Scholarship
Essays

Coming of Age -- Struggles of Identity, Politics, and Ethics

Fee, Gordon D. & Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. New York: Zondervan Publishing Company, 1993.

Margaret Thatcher -- the "Iron" Prime Minister

¶ … shape the kind of person that we will become in the future. In my situation, the various events from my past would determine who I became. As they would teach me two of the most important attributes to be successful…

This paper reflects upon the virtues and values of academic work. The apex of such scholasticism is, however, the engagement in research projects and their documentation that actually furthers knowledge in a particular area of study. The concept of the scholar practitioner is central to this idea, and is explored within this document as well.

When reading the biography of Alice Walker, it is not difficult to see her past within her written prose. Just as she speaks about weaving and texture in her literary works, she is weaving her own past into her words.

Outstanding Black Americans Change Racial Viewpoints

The effects of the propaganda campaign that has been waged against Chavez are hard to quantify. It is evident that many Americans as well as many individuals from the rest of the world believed the exaggerations and the propaganda efforts to be factually true. There is really no way to know exactly what effect the propaganda had on the view of the public. One measure would be through public opinion polls. One such poll only found that six percent of Americans had a favorable view of Chavez which would represent a successful instance of propaganda (Hawkins, 2013). However, Chavez's impact on South America will be felt indefinitely as he worked to unify the region in order to develop a closer South American alliance.

In Red, White, and Black, Professor Gary B. Nash offers a revisionist account of intercultural relations in early America. Through his expert command of the historical scholarship regarding early American history, Nash is able to place the more specialized recent scholarship regarding race relations in a wider historiographical context. Nash points out the instances where this recent race-relations scholarship clarifies or even contradicts the dominant historical narrative regarding race relations as well as the early American period, fashioning from it a new interpretation of race relations during the early American period which has sparked inquiry to the current day.

Moya, Jose. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos a ires, 1850-1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998