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Arguments for Making Ballroom Dancing an Olympic Sport

In five pages the high degree of skill involved in ballroom dancing is included in an argument that it qualifies as an athletic sp...

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...

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...

Cultural Lessons of Tatiana Lobo's Assault on Paradise

In five pages Tatiana Lobo's novel is analyzed in terms of actual Costa Rica events and the fictitious plot with culture the prima...

America and Terrorism

stock market was closed for several days and it would not be until the following Monday that the opening bell would ring-a task ac...

The Modern World Viewed Philosophically

In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...

Roman and Celtic Reconciliation at the Synod of Whitby

type of missionary later on. They were independent and not at all associated with the Papacy (Horner, 2000). Columba may be one ...

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be regarded as a historical document.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...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

Michael Powell's film 'Peeping Tom'

of the film as we witness his actions and we become powerful voyeurs in the process, immersing ourselves in his world, and his sym...

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...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

Year 1962

America" (Baulch; Mears, 1962; 62missilecrisis.html). Interviewer (JR): Do you remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as it took place...

An Examination of Bacon's Rebellion

him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...

The Role of the Venetian Army during the Italian Renaissance

but no one can take away Italys prowess during the time period and the strength of the Venetian Navy is also something significant...

Overview of Haddon's Matrix

"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...

Wuthering Heights Chapter 29 and the Haunted Heathcliff

In five pages this paper examines the significance of this chapter's events involving the dream that haunts Heathcliff and how it ...

Jewish Community and the Impact of the Holocaust

the sometimes intense and often expansive sense of being that is clearly portrayed within his works. Night is no exception. As t...

Russia in 1900

of their targets for takeover, suffered greatly at the hands of such suppression. Significantly weakened by such an inundating ov...

Prophet Mohammed and Hijra

is why Muslim dates have the suffix A.H. (After Hijra)" (Anonymous Festivals in Islam, 2002; festivals.htm). In terms of histor...

Capitalism and Europe in the 20th Century

barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...