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1812 to 1860 Manifest Destiny in the United States

an old concept, and the meaning changes from what was the original intent. The author also looks at the concept with a focus on ce...

Imagery in Two Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

U.S. Imperialism During the 19th Century

always rationalized based on diplomatic or human rights objectives. For example, when American politicians wanted trade access th...

US Monetary Policy History

theories behind monetary policy debates and these are the theories that provide people in politics with support for their position...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

War in Ancient Times

During the first several centuries, war was a constant state of being in different parts of the world. This essay focused on war i...

Mohammed Introduced New Religion

Mohammed introduced Islam in about 632. It was a time when tribes ruled their own group. There were continual battles between trib...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

The Best War Ever by Adams

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

Three Events in the History of Higher Education

the fees and students came from "all walks of life," but primarily from the "poorer families of knights, or from among townspeople...

Article Critique/Prospective Memory

v. time-based) and 2 level of cognitive load (low v. high). Minimal information processing was required for the low-cognitive load...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Seagate's Morale-Athon

from different geographic locations and in their own demographics, personality, etc. There is some confusion in the article. The a...

Risk Assessment of Four Nuclear Plant Designs

would include details regarding some aspects of the designs of the four contenders, including some risks and safety aspects. ...

A Cultural Event: “Slumdog Millionaire”

the last question, and wins the money-and the girl hes wanted for years; shes the reason hes in the contest in the first place. T...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

Exposure To A Different Culture

towards culturally different practices. 2. The Event In order to understand the ritual it is important to understand a i...

Events in The Crucible and in Today's Headlines

Bush Administration and its continual claims that we were in immediate danger mirrors the climate Miller creates in his play. In t...

Liberty or Death According to Patrick Henry

2004). When fighting broke out, Patrick Henry rose to the position of commander in chief of the states troops, "but he was preven...

Erikson as Applied to Poe

Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...

Organizational Problems at NASA

and Deal, 2003). When applying this firstly to the Challenger case, the way in which their limited resources was present in cultu...

Leaders: Controlling or Controlled?

survey of history so taking three disparate examples seems reasonable. As for whether or not leaders control events or vice versa...

Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan Earthquake Compared

building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...

Postcolonialism In Korea, China And Japan

mean that a country or region was "colonized" by another nation. It can simply refer to political or other ideals and how they hav...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

POLITICAL EVENTS: 1950S-1990S

Senator Joseph McCarthy began his communist witch hunt, trying to root out the "evil red influence" from everything ranging from g...

Using Statistical Analysis and Explaining Probability

collected on the same date each month, the 12th. However, even during a day there are a number of different data points which coul...

Gold At Sutter’s Mill in California

epidemic, the discovery meant only "great misfortune," as it ruined all is "hard, restless and industrious labors" and meant that ...

Civil War to Present Day Black Experience

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...