However, this book sold more copies than anything else Whitman published in his lifetime. ... The first edition of the book was paid by his own, so he only printed 795 copies. The book appeared on the fourth of July, as a kind of literary independence day. Nevertheless, the book had very poor sales. ... I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book i...
The key to their success could be attributed to a singular book, which was written around 500 BC. ... Born Sun Wu, he received an education and wrote a short book exploring a new way to look at war (3). ... Sun Tzu finishes his book with these sentences. ... Understanding the ideals in this book has guided multiple armies and nations to a successful future. ... These decisions, specifically, relate to the third and thirteenth chapter of the book. ...
Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's book Time on the Cross, analyzes the Southern economy before and after the Civil War. The book's purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to "correct the perversion of the history of blacks - in order to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil." ... The first chapter of the book discusses the history of the s...
Therefore, as a scholar I felt that the airing of conflicting ideas, in one book, could be a step towards mutual understanding and acceptance and a vehicle to help bridge the divide between differing points of views and philosophies. ... As neutral editor for this book, I have strived for completely fair and scholarly representation of all sides of each issue presented. ... Also I should mention that as editor, in the process of putting this book together, I have discovered that this work itself is considered controversial by some. ...
Sexual education is important to the wellbeing of our nation's youth. It has been said that knowledge is power. If the students throughout the United States are not properly educated on the consequences of sexual activity then they cannot be blamed for the repercussions that will follow unsafe sex. Sexual Education is required in most schools in the United States. However, there are individuals who argue against it. ...
At first the little book of strange verse seemed a failure. Emerson, however, recognized its greatness, and now most people agree that it was the first book of truly American poetry. ... Some condemned the book, but Ralph Waldo Emerson saw its merit. In the 1856 edition, Whitman printed Emerson's letter of praise, which called the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom yet contributed to American literature.""... The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are...
In the bizarre, comic tone of the book, the strike and massacre of the workers is recalled through the memory of a child, which seems to undermine the horror of the Yankee exploitation. ... In the beginning of the book, the gypsies brought new technology and by the end the imperialists have replaced them but like the gypsies, the technologies they bring remain more curious than useful. ...
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". ...
It started in 1962 with the publishing of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." ... Her book attacked the use of chemical pesticides. ... It began by the publishing of a book. The book was The Feminie Mystique, by Betty Friedans. The book explained how women were being mistreated and what women can to do to be equal to men. ...
Looking at the political career of President Wilson, we can see how in his book ''A History of the American People'' reflects his opinion. Published in 1901, this book is an example of the animosity Wilson about the new waves of immigrants to the United States from southern and Eastern Europe. ... The leaders of the different groups of immigrants as Italian-Americans, the Jewish-American, or Hungarian-American, demanded explanations for the comments made by Wilson in his book. ...
One of the best conclusions of war lies within the sacred pages of a book that most Americans own, The Bible. ... (The Book of James chapter 4:1). ... Written by Emma Bell Miles, this book is a portrait of religious life in the mountains. ...
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. ...
The data for 1997 reveal, " that respondents arrested in the past year for possession or sale of drugs and driving under the influence had the highest percentage of illicit drug use [during] the past year" and that " illicit drug users were also about 16 times more likely than non [drug] users to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft" and "..[were] more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the influence, drunkenness, or liquor law violations, [along with] more than [nine] times likely to be arrested and booked on assault charge[...
We did not discuss genre painting and American art in a classroom using a book to look at the artwork. ... Instead of having discussion from the book on what some other person had experienced, and instead of discussing someone else's opinions, we were introduced to a man who was actually a refugee. ...
" (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". ...
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. ...
February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is im...
A book by a man named Charles Lewis and others from the Center for Public Integrity titled, The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers-and What They Expect in Return listed the now bankrupt company Enron as one of President Bush's biggest contributors. In fact, in the book it states, "Enron's employees and Political Action Committee have given over $600000.00 to Bush over the course of his political career" (Lewis 11). ...
Issue of Gun Control and Violence The issue of gun control and violence, both in Canada and the United States, is one that simply will not go away. If history is to be any guide, no matter what the resolution to the gun control debate is, it is probable that the arguments pro and con w...
Chaga and the Chocolate Factory is a children's book by Bob Hartman based on the true life of a young boy in Mali, that illustrates how that happens. The book is about a young boy named Chaga whose parents sell him to a man to go work at a cocoa plantation (or the "chocolate factory") This book touches base on certain circumstances of human trafficking that people often don't realize. ... This may seem like a dark sort of a children's book but I like the author's goal of making the youth aware of the injustices happening around the world. ...
While searching the American Psychological Associations (APA) website I found a great article that showed that there are several variables of sexual orientation that affect the classroom experience and academic achievement of K-12 students. Population being studied in this case is jr' high and high school students. First students can be at a disadvantage to pre-dispossed biases by teachers. As we've learned already to this point everyone has bias and there is no way around it. If you have an accepting teacher and one that will make the situation a good thing instead of unconformable ...
Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. in their book the Cold War as Rhetoric viewed the Truman Doctrine as neatly thought out and very necessary to increase both Truman and the United State's authority as a world power. ... Whitcomb in his book argues that the Truman Doctrine needlessly harmed the United States and Soviet Union relations. ... Avi Shlaim wrote a book about the United States and the Berlin blockade where he defines why he thought Truman was cautious about Berlin. According to Shlaim there is not question that the airlift of supplies into Berlin was necessary and Tr...
In his book, "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine,"" Robert Kaufman discusses how the founders of the United States embraced an isolationist strategy in the years 1776-1830. ... In his book, Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black summarizes the thinking of Washington and the United States when he writes, "in the sage beginning of what would become a vastly successful policy for nearly 150 years, the United States would generally abstain from Europe's quarrels, and grow steadily stronger as Europe's penchant for internecine bloodbaths became even more sanguinary " (Black 102). ...
In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...
