“White Fang” starts out with 2 men and a group of 6 sled dogs traveling across the Arctic with a dead man in a coffin. This group was followed by a pack of famished wolves. Each night a female half wolf half dog would seduce a dog away and allow the pack to kill him.…
In Search of Excellence is a book dealing with many different principles of economics and what makes big business’ excellent. The first idea that Peters discusses is his chart of the McKinsey 7-S Framework. The graph is very simple but the ideas are fairly complex. In their research, they found that their philosophies were too…
J.C.H. Jones’s article “The Economics of the National Hockey League” (1969)purpose is to explain through simple micro economics that the prime motive of professional hockey team owners is profit maximization. The owners argue that their main interest is “for the love of the game,” not the financial benefits of owning a professional sports franchise and…
King William’s War Resulting Significance: first war between New France and New England. All boarders remained the same after the war, therefore not but changed. Peace only lasted for five years, and then next war begun. Iroquois suffered from New England’s losses, and were neutral in the beginning of the next war. Queen Anne’s War…
Short stories can be very interesting because many different things occur and develop in such a short piece of writing. Every word seems to have an important meaning and all the material is dense. It is amazing how authors can develop great stories in just a few pages. The short story “Magpies” by Thomas King…
Everyone has their own secrets, including their own reasons for having them. Alias Grace is a story about a girl who may have many of her own secrets. Grace Marks could be a magnificent story-teller: a deceitful young woman who is very good at manipulating people to get her way. Or, Grace’s story could be…
When first seeing this movie, an audience member may believe that it is only about war, and how it can cause a person to completely change. But it is also about family, and finding justice. There are a lot of difficult scenes to watch, and they do not fail to show the true difficulties of…
The film “Autumn Sonata” is a terribly sad story about the relationship between a mother and a daughter, and shows how much a childhood can influence the way one grows up. This film is about facing and overcoming challenges, it is also about relationships that seem to be fine, but are very tainted. The meaning…
In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of a culture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture in the film is the white members of society living in Australia. The subculture in the film is the Aborigines who were natives to the land before the white…
The Truman Show is a movie about a man who is held captive inside a world that revolves around him. Truman Burbank, the main character has been raised on a huge TV Soundstage filled with hidden cameras and actors who pretend to be his friends and family. This world is one where he is literally…
Steve Delsohn’s, The Emmitt Zone, was a fascinating book. It gave insight into the life of an NFL player, as well as to the life of Emmitt Smith. It was a non-fiction book. Telling of Emmitts life ever since he was big enough to hold a football, to the present day. Emmitt Smith came from…
The book “The Art of Rock and Roll” by Charles T. Brown basically proposes methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be able to develop techniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about it. It treats rock and roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots…
“Six Years in Hell: A Returned Vietnam Pow Views Captivity, Country, and the Future”, is a book written by one Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen in a first person manor. He was a military pilot who flew over Vietnam and was captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military…
The Last Supper, by Dan Rosen, supposedly dares to take on deep subjects in a vein of sarcastic humor. But, what it says is that liberals, because of their belief, have the right to pass death sentences on opponents. The story was amusing at times and there was some comedy in the film, but it…
The Republic written by Plato examines many things. It mainly is about the Good Life. Plato seems to believe that the perfect life is led only under perfect conditions which is the perfect society. Within the perfect society, there would have to be justice. In the Republic, it seems that justice is defined in many…
Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” is thought to be one of the finest stories ever written by an American. Crane uses a theme of cosmic irony. Cosmic irony is the belief that the universe is so large and man is so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man. In “The Open…
Robert Bork’s The Right of Privacy examined the landmark case Griswald v. Conneticut. Bork’s “originalist” view proclaimed that Justice Douglas erroneously interpreted the right of privacy from the Constitution. The originalist view is that judges must strictly adhere to the language of the Constitution, thus people do not have a general right to privacy because…
Griffin’s Egg is a story about Gunther, a man who lives on the moon. And his adventures, as he gets into all kinds of situations. He, along with many others, have inhabited the moon because Earth is engaged in a full thermonuclear war. The dangers of the moon however, also come along. Solar flares, dangerous…
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”Albert Einstein Director Agnieszka Holland has produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking film in The Third Miracle. It centers on the complicated character, Father Frank Moore. This troubled priest recently found…
Jacob’s Ladder is a film which draws specific conclusions on exactly what takes place in a person right before death, and the afterlife which await them. Hell is seen as a temporary stop where people’s memories and attachments are taken away so that they can enter heaven cleansed of their past life in order that…