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"Amazing Civil War", 2002.
An analysis of discipline and corrective training in "Amazing Civil War" by Web Garrison.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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This paper will discuss the discipline and corrective training that was so apart of the Civil War soldier. By understanding this premise of this kind of soldier, we may be able to see how they were successful in the arena of battle by the methods shown in the "Amazing Civil War" by Web Garrison.
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Grant and the Civil War, 2004.
Examines the character and military career of American Civil War general, Ulysses Grant.
3,490 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 12 sources, APA, £ 68.95
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The American Civil War had amazing leaders. General Robert E. Lee, for the Confederates, was a gentleman?s gentleman, brilliant tactician, and wonderful human being. On the other hand, General Ulysses Grant, the leader of the Union Army, won decisive battle after battle and made the overall outcome of the War possible. The paper shows that General Grant, who rode his popularity in winning the war to the White House, remains to this day, a much maligned figure. It is true that his presidency, while not plumbing the depths of the presidencies of Warren Harding, William Harrison, or Andrew Johnson, did not set any standards for leadership. The paper shows that what remains hidden and often distorted is the fact that Ulysses Grant left behind a spectacular legacy of martial generalship. This work explores Grant?s role and personality against the backdrop of the Civil War with his achievements and shortcomings.
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"Historically however, Grant has been portrayed more as a caricature than his vast accomplishments merit. Revised history is slowly beginning however, to turn the tide in favor of Grant?s numerous qualities. One of the biggest faults brought up against him were that of drinking, with the allusions that his drunkenness were somehow related to the injudiciousness that he displayed on the battle field, especially with the soldiers. Statistically, battles that Grant was involved in resulted in the loss of more Union soldiers in very short periods of time. This earned him the unfair moniker of ?Butcher.? It is true that the Union army's casualties at Shiloh were appalling, but so were Confederate losses. (Wakefield, 1999)"
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Habeas Corpus - Civil Liberty or Civil Right, 2008.
An analysis of civil liberties and civil rights and which of them applies to habeas corpus.
3,137 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 15 sources, APA, £ 63.95
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This paper explores the origins and history of habeas corpus, from its roots that predate the Magna Carta through to the present day, where it is being employed to the benefit of hundreds that wrongly languish in prison. The paper also explains the distinction between civil right and civil liberty and discusses which applies to habeas corpus. Lastly, the paper looks at the historic ups and downs of habeas corpus and discusses its unique place in the Constitution, separate from provisions contained in the Bill of Rights.
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"Rights and liberties need to be at their strongest when public support is at its weakest. Civil rights are decreed by law, civil liberties are God given, and the actions of legislatures are inevitably governed by the politics of the time. Habeas corpus is a civil liberty included among the "self evident truths" of the Declaration of Independence, and alone one of the civil liberties that can be suspended by acts of the government during times of crisis. The president judged by history as one of the best, sought to suspend these liberties in time of extreme crisis in the nation's young history. It was circumvented to increase support during a world war, to intern "dangerous" citizens during another, and to grant due process rights to perpetrators of the war for the new millennium. It is now freeing hundred of wrongly convicted people of a crime. The future of habeas corpus is uncertain in the short term, but solid in the future as all inalienable rights bestowed upon the common man by his creator."
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The Amazing Life of General Robert E. Lee, 2002.
A paper which traces the life and military career of American General Robert E. Lee.
989 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 24.95
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This paper is about the early life of Robert E. Lee and his military career. It covers most of his major battles during the American Civil War. The paper shows that it was Lee's last stand in the Civil War that causes him to be remembered as a true military leader and dynamic strategist.
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"Because of this Lee?s mother Ann Hill Carter was left by herself to raise young Robert. There he learned patience, control, and discipline. Eventually he became old enough to acknowledge his family?s Christian faith and accepted it as his own belief. Since Lee was brought up in a strong military family, he had strong beliefs and values, but lived in a family that showed little emotion. For example after the death of his father, Lee was sent directly to West Point academy only six months after the loss to train in the footsteps of his father."
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Teaching Multiplication Using "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", 2008.
A discussion of how Cindy Neuschwander's book, "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", may help in teaching children multiplication.
1,175 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper proposes an effective new approach to teaching students in Grades 4 to 6 multiplication, using Cindy Neuschwander's, book "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", which features the concept of multiplication as a shorter way to find an answer than counting. The paper explains that the book's approach involves teaching the children why one needs to learn the multiplication tables, since children are often preoccupied with the reasons they are asked to do things. The paper also explains that the book places emphasis on applying math to everyday real-life situations that children can relate to. To conclude, the paper maintains that "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream" will help to motivate children towards learning multiplication by making it into something fun.
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Introduction
A Three-Part Lesson Plan
Exploration
Overview
Conclusion
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"Children in Grades 4 to 6 are more given to questioning and this can become a device in postponing work sessions, in asking why something is undertaken. Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream has appealing illustrations reinforcing the idea of a world of many particularities. Using the example above, if a city neighbourhood has 200 televisions in about 200 dwellings but the class estimates that there are perhaps 50 to 75 dogs, what does this tell us about how people live?
"Flash cards indicating equations of 5 x 6, for instance, or 7 x 2, should be incorporated into the day at more than one point. Most children can attend to a focused lesson but will welcome the card's reappearance, later on, as a very old method of 'saturation' that also helps to break up the day. The teacher makes the reminder that times tables are learned a little at a time beyond formal efforts to memorize tables in printed form, till students do not need to think each time but realize they can recall more equations. The teacher should state that no one learns them perfectly, this human touch of stating which table she may have to pause and think through each time helping the task of memorization seem less daunting."
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Jonathan Kozol's "Amazing Grace", 2007.
This paper discusses Jonathan Kozol's book "Amazing Grace" about the problems of innocent children from poor neighborhoods, especially AIDS and drugs.
3,175 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 63.95
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This paper explains that, in "Amazing Grace", non-fiction writer, educator, and activist Jonathan Kozol, describes his visits to the poor neighborhoods of South Bronx and Harlem where he is exposed to what it is like for children to grow up desperately poor. The author points out that one of the most important aspects of this book is that Kozol lets the people speak in their own words about their poor lives, their problems and how they think the rest of the world views them . The paper relates that one of the really painful revelations in "Amazing Grace" is the difficulties welfare recipients have receiving services---the long waits and the disrespect with which they must put up. The paper includes many quotations from the book.
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"One of the people Kozol speaks to is Mrs. Washington who contracted AIDS from her husband that she loved and thought was faithful to her. She is sick and needs to go to the hospital, but according to the State of New York, she is not sick enough in order to collect Social Security Insurance. She explains that sometimes one must sit in the waiting room of the hospital (the one for poor people) for three days before being seen by a doctor or given a bed. When a room is available, the nurses are usually so busy that the old lady ends up changing her bedding by herself."
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?Amazing Grace?, 2004.
A review of the book, ?Amazing Grace?, by Jonathan Kozol, on ghetto life in America.
1,224 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, £ 28.95
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This paper examines how, in his book, "Amazing Grace", Kozol focuses on the children of the South Bronx, children who struggle to survive, thrive, to find joy and spiritual connections amid the turmoil of the ghetto. It shows how, although nihilism, hopelessness, anger, and violence run rampant through the neighborhood, the children with whom Kozol speaks and befriends exhibit an ?amazing grace.? It looks at how Kozol allows the residents of the South Bronx to speak for themselves through interviews and to demonstrate with their own examples why racial segregation, ghettoization, gang violence, and poverty are symptoms of a national problem rooted in avarice and racism.
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"Ironically, the ?founding father? of the community, Richard Morris, built the South Bronx on profits gleaned from slavery: he had owned a plantation in the Caribbean. The local high school is named after Morris. The South Bronx can?t seem to escape its historical roots: racism pervades the district and there is a sense that its residents still live as slaves. A local teenage girl tells Kozol that the outside, white-dominated world looks toward people in their community as ?obstacles to moving forward,? as disposable and irrelevant. Moreover, Kozol notes that the mass media and the government fails to capture the raw emotionality of this harsh reality. Streets named after Black heroes like Martin Luther King stand basically as mockeries of racial justice and equality. "
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"Amazing Grace", 2005.
An sociological analysis of Jonathan Kozol's book "Amazing Grace".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 24.95
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In this paper, "Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozol provides an in depth sociological view of how the people of Mott Haven live within a harshly divided economy in New York City. It explains that by providing interviews in his field work with these people, Kozol is able to get varying opinions that the government or Mayor Giuliani would not like admit or provide to the general public. The author of the paper contends that in this manner, his book helps empirically define poverty in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, revealing how people are really living in a racially and economically divided city.
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"This book review will analyze the various aspects of poverty that occur within New York City within Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this manner, the book relates the problems of poverty for minorities within Mott Haven, South Bronx, and the unbelievable living situations that these people must endure. In many cases Kozol seeks to understand why these impoverished conditions exist, and he accurately provides a sociological case studies of why Mayor Giuliani's leadership has worsened conditions. In essence, Kozol provides an empirical sociological outlook on poverty in New York City with a strong ethical and moral look as to how these conditions can be corrected. Amazing Grace is a book filled with data that is helpful to the reader when understanding poverty within the Mott Haven community of New York City. These Bronx neighborhoods are so impoverished that Kozol found ..."
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"Amazing Grace", 2002.
This paper critiques the non- fiction book, "Amazing Grace" by author Jonathan Kozol.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 1 source, £ 61.95
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This paper discusses that "Amazing Grace" is focused on accurately depicting the lives of children and adults living in the South Bronx and in Harlem. The author critiques these themes in respect to how Kozol suggests that juvenile delinquency in these communities is a way of life, rather than an ethical decision, based mainly on the conditions of poverty found therein.
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Jonathan Kozol's book, "Amazing Grace", 2004.
Review and critique of the fifth chapter of Jonathan Kozol's book, "Amazing Grace".
1,901 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 41.95
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This paper offers a positive review of Jonathan Kozol's book on poverty-ridden ghetto neighborhoods. The paper talks about the accuracy of Kozol's description of those neighborhoods, and the author of the paper compares his own experiences growing up in a ghetto with the experiences described by Kozol.
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"Gender is a key issue when analyzing the sociological issues that Kozol describes in his book. He begins Chapter Five by outlining the problem with poor women, who find that better health care services and other facilities are available in prison than on the outside. Many of them AIDS victims and drug abusers, these mothers have endured every tragedy imaginable from rape to battering. Women are therefore the worst victims of the class and race conflicts that beset their neighborhoods. As they are entrusted with raising children, the cycle of despair continues endlessly. Far from acting as victims, many women demonstrate remarkable strength and act as bastions of hope for their children. Many of the people Kozol interviews for his study are women, as the author tries to focus on the impact of poverty and race specifically on young people. When he delves into the myth of the ?breakdown of the family? on page 180, it becomes clear that family problems are but a symptom of the bigger picture and cannot be blamed for society?s ills or looked at in isolation from other problems. When hospitals and schools are in the conditions they are in the Bronx and other poor neighborhoods, how can the family unit be truly to blame? Besides, many white and wealthy families experience divorce."
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"Amazing Grace", 2004.
This paper looks at the relationship between health and illness and the social context.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 16.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the relationship between health and illness and the social context in which they exist. The writer bases the study on Jonathan Kozol's book 'Amazing Grace', which deals with the poor in the South Bronx and the problems they face.
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"Health and illness must be understood in a social context because society is responsible in part for the conditions that people live in and which in turn have major consequences in terms of their health. Many poor in America have no health insurance nor do they have the money to buy medications or even to buy healthy foods and provide balanced nutritious meals for their families. In the South Bronx, there are poor people living together and in Washington Heights and Harlem another poor making up the ... "
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The Amazing Story of Young Goodman Brown, 2001.
A analysis of the book by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
665 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 16.95
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An autobiographical novel in which the author uses the character of the story to tell about his childhood but with different names. A journey into the inner soul of the author and his newly discovered attitude to prayer.
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"Nathaniel Hawthorne used the character of Young Goodman Brown to tell the story of his own, personal dark night of the soul. Through the eyes of Young Goodman Brown, an innocent young man of principles who was married to his "Faith," Hawthorne reveals how his own innocence and faith were lost and his life forever changed when Hawthorne learned that his Puritan forefathers participated in unsavory religious persecution as well as the notorious Salem witch trial. He used the innocent, young Goodman to represent himself as witness in the discovery of unfathomable corruption in various Puritans who, in their sanctimoniousness, were blind to their own corruption (165-179). "
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Irving, Hawthorne, Poe: Amazing Writers, 2001.
This paper takes a look at the life and works of three poets -Irving, Hawthorn and Poe
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, £ 34.95
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This paper provides an analysis of the works of three great poets - Irving, Hawthorn and Poe. It compares their individual styles and attitudes to the society in which they lived. It also looks at cultural influences on their poetry.
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"Before we had television and radio entertainment, before there were big screen theatres and discotheques people had to find their own alternative form and sources of self-expression and entertainment. No matter what in what era a person lived they've always wanted a form of entertainment and will always; people will also always want at least a small way to bring what they as an individual have to society. Art has been around since the dawn of time and will always be here because every person alive has the freedom of presenting him or herself in anyway they want. Although there are some natural born leaders and some followers almost everyone has at least a touch of individualism. Writing is a timeless and time-honored form of self-expression."
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Non-Violent Civil Disobedience, 2002.
A comparison of Thoreau's notion of civil disobedience with the civil rights movment of the 1960s to gain equal rights for African Americans.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, £ 49.95
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Compares Thoreau's notion of civil disobedience with the civil rights movement of the 1960s to gain equal rights for African Americans. Leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his thinking. Moral reasons for disobeying unjust laws. Peaceful demonstrations and those of activists. Bus boycott & NAACP litigation approach. Sit-ins, Freedom Rides and voter registration efforts of SNCC.
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"In his original formulation of the idea of civil disobedience Henry David Thoreau argued that when "gross inconsistency is tolerated" by the citizens of a democracy then "under the name of order and civil government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness" (Thoreau). In Thoreau's case he refused to pay taxes on the grounds that the government supported both an imperialist war against Mexico and the ownership of slaves. He held that a taxpayer in a democracy that engages in imperialist aggression and the expansion of slavery becomes, by way of his participation, an imperialist and a slave owner himself--no matter what private opinions he holds and no matter how he voted. To accept the order that allows these things was, in effect, not merely to accede to their existence but to become one with those who behaved in this..."
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