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California's 2002 Gubernatorial Election

had gotten credit for reforms in education, but he is largely blamed for the states $24 billion deficit, as well as for the energ...

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...

Edwin Davis and William Hogan's The Barber of Natchez

who were generally more accepted by white society if they worked hard and proved themselves intelligent and worthy of respect. ...

Central Los Angeles and Urban Unrest Causes

South Central L.A. that had been the hardest hit (Tucker, 1993). They also indicated that this area had had other problems stemmin...

Personal Perspective on Social Stratification

old stereotype that the only way to get out of the ghetto is through basketball or rap has some truth. People are born into a cert...

Inaugural Addresses of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln

judge not, that we be not judged" (Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)). In this we sense a sort of equality and a ba...

Literature, Naturalism, and the Works of Frank Norris and Rebecca Harding Davis

are more things in common with these two works than the simple fact that both deal, in a sense with the railroad industry....

Three Views of the Slave Trade in Africa

and time period under discussion. Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New Worl...

California's 1999 8 Hour Day Restoration and Workplace Flexibility Act

This paper consists of five pages and examines this 1999 AB 60 legislation passed by Gray Davis, former governor of California. F...

The Cultural Transformation of Los Angeles

This paper examines two works regarding cultural changes in LA. The author discusses Mike Davis' book, City of Quartz, as well as...

The Plight of Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This six page essay references two feminist works by authors Rebecca Harding Davis and Anzia Yezierska. The author utilizes passa...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

Miles Davis' and Duke Ellington's Music

In sixteen pages this research paper contrasts and compares the careers of influential jazz artists Miles Davis and Duke Ellington...

The Long Fuse by Laurence Lafore

yet they did not refrain from those actions. Lafore seems to shed light on how the threat to Austria and Hungarys integrity was a...

Davis' Celluloid Mirrors

This book review of a work by Ronald Davis is the subject of focus. Celluloid Mirrors examines Hollywood during the twentieth cent...

Urban Artistry of Jazz Musician Miles Davis

his first name (Long ppg). Perhaps because in his music, the listener is the musicians accomplice, and from bebop to rap, Miles ...

Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

Dr. Wade Davis and His Influences

remedies and the botanical pharmaceuticals of the Haitian peoples. Dr. Daviss early experiences, pre-Harvard, may have also influ...

Comparative Analysis of Latest 'Hot' Books on Management

In five pages these books on management are compared. They are Tulgan's Winning the Talent Wars, Collins and Porras' Built to Las...

Ecology of Fear Reviewed

use federal dollars to do so. Many feel sorry for them. But then there is the other point of view. Why build homes in such a place...

Humanity and Injustice in Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills

Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills provide studies on issues of injustice and innate humanity, which shine through even ...

Louis Armstrong's Musical Influence

In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

1920s' U.S. Labor Movement

and had existed since about 1900. It had grown quite large over and decade or so and was even able to stage a walk out in 1916. In...

Human Nature as Defined by Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper compares Frederick Douglass's definition of human nature with that of the Black Codes, Jefferson Davis, a...

Reviewing A Long Kiss Goodnight Film

In six pages the 1996 film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Shane Black and costarring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson is di...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

American Realism, An Overview

nations early steel industry. Just as Charles Dickens exposed the underside of industrialization in Great Britain, Davis likewise ...

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter, 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever, and Short Story Journeys

In six pages the deceptiveness of appearances is examined in a consideration of the journeys each of these short story protagonist...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...