Since Gutenberg printed his first book more than 500 years ago, there have always been titles that have angered folks to the point of condemnation; to the point where they have thought that the books should be removed from the shelves, or even destroyed. ... The book Brave New World is author Huxley's shocking vision of a future utopia, which deals with the philosophical and ethical controversies brought by advances in technology and science. ... This book along with others encourages the individual to question their beliefs and the world around them. That questioning, the critical think...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We have met Bartholomew before the war, in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. ... In this post-war work, dictatorial mistakes affect not just Bartholomew but also the entire nation. ... Likewise, the king of The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is not the villain. ... Seuss wrote the book directly after his return from Japan; he visited that nation in 1953 to see how the American occupation had changed the ideas of the young people. ... Minear rightly points out this parallel in his book, Dr. ...

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Immediately following "Black Thursday", the nation entered into the great depression. The president, Herbert Hoover, felt "helpless" on what to do with the nation in ruin. ... The board would be given 500 million dollars to buy crops such as cotton and wheat. ... The RFC was an agency that was given over 500 million dollars and could borrow 1.5 billion dollars for loans to railroads, banks, and other financial institution. ... Hoover could not change from his tradition "text book" ways of being president. ...

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Brown goes into deep detail on each and every topic in the nearly 500 pages. ... What is popularly thought of as a great birth of a nation is now blotched with bizarre and shocking revelations. ... They also do not want to read a 500 page book on every specific detail of the Indian Wars in 30 years. ... This, by no means, is a bad book. ... This book was written for these people. ...

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By 500 BC the Celts had spread to France, Portugal, Spain, and the British Isles. ... Some tribes had loose federations but #3 the early Celts never became a united nation. ... (The World Book Encyclopedia C-Ch Vol3 pg. 342) In the middle ages the Celts adopted the Roman alphabet and also developed a large body of written literature also including myths and legends. ...

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Enron, the Houston, Texas based company, created in 1985, grew into the nation's seventh largest company in revenue by providing electricity to its consumers. ... Enron's reported revenue was based on its exploitation of a loophole in accounting rules that allowed it to book revenue from huge energy-derivative contracts at their gross value, not their net value as done with other securities dealings. In actuality, it used complex partnerships to keep some $500 million in debt off its books and hide its financial troubles so it could continue to get cash and credit to run its trading...

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Brown goes into deep and explicit detail throughout, as evidenced by the book's nearly 500 pages. ... Brown made sure to include songs, quotes, and portraits sprinkled throughout the book. ... These bizarre and shocking revelations give the reader a horrifying view of the birth of our great nation. As with any book of this nature, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has a few shortcomings. ... However, the events this book reveals make reading it worthwhile. ...

• Word Count: 634
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• Grade Level: High School

Brown goes into deep and explicit detail throughout, as evidenced by the book's nearly 500 pages. ... Brown made sure to include songs, quotes, and portraits sprinkled throughout the book. ... These bizarre and shocking revelations give the reader a horrifying view of the birth of our great nation. As with any book of this nature, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has a few shortcomings. ... However, the events this book reveals make reading it worthwhile. ...

• Word Count: 697
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• Grade Level: High School

BookTrader forecasts book sales will fluctuate when students are in school. ... This will also be part of a service charge to help them find a book buyer or trader. ... However Amazon will take a percentage of the sale after the book is sold. ... As of Fall 2011, The US Census Bureau states that there is approximately 19.7 million projected students enrolled in the nation's colleges and universities. ... Competitive Sectors BookTrader faces competition from college book stores, online sites like Amazon selling books for less, and more traditional book stores. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Reading Greene's novels is like reading a history book, but much more pleasant and enjoyable. ... I think that he despises any country that interferes with the natural way of life of another nation. Fowler views Vietnam as a peaceful nation. ... Fowler mentions that in 500 years, New York might not be there anymore, but these farmers will still be here, working in the patty fields. ... We cannot force democracy upon every nation we see fit. ...

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Zinn comes to the defense of almost every oppressed or subjugated group of people over the past 500 years. In his book, Zinn supplies countless primary source documents and quotations that compliment and support his contentions. ... During that year "there came a series of tumultuous strikes by railroad workers in a dozen cities; they shook the nation as no labor conflict in its history had done." ... The information contained in Zinn's book is very accurate, often with primary source documents to back up the information. ... Overall, it is an excellent book and should be read by all ...

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Hitler's clear intentions were made apparent in his book Mein Kampf where he revealed his fundamental purpose was to create a National Socialist state and eventually world conquest. ... With the withdrawal of the League of Nations in 1933, this highlighted the Nazi Party's intention to rebuild Germany by disregarding the treaty's restrictions. In 1935 Germany began rearming by increasing the size of its army to 500 000 men, and as a result of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement increased its Navy to 35% of that of the British. ... His actions to increase his army size, and reoccup...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Bible's book of Joshua (The Old Testament) states that the leaders secretly sent out spies to reconnoiter a country. Also the Chinese Military theorist Sun Tzu's, who wrote a book The Art Of War written in 500 B.C, provides instruction for organizing an espionage system with agents and defectors also known as rebels. ... It prevents other nations from gaining such information. ... Espionage involves the recruiting of agents in local and foreign nations. ... It is important for nations to have some sort of intelligence organization for protection against other nations if there...

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The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book, may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer." ... Since the banning of organized prayer in public schools, the nation has been in steady moral decline. ... It is obvious that such a quantity of students praying for their nation had a very positive effect on the course that this nation had taken. The rate of violent crime has risen over 500%. ...

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Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley was written at a tine in history when war had ravaged much of the nation, Depression was blanketing society, and people's wills were being put to the test. ... Brave New World is not intended to be a happy book, it is more Huxley's way of describing what he believes is coming to us. ... Brave New World addresses this conflict in a fictional future (approximately 500 years into the future) in which free will and individuality have been sacrificed to achieve complete social stability. ...

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Rachel Carson's article "The Obligation to Endure" was published in 1962, from her book "Silent Spring," she tries to reach out and let people know the damage that has and is happening to our planet Earth, to spread her message that pesticides are dangerous, and public safety should be considered. ... Carson explains that the time it would take to undo the harm to nature is generations of lifetimes, and with over 500 new chemicals invented annually it would be futile, as though there are no alternatives to using these chemicals, when in actuality there are many (pg 52...

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In this book, Sister Helen displayed her belief that a human being is worth more than his/her worst act. ... That same year, there were dramatic cuts in health care and education funding statewide. 500 police officers were laid off in New Jersey after NJ State legislature spent $16 million to impose the death penalty. ... Those countries that do still impose it are usually poor, undeveloped and undemocratic nations. ... Although capital punishment has been apart of our history since our nation has first started, it is important that the US keeps up with the changing times and makes the app...

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I recently began reading a wonderful book by Jerry Ellis called Walking the Trail. ... In a wonderful book about the Cherokees written by Jerry Ellis, the Cherokee tribe is depicted as the following. "In 1838, the Cherokee Nation thrived in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. ... They hoped to live in peace where their ancestors had lived for over 500 years." ... The center of the Cherokee nation is Tahlequah, OK. ...

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Based on the this study the Environmental Working Group and Physicians for Social Responsibility estimated that about 500 SIDS cases each year are associated with air borne particle pollution. ... The greater Los Angeles, New York and Chicago areas lead the nation with an estimated 44, 28 and 27 cases associated with microscopic airborne particles each year. Nationwide out of the 500 estimated SIDS deaths due to airborne particle pollution each year, California leads all states with an estimated 93, followed by Texas with 37 and Illinois with 32. ... The book, Death of s, is base...

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The media has really turned the violence in our schools into a growing concern for our nations" parents. ... In the book, "School Crime and Juvenile Justice" Richard Lawrence, the author, says the, "Media portrayals of youth crime tend to overgeneralize and exaggerate the problem" (14). ... Everyone is now asking what can be done to stop violence in our nations schools? In Anna's Quindlen article, "The Problem of The Megaschool" James Garbarino, an expert on adolescent crime, answered, "Ensure that teenagers are not in high schools bigger than 400 to 500 students" (2). ... How can so...

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The evolution of Yiddish literature, as seen in the book No Star Too Beautiful, is much like the evolution of life itself. ... God protects Abraham and eventually makes him the father of the Jewish nation. ... As we progress through Part one, we come to stories from The Mayse Book, printed in 1602. ... Other stories from The Mayse Book teach the same lessons through the use of "common people." ... In roughly 500 years of literature covered in this analysis, we see the beginnings of written Yiddish literature with stories from the Torah. ...

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Since Gutenberg printed his first book more than 500 years ago, there have always been titles that have angered folks to the point of condemnation; to the point where they have thought that the books should be removed from the shelves, or even destroyed. ... The book Brave New World is author Huxley's shocking vision of a future utopia, which deals with the philosophical and ethical controversies brought by advances in technology and science. ... This book along with others encourages the individual to question their beliefs and the world around them. That questioning, the critical think...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the last election, the Liberal Party made a "Red Book" promise to not withdraw from health care field. ... In October of 2002 the Liberal government added $500 million to fight climate change and air pollution, and have invested over 1.2 billion dollars in order to help the environment. The $500 million used towards the air pollution of Canada helps our nation out in many ways. ...

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., I praise the fact that he has the ability to run from home to first in four seconds, or hit a baseball 500 feet, or make acrobatic plays in the outfield. ... And it was ten years later, during the Great Depression that the nation was still able to lose itself in the heroics of this hero who appeared to be unscathed by the financial woes of normal people. ... But could one imagine what terrible fate the black cause may have suffered if Robinson, as subject of a nations scrutiny, had acted as combatively as those who baited him. ... This is the first time anyone had ever exposed t...

• Word Count: 1777
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• Grade Level: High School