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Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Comparative Analysis of Kate Chopin’s ‘The Storm’ and ‘The Awakening’

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

1911 to 1914 Revolution in Mexico

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

Social Work Pioneer Sarah Collins Ferenandes

little was done to assimilate these different cultures and little was done to help the new city population to understand and deal ...

A Variety of Viewpoints on Racism

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

Article Review on North Korea's Economic Reforms

between free and state market prices, the rising of attractiveness for farmers instead of selling on the markets, a benefit to the...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Working Class of Canada Before 1860

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Labor Unions and Women

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

Chinese Wine Container (770-ca.475 B.C.)

decoration was executed entirely in the mold," which was the typical of metalworking during this era (Wine container). There are a...

Cooley's Looking Glass Self Theory

-perception. Cooleys Theory: Overview, Critiques and Assessment [The first part of the "body" of the paper should explain who Cool...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

The Expanding Nation

migration of people to urban centers and increasing support for westward expansion. As many began to support the spread of aboli...

William Jennings Bryan/Reformer

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

The Financing of Opera in London in the 1730’s

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Erie Canal’s Impact Upon Early America

War, American colonists including George Washington, pondered how to access the lush soil of the West (Albion and Pope 83). In 17...

“Major Problems in California History”

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...

American Workplace and Workers

This paper considers the early American workplace and its workers in an overview of its progress in seven pages. There are no sou...

1855 to 1875 American Folk Pottery Industry Historiography

also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have ...

Early America and Opportunity

middle-class incomes once the frugality and struggles of their youth were over" (108). In essence, once the wilderness struggles w...

Europeans, Native Americans, and Greed

"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Early American Film Director D.W Griffith

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Housekeeper

a kind of moral idealism to the productive realism reflected in authors ranging from Mark Twain to Stowe herself (The Rise of Real...