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Change Through War

Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...

U.S. Era of Free Banking

when the bankers there allegedly established free banks in hard-to-reach locations - locations "where the wildcats roamed" (Dwyer,...

Insider Lending and Banking During the 19th Century

not available, and the decision was one which was reached by consensus, with the use of a lending committee. It can be argued tha...

Feminist Theory and 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

Career Objectives and Philosophy of Nursing

nursing is based significantly more within the psychological components of the patient/caregiver relationship than most people rea...

North American Asian Indian Temples or Churches

in the existence of Brahma or "the supreme world soul or spirit" (Ramisetty-Mikler, 1993, p. 36). The older generation incorporat...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

Review of the Seventeenth Century Text A Narrative of the Captivity & Removal of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

her experience offers rare insight into the feelings of Puritans regarding the Native Americans and their relationship with the wh...

Electron Discovery

skeptical eye upon Thomsons claim, even to the point of questioning whether there was any validity to his discovery whatsoever. W...

The 'Sir Patrick Spence Poem

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

Christianity Expansion

points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...

Taking a Position on ''The Inequality Express' by Barry Bluestone

and their corresponding workforces (Bluestone, 1996). What I find particularly puzzling at this point in the essay however is that...

Cook and Cook's Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance and Family Relationships

children that only they can produce. Though mothers were important in the family structure, unmarried daughters or older widows w...

God's Doctrine as Interpreted by Gordon Kaufman, Pamela Young, and Sallie McFague

evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...

Colonial America's Indentured Servitude During the Seventeenth Century

of a servant who has been deemed unruly and insubordinate. The oversight by the Virginia Company was doomed from the beginning b...

17th Century Great Britain and the Navigation Acts

use British chops and increase their costs. It was this Act that subsequently led to the Anglo-Dutch war. In 1660 there was a tig...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Treatment Delivery Systems and Addiction Treatment History

deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...

India's Caste System

In five pages this paper examines the caste system of India as it has existed for centuries. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

Oregon Trail and Education

(2003). While not formal, the education was something for the children to hang onto. Obviously, the reason why formal education co...

1834 Bermuda

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

Java Jacket as an Artifact of the Twenty First Century

delicate surroundings. This earth-friendly approach to something as seemingly insignificant as "an insulating sleeve made from wa...

Economics and Lasting Influences of U.S. Presidents

the second of what would become fairly regular Fireside Chats, FDR (1933) went directly to the American people via radio to outlin...

Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese woman (in the area)," and therefore, she was also "an attraction that (would) bring men, Chinese and white, from miles aro...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

Europe During the 19th Century and National Consciousness

its own flavor, identity and special talents. Additionally, leaders want their members to adhere to the rules of the government, a...

Rosamond Lehmann, Virginia Woolf and Early Twentieth Century Women's Limitations and Challenges

is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...

Conjecture of Pierre de Fermat Refuted by Mathematician Leonhard Euler

to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

Nineteenth Century Inventions

Inc., 2003). As an example we note that such inventors of the Middle Ages "could not generalize from a water wheel to the theory o...