Book review: Ho, Karen. (2009). Liquidated: An ethnography of Wall Street. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. In the wake of the recent financial crisis, many commentators attempted to analyze the roots of the conflict from a political or economic perspective. Anthropologist Karen Ho, a veteran of Wall Street as well as an academic, attempted to understand the reason that Wall Street behaves the way it does in her 2009 anthropological study of American finance entitled Liquidated: An ethnography
Regardless of the object being reviewed, there are a number of essential features of writing a review at a professional standard. This essay will examine each of those features with reference to two reviews of films which explore a specific theme. Firstly, however, the meaning of the term ‘professional standard’ must be established. There are standards that all professions must follow. These are to do with ethics and values. At the very least, standards of professionalism indicate a level of “expertise”
The Book & Reader forums is a place designed for users of all ages to discuss books. Within the forums of this website there is one forum described as being intended for children and young adult books. This forum seems to receive a limited amount of traffic. A search using the forum’s search feature revealed that since the beginning of the year there have been 33 posts. While some of these posts were written by adults, I also a detected several that appeared to have been written by teens. The
For this assignment I read the book reviews Limits of Endurance ‘Defiant,’ by Alvin Townley; He Accused ‘An Officer and a Spy,’ by Robert Harris; Breaking In ‘The Burglary,’ by Betty Medsger. For the book review Limits of Endurance ‘Defiant,’ by Alvin Townley the reviewer seem to have thought fondly of this book while writing majority positive things about this novel. The review He Accused which went over the novel ‘An Officer and a Spy,’ by Robert Harris seemed to be majority mixed to the point
Performance reviews are designed to both evaluate general performance and measure progress around specific goals. Both negative and positive aspects are incorporated in these reviews as they should serve as a point of reference to both look back in evaluation and ahead in anticipation. Pulling back from daily demands in order to assess and review employee performance allows managers to focus their attention on specific departments and clarify what is high priority to their company. Performance reviews also
children do not have a book to read. What sparked this was a story my sister told me while she was working on her book drive. A summer program teacher was taking to my sister and told her about a student who she had, he was about 4th grade. The summer program was to promote reading skills. So, the teacher assigned a book report. A simple and normal task for a grade school classroom. The teacher didn’t expect much to happen with this normal assignment. While reviewing the book reports after they
going through with human grief and sorrow after a loss, while assisting the students to form their own standpoint about the issue. A Man Called Ove has received countless enthusiastic reviews by prominent critics, distinctly by New York Times Book Review, People, and Publishers Weekly. The New York Times Book Review, one of the most
Alexander Hamilton as a Political Prophet January 11th, 1757, the supposed day that a founding father, an American statesman, and the creator of the nation’s financial system was born; his name, Alexander Hamilton. But, before all of those things came to be true, Hamilton was just a boy with an unexciting background. Mr. Hamilton was born in the Caribbean Islands of Nevis to James Hamilton and Rachel Fawcett. He had a normal childhood, spending most of his youth on the island of St. Croix where his
Identifying Review Polarity: This step is to determine the polarity of opinion words, and then to identify sentence polarity. In the system, only the adjectives in product reviews are used as opinion words. 1) Extracting Opinion Words:This step can be done with many of the data mining techniques stated in the above literature survey.But use of a dictionary-based approach is the easiest one. Hence we have implemeted that here. It is basically used to collect the positive set of words and negative
Book reviews are just that: a review of a book. They can be used for news articles, blogs, or academic journals. A book review is more than just a book report. It can give the reader more of an insight into not just the book, but the author as well. Most authors write of what they know. For example, some authors have backgrounds in law enforcement so they write about cases they know or have worked. Other authors research groups of people, for example the Knights Templar, and write of what they