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History/Education & Educational Psychology

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Examination of Domestic Violence

establish partnerships with lawmakers that resulted in criminal justice reform and the establishment of womens shelters. However, ...

Three Historical Perspectives on Roman Imperialism

"extension of power by ones own group over others," is basic to human nature and "does not call for special explanation.iii One se...

Women and Orgasm

orgasms or pleasure had been routinely ignored. For many years it was routinely believed that there was no biological reason for a...

Historical Overview of Radio

the German physicist, Heinrich Hertz, discovered radio waves. They were seen as "a form of electromagnetic radiation with waveleng...

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...

Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...

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...

Fiction That is Historical and Realistic

realistically presented (Tyson 155). For example, after reading Fly Away Home (E. Bunting, 1991), a story that concerns a homeless...

Reality and Language

stand for, the anger of your assailant. "In other words, the knife in my wall has become an objectively available constituent of t...

Historical Significance of Scarlet Fever

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

Significance and Historical Accuracy of the Book of Exodus

Genesis and Exodus compiled these texts during the Persian Period of Israelite history (or later0 and, therefore, "had virtually n...

Francis Parkman's La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West

which Parkman immediately begins to idealize La Salles character. For example, Parkman states that La Salle, as a youth, was attra...

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...

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...

Drug Abuse Historical Overview

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

Behaviorist Psychology v. Humanistic Psychology

a danger that is no longer present. The student researching this topic should understand that there are several disciplines that...

Significance of Slave Narratives

control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...

Historical Figure of Moses

Akhenaten, the ruler who renounced the many gods of Egypt in favor of the sun god as the only deity (Wolf, 2000). This position ho...

Trumpet History

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

Second World War Navajo Code Talkers Honoring Falls Short in John Woo's 2002 Film Windtalkers

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

Confucius and Aristotle Compared

and deficiency (McCartt, 2003). Moral virtue also follows this pattern, although in this regard Aristotle refers to it as the "Go...