Other chapters were more random and the examples went back and forth in time which caused me to re-read the introduction to refresh my memory on what the chapter set to prove. ... Their need for belonging grew and the following chapter demonstrated an interesting concept. ... Chapter Three traced the career of John Binns and showed how politics helped to change the Irish. ... Chapter Four talked about the emergence of Labor Unions and the growing nervousness with job security. ... It demonstrated how power could corrupt a person and give a false sense of security and lead a person to com...

• Word Count: 1854
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After Ona gives birth to Jurgi's son, Jurgis feels more determine to work harder, but this all changes when Jurgi has an accident at work due to the dangerous work conditions at the factory. ... Sinclair gives us the example of Marija, who loses her job when she protests about being cheated out of a portion of her wages (Chp 10. ... They also tried to stay the same in some part, the family in the story mostly consume ethnic food and celebrate some things their way' like the celebration of veselija when Jugis and Ona get married on chapter 1. ... Since the factories are private ow...

• Word Count: 918
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People cling to some attitudes like life preservers but they are persuaded to give up others. ... International efforts to combat discrimination were minimal until the passage of the United Nations (UN) Chapter in 1945. Frasier 4 One of the chapter's purposes is to encourage "Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as the race, sex, language, or religion". ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" (Chapter 4 Gun Purchase and Campus Policies) He was able to bypass the background check because of a legal contradiction. ... While, under federal law, mentally incompetent refers to individuals who are a danger to themselves or others, under Virginia state law mentally incompetent refers to individuals who cannot take care of themselves (Chapter 4 Gun Purchase and Campus Policies). ... The author claims that the reason for these statistics is that guns give people false senses of empowerment that make them overreact in volatile situations (Callaway). ...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It has eroded the central requirement of a democracy that those who are governed give not only their consent but their informed consent"(Ben Bagdikian, pg. 192). ... In chapter 3 of his book Rich Media, Poor Democracy, McChesney discusses the affects of commercialism. ... So basically the giants of the system give the little people a ray of hope that they will indeed make it in the system, even though eventually they will just be shut down or bought up by one of the giants. ... Media corporations are only interested in how much money is coming in from advertisers and how much help from the ...

• Word Count: 1700
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The author gives an outstanding value to the presence of expert and qualified personnel. ... The author reports about the contents of a biography, remarking on some of the chapters regarding to the strength and persistence of who the biography is about, calling him head of "mercenaries" and "window of a shareholder revolt". ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is a great deal of hazing that occurs in many chapters during the freshman initiation period where pledges feel inclined to perform bizarre acts (such as consume excessive amounts of alcohol at one time) in order to feel accepted. When a situation goes beyond a good time with friends and an individual blacks out and experiences such things as date rape, someone should assist them in counseling and give them tests like the one's mentioned earlier to test their likeliness of being an abuser, and perhaps prevent at that point a lifetime of addictive destruction....

• Word Count: 1181
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We all know that standardized testing is not the greatest measurement of a student's capabilities and by having a set standard curriculum for the country, it is almost as if we (as teachers) are giving up on teaching. ... In Apple's second chapter, he begins by stating that Americans aren't learning as much as they should, or don't know enough of what they should know, and yet continue to criticize those who they feel are more intellectually inferior to them. ... The examples Apple gives are that social studies texts still refer to the period known as "The Dark Ages- rath...

• Word Count: 2601
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate