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AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Essay on Auguste Comte

equality reversed and he no longer supported the cause of "economic and moral independence" for women in his later years, but rath...

The Expanding Nation

migration of people to urban centers and increasing support for westward expansion. As many began to support the spread of aboli...

The 19th Century Buildings

towards the wealthy and powerful as could be inferred through looking at some of the stations. A good website for pictures of famo...

Calypso

in the call and answer format, with matching phrases with the use of many V - I cadences and then open cadences to allow the respo...

Winston Churchill: An Effective War Leader

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Engines and the Development of a Superpower

The new mode of transportation and the new roads it needed meant that people no longer had to live close to work, and suburbs deve...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Years Had Been From Home'

clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

THE THROW-AWAY WORKER: USE (AND ABUSE) OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING CANADA'S RAILROADS - AN OUTLINE

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

Albert Einstein: Life and Accomplishments

patent office located in Bern ("Albert Einstein"). It was during his employment here that Einstein began to write about theoretica...

Reform Movements of the 19th Century: Frederick Douglass

a free man prior to the Civil War and it was during the Civil War that he began to work alongside Abraham Lincoln in many ways, al...

British Imperialism in the Middle East in the Early 20th Century

were "formidable obstacles" that "blocked the road to peaceful progress and promoted wars and rumors of wars."3 Also playing a la...

Working Conditions and the Industrial Revolution

any attempt to better their conditions was seen through direct contact with officials, rather than mill owners. With those realiti...

Jefferson and Hamilton and Agriculture

et al., 2007: 198). He tried to convince Congress to move in that direction and actually encourage the nation "to promote the immi...

19th Century Russia

older brother, Alexander I, died and his second brother, Grand Duke Constantine, refused the crown (Levykin, 1999). His first act ...

Giacometti and Kandinsky

display at the Dallas Museum of Art (Giacometti). It is what the name implies: three of Giacomettis elongated figures, walking tog...

Yinka Shonibare/A Flying Machine for Every Man, etc.

of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...

The Evolution of Farming in California

5 pages. 6 sources cited. This paper considers the processes that lead to the creation of California farm country. this paper ...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

Use of Characterization in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In five pages this essay considers how the author used characterization in her accurate portrayal of race relationships in the ear...

Early 20th Century African and American Dual Identity

In six pages this paper considers the dual consciousness that plagued African Americans in terms of identity during the early 20th...

Early Modern Great Britain and Violence

In seven pages this paper discusses the marked increase in violent crime in 19th century Great Britain. Five sources are cited in...

20th Century Women's Suffrage Movement

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's suffrage throughout the 20th century as it included the Progressive Move...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

Reality and Slave Narratives

when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Books on Catholic Revivalism Contrasted

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Madonna of 115th Street by Robert Orsi and Catholic Revivalism by Jay P. ...