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Essays 301 - 330

Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen and A People's History of the US by Zinn

by such elements as patriotism and mindless optimism rather than a desire to set out the facts and analyse them with any degree of...

Archaeology and History of Stonehenge

Stonehenge's history and archaeology are examined in 5 pages....

The Error of Reconstruction by Kenneth Stampp and Revisionist History

Chapter One "What was real and fundamental was the idealism and the nobility of the two contending forces: the Yankees struggli...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

Landmark Buildings of NYC

of the pyramidal spire. As Flagg did, Gilbert has a tower shaft that rises from a supporting block base, but to maximize the expr...

Paraplegia

when the disease is treated and cured, the paralysis can disappear; however, nerve damage in the paraplegic is typically unable to...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Art Collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

London's Early History

for his death (Wells, 1931, 469). In effect, Caesar was consumed with one goal: to satisfy the desires and urges of Caesar. Well...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Museum Needs and Challenge, New CMS

This paper pertains to computer and collections management systems (CMS) as they are used in contemporary museums. It also address...

Death Becomes Her, An Exhibition at the MMA

This essay pertains to the Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The write...

Memory Exhibition

This essay is on the Memory exhibition at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco that ran from May 22, 1998 to January 10, 199...

Overview of Singer of Amun Nany's Funerary Papyrus

This essay focuses on the "Singer of Amun Nany's Funerary Papyrus," which is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A comprehensive ov...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Four Examples of Greek Art

This gravestone was produced in marble and dates from the between 450 and 440 BC. While the little girls face is both composed and...

Algeria, the Army and Independence

named Colonel Hourai Boum?di?ne told the Algerian people that it was the armys mission to defend the Algerian culture while at the...

Responses to Essays in The Bedford Reader

and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...

Two Art Figures from the Ancient World

This research contrasts and compares two art figures from ancient civilizations, which are part of the collection at the Metropoli...

Detailed Analysis/Retrospective Exhibit on Orozco

Orozco, biographical information and his art philosophy Orozco was born in 1962 in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and studied art at th...

History

simple event people can become confused about a truth based on the fact that everyones "vantage point" or perspective is different...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

American Landscaping

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

Comparing "Maus" And The National Holocaust Museum

will come to the minds of all who visit the museum after being painfully immersed into the experience is how do people begin to fo...

Medieval Manuscripts

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...