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National Museum of African Art

this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...

Important Developments 1950s Through the 1990s

dealt with racial differences. Its impacts would extend from the educational arena to the workplace and eventually to interperson...

Should Aid to Africa be Reduced?

context of the provision of aid; give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest...

THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT AND IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY AND LABOR MOVEMENT

Act impact labor in the U.S. today? Will it help raise the standard of living? Or will it simply put another layer of bureaucracy ...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

China's Entry into Africa

many of the trade barriers lifted and restrictions relaxed, for trade and good going into and coming out of China (Thompson, 2007)...

Desertification and the African Sahel

empire that once existed in the Sahara (Brough & Kimenyi, 2004). Although there was the occasional drought-induced famine, the ea...

Duchamp's Fountain

death of the Great War. As art historian Leah Dickerman of the National Gallery explains, "Dada wished to replace the logical no...

Theme of Colonialism in Sembene Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...

African Dogs

dead of night in dripping and deserted city streets. They live without mans protection, without his love, squabbling over scraps o...

An Obligation to Endure: Activists and the Environment

new chemicals, which means we need more powerful ones, on and on in a continuous cycle of destruction (Carson). The final result o...

The Meaning of The First Black Presidency

whether or not the statement is true. One can easily see that Obama had become president many years after the movement, and also t...

Meeting the Protagonists

main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

Modern Design: 1930s-1960s

of the urban areas during the 1920s and 1930s.5 Louis Sullivan, an influential architect, "designed taller and taller buildings,...

Objectives Behind the Single European Market and Some Outcomes

breaking down barriers to trade though the harmonization of market regulations. This would be to remove the physical barriers to t...

Green Hotels

environment, but do not affect the experience of the hotels guests or lower the quality of the hotels amenities (Higgins, 2005). R...

Cultural Perspectives on Art

be as tall as six feet, the addition of an ornate headdress may also symbolize the political power, prestige and authority of the ...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Bach/Cantata #61

2, 1714 (Whittaker 146). After examining the scriptural reading for this Sunday lesson, the first question that comes to mind is w...

God in Traditional African Religions

nature worship, and may have in common the 3 kind of occultism: Divination, witchcraft (magic) and spiritism, with the sacrifice o...

Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

2009; The UK Economy and Scottish Commercial Real Estate

by 3.9% of all production, manufacturing was the weakest, with a decline of 4.6% (This is Money, 2009). Services weakened by 0.5% ...

Exchange Rate Management

band" * "Crawling peg" * "Rates within crawling bands" * "Managed float with no pre-announced exchange rate path" * "Independently...

Coming to America, A Memoir

way in which people routinely act in public. I am currently employed in the Bronx as a home care provider and I have few friends...

Seneca Falls and the Women’s Movement

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

Imperialism in Guanya Pau

as those for whom this book pleads, and who has consecrated his life to the evangelization of his people" (Walters 5-6). In many w...

JOB SATISFACTION - A LITERARY REVIEW

This 3-page paper focuses on job satisfaction as it pertains to employee retention and happy employees. Bibliography lists 4 sourc...

Mark 4:1-20 Parable Of The Sower Exegesis & Sermon

this Gospel. This theory can be supported by the fact that Peter spent his last days in Rome and it was in Rome that Peter was mar...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...