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Importance of Black History Month for African American Youth

of the white people. The history focuses on how the nation was founded, the Civil War, how the Depression affected people, the Wor...

Pop Art: Art and Popular Culture

includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Tango of Argentina's History and Development

music and the various styles associated with Argentine Tango. Origins of Tango At its most basic, the "Argentine Tango is...

Firoozeh Dumas' "Sweet, Sour, and Resentful"

example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...

Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison and the Use of Linguistics

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Logotherapy, Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning

concentration camps that has become a classic, and a testament to the human spirit. But it also shows what survival entails; its n...

Gifted Mark Twain

If we look at this simple statement and think about comedy we do not necessarily envision comedy as something that preaches. And, ...

Tongue and Cheek Assessment of the Most Important Alphabet Letter Z

little designations are all that stands between actually receiving the mail and total chaos. Furthermore, modern life could not fu...

Biography of Gen. George S. Patton

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

Cultural Diversity Honoring in Changing Classrooms

backgrounds and honored each for its individuality and uniqueness. Now imagine how these students might feel if they went from t...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Father of the Risorgimento Count Camillo Cavour

Roman Empire, which had occurred long before the time of the resurgence (The Risorgimento, 2004). From that point forth, Italy ha...

Musical Theater Legend Chita Rivera

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

Women's Studies and The Importance of Having Their Voices Heard

their study that men and women process information differently. Furthermore, this research team asserts that there are asymmetrica...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

'Pride is the Crown of the Virtues' as Perceived by Aristotle

on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...

David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

Personal Educational Philosophy

It exists as one of the most effective representations of the progression from ignorance to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom. Th...

Strong Congregations by Kennon Callahan

qualities that he identifies as intrinsic to small, strong congregations as the foundation for his chapters, building upon these t...

Margaret E. Felt's Gyppo Logging

or even to survive in the very competitive industry of logging. Margaret Elley Felts biographical account of her experiences as t...

Twentieth Century Architectural Genius of Frank Lloyd Wright

form and function could both by achieved to create a house that was both true to nature and affordable." This was where Wright tru...

World Religions : Buddhism

painful as are disease and old age. It is painful not to have what we would like to have (Lorentz, 2007). In other words, life is ...

Dead Poet's Society and the Motif of Carpe Diem

to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...

Educational Contributions of Maria Montessori

In eight pages this paper discusses Maria Montessori's educational contributions and celebrates their continued relevance. Seven ...

Great American Frederick Douglass

In six pages this research paper celebrates Frederick Douglass's life and achievements as he transformed himself from illiterate s...

3 Readings on Active Education

In six pages the active education experience is celebrated in essays 'The Banking Concept of Education' by Paulo Freire, 'The Loss...

Learner Based Education

In sixty pages this research study celebrates the benefits of education that is learner based in a consideration of relevant liter...