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Vietnamese Culture Overview

In five pages this overview of Vietnamese culture includes history and heritage, belief and values, norms, customs, symbols, insti...

Overview of Portuguese Americans

achieve its dream of liberation. While there were a number of "complex factors that persistently" (Safford, 1992, p. 83) worked i...

Doing Business in Ethiopia for an American Company

In many cases it is not only the firm that benefits economically but also the African people themselves. Many regions of Africa w...

A World Societies History

been treated little better than animals. Islam at least accorded that women may be redeemed and attain a heavenly reward, although...

Chinas and Issues Involving Human Rights

towards the Soviet Union and its leaders. The Chinese Revolution of 1911 would set in motion a series of political and...

HP Team Building

Prior to its acquisition of Compaq, HP had been known for years for its open and easy approach to management of its people. Peopl...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

Spain and Ivory

people desire the objects which are made from the raw material. Ivory carving is not new. It dates back to about 4,000 years to th...

A Review of The Final Days by Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

In this five paper paper the writer explores the captivating book by Woodward and Bernstein. The focus is the final days of the N...

The importance of coffee in social culture in the US

This paper looks at the relationship between coffee consumption and American cultural ideology. The writer explores coffee's histo...

History and Fate of the Great Basin's Anasazi

between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada ... The landscape is more than half empty" (Christensen, 2003). Technically, however, t...

Analysis of Joseph Heller's Catch 22

Yossarian watches as many slowly lose their grip on reality as they fly mission after mission. The Catch 22, then is that which wo...

XinJiang Separatist Movement

In twenty five pages this paper discusses China's human rights abuses in this overview of XinJiang's culture and history and descr...

America in Our Time by Godfrey Hodgson

his analysis by discussing the impact that the assassination had on the country. In other words, he shows why this time qualifies ...

Western Culture, Reason, and Faith

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Western culture is examined in terms of the relationship that exists between reason and faith thr...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

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...

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...