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Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage. 2016. Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN: 9780691165455, 288 pp., $29.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Paul Walker, West Virginia University An incredibly relevant and much debated topic in the political realm is the question of how much of the tax burden should fall on the rich. This question has many important facets from what loopholes exist in the complex US tax…

Sylvia Plath , not being the only American writer, was considered to be the best dramatization writer. Her childhood was like everybody’s , a childhood full of books and a desire to touch the sky with their fingertips . Sylvia Plath’s works were phenomenal, which were based on her life.Sylvia Plath was a great writer that ended her life at a young age, but who is now honored as been the “patron saint of self-dramatization” and self pity. Sylvia Plath was born during the Great…

Throughout history, individuals have used many tools as a way to escape everyday life. Reading is but one means to accomplish this goal. By losing one’s self in a novel, individuals become explorers, heroes, and just as often, social critics. Good authors create literature that allows readers this escape, as is the case with Stephen King, Stephen King’s postmodern novel Carrie blends fiction and reality to create a story that all teens can relate to. The american novel can be described in a…

I can remember learning to read as early as kindergarten, but before that, I was able to memorize repetitive words in children’s book or words that were a sing along. My mother taught me how to read. She would act out the words in the sentence like a scene in a movie. At first I wanted only to look at the pictures because the images conveyed so much meaning. I would take time to stare at the illustrations so I could try to determine what the sentence on the page was about, but my vocabulary was…

What do you truly believe in? This time-honored question is essentially taken into account in the vintage children’s picture story book, The Polar Express. The Polar Express is a hardcover children’s picture (which has been awarded with the Caldecott Medal) written and illustrated by the American illustrator and children’s book writer, Chris Van Allsburg, circa 1985. This rather serene and classical Christmas tale tailgates the abridged story of a young boy (whose name remains unidentified) who…

Community and Customer As of January 1, 2016 there are nearly 323 million people in the United State; with a birth occurring every 8 seconds and a death every 10 seconds (Ramos, 2015). The population is steadily increasing, in a minute there is an average of 6 deaths and 8 births. With the diversity of Pearson’s products and services every person is a potential customer. Especially the youth who are the future of the United States. The success of the country depends on their achievements and…

Day by day, new technology and different ways of using it is being thought of. The way technological change is developing many people find themselves struggling to keep up or deciding if they even want to adjust to the change taking place. In the article “Apocalypse Soon” by Jon Evans, and the novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robert Sloan, the rapid change in technology is shown as both a positive and negative development. It is up to individuals to decide if they would rather adapt to…

When Lucy stepped through the wardrobe and into Narnia, it changed my life. It was the moment I realized that as difficult as things may seem there is the possibility of magic and something bigger just beyond the door. My life changed at that moment. I had found freedom to be the little girl I was, if only in my imagination. It was more than I had ever known. Screaming and fighting always seemed to be going on at my house. My dad was a heroin addict and Mom was a rage addict. Everyday there…

The Impact of Media Viewing on Infants ' and Toddlers ' Language Development: A Review I. Introduction In today 's fast pace world, where approximately 6 billion people have access to a cell phone but only 4.5 billion have access to a working toilet (Wang, 2013) and the manufacturers of electronics constantly release the newest smart phone, computer and tablet technologies, it is easy to forget that just in 1984 only 8.2% of all American households owned a personal computer (Newburger, 2001).…

Basic Details of Movie Character Her name is Annie Wilkes. She is of the age of her late 30s. She is born and raised in Bakersfield, environmentally on a farm. When she was a child, she had a wealthy family with parents who are Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes. Her father was a banker. After her father’s death, she was brought up in a church. Extremely well educated young lady and she went to the University of California at Los Angeles School of Nursing. I picked these up from the movie at 1:13:13 time.…