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Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Social History and Collective Memory

a word or phrase. Analysis of these lieux de memoire can account for the basis from which the collective identity of the group is ...

History and Fate of the Great Basin's Anasazi

between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada ... The landscape is more than half empty" (Christensen, 2003). Technically, however, t...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

Reading Education History

eye" which meant that there was more to reading than decoding. Reading was perceived now as a process. The key motto was "reading ...

Ibo History

in the nineteenth century perhaps 30 percent of all slaves sent across the Atlantic came from Nigeria" (Nigeria, 2003). Many of th...

History or Etymology of Words Plus an Annotated Bibliography

the Egyptians." Calliope (September 2001). Fund With Words. (English words that come from ancient Egyptian). 12(1), 22. Anot...

Colonial History of America Until 1877 and Women

Women, which have always constituted half of the colonial population, did not receive any type of "civil, political, or legal" rig...

Predator Film and Fantasy Rewriting of History

group of weapons specialists embark on their latest hunting mission. The film is a consistent metaphor of the predator (hunter) a...

History of Telecommuting and 'Teleworking'

establishment of the home office has given rise to various forms of regional development and interworking, allowing small and medi...

A History of the Dictionary

in that language, and the world was well on its way toward the development of dictionaries as we know them today. In 1603, Robert...

Race and Racism in History

which would ultimately leave many African Americans enslaved economically and socially in a very different way as they were provid...

History Website Evaluation

very easy for the adult who simply wants a brief understanding of the period. This site also offers many different museums which...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

The Prince in the Context of Modern European History

This 4 page paper examines Machiavelli's work and its applicability to Europe and the world. Examples are provided. Bibliography l...

History of Aging

has long been recognized that people do not age at the same rate. In early modern Europe, the period during which a person is cons...

What Herodotus' The Histories Teaches Us About Government

chosen, and the people give over their will, that is good too (Herodotus 185). It suggests that others can have democracy, but the...

Topographical Approaches to Architectural History

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

The History of the Financial Markets

slowly and the next major developments moving towards the modern financial markets was the increased use of the corporate status,...

Music History, Classical Era to the 20th Century

as an example of perfection ("Romantic"). The sociopolitical upheavals of the late eighteenth century created "new social order an...

A History of Our Freedom of Expression

of the most important documents in US history. It is also considered one of the staunchest protections of the freedom of speech a...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

History of Cityscapes

suggest that it was part of Neros palace.5 It is believed by scholars that the function of these cityscapes, that is, aerial views...

The History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

Three Events in the History of Higher Education

the fees and students came from "all walks of life," but primarily from the "poorer families of knights, or from among townspeople...

A Brief History of Wireless Networking

send information over a network when the information could be encrypted (Anonymous, 2008). This assess seen used in World War II w...

Post-WWII Canada/2 books

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

Containment in US History

United States, or it was believed to be a threat, and there was a great deal of effort aimed at keeping the United States society ...