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Essays 211 - 240

U.S. Race Relations and Sports

his firm resolution until his lifes end (Faulkner, 1995). The turning point in Robinsons life was when his mother uprooted him an...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

Overview of American Community Colleges

In five pages this paper examines Arthur Cohen and Florence Brawer's 'The American Community College' and Marlene Griffith and Ann...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

The First Amendment and Art

This essay presents a scenario in which the writer is presumed to be the major of a city who is confronted with a problematic situ...

History of Mexico and Mesoamerican History's Role

across the continent moving throughout what is now the United States and down into what is now Mexico. In regards to his we note t...

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Ballet

of her toes), wearing the bell-shaped white tutu that is, for many, the enduring image of the ballet dancer" (Webb, 2006; 41). ...

Reliquaries: Metropolitan Museum of Art

and is also French. It is made up of "Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, and gilt; champlev? enamel: dark, medium, and light bl...

Creating a New Museum

long flight of steps towards the imposing architecture of the museum (Virtual tour, 2004). This building is characterized by Gre...

Escalators

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

History of Public Administration

served in the Revolutionary War and employed them in civil service positions in the government (Highlights in the History of Publi...

The United Nations: History.

the purpose of establishing ways to settle crises peacefully, prevent wars and codify "rules of warfare" ("History of the United N...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

Museum Tour and the Social Class Theory of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines how Karl Marx's theory of social class can manifest itself in a museum tour. Five sources are c...

Cycladic Figure Art

In five pages the Museum of the Legion of Honor's Cycladic figure is examined in terms of its goddess religious significance. Fou...

Comparison of Greek Art: Getty Villa Museum

the colors, whereas the Storage Jar with Achilles and Ajax Gaming is a black figure painting because the figures are in black. Des...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

Pictures of the Apocalypse at the Met

versions of the Bible. "In addition to lavishly illustrated volumes of the Book of Revelation, such as this example, isolated scen...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

Analysis of Six Museum Works of Art

accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater

gowns for one clients wife" (Strickland 147). Falling water was designed by Wright both inside and out and this was part of the pr...

1937's Weeping Woman with Handkerchief Painting by Pablo Picasso

man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...

Different Types and Regional Museum Pieces

liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...

Haunted America by Patricia Limerick

people who eventually fought each other had prior history together. "Before whites and Indians would feel inclined to fight each o...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Internet Uses by Museums

their work" (Will, 2003). There are many types of resources that museums can use, depending on what they want to do. Some "have ...

Western Civilization Research Documents Summarized

on twelve clay tablets. The epic tale is of a Babylonian king, two-thirds god and one-third man. Another key character in the stor...