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Nero & the Early Christians

arose that the city was burned intentionally on the command of the emperor. One contemporary account asserts that "Certain people ...

The 19th Amendment

women finally truly focused on their own needs and fought for the right to vote. As one author notes, "The 19th amendment...

Documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello

documentary effectively tells the story of his life and death, and his concern for others and good works. Sergio Vieira de Mello...

Susan B. Anthony and Mary Wollstonecraft, A Dialogue

This paper presented brief biographies on Susan B. Anthony and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as a short description of 19th gender ...

Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...

Ancient History's Contemporary Social Influence

writing was the mainstay of civilised life. A seated scribe holding a papyrus roll was one of the most popular subjects in their e...

History's First Feminist Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

who "led an extremely worldly existence in the convent" (Mack, 1996, p. 13), defiance of the system was a way of life. She was qu...

History's Origin According to Ernst Breisach

events surrounding the Peloponessian War, but also the views of other cultures which sometimes conflicted with his own sensibiliti...

The New Chrysler LLC - An Analysis

silent transmissions, semi-automatic transmissions, different wheelbases, power steering, air bags, the first minivans, the first ...

In What Ways Is Reading Literary Works of Another Age Of Value To Understanding History And To Understanding One's Place In History?

age help to dispel myths and mistruths about the past that have erroneously been passed on as fact. Sometimes history is portraye...

Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

Assimilation of History's Lessons with Thatcherism

In nine pages theoretical comparisons are made between Look Back in Anger, a play by John Osborne, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Or...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

Science And Religion: History's Ultimate Test

beginning of unique aspirations - as well as troubled alliances - within scientific and religious societies in relation to an orig...

Ten of History’s Greatest Mathematicians

1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...

U.S. History's Watershed Event, the Civil War

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

'Fur Trade History as an Aspect of Native History' by Arthur J. Ray Summarized and Critiqued

(Ray, 2000). Upon initial investigation, Ray had found that most references to Indian involvement in the fur trade were of "shadow...

Pagan Religions and Christianity

Did Christianity borrow ideas and practices from pagan mystery cults. This is an allegation that has been popping up since the 19t...

Immigrant Views on Being American

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

Government Regulations And American Cinema

the Code and ended with its demise" (Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by...

B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

Examining the U.S. Constitution

Few documents since the Magna Carta have had such a profound influence on social and political history as the Constitution of the ...

Asia and Western Expansionism

The ways in which modernization in Asia was influenced by Western expansion are examined in five pages with references made to She...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

American Holocaust by David Stannard

In six pages Stannard's contention that the Europeans were responsible for world history's greatest acts of genocide in the exterm...

Beauty, Consumption and Habits of Thought

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's HIstory Writing

providing a complete description of the village, its geography, demography, religious beliefs, social beliefs, families, sex, food...

Rise and Fall of of the Qin Dynasty

considered to be "xian" or districts, but larger administrative districts were later formed. These were the "jun" or provinces (Qi...

Mathematics' History and Critical Milestones

that of harmony and resonance in music. The fact that musical pitches correlate directly to numbers, they concluded that this rein...