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18th Century Paris Fire and Police Services

has a smoke detector and fire extinguisher, as well as firearms to ward off criminals, things were much simpler in those days. Of ...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Oration of Pico

therefore created as basically protean, formless, and capable of making what he wishes of himself. The other creations are fixed w...

Chinese Opera The Peony Pavilion

encounter between the young heroine and the dream-image of a young scholar. In similar scenes throughout the production, the lack...

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...

20th Century Energy in the Cubism Art of Georges Braque and Poetry of Carl Sandburg

In 5 pages this paper compares Braque's Houses at L'Estaque painting with Carl Sandburg's 'Chicago' poem in a consideration of how...

Twenty First Century eCommerce

In eight pages this essay analyzes how ecommerce is the 21st century's premier forum for business and companies must be online in ...

A Policing and Police History

This is an informational research paper consisting of ten pages in which policing dating back to the ancient Egyptians and Sumeria...

Barings Bank's Collapse

In six pages this paper discusses the collapse of the more than two centuries' old Barings Bank as a result of Nick Leeson's activ...

Alexander the Great's Images

In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...

Death Becomes Her, An Exhibition at the MMA

This essay pertains to the Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The write...

Overview of 20th Century Telecommunications

In six pages technology is defined and then the 20th century's development of telecommunications with an emphasis upon the Interne...

China's Eighteenth Century Economic Growth and Imperial Power

In four pages the eighteenth century Chinese Qing Dynasty is examined in terms of imperial power transformation and economic growt...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic Masterpiece

This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...

Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century

In six pages this paper examines how the Western world of the 20th century was affected by the scientific breakthroughs of the 17t...

The Cultural Movement of 20th Century China

10 pages. This paper provides an overview of early 20th century philosophies in China, including those of Ch'en Tu-Huiu and Hu Sh...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

Primo Levi and Sigmund Freud on the 20th Century's Cataclysmic Events

Arguments of Primo Levi and Sigmund Freud are presented in five pages and then applied to the 20th century's cataclysmic events in...

Nineteenth Century Melodrama

This paper presents suggestions to convert Oliver Goldsmith's eighteenth century play into a nineteenth century melodrama. There ...

Middle East Economic and Social Differences During 9th and 19th Centuries Compared

century (Stowasser PG). The economic structure on the time period was extremely dependent on the kinship relationships, and the s...

Charles Baudelaire's Poetry

In eight pages this paper examines the 20th century modernist influence wielded by the 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire...

Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature

In five pages this paper examines h ow 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations o...

Cartesian Thought and Gilbert Ryle

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

Black Literature and the Influence of the Black Panthers

In five pages this paper discusses how black literature was influenced by the late 20th century's Black Panther party. Five sourc...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

Feminism in the Last Two Hundred Years

This 5 page paper considers feminism, which has been around as an organized movement for nearly 200 years. The writer argues that ...

18th and 19th Century Equality and Liberty

In five pages this paper examines equality and liberty and the tensions that arose during the late eighteenth century and early ni...

A 'Personal Narrative' of South America by Alexander Von Humboldt

cheese" (37). He tends to make such quick and facile deductions. However, on direct observation, Humboldt is flawless, and many of...

Discovering the work of Bradbury Thompson

The writer examines the life and work of Bradley Thompson, a graphic artist whose work has appeared on the covers of some of the 2...

The Warrior Culture of Beowulf

it clear that the most important societal relationship is between a warrior, the "thane," and his liege lord (Donaldson 32). This ...