The Bible Code -A Book Critique- Drosnin, Michael. ... Imagine that this writing of extraordinary prediction isn't locked away in some highly classified government facility, but rather hidden within the text of the best-selling book of all time. ... Is the information presented within the pages of this book the whole truth, or a fraction of a larger number of failed attempts to validate the codes? ... Whether or not Drosnin actually is skeptical of the Bible code, he definitely doesn't hesitate to take on the role of used car salesman with his book; dazzling the reader with a ...

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The book contains six different chapters, each describing a separate story. ... He analyzes each personality in detail and does an excellent job of illustrating the intertwined political and personal relationships between the brothers. ... This book reaches out to those fond of American history. ... Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Founding Brothers in 2001. ... In 1972, he took on the job as a history professor at Mount Holyoke College where he would serve as the dean of faculty for ten years. ...

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It was this positive perception of the book which, in November 1998, encouraged the National book foundation to award Sachar with the Young Peoples Literature' award. ... Therefore, what makes the book such a success with both children and adults? ... According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... Both readers young and old can relate to entering a new school or job and going through what Stanley did, they can also recognise that in most cases, it is the situation that creates the bon...

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It was this positive perception of the book which, in November 1998, encouraged the National book foundation to award Sachar with the Young Peoples Literature' award. ... Therefore, what makes the book such a success with both children and adults? ... According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... Both readers young and old can relate to entering a new school or job and going through what Stanley did, they can also recognise that in most cases, it is the situation that creates the bon...

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Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ... The Democratic Party also seemed more sympathetic to the Irish's concern that free blacks would take their jobs. Chapter Four talked about the emergence of Labor Unions and the growing nervousness with job security....

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Consequently, the book review will draw attentions on dissimilar themes witnessed in the book such as domestic issues, place of women in the African society, parenting, childbirth, marriage, family relationship and poverty (Holloway& Bidwell, 2006). ... The book further draws attention to the challenges affecting women in the society. ... The book further reveals the many problems affecting women in Mali. ... Incidences of cultural and social challenges came out in the book. ... Even though the story narrative narrates much about midwifery, and infant and maternal mortality, it turns out ...

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Wuthering Heights: The Movie or the Book? ... The book successfully takes the reader over two generations of characters, each with different ideas, personalities and attitudes. ... Further, Emily Bronte would have recognised it as the book she wrote. ... The book has been filmed faithfully, from beginning to end. ... The film's Cathy, played by Orla Brady, does equally as phenomenal a job in her role. ...

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New enterprises and jobs came about also after the American Revolution ended. ... Women started getting jobs as well because there were many new opportunities. ... All of these technical changes provided Americans for new jobs. ... The new jobs like this were all formed because of the Jefferson beliefs. ... I think that Appleby's book does monograph my understanding on the post- American Revolution. ...

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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. ... Robbins also touches on issues such as dealing with change, designing jobs and evaluating performance. ... The "Inside Job" is a documentary directed by Charles H. ...

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The book is divided into four parts: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, and No Logo. ... The first section of the book, "No Space" deals with the physical and cultural ideas of advertising in the modern world. ... (p.167) The third section of the book, "No Jobs," can be in many ways the most disturbing, for it is in this section that the shocking effects of the increase in branding on workers all over the world are explored. ... Throughout No Logo, she supports this belief of undemocratic brands taking over our jobs, our taste, and our humanity. ... The choice now remains as open ended as the la...

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I personally enjoyed reading this book and I learned a lot about the different challenges that the dust bowls created for the people who lived in the region. Also after reading this book it wasn't hard for me to see that it was also a very scary and uninviting place to live as well. I believe that the author Timothy Eagan did a great job in explaining to me the reader the different issues that were involved in the Dust Bowls and he did a great job in explaining the different struggles of the people who lived in the region and who had to endure the dust storms and the bad effects that thes...

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At first I was quite skeptical about reading an entire book devoted to conservation biology. ... In the book The Condor's Shadow, David S. ... He does a nice job explaining how the alteration of one part of a biological system, seemingly unrelated to another, can have dire consequences for the entire ecosystem. ... On the contrary, the book is only sprinkled with concrete statistics, thus allowing the book to flow much more easily. ... Most people across the United States have no idea what is happening to the wildlife in America, and I think that Wilcove does an excellent job in expos...

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Introduction Cunningham's book starts out with the different ways and circumstances Hamilton and Jefferson were raised. ... Next the book talked about the beginning of Hamilton and Jefferson's differences. ... The book then addresses the two differences concerning a national bank and their differences regarding foreign affairs. ... Cunningham does a good job of narrating the information between the documents, which is more informational background rather than commentary. ... His overall conclusion, stated in the title of the book, "Confrontations that shaped a Nation" is not full...

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The narrative perspective of the book dictates the word choice and diction that influences the reader's perception of the respective characters. ... In a contrasting impression of Gatsby that Nick bears towards the end of the book, we are able to observe how his assumption of Gatsby once again dictates his description of him. ... Thus, the narrator in Of Mice and Men is simply doing his job of narrating the story as it has been set, and thus it is not set up for shock or surprise. ... In Of Mice and Men, once the narrator's job is done, meaning the plot has ended, the story is over...

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In their book Women on the Line Cavendish and Glucksman (2009) write about the shocking division of labour in a Smiths factory in the UK in the 1970's. ... They expose the very rigid division between women and men and a strict demarcation between women's jobs and men's jobs. All women were assemblers, doing the same job regardless of their age. ... Factory work, like that written about in Cavendish and Glucksman's book (2009) is less common in the UK today. ... Due to this, women are paid lower wages than men in equivalent jobs. ...

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Supporters of the advancement of Artificial Intelligence advertise their position online and give ample information on the work they do, even offering job opportunities to those who are seen fit to do the work. ... According to John Sullins book the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, computers are not only becoming more efficient, more capable and faster, but the rate at which they are improving is also increasing with issues and controversies (Sullins 110). ... So they will potentially replace humans in jobs that are better suited for them. ... It is actually similar to what hap...

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One such comment that he makes is that "some women have decided to lower their housekeeping standards" in order to keep a job. ... There is not enough time in the day to uphold all standards of work and in this day and age it is no longer solely the mother's responsibility (Job Security). ... He tends to devote parts of each chapter to the opposing sides and the chapter, Job Security, is no exception. ... But Mackay's notion of "finding a new world", something that is undercurrent throughout the book comes through more blatantly in the end. ... To me the structure and arguments in Th...

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Another instance where Bradstreet spoke her mind like this presents itself in, The Author to Her Book. ... Though this line seems harmless at first, that is simply due to the fact that Bradstreet did a far better job at hiding her sarcasm within her words. The offspring she speaks of is none other than the book she wrote, and she states this because even though people may think her book is crap because she is a woman it is still her book and she loves it much like she would her own child. Although Bradstreet did a better job of hiding her sarcasm, she still went against what a typical Puritan...

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The first book that I decided to read is The Economics of Technological Change the author of this book is Edwin Mansfield. ... The book began with an introductory chapter that paraphrased the topics of the following chapters in the book. ... This book was written a long time ago and ways of measuring technological change were still very young, there must be new more advanced ways that were not discussed in the book. ... This is the next topic discussed in the book. ... Another issue that was brought up was that with the increasing use of new technology will encourage more people to attend...

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Younger children should not work dangerously long hours, at least one father filed suit to stop a law that would have prevented his two sons from working their normal jobs at a cotton mill in North Carolina as described in document G. ... Through her book The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, as quoted in document C, she showed the deplorable conditions of America's working children and their total loss of childhood. ... These limitations included wage discrimination and exclusion from particular jobs. ... In his book entitled The Crisis, quoted in document I, he lamented the fact tha...

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The topics that are so enthusiastically brought up in this book, Gender, Development, and Globalization, are all topics that have been discussed to great lengths by many others authors; however, Benerí takes a unique approach to trying to unify these ideas into one definitive issue. ... In the first half of the book, Beneria looks at the issues facing the individual concepts of gender, development, and globalization. ... The main ideas that are brought up in the first half of this book include the dichotomy of economic versus gender justice, the other dichotomy of practical versus ...

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Many black American activists became increasingly popular during this time period, Booker T. ... Booker T. ... (Out of Many, 557) Progressives helped bring about state modification that required safety precautions in factories and allowed workers to collect money for injuries suffered on the job. ...

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Today, taking a drug test is as routine as filling out a job application. ... Job performance is the main concern in a job; if an employee cannot do their job appropriately then employers have a legitimate reason for either not employing or terminating an employee. ... According to an article written by Robert Dupont in the book Drug Abuse; Opposing Viewpoints [2], drug use in the workplace is accompanied by a host of problems: an increase in health care costs for treatment of both workers and their family members, reduced productivity, increase in theft, drug sales at work, and safety threats...

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In the year 1967, Ulric Neisser, who was an American psychologist, published his book Cognitive Psychology making him the first person to use the term "cognitive psychology." ... According to Ulric Neisser's book "Cognitive Psychology," the human mind has been viewed as performing its functions similar to computers. ... For example, when an individual wakes up and thinks that he/she needs to look for a job, he/she will immediately start looking for a job in his/her field of expertise. ... This final stage acts on the thought of an individual who is looking for a job. ... This stage influe...

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As this book can be found in most the places under the business section, this book has helped thousands of people. ... As seen in the case of Jeff Bezos ( Amazon) , where he quit his job, and moved west as he saw a 2300% increase in internet commerce. ... As brainstorming and team work are the central theme of this book, everything this book has taught me is related to its central theme. This book focuses on process rather people unlike most of the traditional success book. Overall, this is a great book for inspiration and creativity. ...

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