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Moscow's 1980 Olympic Games and Russia's Popular Culture

towards the attack, the United States Olympic team boycotted the event. "In 1980 it was a symbolic stand, backed up with all sort...

General Information Overview of Microsoft Corporation

percent are male. The average age of employees is 34.3 years and the largest age group is between 30 and 39 years - 49.9 percent a...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Causes

In five pages this paper discusses the events that culminated in the U.S. bombing of these Japanese cities. Five sources are list...

Placing a Historical Value on 'The Iliad' by Homer

be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...

Overview of the Antitrust Case Involving Microsoft

develop Internet streaming technologies, would squelch competition. * October 27, 1997: The Justice Department files a complaint d...

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Compared

first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and in Fitzgeralds 1934 novel, Tender is the Night remain stellar examples of the realist g...

Historical Indian Epic Mahabharata

Western thinking is presented in an interview with French author Jean-Claude Carriere who adapted the great epic for the stage. ...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Dante's 'Inferno'

hes writing" (Steinberg inferno.htm). It is the Canto which presents us with the innocent and frightened Dante. He is just beginni...

A US Post Civil War History

In this paper of six pages several important historical events such as the growth due to the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth ...

Arabs, Israelis and the Holy Land's 50 Year War

There were many thousands of Palestinians who were forced to make their home in Jordan after they were run out of their own countr...

Revolution in Iran of 1979

In five pages this paper examines the power rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the events that culminated in Iran's 1979 revolutio...

Pearl Harbor and the US Entry into the Second World War

The Pearl Harbor bombing timeline of events and its importance to the United States entering the Second World War are discussed in...

Unopposing Adolf Hitler

(1973) the Senate was unwilling to allow itself to be under presidential domination as it had during the war. It was preoccupied ...

Ecology of Fear Reviewed

use federal dollars to do so. Many feel sorry for them. But then there is the other point of view. Why build homes in such a place...

Virgil's The Aeneid, Free Will, and Fate

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the concepts of fate and free will within the context of Virgil's epic and...

Eisenhower Years and Reflections of Its Poltics and Culture

Also Progressive Los Angeles the 50s, 2001). Just when the average working stiff had made up his mind relevant to issues s...

Future Currency Projections in Canada, Mexico, and India

This paper addresses the future of the Canadian Dollar, The Indian Rupee, and the Mexican Peso. The author discusses what events ...

First Amendment Issues in the Film, The People vs. Larry Flint

This paper examines First Amendment issues seen in the film, the People vs. Larry Flint, which is based on actual events and case ...

Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro, and the Cuban Revolution

In twenty six pages this paper examines the events leading up to the Cuban Revolution in a consideration of Fidel Castro's organiz...

1861 to 1913 Historic Timeline

In five pages events from the years 1861 to 1913 are presented in this historic timeline. There are 2 sources cited in the biblio...

The Possible or Probable Causal Factors for the First World War

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the possible or probable causal factors for the first World War. This ...

Past Two Centuries and Fear Examples in the U.S.

In five pages this paper presents fear throughout the history of the United States in various examples and events that have create...

Guilt of the Survivor

In nine pages this paper examines the psychological difficulties that accompany surviving a catastrophic event such as war, a na...

A History of the U.S. Labor Movement from Presidents Richard Nixon to G.W. Bush

March 1970, for the first time in the history of the U.S. Postal Service, there was a walkout in Brooklyn which grew to include ov...

Alice Kessler-Harris's 'Out to Work'

This paper consists of a 5 page discussion of the important historical events relevant to women in the U.S. workforce. There are ...

Historical Overview of the Oklahoma City Bombing

In six pages this paper presents an overview of the Oklahoma City bombing in an historical chronicle of the events that culminated...

Taiwan's Economic Development

international cooperation allowed the island to industrialize quickly, and led to the continual upgrading of industry as well as a...

Chicago of the Twentieth Century and its Political Climate

Black observers considered responsible, and angry crowds gathered on the beach. Violence erupted and continued throughout the city...

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 ...