... friends in this class. It took me a while to adapt into the class style. First, we started from Shambaugh/Weinstein book, and the West Wing episodes. Shambaugh/Weinstein book is about introduction of the Art of policy making process. From the web book description, it says Author Paul J. Weinstein Jr., who was Chief of Staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council during ... Clinton's administration; he brought a unique and valuable insider's view to the book. This book also provides some real life examples that helped me a lot in reading some of the concepts. For example, I had no id...

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"Notes on the State of Virginia," by Thomas Jefferson is divided into two parts. The first covers the recently discovered woolly mammoths in North America and the second is a written debate aimed at Count de Buffon who claimed that animals in Europe were generally larger than those found in America....

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American Civil War Notes PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 - Democratic party unable to agree on a platform for a candidate; Northern Democrats stood for popular sovereinty (authority rests with the people) and the nominated Stephen Douglas. Southern ... ...

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... 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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... 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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... . 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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The Modern Nora The possibility of a "Nora- existing this day and age is absolute. Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House was a woman who chose to find herself and to refuse the responsibility of her family by doing so. Today, we find women all over the world in every ... many reasons as to why women choose to leave their families to pursue their own lives, yet whether the decision is justified or not depends on the situation. In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora chose to leave due to the realization of how society shaped her life to the woman she was, deceitful, nave, and shallow. Once she...

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... . Under the same light, one ought to scrutinize the Declaration of Independence in validating Zinn's arguments. The last sentence from chapter 4 of Howard Zinn's book, "tyranny is tyranny let it com from whom it may" (Zinn, cup 4), concludes his central theme of the chapter that the American ... The concept of this country with an ideology of equal rights- that every person is entitled to his or her own pursuit of happiness (class notes)- is essential to a democratic system. It also includes the right to elect government officials of the people's will, which was clearly not the case ......

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... sentenced to an average of 15-20 years in prison, while men on an average receives two to six years without citing any evidence. The United States Justice Department, however, notes the opposite is true. "Males receive 16.5 years while the females obtain a more lenient six-year penalty for the same crime. In instances of spousal murder, females are acquitted 12 ... system. A recent case of inequality involves children. Prisons that house females have two facilities for pregnant women. One facility can house 25 mothers and infants; the other one can house 39 mothers and infants and 9 pre...

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... Beauford's influence brought him to his first realization that a black person could be an artist. While working odd jobs, he wrote short stories, essays, and book reviews. He also was a preacher like his stepfather but was better gifted. During his teenage years in Harlem and Greenwich Village, Baldwin started to realize that ... December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France. Literary Works James Arthur Baldwin had a lots of published essays and novels. He also wrote a lot of book reviews; one of his was on Maxim Gorki. It was published in the Nation. Baldwin's first short story was "P...

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... they retain a soaring spiritual transcendence (Amazing Grace. (n.d.). Retrieved March 28, 2003, from http: //www. Albany.edu/writers-inst/kozol.html11k) The book Amazing Grace takes place in the South Bronx of New York, the poorest congressional district of America. There has always been talk about poor children and ... by the children of Mott Haven made it more believable. By the author having the children tell their stories in their own words it gave the book unusual sensitive, dignified warmth (Mott Haven Recent New excerpts. (nd.). Retrieved March 28, 2003, from http: //www. Neasc.or...

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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 ... Reich. His overview is rather brief, not focusing on specific topics or elements but trying to cover all of them as quickly as possible. This causes the book to lose... something. It leaves a rather dull commentary on the events of the time period. It seems as though Keegan, who worked as ...

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... groups of people that were living in the United States. Land ownership has always been a fundamental value in United States culture (Luna, Enrique, class notes 4-4-03). During the beginning of the 19th century, people began to move west to try and start small scale farms in new regions. At this ... At this same time the country was transforming to a new much more industrialized society that was based on cash more than social status (Luna, Enrique, class notes 4-29-03). Unfortunately, this new market economy was extremely unstable. For every boom in the economy, there was a pretty much eq...

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Susan Brownmiller is an author and a strongly opinionated feminist. She is the founder of Women Against Pornography and author of the book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975) and several other books and essays. In Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet, Susan is contending the extent of rights bestowed ... by the citizens and guaranteed by the First Amendment. Susan provides a background of the 1950s which are days before the First Amendment and the 1960s after the Amendment. Indeed, she notes the major success of this constitutional milestone in safeguarding the voices of the min...

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... can eventually receive their citizenship and equal rights. Dubois explains that Washington asks African Americans to give up three things: political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education (Dubois, 39). Indeed, in the Atlanta Compromise, Washington simply asks African Americans to focus on "industrial education, the accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South" (Dubois ... , 39). Washington had many followers from both the North and the South, and he even had support from many working-class Negroes. Although Dubois has a similar goal of equality and civil .....

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... . The Alpine Skiing results were so close as "Austria's Fritz Strobl Took the gold one of Austria's only three gold medals with a time of 1:39.13, second place came in with a time of 1:39.35 and third with 1:39.41"(data base Olympics) Snowboarding however is a totally different story for the United sates. In the Snowboarding Half pipe (Men's) The USA swept the ... ...

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... live or die. This is especially true because most people are biased, and therefore, prejudice and racism greatly influence their decisions. Barry Nakell, the author of the book, The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty, notes that capital punishment is arbitrarily administered. Based upon the same evidence, a black defendant and a white defendant would receive different sentences. The ratio of first-degree murder charges ... cannot pay high prices for lawyers to help them, and therefore, prosecutors use them to their advantage since it is easier to convict them. In a New York Times story,...

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