... Forest Service, and "The Big Burn," possibly the worst wildfire in American history. Egan effectively discusses many portions of his book, while others are not quite examined as well. Many different pieces of evidence are used in this monograph to persuade and to narrate the ... details. Many of the stories involving Roosevelt and Pinchot come directly from diary entries and letters written by Pinchot himself, as well as his book, Breaking New Ground, which was used many times as support. Much of Egan's evidence comes from other historical writings including many Roosevelt biographies .....

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... . It gave the reader a small view into the whole story. The introduction also did a good job of introducing us to the author. This book was influenced strongly by the writer's perspectives and opinions. It was important to understand his history and were he came to get his values. His ... the ability to relate these stories to his audience. The introduction told us of the importance of the advances in photography. Without the advances this book would not have been as powerful. The images presented give us visual representation and proof of tenement life. It gives faces to the victims of ....

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... upheaval of the 1960s in the US. The construction of the character Daniel in itself is one of the most interesting features in this book, since he shows an outstanding intelligence, although he is also permeated by many internal conflicts and all throughout the narrative he shows a high ... degree of confusion within his mind - maybe this explains the constant flashbacks in the book, besides a lack of linearity as the plot develops. His perspective, as we can infer from the way the narrative flows, is not individualistic ... maintaining the real facts almost untouched. This juxtapositio...

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... my mom had read it and recommended it to me. Moreover, I chose it because it was a non-library book, which is good. I can't go to the library ever again since I have such a large fine. "Ecotopia" is set in the West/North-west ... themselves as biological beings, they stroke and touch each other while they speak, and they relish all aspects of their humanness. 20 years before the events in the book occurred Ecotopia succeeded from the US in exchange for a more communal, Eco-friendly, life-friendly society. The president of Ecotopia was a very dynamic, friendly, and ... in their fights. ...

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... has caused waves of anti-Catholic sentiment since the country's inception and up through the present day, and this prejudice is the topic of his book. Dr. Greeley is a Catholic priest and professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona. He is also a ... and writes a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times, he has also been awarded numerous honorary degrees from many prestigious universities. The basis of his book is that though a large percentage of the United States population is Catholic, and most noticeably Polish, Irish, and Italian they are under re...

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... course, as with the majority of most movie adaptations, there were minor and subtle changes in the movie, alongside missing content from the book. One of the biggest differences between the film and the book was the characters of both Daisy and Tom Buchanan. In the novel, Daisy seems to be a more intellectual and well brought up ... lady. Whereas in the movie, she is depicted as the typical, unintelligent blonde. Tom is the All American guy in the book, described as a well built football player with a confident gait. In contrast with the film, he is a scrawny and skinny husband whom Dais...

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... They were allowed to sue, and their working lives were not nearly as strenuous as the lives of the slaves working on plantations. Throughout this book, Betty Wood focuses mainly on the economical reasons that West Africans were enslaved. It is my opinion that Betty Wood was able to convince me that ... it was both racism and economics that played the key roles in slavery. Based on her book, my thought is that slavery began because of the racial differences between the English and the West Africans, and the English were not able to ... it was more logical to keep on capturing them, rat...

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... the slave ship revolt has contributed to the formation of national and cultural identity in very different ways both in Africa and the African communities in the United States. The book has to main themes, "Remembering the Past" and "Reinventing the Present." In the introduction the author guides us through her history of Sierra Leone and how ... Spielberg's good intentions but she suggests that the plot and narrative scripts do not really represent in full the Africans' memory of their real own experiences. I really enjoyed this book. I chose this book because in class I had previously...

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... Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is a famous peice of English literature. This book provides an insight for people of a newer generation to see what life was like for wealthy people in the early 1920's. This book is about relationships and different personalities, veiws, or emotions and how they effect each other. I think that the movie ... screen. I think the movie we watched in class does a nice job at capturing the mood of The Great Gatsby. One example of the movie showing the mood described in the book were Gatsby's partys. "Laughter is easier...

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... adults from the world around them. Young adults have the right to be exposed to real world situations, so that they can begin to form opinions and ideals for themselves. Book banning violates the personal freedom that each American citizen is given by the Constitution; therefore, the school board should revoke the decision to ban certain books from being used as ... year students become more mature the written material considered suitable could be widened to include other ratings. This system would keep everyone informed, as well as solving the problem of book banning....

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Civil War 100 : A Ranking of the Most Influential People in the War Between the States by Robert Wooster This book is a detailed list of many of the important people in the civil war. I have listed, and summarized, who I feel are the most important people. Ullysses S. Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant served ... black and escaped to New Bedford. In 1841 he joined the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. With Douglass's great speeches, people didn't believe that he used to be a slave. Douglass wrote a book called Life and Times of Frederick Douglass to tell people about his life when he was a slave....

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... also covered in detail. As well as this the social and economic environment that led to the war are also discussed in detail. The book has an American viewpoint but does not argue that the decisions made by America were right. Instead it provides enough information that the decisions ... political side, including detailed descriptions of all the attack proposals made by U.S. officials. Also covered is the anti-Vietnam movement in America. The book continues to cover the events after the war, including how America recovered from the war and the effect the war had on American relations up...

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... was written by Anthony F.C. Wallace in June of 1993. The Long, Bitter Trail follows the history of Andrew Jackson and the Indians. In this compelling book, Anthony F.C. Wallace focuses on the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears, the Indians of the Southeast took to what is now present ... to eat. Thousands died on the Tear of Trails. The pain and suffering of the Indians was all due to Andrew Jackson. Anthony F.C. Wallace wrote this book in a biographical format. There is no actually story but the history of the Andrew Jackson and the Indians itself. I think Wallace intende...

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... States History in gold metallic, engraved into the tiny lumps in the surface of the cover. The gold metallic color slowly fades away with time and the use of the book leaving only few letters are legible. Between each crevice hides tiny particles of dust waiting to be swiped away. Indented lines hide in the creases of the binding. No longer ... does the book look intriguing, holding the darkest secrets to the past, now the book looks like a regular boring school history book. The binding holds many stories within itself. Each crease left in the binding remains from a previous reader rea...

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... read books very slowly, so I get bored easily. However, when I finish reading a book, I feel like I may get some information or knowledge from the book. As I read books, I feel many different things from each book. I read a book called "The Tree" by Bernard Werber. This book is full of imagination. The people who believe there is no number other than 1 ... to 20 and the school that educates the angels born to rule over human beings and the universe creating kits sold like toys. The book "The Tree" gives us an opportunity to look at the world in a different perspective and also to see how...

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... me. He seemed to know from the beginning every move he had to make to one day become the President of the United States. Although the book is treated much like a biography it also does much more. It follows the path of Johnson to parallel the path of American liberalism. It becomes ... obvious that these two similar paths are nothing more than a product of the time period. And though the book does follow LBJ's life it solely focuses upon his positive attributes and often leaves out some of the "dirt". For instance during the senate election the ... to the fact that Johnson may have had ...

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... . However, he influenced to the constitution and the United States a lot, so people wanted to study about him. Fancis N. Stites wrote a biography of John Marshall and explain U.S. history in the book. John Marshall was born in September 24, 1755 in his father's cottage in Virginia. His father, Thomas Marshall, was one of the most ambitious and successful men of the country ... after case. It was hard to organize the cases for the paper because there were too many cases in John Marshall's life and this book. This book was just like a list of highlights of John Marshall's career. The book ...

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... I feel that Roberts" transformations of different subjects in the same chapter are very well done; despite the fact that I feel he should have divided the book into more chapters. An example of how he makes this transaction is when he talks about the Berlin Airlift, which was when the Americans flew over Berlin ... into talking about China. Chapter six is definitely the best chapter for me. It allows me to read up about modernization in the world. Roberts concludes this book with how no one knows the outcomes of anything and everything is a mystery till then. Nothing is for certain and...

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... aspect of the numerous diverse stand points was that it made the event more endearing, because it was based on experiences by real people, rather than a history book. I normally hate books about war, although the topic is a great interest of mine, because the books are generally not good at keeping my interest. ... , it covered only December 7th. His style of writing was neither popular nor scholarly, one unique to Walter Lord. The only problem I felt the book had was that when he was describing the attacks, he switched the stand points of people so much you almost got cheated of informa...

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... like her story happened just recently. Back in the early 1900's women were not known to be adventuresome and therefore one forgets about the time period when reading this book. Amelia was an extremely significant woman who achieved great success and paved the way for women who came along after her. Born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia ... of only her sister and a neighborhood boy.) This clearly demonstrates the fact that Amelia was not an ordinary child but rather someone with a vision and great things to come. This book does a good job of showing Amelia's life as a pionee...

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... All good and well considering this is history, but are the past events so clearly set in stone? Keegan seems to bring up questions throughout the book such as: did Roosevelt know of the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened? "There have also been explorations of the allegation that Roosevelt had ... of the Enigma, a commercial cipher machine; in the next Keegan might begin discussing the use of U-boats. Although there is some logical flow through the book, for the most part the subjects are jumpy, causing the work to be choppy and cluttered babbling. It seems like the author is tryin...

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... novel, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath. He blended his ideas as well as an abundant amount of facts in the book. The topics that were touched upon alludes to these current times. The author compares the years President Reagan held office to two previous Republican heydays, the 1920s and the Gilded ... economic outlook, and with the imminent prospect of a very different chapter in the annals of the wealth and power of the United States. (page 221) The main idea of the book is that wealth inequality is bad for democracy. Of course,...

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... Why could we not live hand-in-hand with these people? This is where Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee begins to tell a story. The book describes the struggle between the Native Americans and the European settlers who became Americans. Dee Brown basically just went through the history of the Native Americans after ... look at as a national monument. Mt. Rushmore was carved into the very mountains held sacred by some Native Americans. The most riveting part of the book was probably the last paragraph. It reads "It was the fourth day after Christmas in the Year of Our Lord 1890. When the first ...

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... tell the story of the American West in the eyes of the American Indians. That in itself makes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee an important book because it is one of the few books that tell about the Indian's struggle and supports their cause. Many records, autobiographies, and stories told ... manifest destiny" and making sure that everyone followed our set ways. With the exception of a few soldiers and civilians, the white men in this book are portrayed as an prejudiced murderer. They killed Native Americans regardless of age or sex often scalping and mutilating the bodies, and even going...

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... New Jersey. Williams attended George Washington University and the Catholic University of America at Washington DC. The book I chose is about the assassination of the 35th President of the United States in 1963. This book tells the whole story of how President Kennedy was shot, killed and all the affects it had ... interesting , it gave a lot of detailed information about President Kennedy and summarized it. I thought it was a really good book. 1. I think the author's purpose in writing this book is to inform people of the day President Kennedy was killed, and to describe the days prior t...

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