(Lipsitz vii) " Lipsitz's book gives a substantial amount of evidence which shows that America's investment in whiteness with historical facts, stories, and statistics. ... In his book, Lipsitz states that "[w]hiteness is everywhere in U.S. culture, but it is very hard to see (Lipsitz 1)." A major factor as to why Lipsitz wrote this book was due to the events surrounding Bill Moore's death when Lipsitz was a youth. ... Lipsitz admits that "the murder of Bill Moore did affect [him] to an unusual degree, even more than the many reports of the deaths of dozens of blacks in the civi...

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Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... Later that year, the New York Times reports that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed. ... Huts were reported to be covered with dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth. ...

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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. ... " Mamdani goes on to talk about a Los Angeles Times report that shows leaders of terrorist attacks after the Afghan War were actually veterans themselves. ... Mahmood Mamdani's book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," reoriented my perceptions of the Muslim world. ... Not only this chapter but, the majority of this bo...

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Peter Singer, a professor of ethics at Princeton University, is often considered the Father of the animal rights movement, says in his book Animal Liberation, "If humans have basic rights, such as rights to be spared unnecessary suffering, then animals have those rights, too, the fact that a being is not a member of our species has nothing to do with how much its pain matters" (89). ... Even though pharmaceuticals are routinely tested on animals, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported, "that 100,000 people every year are killed by prescription drugs and more than 2 million a...

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According to the book, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Implementation, Significance, and Impact (by Wilma H Fletcher, Theodore Plette, Preface, para. 3) state, "Since the market's peak in early 2000, U.S stocks have lost about $7 trillion in value". ... Before SOX was mandated, companies would self maintain their own financial reports, making it easy for them to hide and maneuver numbers around to make it look good on paper. ... Both the third party auditor and company management have to report sufficiency of the internal controls and finances. ... According to Sarbanes-oxley-101.com, &...

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Since 1990, the Human Development Report has been publishing every year an index called the Human Development Index that has been used to measure every nation's development. ... Human Development Reports are important to know since the data shows how national locations are standing globally. ... According to the Central Intelligence Agency's world fact book, 58.8% speak English, and 21.6% know how to speak French. ... Toronto is in fact actually the 4th largest city in North America behind Los Angeles (3rd place), New York City (2nd place), and Mexico City in first place according t...

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Many black American activists became increasingly popular during this time period, Booker T. ... Booker T. ... President Roosevelt reacted to Tarbell's reports by creating trustbusting, which was a way to restrain or dissolve business monopolies. ...

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The book puts the spotlight on the lived experiences of 20 transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying, violence, and discrimination. ... 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. ... As studies frequently stated in the book, consequent loss of jobs led to homelessness of a huge population of transgender population. ... A section of the book entitled the "I'm Lucky" Phenomenon r...

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Another weakness of the book, in my point of view, is the literature itself. ... This book actually bored me to death. ... Sometimes when I read a book about something that I real don't know, it attracts me. ... The book explains McCarthyism to the T but, I wanted to know what was behind all of this. ... The book focuses a lot on McCarthyism and it's affects. ...

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According to the book the media at war news and entertainment media alike has been saturated by images of conflict throughout a war-scarred century. ... Reporting Vietnam media and military at war by Hammond says correspondents disagreed at times with official policy, but there reporting never questioned the end of the war. ... The medias job in the Vietnam war was to report the Vietnam war and bring it to the public's living rooms. ... The media reported what the Iraqi government did and said during the Iraqi war all the while functioning under serve restrictions. ... Reporters rep...

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This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. ... Many critics say that the Department of Defense, namely the CIA influenced his writing of this book at the very height of the Russian American arms race. ... This doesn't seem very important in Frank's book at first, but it's most likely a very realistic picture of how our society thinks in some ways. ... They began to be self sufficient in as little as a month though the book is not clear they su...

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Justice Department, Bureau of Justice Statistics April 1998 report on alcohol and crime, "About 3 million violent crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense. ... The Magnuson-3- repercussions of their actions included countless hours of community service, reading a book that extensively discussed what the veterans of World War I went through, writing an essay of what the book discussed, receiving probation, receiving a huge fine, and having to repair what was damaged at the park. ... The National Youth Violence Prevention ...

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The reporting cause of the collapse was that the burning fire weakened the structure and that the jet fuel started to burn which melted the steel columns and thus leading to the collapse. ... The damage reported at the Pentagon was a "single hole, no more than 16 feet in diameter" (Molé 8). ... A firefighter on scene reported, "From my close-up inspection, there's no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon" (Molé 8). ... Included in these materials is a few wooden desks, a wooden stool with an open book on the top of it, and a white computer monitor, al...

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These beliefs lead way to a whole new political way of life and the rest of Appleby"s book is based on the foundation of change that Jefferson laid for Americans in the future. ... The printed reports of the political sides that people took gave people enjoyment and got them more involved with the government then they had been in the past. ... Appleby's main purpose in writing this book is to show how Jefferson affected the American society after the American Revolution and the changes in the economy and the people. ... One thing that she could have done to make this book less biase...

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Church and is an even-keeled figure through the book. ... The court trial is a major plot crescendo in the book. ... Although the book is fiction, one does think that trials like this probably did happen. ... Feraris "Ray" Golden was found hanging from a tree, and some reports say he was found with his hands bound. ... It was then reported that Ray was dating the daughter of a white police officers. ...

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According to our text book, The Challenge of Democracy there is a lot of history behind civil rights. ... News and World Report minorities are proving that they deserve a chance to be given equal opportunity. ... News and World Report 10/98, 2). ... According to a 1995 government report, white males make up only 29 percent of the workforce, but they hold 95 percent of senior management positions, (Skylar 1995, 115). ...

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Richard is also an editor at Pacific News Service, contributing editor for Harper's magazine, US News, World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. ... Jennefer Hernandez There, are great books that Rodriguez has written such as Hunger of Memory his first book published in 1982. ... In this book he offers him self as an example of the long labor of change about his loneliness, but also his triumph. In his other book, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father publish in 1992, Rodriguez explores the dilemmas of ethnicity and cultural identity. ...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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It was not until Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, written in 1967, that people started to question the use of pesticides. ... In her book, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? ... Broley reported a healthy eagle population until 1947, when he began to notice changes in the eagles" behavior and a decline in the number of eaglets. ... Reports began coming in from all over northern Europe about dead seals washing up on the beaches. ...

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Cuba is like the George Orwell nightmare predicted in the book "1984" except that this time the country is set in the tropics with Big Brother sporting a beard and cigar. ... They are the perfect example of the thought police as their mission is to spy on neighbors and reporting back to the regime. ... There are document reports that exist of Cuban troops in cahoots with the Ethiopian government denying food to starving Ethiopians because of their political ideology. ... There was another report that a number of prisoners with AIDS rioted on August 19, 1992, demanding better food and medical a...

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In his book, Schulman states that Johnson "personified a liberal, activist government", by means of a modern liberalism in which the government oversaw the needs of the people. ... Being one of Johnson's advisors, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report on the war on poverty which developed two main arguments. ... Many African-Americans were insulted by the Moynihan report and felt that he was blaming the victims of bigotry rather than the oppressors, and "of ignoring and patronizing the real achievements of black culture." Even though Johnson had always maintained a universal outlook o...

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Since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers, statistics from an FBI report of hate crimes in American showed that the number of crimes against Muslim or Arab Americans jumped from 28 in 2000 to 481 after September 11th. ... According to reports, the teenagers drove him to a deserted part of a long road and preceded to beat him and leave him for dead. ... You may think that the statutes are your security- they are nothing but words in a book. ...

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In the book "The Geopolitics of Emotion" by Dominique Moisi, he discusses issues that are happening around the world. ... Losing individually in an ego- involving condition led to the highest levels of negative affect responses and attenuated levels of reported need satisfaction" (Standage). ... For instance, Redding reported research findings from Hong Kong managers of higher scores for 'social needs.' ...

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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 awar...

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William Cronon's book Changes in the Land is a very detailed and informative explanation of the cultural and environmental shifts that North America underwent with the European colonization. Reading through this book allows you to see not only how America has become the nation she is today ecologically but it also shows the ecological state of New England during Native American inhabitation and the radical changes that were caused by the European way of life. ... "Dwight reported that they (livestock) were gone from the south. ... This book easily accomplishes and expounds on the ide...

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