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the first use of gunpowder, creating greater capabilities in weaponry and therefore greater need for external defense from within ...
As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...
In many ways Turkey contradicts all of our images of an Islamic nation. While many quasi experts have...
"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...
century, there were youth gangs known respectively as Hectors, Scourers, and Mohawks prowled the streets at night, accosting young...
papacy for the council believed that the pope should be second to the council (Council of Basel, 2005). In the Council of Constanc...
For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
associated with fresh, not estuarine or salt, water (Forey and Janvier, 1994). Recent research has determined that, to the contra...
It was the revenue from the sale of tobacco "that produced the first returns on the investment of the Virginia Company" (Faragher,...
and elsewhere. It was there that these people became known as Babylonians, Syrians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians (Mathewson, 1994). ...
could be used therapeutically both in the treatment of his own diseases and in those of the plants and animals he found important....
several of the head governmental officials during the period of Enlightenment (Enlightened Absolutism, 2005). As a respected scho...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
upon its varied uses (Mohr, 1993). Another viable theory for the reasons why and how man ultimately developed herds stems f...
the centralisation of political power as potent nation-states emerged throughout Western Europe. The Northern Renaissance was also...
and even relates a psychoanalytical view of the story of "Little Red Riding Hood." Darnton does this to demonstrate how a psychoa...
repeated exposure to certain types of stimuli eliciting the same response each time can be the basis for directing behaviors, even...
(Richelson, 1997, p. 295). This laid the initial groundwork for the construction of a spy satellite, and nearly nine years later,...
theorists have pointed to cultural relativism as a central premise in defining how collective or aggregate experiences and history...
productive organization and one that cares little about its workforce (Whetten et al, 2005). When communication from mindful list...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
computer or telecommunications system" (Ward, 2000). That hacking was present in the phone system over one hundred years ago spea...
by the rest of the citizenry (Anonymous, 2003). Inherent to the concept of feudalism was the desire to place all political ...
to cure the problems the colonial power fell from its colony. A separate electoral formula was introduced with the 1909 Government...
in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...
teachings of the Old Testament. Christ, of course, was Jewish. At the same time, it does become clear that he added a great deal a...
and the Crisis Decades (early 1970s-1991) (Palat, 1997). The so-called "Age of Catastrophe" comprises some of the greatest upheav...
when someone relocates to another country, should he or she support the old homeland, or should they side with the new, chosen cou...
The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...