... this unfamiliarity means that arguments and approaches may be adopted from historical studies. They may do this without asking the questions that historians would ask of the material. The book, "Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting" introduces the idea that currently accepted management and cost accounting methods as used today in Corporate America are "... ... and overall performance. Most management accounting systems described herein by Johnson and Kaplan provide only information necessary for tightly controlled external reporting requirements and other financial ...

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... theories to explain management accounting practice, they may often be using theories suggested and supported by historical data. The book, "Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting" introduces the history of management accounting. The book is very well documented in that Johnson and Kaplan were able to deduce different conclusions made by others. They start ... performance. Most management accounting systems described by Johnson and Kaplan provide only information necessary for tightly controlled external reporting requirements and other financial accounting needs, such ...

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... Siberia, where they would struggle to survive five long years of starvation and suffering (Hautzig 12). Esther shares her feelings with the readers throughout her book; she tells us what exactly felt like to be in a cattle car full of peasants who seemed to be handling the situation in a much ... can become "monsters" and performs such horrible and outrageous things such as massive murders. Another book that illustrates the calamity of the Holocaust is Memories of my life in a Polish Village, by T.K. Fluek. In her book, Toby Fluek, a small Jewish girl, describes how her family had to mo...

• Word Count: 2685
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• Grade Level: High School

... subject of controversy, the evidence presented in The Rape of Nanking should put an end to this debate. For the second edition of the book, published on December 13, 1997 -- the 60th anniversary of the Rape of Nanking -- the authors carefully reviewed the records of Japanese military ... these agencies. The records leave open the possibility that there were in fact many more victims, but the authors eliminated from their tally any reports that might conceivably have been overlapping or unreliable. The Nanking Massacre began on December 13, 1937 when the Japanese Imperial Army captured Na...

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... In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. Later, his support for some of Roosevelt's more radical fiscal policies cooled, but he remained an enthusiastic Democrat and ... Czechoslovakia. Using his father's connections, JFK was able to stay in ambassadors' homes for the majority of his trip, and he sent detailed reports to Joe Sr. from every stop. JFK's most prescient observation came in Poland, where he noted that "rightly or wrongly the ...

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... depictions of the Vietnam War. While these movies may have some accuracy, they are based primarily on the war recounts provided by the United States news and media. In the book A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives, author Michael Hunt stated that, "Since 1977, Hollywood has been succeeding where Washington consistently failed: namely, in selling Vietnam to ... America was influenced by the medias coverage of the war. "Correspondents and their editors were undermining the American support for the war by putting gruesome images of wounded s...

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... of hostile territory with out knowing it. The ground commander of the allied forces tried to regain contact with the spearheads of the assaulting forces. Once in contact he received reports of conflicts and how many of the objectives had been captured. He urged all forces to keep moving and capture their objectives. Moral began to drop due to the lack ... time the German 5th Panzer and Seventh Army would have been slaughtered and forced to surrender. The effect of this would have been a monumental blow to the Third Reich. This book has left a lasting impression on me. I was unaware of t...

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... Oval Study. There he meet William Donovan, Roosevelt's Coordinator of Information, and the two men were invited into the study for a midnight snack of sandwiches and cold beer. The Usher Book comprises the only official record of the meeting, which only says the men spent about twenty-five minutes together and no specific details were kept. For years afterwards Murrow wondered ... both radioed in the sinking of an unidentified sub. However Navy command did not get excited over the announcement of a sinking of a sub because there had all ready been many reports over years of whales been ...

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... Jews of Italy had little idea of the horrors of the Holocaust that was already in full swing in other countries, as they relied on censored news and distrusted BBC reports as Allied propaganda. Indeed, the Germans rescued Mussolini from the capture of Italian partisans on September 12, and set him up at Salò on Lake Garda as the head ... awaited rescue by the Russians. It was this final ten-day phase of survival, unguarded and abandoned to the bitter January cold, that Levi narrates in full grisly detail. Levi s book is full of emotion and is very insightful to the situation faced by I...

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... fact that he does not wish to speak with his parent (i.e., use few or no words at all) shows Baumer's movement away from the traditional institution of the family. Baumer reports that his father "is curious [about the war] in a way that I find stupid and distressing; I no longer have any real contact with him" (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 146). In considering ... , and his part in it, have become much more personalized because now he can actually see the face of his enemy. In his grief, Baumer takes the dead man's pocket-book from him so that he can find out the deceased's name and family s...

• Word Count: 3268
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• Grade Level: High School