Gelsthorpe‚ L. (2010) ‘Women‚ crime and control’ SAGE Publications This article was written by Loraine Gelsthorpe to ‘tease out Wacquant’s treatment of gender’ in his two books ‘Punishing the Poor’ and ‘Prisons in Poverty’ (Wacquant) Loraine takes a feminist approach towards Wacquant’s work and feels he needs to look into gender more. Agreeing with Loraine although Wacquant has written about the vulnerability of women in the regimes of workfare‚ he fails to understand how social policies escalate
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Pride and Prejudice Book Review Pride and Prejudice‚ a classic novel by Jane Austen‚ tells the story of a complicated love that develops between what was thought to be two very different personalities. The protagonist‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ misjudges a man upon rumor and appearance‚ but finds out she is extraordinarily wrong. The novel explains how difficult it is to fully understand someone after settling upon assumptions and being under the influence of the authorities around them. However this
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December 5‚ 2014 Book Review Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in London from 1594 to 1596. It was first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597 and authorized quarto appeared in 1599. The play begins with a large fight between the Montagues and the Capulets‚ two prestigious families in Verona‚ Italy. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They fall in love at a dance and agree to get married secretly the next day. But after the marriage‚ Romeo
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The World is Flat: Critical Book Review The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman gives examples from the past and present to help determine how our world is becoming closer through different technological advances. With his awards in writing‚ not only received for this book but for his other writings in the New York Times‚ it can be assumed that Friedman is somewhat qualified in writing this book. The World is Flat‚ a book about the advancements made in the twenty-first century that will effect
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BOOK REVIEW: THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS BY JITEN KAKAR The inheritance of loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. The novel was first published in 2006 and won man booker prize in 2007. The book has many diverse characters but one can easy relate to all the characters unlike many novels where characters don’t have much real life traits. But I found it annoying that many characters with senseless names keep popping up with no purpose like Uncle Potty (translate: Uncle Shit)‚ and Major
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Dexter‚ Christian A. Review of Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. By James Welch and Paul Stekler. New York: W.W Norton Company‚ 1994. From time to time‚ a book of true historical significance is written on a subject that has been written on almost endlessly. The Battle of the Little Big Horn is one of the most written about‚ speculated on‚ celebrated‚ talked about‚ and glorified events in American History. Popularly known as "Custer’s Last Stand"
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GMitchell Phillips Growth of Geographic Thought Book Review – The Myth of Continents In recent history‚ geographers have become concerned with matters of language‚ and the way in which they communicate and speak about the world. One of the most basic geographical building blocks that one learns is the concept of continents. Everyone learns that there are seven continents‚ which are simply large landmasses which are ‘separated’ from one another‚ ideally by oceans. Although this is what how continents
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the experiences he went through during chaos in his country‚ Afghanistan. The story centers around Amir‚ the main character‚ and Hassan. Amir and Hassan are totally different people. Amir is well educated Muslim. Also he tends to read a lot of books. With his nerd like attributes‚ is somewhat disappointing to his father’s eyes. Hassan is a servant to Amir’s family. Aside as a servant he would still treat Amir with a lot of respect. Hassan would basically do everything for Amir even if he is
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Susan Simmons Book Review Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich October 3‚ 2010 This book was written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and is titled “Good Wives Image and Reality in the lives of Women in Northerner New England 1650-1750”. The author is giving an account of what life was really like for the women in Northern New England of 1650-1750. The book starts with a letter address from a father to his daughter pertaining to the death of his wife and her mother‚ Dorothy Dudley. He says he
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Hunt’s writing was to bring awareness about hardships that German people themselves faced and endured. It seemed as if she was trying to show that the Jews and other foreign civilians were not the only victims of events as the Great Depression‚ the war and the emergence of the Nazi era. For instance‚ she described the lack of resources and poverty her family suffered during the Great Depression when six days’ wages could not buy a single loaf of bread. She also talked about how her grandmother in
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