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Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

THE DRY MARKET INDICES

one indicator of the economy, the Baltic Dry Index is just as important. The Baltic Dry Index measures how much it costs to ship d...

AN ANALYSIS OF "SIMPLE JUSTICE"

It pointed out the fact that blacks were not only getting a separate education, but a very unequal one. Nor was the inequality jus...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

A Biography of Alan Dershowitz

many interests and relationships that have created the vocal and thoughtful individual who goes by the name of Alan Morton Dershow...

EPA and Environmental Policy

say that EPA was designed to serve both Congress and the president, parts of the government often at odds, and has done neither we...

Television and Its Historical Impact

2009). One very different thing to emerge was MTV. People by that time were used to situation comedy and drama, but music was gear...

Statistics and the Chesapeake

the answer was colonization (Wheeler and Becker). In addition to deporting the undesirable members of society, Hakluyt also sugges...

AN OVERVIEW OF MAC COSMETICS

acquisition by 1990 (History behind MAC Cosmetics, 2006). Also in 1994, the MAC AIDS funds was introduced and to-date, has raised ...

ETHICS OF OIL IN NIGERIA

This 3-page paper provides a brief history of unethical behavior of oil companies in Nigeria. Bibliography lists 3 sources....

The Swastika A Symbol with Multiple Meanings

sign for good luck, protection, [and] as a materialization of life and the changing seasons of the year" (Swastika-the symbol of t...

Louisiana Purchase

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

Vaccines

boys skin" (Smithsonian National Museum of American History). In this one can see that humans and animals have long been used toge...

Foreign Policy and Iran

power still remain. Discussion of issues and key developments On April 16, 2009, as part of a series of...

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...

Biography of Gail Kelly

this school and during her final year became a school prefect (The Age, 2005). Gail then went to study Latin and modern history ...

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...

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...

Brown Forman Marketing Directions

of apprenticeship when he joined the company in 1904. Prohibition and temperance forces were growing by 1910, when George Garvin ...

Overview of Male Hegemony

she stayed home and managed the house, watched the children and did other work "suitable" for women. Thus, the masculine hegemony...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Cultural Icons of Russia

In three pages this paper examines Russia's rich cultural history in a consideration of its dancers, artists, composers, and write...

Overview of PHP Language

PHP initially was developed in 1994 by Greenland programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, who named it Personal Home Page tools. It was rewritt...