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U.S. Labor Unions

The movement opened doors for women and African Americans that had up until then been shut tight. In short, the Knights of Labor ...

Gas Prices Assessed Econometrically

to modern business. OPEC began increasing oil prices less than two years later; the country and indeed the entire developed world...

Past and Present Mythology According to Joseph Campbell

the work of all the worlds peoples from the beginning of time. These truths may be presented in the cultural context in which they...

Past Slavery Patterns

only tolerated and accepted, but also embraced as part of daily life (Anonymous, 2001). In most early societies, slavery seems to...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Reverend William Collins in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

injustice in this situation, but also shows the social results of this predicament, as this insecurity largely accounts for the de...

Liberalism and Politics

way in which it could leave itself open for prosecution, however. It merely informed her that it would not be paying that portion...

Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Foreign Debt

the English and Portuguese, was preoccupied with its battles on the home front driving the French from the country the American co...

17th and 18th Century European Military Education

In twelve pages European military officer training during this time period is examined in a discussion of informal British approac...

Arguing Against Gun Control

have also pointed out that those who are involved in a gun fatality are also involved in alcohol, drug abuse and domestic violence...

1900 to 1945 British Media

party, it would be fair to say that the majority of the published content was somewhat biased, and designed to elicit support for ...

History and 'The Iliad' by Homer

and Achilles argue over who has the "rights" to one of the "spoils of war," which in this case is a person, a girl who has already...

1st to 4th Century A.D. Roman Mosaic Development in Great Britain

In eight pages this paper examines the development of Roman mosaics in Britain during this time with Cirencester and Fishbourne Ro...

1920s' and 1990s' Similarities

feeling that was captured in many parts of the world. The Roaring Twenties was a time of prosperity and celebrations. The 1920s ...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

Post Second World War Era and its Influences

In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

Comparative Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House

the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...

Sex and Gender According to Pampinea in Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

Poetic Theme of Carpe Diem

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

John Locke and Ideas

be found, that they have any more or clearer primary ideas belonging to body, than they have belonging to immaterial spirit." He...

Finding Ways to Fight Terrorism

the acts and (2) why they commit the acts. It was one of our own citizens who planned and executed the Oklahoma City...

Capitalism and Labor

In five pages capitalism and labor are examined through the perspectives offered in E.P. Thompson's 'Time, work-discipline and ind...

Five Hundred Years of Ship Development from 1250 to 1750

In five pages this paper examines how ship stern rudders, lateen sales, caravels, cogs, galleons, and carracks were developed duri...

Middle Ages' Desserts

the Medieval Culture The agrarian culture of Medieval Europe was the central basis for culinary development in the Middle Ages (...

1920s' and 1990s' Common Determinants of Stock Prices

factors which are carefully examined by economists. All play a role in the overall economics of the country and, indeed, the worl...

Superstition During the Renaissance

superstitious practices that were adhered to so rigidly, it should not be surprising that the citizens of the Renaissance also bel...

Comparing News Stories in History

job. Though the headlines from these dates varied significantly in terms of their focus, one element was shared by all of the s...

Leadership and Conflict in Czechoslovakia and Poland

In nine pages this research paper examines the impact of internal conflict and leadership in Czechoslovakia and Poland during the ...

Reflections on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke

This report consists of five pages and considers such issues as prejudice, attitudes, class, influences of place and time within a...