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Assessment of Tennessee's Highlander Folk School

like drama and dance and music. They were given more than just a cursory education. Rather, they were given an impressive amount o...

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...

New York Tenements and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....

Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

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 ...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

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...

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

IBM's Technological Development

flexibility and specific aims., The culture and the political or social pressures, such as the Second World War drove on the devel...

Cinematic Perspectives of Society and Race

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

Weapon Technology Advances and American Popular Culture 1920 through 1960

to make advances toward the enemy, and the advent of the machine gun in WW I replaced warfare which was fought as cavalry. The o...

Iraq War and Views of Past Leaders

Jeffersons time by the name of Benjamin Benneker will be discussed as well. Of course, he was a brilliant man, but he was not a po...

Some Outdated Theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx

class will be able to violate the laws with impunity while members of the subject classes will be punished. * Persons are labeled...

2 Versions of 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

Comparative Analysis of Music in the Czech Republic and the US

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

Graphic Design and the Gutenberg Galaxy

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

Ideal of the Courtly Love Concept

the romantic saga of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, as depicted in Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or, the Kni...

Arena Chapel of Padua, Life of Christ and Giotto di Bondone's Fresco

(McGeary 152). Giotto replaced golden backdrops with hills, meadows and houses, which were familiar to his fourteenth century view...

Sir Isaac Newton, Biography

This essay present a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, renown 17th century mathematician and scientist. Three pages in length, two so...

Mohammed Introduced New Religion

Mohammed introduced Islam in about 632. It was a time when tribes ruled their own group. There were continual battles between trib...

Constitutional Reform and the Middle East

This paper pertains to constitutional government and reform, with a special focus on the nineteenth century and the Middle East. T...

Indian Boarding Schools Good or Bad?

This paper compares and contrasts the positives and negatives of nineteenth century boarding schools for Native Americans. There a...

Development and Literary Construction in Chopin's Novel, The Awakening

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages the late nineteenth century society of Portugal is the focus of this thematic consideration of Cousin Bazilio. Fou...

The City and the Mountains by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages this research paper discusses various interpretations regarding how the society of Portugal during the 19th century...

The City and the Mountains by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros II

In six pages this paper discusses the themes in an overview of this text that features the nineteenth century society of Portugal....

Cinematic Contributions of Director Howard Hawks

In ten pages this paper examines Hawks' big screen contributions with an emphasis upon his screwball comedy classics Ball of Fire,...