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Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones Reviewed

for the slave trade won their freedom through the Supreme Court. Joseph Cinque and the 53 captives revolted in the Caribbean on th...

Ninteenth Century Women in Anton Chekhov's 'The Lady With the Dog' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

US Public Education

in their efforts to educate all Americans without fear of financial loss or discrimination. History of Public Education Since the...

Media Impact of the Internet

strongest. The editorial content of National Geographic Magazine has an unlimited range that spans from trivial to consequential,...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

Nineteenth Century America and Being White

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Reform Mechanisms

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

Overview of Political Machines and Immigrants

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Rebecca Foster's Rape and Martha Ballard's Diaries

husband, Ephraim were well respected members of the community of Hallowell. Martha was a midwife who had made over 816 deliveries ...

Overview of Vampirism

became a variety of vampire lore which abounded. Interestingly enough, however, the basic idea that this entity was the undead, ca...

History and Evolution of Mass Tourism

eliminate tourism in regions but as soon as that is resolved, the travelers return. Mass tourism is far more organized today tha...

The Socioeconomic and Cultural Impacts of Apartheid in Africa

that was operative in the time of the lynchings during the 1800s and 1900s. Rather than seeing a group mentality or a societal ...

Western Domination from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

than any other nation in the world the Western world was coming into an age of discovery that would set the stage for all the deca...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

19th Century America Racial Issues and the Chinese Exclusion Act

the impact which this had upon Chinese immigrants, in terms of both race and gender, it is useful to look briefly at the history o...

21st Century Romanticism

that was seriously lacking throughout the country. This rebellious, free spirit criticized the very basic aspects of society, clu...

Global Property Rights and Power Shifts

be seen as a bundle of rights which may be separable, for example the sub soil rights may be the property of the state, but others...

Americans of the Nineteenth Century and Western Conquest

Her life journey coupled her with a man who became her husband and took her with him on his expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. What...

Mughal, Persian, and Ottoman Muslim Empires Compared

As this empire grew in influence, they expanded into southeastern Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece (The Ottoman, Safavi...

Twenty First Century Demands and Meeting Them

slaver and other American citizens acted so savagely at the time. The thinking is that if the United States tried to make amends ...

Science and the Concept of Race

might consider such a statement ludicrous. After all, everyone has grown up with affirmative action, learning about the horrors of...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

Nineteenth Century Social Relationships

century - this from a man who actually lived it. In fact, his account puts to rest any romantic notions one might harbor about su...

'Yvain, the Knight of the Lion' by Chretien de Troyes and Reciprocal Relationships

the time when the Christian movement was beginning to gain headway in England. Most of the rural areas were still pagan believing ...

19th Century Trends, Consumerism, and Women's Fashions

worth a great deal of cash and even on the hip hop scene, gold teeth are something to envy. In some way, this is as true today as ...

Late 19th Century European Imperialism

see how there were many commonalities. Many of the gains made by Britain were focused on the African continent. The desire...