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? ... Formerly a reporter for the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, Drosnin writes of his doubts on more than one occasion, and reminds the reader that everything they are about ...

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Dubois and Booker T. ... Many African Americans supported the program of Booker T. ... One of these voices was that of Booker T. ... In his famous Atlanta Compromise Address, Booker T. ... Many of Du Bois theories were in response to the writings of Booker T. ...

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Robert Gellately tackles an interesting question in his recently printed book Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Gellately writes this book in concern of how people could carry out the inhumane orders of there leaders. ... The book's content is organized through ten chapters, each covering a different theme. ... The third chapter is entirely based on "concentration camps and the media reports." ... Not only does he vaguely ever talk about communism, but he very briefly mentions Jews in the book as well. ...

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Journalists may be targeted because of their views or what they have reported. ... Information tradition, which is reports are expected to be factual and reliably documented. ... Didactic tradition, the report is intended as an explanation, and the goal is purported to be educating the public. ... Also another person the book talks about was in Peru when the leader of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, was captured in 1992 . ... In short order, Guzman went from being a threat to being a joke in journalists" reports about him. ...

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Time is better spent opening up a book and reading. ... When a person is reading an e-book, a mere swipe of a finger can advance the reader half way through a chapter or even a short book with ease. ... There is no precise number of paper books that are in circulation in the world, industry giants such as Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble all report having nearly half or over half a million e-books, with Google reporting nearly the same amount but without cost or free downloading to the public. ... What will consumers do with a $300 dollar e-book reader if the e-book prices become unafforda...

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However, I did have some excitement while reading this book. ... Also, in this chapter, I could understand this story not by reading the book, but by seeing the scene Ellis provided for readers. ... Even though I used my all imaginations, it was almost impossible to me to understand hidden stories and meanings of the book. ... Despite of the books invaluable quality, I did not enjoy this book but I had to suffer reading this hard book. Because of its difficulties, I used this book as a good sleeping agent (I have an ethics book that I am using as sleeping agent, but I think this book ...

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The book makes a portrait of the "red-scare" and the American hysteria. ... History and fiction are put together all over the book. Despite the fact that Daniel is a fictitious character, the events reported in the book really happened at that time. The book makes reference, for example, to the red scare and the Vietnam War. ... Daniel reports the important moments in his life such as the one in which the FBI took his father away accusing him of espionage, the protests he and Susan took part to claim his father's innocence, and other relevant moments of his life. ...

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The book talked about the different types of leadership such as visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and commanding. ... The last part of the book talked about how to sustain the emotionally intelligent leadership at the individual level and how the keep it going at the organizational level. ... On the other hand, the readers need more examples to illustrate the points that the authors pointed out in the book. The way the book was organized, sometimes, was hard to follow and keep my interest. Despite the negativity of the book, I found this book is a valuable asset f...

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The book was written by a SEAL under the pseudonym "Mark Owen" and relays a decidedly different sequence of events than originally reported by the White House following bin Laden's death. ... The book, titled "No Easy Day," reports that bin Laden was actually peeking his head out from behind his bedroom door when he was shot in the head during a raid. ... Many media outlets have managed to get copies of the book and leaked the contents. ... The point man had seen a 'man peeking out of the door' on the right side of the hallway," reported the Associated Press (Kellogg). ... "...

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For my book report, I chose to read "The Hound of Baskervilles," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... This book took place in Baskervilles, which I'm guessing is over in London due to how the people talk and act. ... With all the things I've learned from the book their relation to society are all quite similar. ... I don't recommend this book because it's just really not an attention catcher it took me a lot longer then usual to read that small book because I had for force myself to read it. But everyone has different tastes in book so it could be for you if you like boring books...

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Cultural evolution, has been progressing rapidly, and has brought man to many major turning points in civilization, such as "the adoption of upright posture, early man's first use of tools, the development of language, culture as an adaptive strategy, food sharing, food production, social stratifica...

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Finally, the book attempts to establish Rogers association with David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Charles Harrelson. The authors of this book feel that their own investigation points to Rogers as the perpetrator who played a much bigger part in the incident. ... These personal relationships are the only matters of substance that can be extracted from the first 90 pages of the book. ... The book was so plentiful in concocted conversations and re-enactment, with exact quotes on both sides of every dialogue. ... The aspects of Rogers" personality as the authors presented them were highly ...

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It is hard enough to get your point across to a neutral audience, but for early black writers, a racial climate that suggested their inferiority was an extra obstacle that they had to overcome. Booker T. Washington and Ida Wells both, in some way or another, were writing against oppression in Americ...

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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. ... Men of all races were imprisoned and no racial outbreaks were reported, "during the entire period from 1815 to 1830, there was not a single battle between black and white prisoners". ...

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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. ... Cunningham presents the reader with over forty documents consisting of letters, reports and speeches. ... His overall conclusion, stated in the title of the book, "Confrontations that shaped a Nation" is not fully presented and only possible hinted at in one brief part of the book where their contribution to the creation of political parties is addressed. ... Washington wa...

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This description is similar to the fantasy island described by Sir Thomas Moore in his famous book Utopia. Moore created the book title from two Greek words meaning "not a place." ... Studies report that the largest determinant of hate crimes is racial bias, with African Americans at the greatest risk. ... In fact, reporting hate crimes is an obstacle for the majority of victims. ... Some people do not report them because they fear that law enforcement will not be responsive ("Hate"). ...

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A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, illustrates the timeless struggle for the furtherance of family values and morals with extreme clarity. The play follows the life of a small black family's struggle to keep their dreams from tenants to owners alive. These dreams, and the struggles necessary to reach them, as well as coming to terms with the dreams that are out of reach, are the focus and driving force behind this story of every persons struggle to achieve goals that are not always in tune with societies thoughts or ideas on a persons place in life. The internal difficulties of t...

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The journalists dispensing this bias are not interested in simply reporting the facts and letting the reader/viewer judge for themselves. While it is not surprising that human nature can drive reporters of facts to report them unfairly so as to gain support for their hidden agenda, the practice has now gotten to the point where "grand truth" cannot be separated from the hidden agenda and therefore the public cannot establish for themselves what they should think. ... (--our book 305 ) As a result, America has become largely dependent on misinformation on judging critical issues ranging fro...

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A report has show that a schizophrenic patient had a psychotic episode after drinking a large amount of caffeine. Another report was of someone with bipolar spectrum disorder having a manic episode after drinking many energy drinks in one day. ... This was to be proven through regular toxicology reports taken by all three patients. ... Our book (Abnormal Psychology) teaches us about both stages of bipolar disorder and how both manic and depressive states play a roll in this problem. The information that is explained in this book can better help teach us how this disorder can be affected by env...

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As recorded in the book "Mark Them with Your Dead! ... In the same book, An American clergyman Josiah Strong expressed his support on "Social Darwinism ", "what if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material? ... In the Casement Report, he challenged the "external camp " with the cruel reality of Congo. ... As this report recorded, European soldiers ruthlessly killed, raped, and enslaved a large number of native Africans. ... This was just a very little piece of the entire report, which recorded many more horrible disasters made by European imperialists. ...

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The crucial difference between the two reports was that the Warren Commission believed the president was killed by the shots fired by Oswald, while the House committee suspected two gunmen were involved, based on "various scientific projects." ... "The 888-page report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and later returned, had fired three shots from the window of the Texas School Book Depository, inflicting all of Kennedy's and Connally's wounds- (Cullather 178). ... Congress undertook investigations of the FBI, CIA, and...

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(Lipsitz vii) " Lipsitz's book gives a substantial amount of evidence which shows that America's investment in whiteness with historical facts, stories, and statistics. ... In his book, Lipsitz states that "[w]hiteness is everywhere in U.S. culture, but it is very hard to see (Lipsitz 1)." A major factor as to why Lipsitz wrote this book was due to the events surrounding Bill Moore's death when Lipsitz was a youth. ... Lipsitz admits that "the murder of Bill Moore did affect [him] to an unusual degree, even more than the many reports of the deaths of dozens of blacks in the civi...

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To understand why it is believed that such a conspiracy existed, one only needs to read through the pages of the Warren Report and the testimonies of various witnesses who were watching the president at Dealey Plaza on the day of his assassination or the investigation of his death in the aftermath. ... Amazingly, during the reporting of the Kennedy assassination case in 1978 by the Congress's assassination committee, it was determined that the three doctors, "had insufficient training and experience to evaluate a death from gunshot wounds."... The three previous shots came from behind the...

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) extracted the computer board from the semi and reported findings that the semi was traveling 20mph over the speed limit 60 seconds before the collision, despite two warning and reduced speed signs prior to the scene of the accident.8 According to Dave McLennan of Coulter, Iowa, employed by Decker Trucking Line Inc., truck drivers are limited by federal law to 14-hour shifts with 11 hours of drive time with a maximum of 24 hours without sleep. He states most truckers do not strictly abide by these regulations, and do not accurately report shift ti...

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It was the fear of not reporting a satisfactory result and performance to the market to accommodate the high expectations that was put on them; and the financial greed associated with an increasing stock price and net profits. ... (50%) Reasons This was chosen because this case gave an example how does inadequate corporate governance and proper due care in reporting the company performance and financials reports would have an impact on the company share price or the financial market rating of the company. Another reason would be the ironic situation of an expert in accounting failed to r...

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