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Harold S. Kushner's "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People", 2001.
A book report on "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Harold S. Kushner.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 52.95
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This report reviews Harold S. Kushner's "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People" and provides a positive view by the paper's author. The essay includes examples from Jewish history.
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"It would be so much easier to live in a world where God punishes the evil and rewards the good; a world where everybody knows only good things will happen to them if they follow God's commandments and calamity will be visited only upon those who do not. However, that type of world would eliminate the freedom to make choices between good and evil. People who chose to be good because they will be rewarded are no better than trained dogs performing for treats. The choice is meaningless."
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"When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Harold Kushner, 2002.
A discussion of the issue raised by Kushner as to why an all-powerful God allows suffering.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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Discusses issue raised by Kushner as to why an all-powerful God allows suffering. Book's premise is that although the author believes in God, he has been forced by personal tragedies to rethink everything he learned about God. Discusses story of Job. Kushner contends that even when hard times strike, one should not give up faith in God, and that the victim should not be blamed for his fate.
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"Howard Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, is a rabbi in New York, but as he notes in his introduction, his book is not intended as an abstract theological discussion or even as something confined to only one religious point of view. The author states at the outset that he "believes in god and in the goodness of the world" (1) but that he has been forced by tragedies faced in his own life "to rethink everything he had been taught about God and God's ways" (1). The issue he raises in the title is an ancient problem--since God is all-powerful, why does He allow the suffering we see all around us? Why do these things happen to people who are good, who accept God, and who follow his ways?
The specific impetus for the writing of this book was the fact that the author's three-year-old son, Aaron, was diagnosed..."
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"When Bad Things Happen to Good People", 2002.
A review of the book "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Harold Kushner on loss and God.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This paper looks at the core questions of Kushner's book by the above title. It helps to understand how each of us can deal with the pain of loss and of accepting that God is not cruel, but simply follows by the laws of nature He set for the world. It concludes that if we accept that God does not arbitrarily put his hand into life, that he also does not disrespect the laws of nature or the frailty of human life.
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?When Bad Things Happen to Good People?, 2002.
Discusses this reflective book by New York Rabbi Howard Kushner.
1,061 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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Howard Kushner, the author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People", is a rabbi, but as he notes in his introduction, his book is not intended as an abstract theological discussion or even as something confined to only one religious point of view. The paper shows that, prompted by his infant son's illness, Kushner set out to write the book to find answers to his questions. It shows that the issue he raises in the title is an ancient problem--since God is all-powerful, why does He allow the suffering we see all around us? Why do these things happen to people who are good, who accept God, and who follow his ways?
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"One interesting issue he raises is that children who lose a parent often blame themselves, as if they must have done something wrong. They need reassurance that they did not and that the death was not their fault. In a real sense, we all face the same issues and need to be reassured that when something bad happens, it is not our fault. How we react to our troubles, on the other hand, may be a matter of fault. We need to understand our grief and sorrow and work through it, and religion and God can help greatly in this process. If we let our troubles crush us, however, we would be at fault for doing so. Our troubles may not have a rational reason, but we must apply reason in order to overcome the effects."
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Review of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People", 2002.
A review of Rabbi Harold Kushner's famous book about the causes of and reasons for human suffering.
876 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper follows Rabbi Kushner's grieving process after the death of his 14-year-old son. It also critically examines the questions he asks of God and the conclusions he ultimately reaches. Kushner and many of the people he came into contact with in his service had difficulty understanding why they were forced to suffer, despite living their lives as God wanted them to. Much of the paper deals with a famous paradox of God: Since evil exists, God cannot be all-good and all-powerful.
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"Harold S. Kushner?s book ?When Bad Things Happen to Good People? confronts the ancient theological question posed in its title reasonably, profoundly, and with deep, genuine compassion. It is an often painful, difficult, but ultimately inspiring study of the human condition and the suffering that invariably accompanies it. Kushner, a rabbi, was moved to write when he and his wife lost their son, Aaron, to a rare disease called progeria at the age of 14. He, like many other people who experience such a tragedy, went through a range of complicated emotions, including sadness, guilt, and anger. Considering himself a good person and devout follower of God and Judaism, he wondered why God, whom he had devoted his life to serving, would afflict him with such enormous pain. While this experience alone qualifies Kushner to write this book, there are two other areas of experience which make this book immeasurably valuable to the reader and make Kushner the ideal author for the book."
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How Did Things Get This Bad?, 2006.
This paper discusses why aboriginal education in Canada faces many problems.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 115.95
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The paper explains that it is well known that there are difficulties in Aboriginal education in Canada. For example, Aboriginal drop-out rates are very high compared to non-Aboriginals, while grade levels are comparatively low. This paper sets out to show that this difference can be traced to historical factors, as well as to social differences. As will be shown, it is necessary for educators to be mindful of historical factors and to attempt in their teaching to compensate for these factors, as well as to attempt to compensate for ongoing social factors.
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Deal with the Small Things the Big Things will Follow, 2002.
A look at the Broken Windows Theory in connection with acts of crime.
1,595 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper provides a detailed look at the Broken Windows Theory. The writer of this paper provides the reader with an overview of the theory as well as some examples of where the theory would apply. In addition the writer argues that the theory is correct and if minor offenses were more harshly judged and punished then larger crimes would be deterred.
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?As we go through history we see crime that is becoming increasingly violent. We have children killing children, people climbing clock towers and taking aim at innocent residents and serial killers seem to be on the rise. We also have gang related violence occurring each day as well as robberies and stabbings. Car- jackings have become a past time it seems and those who are victims of it are often brutally beaten before they lose their car. Everywhere we turn violent angry crimes seem to be more accepted than ever before.?
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Review of "The God of Small Things", 2007.
This paper explores gender roles and the "big" and "small" things in Arundhati Roy's novel "The God of Small Things."
1,146 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper reviews the book "The God of Small Things" from a perspective of gender roles. The book's author, Arundhati Roy, focuses her story not on the major events that shape a society, but rather on the small daily events that shape a home. In this paper, the concept of "big things" is evaluated in terms of the adult world and male world, while the "small things" are the realm of children and women. The paper analyzes the characters in the novel in relation to this idea.
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"Arundhati Roy's book The God of Small Things has many instances where gender and the idea of "Big" and "Small Things" occur. In a society where there is caste system, political affliations, and marriage, she focuses on the "small things" which in turn can be taken with the gender roles of the novel. There are many characters such as Estha and Rahel that have strong personalities which play a distinctive role in the novel. Furthermore, the women characters in the novel seem to be transgressive of what seems to be acceptable. Roy forms her characters in a way where gender roles can be seen and political views can be taken."
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"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things", 2004.
This paper discusses Robert Frost?s "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" and compares it to another poem by Frost, ?The Road Less Taken?.
805 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses Robert Frost?s ?The Need of Being Versed in Country Things? by stating that Frost uses simple country imagery, not only to describe the beauty of nature, but also to comment on the needs of modern people to understand the simpler knowledge of everyday things. The author points out that the birds in the poem are an allegory for the cycle of life; whereas a person may walk by the house and think how sad it is that it is burned down, the birds see it as a home and regard it as ?the lilac renewed its leaf?. The paper relates that Frost accomplishes his view on city folk by establishing, at the end of his poem, that ?one has to be versed on country things? to appreciate the beauty and metaphor of the house and the new residents.
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"Frost begins his poem with simple imagery of a house that has suffered through a fire and ?now the chimney was all of the house that stood? (line 3). Frost accomplishes a true ?country? feel by comparing parts of the house and barn to imagery often seen in the countryside, rather than in the city. The chimney, for example is compared to a flower when he describes it as ?like a pistil after the petals go? (line 4)."
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?The Things They Carried?, 2004.
A review of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam war novel, ?The Things They Carried?.
1,342 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines ?The Things They Carried? by Tim O' Brien, the story of 12 soldiers, members of the Third Platoon, Alpha Company, Fifth Battalion of the 16th Infantry, 198th Infantry Brigade of the American Division in the Vietnam War of 1969. It looks at how O?Brien relates his and his companions? desolate and fatal experiences during that war and how he uses those experiences to explore the complications of memory and trauma, the most lasting of the things he and his companions endured, and which have remained with him to this day. It examines how it lists the many things they carried into war that were more real and terrifying than bullets, guns, grenades, and disease, such as the deaths, injuries, and sicknesses, and the overall brokenness they had to face in fighting.
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"O?Brien gives major focus on the death of his closest friend, Kiowa throughout the book. It was a freak incident in that his own platoon killed him by mistake when it camped in a latrine on the banks of the song Tra Bong. It was plain to see why the author held Kiowa closest to his heart: Kiowa shared his sentiments about the cruelty of war. Kiowa was also a very compassionate and intelligent man, but precisely because of the kind of soul he was that O?Brien gave greater coverage of Kiowa?s very costly death than his life. It was a gutting loss he carried with great pain and could never get over with."
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"Primal Leadership" vs. "Getting Things Done", 2005.
A comparative analysis of "Primal Leadership" Daniel Goleman and "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.
1,026 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper examines how the two works, "Getting Things Done" and "Primal Leadership" deal with success and success achievement, but take entirely different routes. It looks at how "Primal Leadership" focuses on the intangibles: emotional intelligence that guides an organization towards success and how the focus is on relationships outside self. In comparison, it discusses how "Getting Things Done", focuses on self, isolates the reader from his or her peers and forces him or her to structure priorities to get work done. Both theories are briefly applied to the real estate industry.
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"Specifically, Allen stresses the five stages of mastering work flow. First, there is the Collect stage. One must know what one must do first before one can do it. Allen asks us to process all of our collection of work efforts in several types of in-boxes: physical inbox, paper-based note-taking devices, electronic note-taking devices, voice-recording devices and email. The trick is to minimize your inbox collection devices so you only have a few places to look for tasks to be completed."
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"Things Fall Apart" - An Analysis, 2001.
This paper discusses factors of Nigerian colonization as presented in "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, $ 33.95
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This paper explores the lifestyle of people in a Nigerian village during the early nineteenth century under British colonial rule. It is based on the book "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe and discusses factors such as schooling, system of government and relations between the rulers and the subjects.
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"When a country is subjugated it is easy to assign all the blame for the colonization on the conquerors. They definitely are a key contributing factor in the downfall of the invaded country but by no means the only reason. The conquered are often ?easy game? for the invading forces because of internal strife, factions, and strict adherence to tradition. In the insightful book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the author shows us both sides of the Nigerian colonization process with clarity and fair assessment of blame. "
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"The Things They Carried", 2002.
An examination of Tim O' Brien's novel "The Things They Carried".
1,443 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses how O'Brien presents the negative effects war has on people, especially on soldiers. Through a variety of short stories focused primarily on the Vietnam war, O?Brien illustrates the horror of war through exquisite detail of the violent nature that each soldier seemed to have adopted as time went on in Vietnam. It shows how he focuses not only on the physical things the men carried, but also on the intangible things and how the reader can easily relate to the emotional cost of an ambiguous war.
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"The violence that seems to become embedded in the soldiers is a major topic in O?Brien?s novel. Through elaborate details that reveal the drastic change within the men, O?Brien creates within the reader an sense of understanding of the what of war does to people. This is an effective technique, as he ties these effects into the title of the book. For example, O?Brien has this to say about one of the soldiers, ?Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a Thumb. . .The Thumb was dark brown, rubbery to touch. . . It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen or sixteen? (13). Before Vietnam, Bowker was a very good-natured person; however, war turned him into a hard-mannered, emotionally empty soldier, carrying a severed thumb as a trophy. The transformation shown through Bowker is an excellent example of the emotional change that a soldier might go through."
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?Things Fall Apart?, 2002.
A discussion of the importance of the title of Chinua Achebe's highly acclaimed first novel ?Things Fall Apart?.
1,617 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper reviews the novel ?Things Fall Apart? by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe which portrays Nigerian tribal life before and after the arrival of colonization. It examines how the themes covered by the book are those of interest to black people and how the novel has views of racial politics. It shows us how as a black writer, Achebe is able to covey language and feeling in a way which is very different than white writers. It describes how the main character in the novel is Okonkwo, a self-made man and how everything seems to fall apart for him, hence the title. It is not just Okonkwo that ?things fall apart? for. It discusses how villagers and tribe members (and indeed Nigerians as a whole) must adapt to a whole new way of life when the white man takes over.
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"Although there were earlier examples, notably by Achebe's fellow Nigerian, Amos Tutuola, none has been so influential, not only on African literature, but on literature around the world. The aim of the novel is to create a complex and sympathetic portrait of a traditional village culture in Africa. Achebe is trying not only to inform the outside world about Igbo cultural traditions, but to remind his own people of their past and to stress that it had contained much of value. Achebe intensely resents the stereotype of Africa as an undifferentiated primitive land. Throughout the novel he shows how African cultures differ among themselves and how they change over time."
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"The God of Small Things", 2008.
An analysis of the relationship of the twins in Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things".
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines how "The God of Small Things" is a story about a family living in the town of Ayemenem, India. The paper looks at how the story is about the loss of love, innocence and life and how it is a story that shows how adult corruption and scandals affect everyone around them, even those as innocent as children. In particular, the paper discusses how Estha and Rahel, a pair of "two-egg" fraternal twins share a connection so intimate and strong that it is almost impenetrable. Through the twins' experiences from childhood to adulthood, they learn that "things can change in a day", in other words, love and life can be lost at any moment.
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"The theme of this book revolves mainly around the "small things". Since the adults care more about the "big things" like social class and family honor, "small things" are ignored by them. "Small things" are brought to our attention by the children and Velutha, the God of Small Things. One reason why he is the God of Small Things is because he is the only character besides the twins who enjoys the "small things" in life. Although he is involved with "big things" like being an Untouchable, he ignores his position in class and engages in "small things" like playing with the children and having an affair with their mother, ignoring the consequences that would ensue. Since Estha and Rahel are children, they are not tied to the world of "big things", thus only leaving them with the "small things" to deal with. They give readers a better idea of what childhood innocence is. "
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