This book has many recipes ranging from breakfast treats to different forms of dessert. ... On the front of the book he illustrates the tasty illusions of Oreo cookies and crumbs. ... This is because all of the recipes that many didn't know could come from Oreos is in this book. It makes you want to read the entire book to figure out what other recipes he has stumbled upon. This book is for people who want to make desserts for an audience that loves Oreos or themselves. ...

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Angela's ashes do not actually feature in the film, although they do in the book. ... Click here for a detailed summary Background The film is based on the book of the same name, which stayed at the top of the best-seller lists in the UK and USA for months from mid-1998. The book is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. ... However, one day he finds the money-lender dead at home so he steals her money and throws the debtors' book into the river. ... He is an alien in his parental homeland, the oldest child of a father whose background in "the North" engenders continual suspicion, ...

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In his incisive book, Islam in the African American Experience, Richard Brent Turner takes the reader through the evolution of Islam in black America. ... Part one of the book is called "Root Sources". ... The next chapter in the book is titled "Pan-Africanism and the New American Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb". ... During part one of the book, Turner attempted to bridge the gap between old Islam and new Islam in America. The second part of the book, called "Prophets of the City", begins in the early part twentieth century just after "the Great Migration". ...

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Purpose of the research: I have chosen this book The jungle by Upton Sinclair because I think that working class people of the 1990's..still live in a capitalistic jungle. Although this book was written at the turn of the century, it still reflects the times in which we live. ... I have learnt from the book The Jungle that business is a dog eat dog world. ... The book became famous and made Sinclair a good deal of money, but the socialist ideals that the author intended as the cure for the ills of capitalism were not recognized by most readers, who were more worried about unhealthy me...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the acc...

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Also, I"ll give my insight on what book and movie I feel can help someone understand the culture of the United States. ... If there's a book that I wanted someone to read so it can help better their understanding of the culture in the United States, it would have to be "Black Power Years". Why, because this book gives a reader an understanding of the birth, positive and negative aspects, just a complete history of the "Black Power Years". ...

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Media plays a large role in arousing the public's interest in the fantastic.21 The novels of Anne Rice, a gothic-horror writer, appeal to a large audience, and her three book series have quite a cult following. ... Finally, she sobs that she "danced for the Devil [and] wrote in his book."42 Thus begins the string of names cried gleefully by Betty, Abigail, and Tituba to insure their own freedom from blame. ...

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Award-winning academic, novelist, and biographer Christopher Bigsby explores a changing America through modern television in his book "Viewing America: Twenty-First Century Television Drama." A major discussion point of Bigsby's book is the manner in which America could have a dialogue with itself through television drama. ... In her book "Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media" she discusses how media creates myths and stereotypes of sex, love, and romance and shows her readers how to recognize unhealthy media fantasies that can be hurtful to real world relationships ...

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For our research we chose to use Internet sites, references from the book entitled Homeless in America, by Michael A. ... The book also describes many other causes of homelessness such as drug addiction, alcoholism, life-long disabilities these being physical, social or mental. ...

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The subjects scribe themselves as being members of a variety of social statuses, which include in their own words; a hippie, athlete, artist, comic book nerd, grandma and blue collar father. ... I make my own appointments off my own client base, and am current booked constantly at roughly two to three weeks in advance. ...

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Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... Baumohl states in his book Homeless in America that "According to this perspective, people were homeless because something was wrong with them- (25). ...

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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. From Christianity to Black Religion 4. Influence of Christianity . 14 Concludi...

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What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American slave? These two questions are ideal thematic rhetorical statements that both Crevecoeur and Douglass write about in various ways. Crevecoeur was not born in the United States, but once he arrived here, he was a free man who made a life for him and his family. On the other hand, Frederick Douglass was born in the United States, but was confined to be a lowly life form other than a human; seen only as an animal used for work, he experienced life from a different perspective. ...

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In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5)." ... Marijuana was first mentioned in an American book in 1843 where it was recommended as a treatment for gout, tetanus, hysteria, depression, and common insanity. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, one of the key characters Madame Defarge embodies the fury and wrath of the French Revolution. Well, America also embodies her own fury and wrath underneath her peaceful and tranquil exterior. Many believe that Madame Defarge is the epitome of evil; wher...

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Causes of the Civil War Was slavery the only cause of the Civil War? There are those that would have us believe that it was the only cause. Many historians say that slavery was the main issue of the Civil War. Although some historians think the war was the result of political screw-ups and that the issue of slavery did not cause the war. Yet again others claim that there were other more serious causes that lay below the surface. ...

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The United States was founded upon diversity. Racism in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. These slaves were not brought by will, but by force, and they fa...

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While researching this subject I stumbled over a book published in 1999, A Short and Remarkable History of New York City written by Jane Mushabac and Angela Wigan, which shed light on who the first settlers were. ...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the sta...

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In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or having darker pigmentation. In the late 18th century during the American Revolution the issue for women rights became prominent. This is what started the feminist movement which is defined as the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men...

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(p. 998) Let's look at two other definitions of the term "ethnic": an ethnic group is a collective within a larger society having real or putative common ancestry, memories of a shared historical past, and a cultural focus on one or more symbolic elements defined as the epitome of their people hood , A necessary accompaniment is some consciousness of kind among members of the group. (1970:12) (Tax, 1976, p.10) Lilian Rubin (1994) in her book Families On the Fault Line defines both race and ethnicity as race and ethnicity Stripped to their essence ethnicity is related to ances...

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A book by Sean Connolly (2000) conveys the idea that the long-term health hazards that a PED used is exposed to heavily outweigh the short-term possible benefits of winning and that steroid use is "as likely to lead someone to the intensive care unit as it is to boost them onto the winner's podium." In a book by Bridget Lawless (2000) it is suggested that performance-enhancing drugs should be legalized with medical supervision as competing will always be unequal due to the numerous other ways in which athletes are able to gain advantages such as training regimes, equipment, die...

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John Keats, in his book The Insolent Chariots (1958), attacked the automobile industry stating that their products were "overblown, overpriced monstrosities built by oafs to sell to mental defectives." ...

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Sociology Essay How useful is the concept of elite' for understanding the distribution of power in either Britain or the United States? Introduction In America perhaps only race is a more sensitive subject than the way we sort ourselves out in the struggle for success. The eminent sociologist Robert Merton calls it the structure of opportunity'. In the understanding of the usefulness of the term elite', there are some common historical variables, which must be looked at in order to appreciate the power organisms at work even in American society, and how from the days of Tho...

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Abstract An exploration of the aging boomer and how they will age differently from their parents, creates a powerful new epicenter of marketing in America. This Internet article analysis will address a significant sales management trend in the domestic marketplace and its interrelationship with various external influences. Emphasis will be placed on ethical virtues, cultural differences, economic changes, and technological advances. Additionally, the importance of the sales force to its marketing management within an organization, will be discussed. A conclusion will be...

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• Grade Level: High School