. ... Just as Ellen recognizes other aspects of her mother in the formation of the book club, Ellen also recognizes what her mother gave up for her father, that she has always "deferred to him-, in order to safeguard the marriage for the sake of her family. ...

• Word Count: 844
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Some say Hitler was a lazy and reluctant decision maker. ... In his book explaining Hitler's Germany, an entry in Goebbel's (a German politician at that time) diary made in March of 1943 seems to support the view that the Third Reich was a weak dictatorship when he wrote, "We live in a state where areas of authority have been unclearly divided...the consequence is a complete lack of direction in German domestic policy....From this developed most of the quarrels between the real leaders and the authorities." ...

• Word Count: 919
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The book Economic Development by Michael P. ... It provides widespread employment and income earning opportunities for teachers, school and construction workers, textbook and paper printers, school uniform makers, and related workers. ...

• Word Count: 765
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It portrays the father as the sole incomer-earner and decision maker, while the mother is the homemaker, economically and socially dependent and the children are dutiful and respectful. ... Just as Ellen recognizes other aspects of her mother in the formation of the book club, Ellen also recognizes what her mother gave up for her father, that she has always "deferred to him-, in order to safeguard the marriage for the sake of her family. ...

• Word Count: 834
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Science fiction genre has interested film-makers since the earliest days of the cinema, though not often to the benefit of the film or of science fiction. ... The earliest film to treat fantasy, if not science fiction proper, was Le voyage dans la lune(A Trip to the Moon), created by the French film-maker and magician Georges Mélies in 1902. ... Both films can perhaps also be seen to refer back to some of the original concerns od Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein, first published in 1817, in the way in which they both question the role of man in a new scientific age and the dan...

• Word Count: 2213
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In Catherine Scott's book, Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory, she writes about the World Bank and its theories. ... Similarly, Margaret Leahy, in her book, Development Strategies and the Status of Women, she discusses United Nations conferences where information on women's status" economically, politically and socially were looked into. ... Also at these conferences, "conferees ascertained that women were rational decision makers when it came to determining family size; women's decisions were conditioned not only by the availability of contra...

• Word Count: 1328
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- Every man is a maker of history; in fact, some man not only left a mark on those they knew through life, but they left a lasting impression on the entire world. ... Some of the of the main form of mass communication that Hitler used were; large meetings within the Nazi party, large dehumanization camps and a book entitled "Mein Kampf- which sold over five million copies before the start of World War II. ... Reading his book entitled "Mein Kampf- (My Struggle), was like listening to him saying "if there is a supreme form of human being, then there must be others less than supreme-; moreover, ...

• Word Count: 1357
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Throughout the book, Woodward and his assistant Mark Malseed provide an unprecedented inside look into the personal opinions and rationales of the nation's top decision-makers. ... At times, Woodward does insert his own thoughts into the book, offering his observations of the interactions between certain players, which sometimes became strained. ...

• Word Count: 1350
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After his book was actually published 1890, it was not initially favored by American leaders, but quickly caught the attention and recognition of other foreign Navies allowing Alfred Mahan to become a "house-hold name". ... This book placed a strong emphasis on the idea that a strong navy stimulated trade, and influenced policy makers such as Theodore Roosevelt and other key proponents of a large navy. ... As stated in the Historical Atlas of the US Navy, acting almost exclusively on the tactics of Mahan's book, the US Navy would go on to protect America's expanding mercantile trade...

• Word Count: 1469
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It is now for the social policy maker to take up the issue and make scientific studies to understand the problem and propose measures to tackle it in the general interest and welfare of the UK society. ...

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In their book, "Business and Society", Carroll and Buchholtz give this definition of CSR that is broken down into four components, "The social responsibility of business encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary (philanthropic) expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time."... Keith Davis and Robert Blomstrom give their definition of CSR in the Carroll and Buchholtz book. It is as follows, "Social responsibility is the obligation of decision makers to take actions which protect and improve the welfare of society as a whole along with their own inter...

• Word Count: 1594
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Vitruvius' The Ten Book on Architecture is based on his own experiences as an architect and on his understanding of ancient concepts. The established views of ancient Greek and Roman architects before him are summarized in his reputable book. ...

• Word Count: 1820
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There is no precise information about the reproduction of these bears in Storer and Tevis' book. ... Because the traditional single-shot guns no longer satisfied with the hunters for killing the bears with one shot, California gun makers began to make their best guns for killing a California grizzly bear in one shot (Silva 67). ... On the petition, "We shouldn't be closing the book on grizzly recovery but beginning a new chapter - one where these amazing animals live wherever there's good habitat for them across the West....

• Word Count: 1424
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