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Old Testament's Historical Canon Development

time on earth (Core, 2000). The early Christians debated at great length regarding the books that would be accepted as Old Testame...

Historical Figure of Moses

Akhenaten, the ruler who renounced the many gods of Egypt in favor of the sun god as the only deity (Wolf, 2000). This position ho...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

An Historical Undercurrent of Anti Semitism That Existed Before the Enlightenment and Afterwards

expectations and those who dared to counter those expectations. This battle became particularly intense during the sevente...

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene and Historical Criticism

The book is an interesting mixture of Catholicism and the ways in which people fight against it. Perhaps the book tells us more a...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

Field of Nursing and Collective Bargaining

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

Similarities and Differences Between Buddhism and Confucianism as Experienced in China

there are certainly differences between the two disciplines and this creates a source of conflict. That said, while Confucianism ...

Historical Overview of the Oklahoma City Bombing

In six pages this paper presents an overview of the Oklahoma City bombing in an historical chronicle of the events that culminated...

Karl Marx's 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon'

This essay analyzes the first and last parts of the text in an essay consisting of 5 pages. There are no additional bibliographic...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Historical Accuracy of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

out of his clan like a fish onto a dry sandy beach, panting" (Achebe 92). In other words, the women would reiterate what the prove...

Historical and Social Relevance of Silicon Valley

was an invented term and these now occur often as the world changes. With many innovations in the latter part of the twentieth cen...

The 1982 film Gandhi and its Historical Accuracy

Indian commune where everyone shares the work, no matter how demeaning. Gandhis years in South Africa are spent in a series of tac...

A Review of The Romance of Arthur An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation

A 10 page essay critiquing several essays in the anthology by James J. Wilhelm. The focus is on Arthur in the Early Welsh Traditio...

Historical Overview of the US Progressive Movement

Movement played an extremely important role in American society during the first twenty years of the twentieth century. There wer...

A Historical Overview of the Alphabet

This paper addresses the history of the modern alphabet and discusses the importance of writing as an invention that helped mankin...

Overview of Historical Materialism

In six pages this paper considers historical materialism according to Engels and Marx in this philosophical overview. Eight sourc...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Similarities and Differences in Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily

This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...

The Rights of Prisoners as an Historical Overview

In a paper of eight pages the Ruffin v. Commonwealth case of 1871 is considered in terms of the civil rights' indifference shown t...

Historical Overview of the Early 19th Century Expedition of Lewis and Clark

In twenty five pages this historical overview of the Lewis and Clark expedition includes its purpose and adverse implications for ...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five from a Historical Context

In seven pages this 1968 novel by Kurt Vonnegut is examined from an historical perspective. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Historical Perspectives on the Right to Privacy Concept

This paper examines the 'right to privacy' concept from an historical perspective with contemporary techniques of surveillance and...

Comparative Historical and Cultural Analysis of the Crow and Oglala Sioux and White America Interactions

In five pages the struggles of these groups caused in large part by invading Europeans are considered with emphasis on Frederick E...

Historical Significance of Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary

This paper examines the historical significance and impact of Sol Plaajte's work, The Mafeking Diary. This five page paper has no...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Screenplays with Historical and Focuses

In five pages this paper examines screenplays with historical and social themes and include discussions of The Wedding Banquet, Sh...

Panhandling, Free Speech, and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay discusses Mill's essay 'On Liberty' in a consideration of panhandling prohibition ordinances and freedom ...

Linguistics and Genderized English

dominated society. Furthermore, Miller and Swift point out that while words that are considered "masculine" traits describe admira...