Mahmood Mamdani's book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," reoriented my perceptions of the Muslim world due to his discussion of Afghanistan. ... The majority of this chapter from the book has made me come to an understanding on how messed up our country really is. ... In my opinion, this was the most moving part of the chapter. ... Mahmood Mamdani's book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," reoriented my perceptions of the Muslim world. ... Not only this chapter but, the majority of this book has made me realized how messed up our country is. ...

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This, by no means, is a bad book. ... Chapter two tells us about the Navahos. ... Chapter six brings upon Red Cloud and his peace treaties. ... Chapter 8 is about Donehogawa. ... In chapter 18 we find out that ...

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That's why this is a excellent book. ... After reading somewhat one third of the book, so after reading the republicans bash portion of the book, one thought that Moore had taken somewhat of a polital stand. ... Throughout the book Moore's gives suggests about how to change society to the better. ... But you'd think that reading chapter after chapter about what's wrong with america would get you down, cause a lot of these problems are dead serious matters, that concerns not just the american people but the whole world, but this book doesn't get you down, not one bit, y...

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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. ... For example she organized it so that each chapter described a different event. The chapters were split up in two sections, The Constitutional Convention and The Fight for Ratification. ... Especially outstanding, though slightly misplaced, do the three chapters comprise a tour of the United States in the late 1780's. ...

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All five chapters of the book focus mainly on transgender issues, with minor and considerate glances on controversies affecting the LGBTQ spectrum. ... The first part of the book starts with a story of a retired U.S. ... An all-inclusive chapter of the book conjointly discussed the anti-discrimination and harassment laws that address the issues and grievances of transgenders in their workplaces. ... As studies frequently stated in the book, consequent loss of jobs led to homelessness of a huge population of transgender population. ... The last chapter of the book concludes and acknowledges th...

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Now the next few chapters were very well written due to the fact that as stated before knowing the exact consequences to war are impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the star wars project was being passed around American fiction novels and he incorporates this into his book as the United Nations only recourse to try and prevent war. ... Many critics say th...

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Ellis is a book documenting the "historical drama" (pg. 3) that occurred during the formation and unification of the United States of America. ... Chapter two was about conflicts regarding financial plans to pay off the nation's debt. ... Chapter six touches more on the friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. ... The main reason why I enjoyed this book so much is because it further went into depth about what I already knew about the foundation of this country. It also presented the facts in a way that didn't feel like you were just reading a text book. ...

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This book has taught me that it is never to late or too early to start saving your money. ... One of tips which caught my eye the most was the chapter, "Ten Percent Solution". This chapter explained to me that some people have a limited budget due to the fact that they are at a lower paying job and are making minimum wage or close to it. ... After reading this book, figured I'd better start saving or making money as it is stated. ... This book is a book that everyone should read. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book itself examines over 10 American history books and reveals every flaw, fabrication, and "sugar coated " story in each book. ... Just by this book alone I was able to think further out of the box, not just about history itself but present day situations. ... But it wasn't until I read James Loewen's book when I learned that ewe have been deceived all these years by books, museums, videos, movies and of course teachers. His book made me think further into details and do further research on the lessons taught in history books and classes. ... Loewen moves on to talk about Ameri...

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Rosecrance, in latter part of his book the Rise of the Virtual State considers three Asian nations to be examples of virtual states: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. ... His notion of economies of scope versus economies of scale is introduced in the first chapter of Part II. ... However, the aforementioned notion is contradictory to another argument that Rosecrance presents in Part II of this book. ... Rosecrance in Part II and Part III of the book shows us the importance of the leading governments role in ensuring stability and peace. ... The United States as exemplified in several exa...

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For the next few years, Riss had numerous occupations in the United States ranging from manual laborer to a book salesperson. ... In chapter III, "The Mixed Crowd", Riis discusses the effects that immigration has had on New York and attempts to assess the manner in which each ethnic group has found their place in the city. ... In his chapters "The Bend" and "Downtown Back Alleys" Riis portrays certain neighborhoods of these tenement areas as one notarized for their high crime and low living conditions. He also allocates specific chapters for the analysis of each major ethnic group individuall...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nonetheless, the essence of her book makes presence in the 113 photographs, exempli gratia, East of San Antonio and its varying features. ... This book of Flanagan's sheds light over Sam Houston with difference. ... The pictures are sent in a chronological manner within the book. ... Her book is without a shade of doubt, visually delightful. ... His Lone Star Nation book seizes the chance to rectify misconceptions and myths, oftentimes relying on historical accounts as well as on corroborating evidence. ...

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From the very beginning of the book Ben fountain starts to takes us into the mind of a veteran combat soldier who is currently try to comprehend the actual twisted nature of an American society he thought he once knew. In the opening chapter of the book Fountain gives the readers a quick look into how Billy sees civilian class people. ... Bravo Company throughout the book also notes the marketability/cost of everything within the stadium and how the rich are reaping the benefits through exploitation of this swelling of patriotism throughout the country. ...

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In this book, the authors explain to us why they believe American higher education is in deep trouble. ... One of the concepts discussed in this book was sustaining and disruptive innovation. ... After reading the book, I too believe that American higher education is in fact at a crossroads. ... In the book, the author used a great example to explain the threat of disruptive innovations. ... As said in the book, the tendency to emulate Harvard is widespread, but not universal. ...

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They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after one million Vietnamese as well as nearly 60, 000 Americans lost lives and the administration incurred severe backlash at home (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, chapter 3). ... These Panthers carried weapons in public, wore berets symbolizing the revolutionary Che and handed out copies Mao's Red Book around Berkeley Campus. ... Following Henry Kissinger's mindset, as he famously said, "It's a shame they can't both lose" the U.S set out to make sure that both regimes crumbled in the midst of war (Good Muslim, Bad Musli...

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Fashion is one of the few areas where Marling's book depicts the "growing generational divide" of the 1950s, and the "sack dress" was at the center of that divide (41). ... Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Betty Crocker character aged rapidly in the 1950s "a new makeover transformed her into an older and wiser, more mature and motherly figure. ... Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book emphasized such time saving devices. ...

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Theory links up the research and the problem, which is examined in the research. Theory allows the researchers a streamline of action. It is a set of logical, coherent, interrelated concepts, which attempt to explain some observable phenomena or group of facts. Review of the literature provides awareness of the facts and researcher gets a guideline for the inquiry of the problem. Theory is a systematic explanation for the observed facts and laws that are related to particular aspects of life. ...

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In contrast, there's a book named A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki that tells America's history in a unique voice, from a minority side. ... In first chapter, Ronald Takaki did explain the stereotypes and prejudices of white people. ... In his book, A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America, we seem to think that America is full of white people and they're the majorities. ...

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Before moving on to possible solutions for our education system, I want to note an interesting point made in the final chapter of Ryan's book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart that is the basis for my thesis. ... In summing up what he feels parents can gain from his book on the inequalities of special education, Ong-Dean says, "One cannot reasonably expect privileged parents not to draw on their advantages but it might provoke some critical thoughts about the influence of their privileges and about what they might do to promote a more equitable system" (9). ...

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First Encounters: The Confrontation between Cortes and Montezuma In the book Discovering the American Past, Wheeler does an extraordinary job detailing the events that took place some 20,000-40,000 years ago. ... After reading chapter one, Wheeler, does a good job depicting the separate events that took place. ...

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The New American reported in its December 13, 1993 issue Birch once wrote in a poem that he desired to "live slowly, to relax with my family before a glowing fireplace ... to enjoy a good book ... to reach the sunset of my life sound in body and mind, flanked by strong sons and grandsons."" ... In New England, headquarters of the John Birch Society, every state but Vermont and Maine had at least doubled its number of chapters. ...

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Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. ... In the first chapter of Tim O'Brien's work, the narrator explains what different soldiers carried with them to war, which arguably represents some of the manly roles in the society. ...

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The United States of America is the most powerful country in the world. A Democracy made up of patriotic hard working citizens. This is what we want other countries to view us as being, but is that really what we are? Is it possible that everyone else in the world views the greatest country in th...

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"1984", a book written by George Orwell, had increased anticommunist beliefs with a glimpse of what the future could be. ... McCarthyism was one of the worst chapters in American history, destroying many families all in the name of popularity and a power hunger. ...

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Citizenship of the Freed Slave is not only an event to waffle about, in actual fact its start of a new chapter in American history. ... It would take over 100 years and countless lives before the chance would come again-. 5 According to the book "Moving Onward From racial division to class unity-, the...

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