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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Slavery and Cash Crops in Virginia’s History

the 16th century, tobacco was already considered something of great worth. One author, Thomas Hariot, back in 1590, wrote A Briefe...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

Globalization - Overview

that had been spurred by Genghis Khan in 1100 across Eurasia (Ferraro, 2006). The Ottoman Empire in the 1300s spanned "Europe, Nor...

Understanding Terrorism Based Upon The Terrorist Act of 9/11

Security Research, no date), a point duly clarified by International Terrorism and Security Research: "The strategy of ter...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Twenty First Century Role of Pacific Asia

"Western" economy is relatively new, only a few hundred years old. This is in direct contrast to the Asian economy - which has bee...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

Adolf Hitler May be Gone But Unfortunately He Has Not Been Forgotten

This paper contains three pages and the argument is posed as to whether or not he should be considered the 'Man' of the twentieth ...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Strong Women in Ancient Greek Theatre

the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...

Crime And Youth: How Family Relations Contribute To The Development

Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it were a natural occurrence for them to outgrow the tendency; howe...

Role of Religion in 2 Irish Plays

the Virgin Mary are frequently called upon in the characters speech to protect them and deliver their society from the hatred that...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...