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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MILLENNIALS ON CAMPUS: USING THE TRAITS OF A GENERATION TO IMPROVE HIGHER EDUCATION by Stephanie Kidd A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of in Higher Education Administration UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX March 2014 © 2014 by Stephanie Kidd ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MILLENNIALS ON CAMPUS: USING THE TRAITS OF A GENERATION TO IMPROVE HIGHER EDUCATION by Stephanie Kidd March 19‚ 2014 Approved: Ronald Hutkin‚ Ph.D.‚ Committee Chair
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good‚ and evil‚ he will soon find out what all of those mean. This book has been challenged many times‚ and also in many different locations. It was banned in Arlington‚ TX.‚ Junior High School libraries in 2001. It was challenged in Fairfax‚ VA.‚ in school libraries in 2003 and also was banned from George County in Mississippi. Basically banned or challenged in many other locations all through the years till 2013. And the book was always banned or challenged for the main purpose which was violence
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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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Introduction Mass murderers and serial killers display the same characteristics such as lack of empathy and manipulation but they are different. What differentiates the two is the number of murders as well as the timing of these murders. While serial killers commit the murders over an extended period in different locations‚ mass murderers commit the murders at the same time in a single location. Serial murder A serial killer is someone who murders more than three people over a period of a month
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