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Louisiana Purchase

New Orleans, an important port city and mouth of the river" (Stief, 2009). Another author further supports this in noting that, "[...

The Facts Surrounding Gun Control

reiterates this fact time and time again. Gun control attempts through legislation have been a miserable failure in their e...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Financial Performance of General Motors and Ford 2004 - 2008

regarding the firms future with this high level of support and the need to cut costs. However, this is not an issue that is impact...

AL-QAEDA AND CONNECTION TO TERRORISM

terrorism, defined as "The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, t...

Starbucks; Past, Present and Possible Future

teacher, Zev Siegel a history teacher and Gordon Bowker a writer. The name Starbucks originated with the novel Moby Dick by Herman...

Women in Law Enforcement

of death benefit from the department (WomenandPolicing.org, 2009). Owens was apparently the first women to ever receive the power ...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

COMPUTER MOTHER BOARD

typically include functional units of a computer including the central processing unit, microprocessor, memory, the basic input/ou...

The Hasmonean Rule

25-year struggle against the Greeks (Spiro, 2009). When the Greek signed the treaty Mattathiass son Simon took control, calling h...

The Evolution of Cinema

This 8 page paper discusses the main turning points in the history of cinema, the technology, and speculates on the future of th...

New York Attorney General's Office

to the time before there was even a United States of America. In New Netherlands, a schout was appointed and reported directly to...

Post 1992 Motorola

suddenly a downturn in semiconductor sales ("Motorola," 2000). Galvin cut staff and sold some company assets (2000). In 1998, wir...

Internet Explorer, Netscape

browser statistics compiler indicates that 76.1% of visitors employ Netscape Navigator and only 4.1% use Internet Explorer" (Wingf...

Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique

This paper provides a reading of Betty Freidan's book, The Feminine Mystique. The author points out how the role of the woman has...

Hesiod's Fable and Other Similar Works

Four political works in ancient history are examined. Athenian democracy is part of the inquiry but many issues pertinent to polit...

The Condition of Education for Black Americans

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

British Cinematic Development Until 1939

In ten pages this paper chronicles the history of British film from its 19th century origins until 1939. Six sources are listed i...

Background to A Veterans' Association Healthcare Organization

The Oakland organization also plays a key role in aiding veterans to integrate back into the community; this has been seen when se...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Lou Gehrig's Disease

comprised of both a smooth exterior and a tubular inner membrane that establish plate-like double membranes called cristae. Studi...

Why Livy And Thucydides Chose To Write About War and Rome

after being cast into the water in a basket -- survived and ultimately grew up with the intent to seek revenge against the king (a...

LEADERSHIP THEORIES AND NECESSITY FOR TODAY

more or less inherited their leadership roles. Fledging governments such as those of the United States did put some store on elect...

American Express Diversity Plan

jobs in his career, he was the director of federal contract compliance during the Carter Administration (Knowledge@Wharton, 2006)....

Economy and Government of Singapore

enforced by the government to ensure that employees are treated fairly and have recreational time for themselves and their familie...

The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald Stern

Buffalo Creek survivors were well aware that politics in West Virginia, including the court system, were influenced?or outright co...

Public Issues, Private Issues, and Social Problems

In six pages this paper examines the differences between public and private social issues according to C.W. Mills in this history ...

Industrial Revolution, The Enlightenment, and the French Revolution

An emphasis was placed on the concept of rationalism. Because of its very definition, the Enlightenment was a period of revolutio...

UPS and Teamsters Strike and Its Effects

In twenty five pages the first UPS walkout in its history that occurred in 1997 is discussed with its effects upon U.S. small busi...

Necessity of Labor Unions Assessed

II. History of Labor Unions The earliest evidence of significant labor organization in the United States occurred in 1886, when ...

Overview of Data Warehousing

In five pages this research paper considers data warehousing in terms of the communications and technology history, definition of ...