Ted Steinberg, in his book, American Green, depicts the lives and thoughts of numerous Americans and their obsessiveness over their gardens amid a time of incredible advancement. The book furnishes the reader with stories and articles that vary from outrageously tremendous yards, trimmed by hand and scissors, to lawn-mower racing. ... Albeit it might sound ridiculous, Steinberg also expresses that, "Even in the wake of Rachel Carson's smash hit Silent Spring, Americans in 1963 used about as much cash battling crabgrass with concoction weed controls as they helped the American Cancer Socie...

• Word Count: 534
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She pays a great deal of attention to detail, which although historically irrelevant, does give the book flavor. For example, the book begins by telling us of the uncomfortable humidity in Philadelphia prior to the Convention. ... This made kept the book interesting as I found the somewhat irrelevant side facts quite intriguing and it actually made the book more like a story. There are many things that I really enjoyed reading in my book. ... Not just another book on the Constitution, Miracle at Philadelphia is superb historical writing by an author well versed in the primary sources. ...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Periodically, the US Intelligence service picks up cavatation sounds, compressions and decompression waves in the water with it sonar bouyies that are located throughout the Atlantic Ocean. ... A series of thrilling and very technical discussions and explainations of the naval vessals and their design and use is detailed int he book to much effort by the author and far more detailed than can be included in a book report. ... The book ends with the loss of life of one of the senior crew members who desired to see Montana, and now to be buried there. ... The book is of greater length and deta...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For a book that seems to look down upon racism, these passages are rather confusing. ... That is not to say that the book is not exciting, quite the contrary in fact. ... Another appreciable characteristic of the book is the reference to the "Last of the Mohicans". ... Cooper believes that Native American languages favor the sound of silence, the kind of silence looked down upon in disdain by French and English languages. ... For this reason, the book is not deserving of its genre classification, "Historical Fiction". ...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On the one side stand the proponents of phonics who believe the best way to teach children to read is by instructing them in the use of decoding, or "sounding out- words. ... The phonetic technique involves teaching "phonological awareness,"" the ability to deal explicitly and segmentally with sound units smaller than the syllable (Stanovich, 1993, cited in Sensenbaugh). This method points to the 44 sounds represented by the English alphabetic construct and how the combination of these letters blend together to form individual words Phonics and Whole Language Instruction (Ponnuru, 199...

• Word Count: 3094
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Does that sound like providing equal opportunity? It sounds like men are getting the short end of the stick. ... Gavora, an expert on the Title IX debate and author of the book "Tilting the Playing Field," the key to restoring equality of opportunity to Title IX lies in making the actual interest of the students rather than their representation in the student body the benchmark for apportioning athletic opportunities (Gavora). ...

• Word Count: 1259
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are many people that realize what problems Native Americans deal with that are expressed in the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. ... To begin, one of the problems expressed in the book, is the living conditions of the Native Americans, this a huge problem because majority Native Americans live in low quality houses, this are major problem because it has a huge impact on the family and the community. ... Now that sounds crazy but with the lack of vitamins, the crippled immune system and the enclosed living space there is a high chance of sickness spreading. ...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... John De Crevecoeur takes on an interesting outlook on the American Identity Crisis in his book The Language of Literature: American Literature; "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. ...

• Word Count: 1077
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this century it has become more relevant the issue of good governance and judicial integrity. Our legal process emphasize the role of judges when making legal decisions. Throughout our study we are going to see how judges has to avoid impropriety and the appearance of it in their professional car...

• Word Count: 2655
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The United States Department of Agriculture provides guidance on the topics related to food, agriculture, and natural resources, including energy, based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.   ... The 1890 Food Inspection Act came from these restrictions to prevent and detect bad meat imports as we as poor quality meat in the U.S. 1905, a book was published that had a major effect on the meat packaging industries. ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Stig Hansen's book (1), the United States and Norway provided essential funding to the recently reestablished Somali Police Force, but those funds never made their way to the officers. ... While 66% might sound mildly reasonable for the third world, it is important to note that 137 of the sum 210 states on the list are 90% literate or above. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is outlined in the Code of Virginia, and it states that they are "To promote the development of an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated system of higher education in Virginia"(SCHEV, p4-5). ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading and math tests, as well as on tests such as the SAT I. ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" (4) May Stacy commented in her book 'The United Fruit Company in Latin America. ... Peter Chapman in his book 'Banana, How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World' said: "It started with a few bananas grow at the side of a railway line and become a global power with its own fleet". ...

• Word Count: 3191
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are caught between two ...

• Word Count: 2794
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Muslim men may marry Muslim women or non-Muslim People of the Book' (Jewish or Christian women). ... The husband who divorces his wife must be of mature age and of sound mind; he must exercise his own free will and have two witnesses. ...

• Word Count: 2151
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main goal of this book is not to explain how the West rose to power but rather how the less developed parts of the world such as China, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Turkey, understood and responded to this new power. ...

• Word Count: 2216
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Being paid forty to fifty dollars a day (as many day laborers are often paid) sounds pretty harsh and unappealing, but that pay period is significantly better than being paid the same or less amount for an entire week of work, so because of this, combined with a vision of America being a great and prosperous land, many Mexicans seek employment in la tierra prometida1 and don't look back. ... Skilled, burly hard working laborers that did not require payment sounded ideal to early Americans. ...

• Word Count: 5001
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate