Question Description
Read one of the following books and write an essay depending on the requirement below:This essay is not a “book report” nor is it a summary of what the author says. It MUST be a PERSONAL analysis, critique, or commentary on what you learned and/or agreed/disagreed with. You may include sections describing what surprised you, what inspired you, what you disliked, etc. Grading will include format, grammar, and spelling. Essays to be printed using Arial 12 point, double spaced, and shall be one complete page (maximum and minimum of 1 page – 1 side of 1 piece of paper). No title page is allowed. Citations are not required.
1) Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers (Weingardt) 2005, 165pp
2) Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers (Layne) 2009, 247pp
3) America Transformed: Engineering and Technology in the Nineteenth Century (Herrin) 2002, 185pp
4) Designed for Dry Feet: Flood Protection and Land Reclamation in the Netherlands (Hoeksema) 2006, 148pp
5) The Salton Sea: An Account of Harriman’s fight with the Colorado River (Kennan) 1917, 148pp
6) Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Reisner) 1984, 674pp
7) Silent Spring: The birth of pesticide awareness (Carson) 1962, 400pp
8) Earth in the Balance:Ecology and the Human Spirit (Gore) 1991, 407pp
9) An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming (Gore) 2004, 192pp