Book Review The Bureaucracy in the Philippines Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz ------------------------------------------------- Institute of Public Administration: University of the Philippines‚ 1957. 268 pp. This book is about the administrative history of the bureaucracy in the Philippines. It spans from the 1560’s when Spain undertook to administer the affairs of the natives of the archipelago to the 1950’s when the Filipinos assumed the responsibility of self-government. The author presented the significant
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Amanda Carrion Review of The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine September 2‚ 2004 The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine covers many topics of American history during the "Great Depression" through 1941. The topic that I have selected to compare to the text of American‚ Past and Present‚ written by Robert A. Divine‚ T.H. Breen‚ George M. Frederickson and R. Hal Williams‚ is Herbert Hoover‚ the thirty-first president of the United States and America’s
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and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt‚ 2004). Preface How to explain the post-Cold War violence? Some attribute it to identity politics (xi-xii). Pace Samuel Huntington‚ the cause is a struggle for resources (xii). Oil as special resource: 2001 and since revelatory of the consequences of oil dependency (xiii-xv). Goal of book: “Tracing the evolution of U.S. oil policy and weighing its consequences for the future” (xvi)
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Review: Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy‚ published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction‚ Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel . The character of Anna was likely inspired‚ in part‚ by Maria Hartung ‚ the elder daughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin . Although Russian critics dismissed the novel on its publication as a "trifling romance of
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Stephano Krau Instructor Snyder A.WOH 200125 March 2010 Animal Farm: Book Review Animal Farm is a dystopian‚ allegorical novel written by George Orwell and published in 1945. Orwell was a novelist as well as a journalist‚ and is best known for his narrative documentaries and his novellas’‚ including “Nineteen Eighty-Four‚” and “Animal Farm.” His novella “Animal Farm” mirrors events in Russia that lead up to the Revolution and lasted during “Stalin era‚” and exhibits noteworthy symbolism between
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Book Review Author: Jung Chang Title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Publication: Simon and Schuster‚ London‚ 1991 1. Main Thesis In Wild Swans‚ Jung Chang describes the life of three generations of woman in her family. Beginning in the year 1909 and ending in present time‚ it gives an insight into almost eighty years of the cultural history of China. Jung Chang has said in a interview that her intention in writing Wild Swans was to show how the Chinese people‚ and in particular the women
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John Adams‚ on the other hand‚ obtained several bad reviews for showing up in duds that were so out of style – though Adams protested that using his old clothing was more economical. The author is showing an accurate account of how the people of the colonies looked at these “wise and powerful” men. How interesting
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Book Review on Urban Poverty B M Hasanul Banna International Islamic University Malaysia Urban poverty is the outcome of urban-bias development projects being predominantly financed by the external capital‚ either in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or Aid. The urban-bias industrialization strategy performed as a pull factor for the rural unemployed. This strategy contributed to the expanding of urban informal sectors where unskilled as well as highly unorganized day labours remain
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Book Review McDonough‚ James L. War in Kentucky From Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press 19 November 2012 History 108 By: Courtney Creech James McDonough ’s War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville uses exerts from diaries‚ letters‚ and participant recollection to explore the strategic importance of Kentucky for both sides in the Civil War.
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This is a book review on George Orwell’s‚ Burmese Days. The story shows corruption and imperial prejudice. The daily lives of Burmese and the British were affected by inequality and racism. For the Imperialists life was very well but to the locals the Europeans lived like gods. Therefore the main symbol that portrayed British imperialism‚ involving racism was the European club. The club located in Burma was a representation of British racism against everyone else that was not British. Burmese Days
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