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. ...
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). ...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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." ...
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. ...
According to Tiffany and Adams (1996), the films made by Chagnon and Asch throughout the 1970s: ". . . made over a quarter of a century ago, provide vivid - frequently startling - scenarios of an aggressively masculine world of club fights, chest-pounding duels, treacherous feasts, sorcery, drug-ingesting, misogynist origin myths, and derogations of women as drudges and trouble-makers. ... The image of an isolated and "primitive" people on the brink of psychic disorganization and social chaos complies with the agendas of outsiders who stand to profit by "developing" the Amazon" (pp. 187) Mar...
