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Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this research paper discusses Spence's text in an examination of how the author presents the Chinese historical peri...

New Deal and African Americans

The 'fairness' of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal on African Americans is assessed in seven pages with the conclusion reached tha...

Pros and Cons of Prayer in School

In ten pages this research paper assesses the historical pros and cons associated with school prayer in American public schools be...

Latin American Female Perspectives

the inferiority of females began to change in the late colonial and early republican years (Arrom 260). At this time, women began ...

Drug Abuse Historical Overview

identify, and treat deviants" (Indiana.edu, 2001). Conflict theory and its variants - Marxism/radical sociology/critical theory an...

No More, No More by Daniel Walker

express themselves on a wide range of topics, which included such issues as moral justice and the nature of community. For example...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Spielberg/Amistad

of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Divorce in America

hold families together as some claim. Some experts believe that Protestant sects do little to hold families together, unlike Catho...

Greek Funerary Vase/Krater ca. 750-735 BC

base and down the pedestal. There are two main strips of illustrations divided by a geometric band. To either side of the vase are...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

US Foreign Policy, National Security & Terrorism

as "not free" (Eland 38). It is therefore simplistic to think that terrorist leaders, such as bin Laden, would close up shop due t...

Van Gogh's Self Portrait (1889)

to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...

Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai

In eleven pages this research paper applies this Indian novel to Indian nationalism's historical development during the colonial e...

Henry the Fifth and Kingship

In six pages this research paper examines the concept of kingship as represented in the historical play Henry V by William Shakesp...

Unionization and Collective Bargaining in Nursing

This research paper examines the arguments both pro and con in regards to unionizaion within the nursing profession. The writer in...

Historical Methods and How They Evolved from the 1970s to the 1990s

In five pages historical methodology and how it developed and evolved during this time period are examined with the shift from ora...

Psychiatry's Impact on African Americans

This research paper addresses how African Americans have been misdiagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The writer relates ...

Life and Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In five pages this research paper explores the early 19th century philosopher's life and approach to philosophy with emphasis bein...

Literature REview on Character Education

95 A.D. (Classics Resources, 2002). Quintilians advice to teachers still holds true today and offers general guidelines that can b...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

The Changing Face of Jesus by Geza Vermes

"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretativ...

Golf Course Designs Compared

options in regards to moving land. Many of the courses which were developed in the 19th century have since undergone several modif...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Parabolas and Hyperbolas

cutting the cone is angled, the ellipse produced will be correspondingly more elongated, up to the point where the curve is no lon...