In Embers of War‚ Fredrik Logevall offers an exhaustive review of the demise of the French colony in Indochina. Logevall is a Swedish-American author and college professor who has published several books about American foreign policy. Embers of War is his sixth book dedicated to the Cold War era‚ and it won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2013 (“Fredrik Logevall‚” 2015). Many of the views expressed in Logevall’s book would be described as moderately left of center on the political spectrum‚
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Chapter one in the book “The Achievement Habit‚" by Bernard Roth‚ explains how nothing is what we think it is. Bernard Roth is a professor of engineering at Stanford University. He has been teaching there for over 50 years. He wrote this book to teach us how to get a better handle on our perceptions‚ emotions‚ and behavior. I agree with Roth’s statement of “nothing is what we think it is.” Bernard Roth is a very knowledgeable writer. He starts off chapter one by saying life has no meaning. This set
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In The Trojan War: A New History‚ author Barry Strauss argues for the historical authenticity of the event that was immortalized in epic poetry and song from the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece‚ and later Rome. Strauss keeps these epic works in mind as he digs deeper in the site of what is believed to be the ruins of once was Troy‚ and provides a fresh outlook on the most memorable conflict of the late Bronze Age. I will analyze and critique the work of Barry Strauss on the subject of the
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I am reading Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz and I am currently on page 356. Before the current state of the plotline‚ Alex continues his fieldwork throughout various environments for the special operations division of M16 that resides in London. However‚ the mission takes an entirely different angle as Alex is then anonymously kidnapped and held hostage by Desmond McCain‚ the CEO and president of First Aid; First Aid is a malicious company that advertises itself as being a beneficial
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Indigenous storytelling can be understood as a way of both resisting and amending the dominant colonial histories that inform the subaltern position of Indigenous people within Canada‚ alongside a means of reclaiming identity and sovereignty within a globalized neoliberal political economy. These practices are narratives of resistance‚ which symbolize the cultural‚ political and intellectual struggles of the Indigenous people in Canada‚ subsequently redefining their position within society. By examining
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Gary Dahl is an advertising agency owner‚ entrepreneur and the creator of the Pet Rock. Dahl was sitting in a bar listening to friends complain about their pets. He got the idea of creating “the perfect pet”. A rock would not need to be fed‚ bathed‚ walked‚ groomed and would not die‚ become sick‚ or be fractious. This led to the idea of selling rocks to people as pets‚ complete with instructions. The instruction book was the real product‚ which was full of gags and puns. The 1975 passion only lasted
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Analysis of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial People really don’t know what all goes on into making a film unless they work in the film industry. There is so much that goes into making a film from start to finish. From starting with an idea‚ to putting words on paper‚ it can take years to get the idea into a story. From there you have to present that story to someone who would be interested enough to make that story into a film. The work it takes to getting a director interested into producing‚ choosing
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This event from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" occurred only in the confines of the short story’s main character by the same name’s mind. It is simply an illustration of how Mitty can take mundane situations like shopping for puppy biscuits and escape from it using his imagination. Written by James Thurber and published in The New Yorker‚ in 1939 “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was an instant hit. This four page story takes place in the tiny town of Waterbury‚ Connecticut during the same year
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Zadie Smith was born to an English father ‚ Harvey Smith‚ and to a Jamaican mother‚ Yvonne Bailey‚ who emigrated from Jamaica ‚ Where she grew up ‚to England in 1969. As a daughter to parents from two different cultures‚ Smith has the effect of that difference which reflect on her writing starting from White teeth to Swing Time. Smith literary works seem to have African American Criticism. This was so clear in her Swing Time. From the starting point of her dedication to the book at the first page
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Chapter 2 This chapter introduces one of the primary motifs of Into the Wild‚ that of documents. Because the book’s subject‚ Christopher McCandless‚ has died before author Jon Krakauer can meet him‚ Krakauer must rely on the testimony of the people McCandless encountered in order to stitch together the story of the young man’s journey — and especially on the documents McCandless left behind. The first of these documents is McCandless’s S.O.S. note. Others will include his journals‚ the notes he
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