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How to Think About God According to Mortimer Adler

In five pages God's existence as it is considered within the context of Mortimer Adler's How to Think about God A Guide for the 20...

The Amsterdam Stock Exchange by H.P. Berlage

In five pages Berlage's architectural marvel the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered in terms of its spatial and material maste...

Poetic Concepts of Writer Maya Angelou

Angelou addresses the concept of oppression among the black race, coming forth to stand as a twentieth century hero to her heritag...

Comparison of Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these celebrated 20th century generals with strategy and warfare differences among...

19th and 20th Century Manifest Destiny

In two pages this paper examines the concept of manifest destiny throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and also considers religio...

Roles of Women and How They Have Evolved

In five pages 20th century women are examined in a consideration of how they have evolved and moved from the domestic sphere into ...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

Late 20th Century Postmodernism

postmodernist thought, at least in some of its variants, deliberately divorces and separates itself from political ideologies of a...

Age of Extremes by Hobsbawm

placed on governmental ideologies such as communism and socialism and he goes through the rise and fall of those. He at the beginn...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Women's Opportunities

time period. Maggie When we first see Maggie as a young girl we immediately see the environment she lives in, the environment s...

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

U.S. Immigration and Illness

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....

Social Change Promoted by Empowerment

through empowerment can have. One of the most interesting of these, however, can be found in regard to labor issues in the early ...

20th Century Race History

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

Twentieth Century as 'the American Century'

like anything was possible and the sky was the limit when brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted their homemade plane a short ...

European Union and Germany

blamed the size of the reparation payments, the Allies asserted that the country was deliberately wrecking the economy in order to...

Modern Criticism of Descartes' Dualism

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

Architecture and Modernism

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

Women's Rights and Latin America

fact, Caulfield goes into an extensive and exhaustive couple of chapters on the constant parade of litigations against men who had...

Communism and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

put aside old notions about social stratification as they do believe there is opportunity. Yet, at the time, things were dismal. A...

4 Voyages in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

traveled to Lilliput, where there was a constant state of war between the Lilliputians and their bitter enemies, the Blefuscudians...

Post 1950 West and Marijuana

long history of the manner in which marijuana is perceived and regulated throughout the world. While western countries s...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

Two Authors View Coming of Age

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

Interviewee 59 of Harvard's Refugee Project

if she agrees with other things. She is not completely against the model. At the same time, there are rather distressing stories c...

Capitalism and Europe in the 20th Century

barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...