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Overview of Trade Unions and Their Functions

European Union Treaty. The Competition Bill is intended to clarify the numerous ineffective laws currently on British Books and i...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

US Influence on the History of the Panama Canal

sentiment was expansionist tendencies on the part of Congress. Drew and Snow point out that at this point in history the acquisiti...

History of U.S. Common Law

"a system based on common law, but it has codified the law in the manner of the civil law jurisdictions" (2004). Also, in general,...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...

U.S. Modern Dance History

skirt of transparent silk, being back-lit would produce dramatic shapes of light through the skirt (Eley, 2002d). She created her ...

Trends in Late 19th Century US History

This paper presents an overview of five trends in American history that occurred after 1877, industrialization, expansionism, prog...

Biggest Hacking in U.S. History

Just before Thanksgiving 2013, malware was installed on Target's security and payments system that was designed to capture all the...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Issues in U.S. History

This research paper consults Eric Foner's "Give Me Liberty" to discuss various issues in U.S. History, such as the nature of liber...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Evolution of Assistance to the Needy

The history of human services and social welfare in the United States began long before the federal government stepped into the pi...

Equal Pay

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

Overcrowding, A Principal Prison System Challenge

This research paper offers an overview of literature relating to overcrowding in the US prison system. The topics covered include ...

A Past and Future Union Inquiry

understanding of class-wide mobilization" (247). Here, one can see that there attention to the concept of stratification as unioni...

American Labor Movement During the 19th and 20th Centuries

his business is in an industry where time is important. In fact, time is important for most any business and few industries are no...

Growth of America from the U.S. Contribution to the 1812 War

people as it respects the rights of individual states and the federal government. To that end, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferso...

America's Documents

war as Protestantism spread through the Middle Atlantic and Southern states (1990). Since that time, Protestantism has been influe...

Islamic History Questions

to pass judgment on dogmas source, i.e. "the closing of the door of ijtihad" occurred in Sunni Islam between the tenth and twelfth...

U.S. War With Iraq and Its Justifications

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

New World Colonization by England

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

Kosovo and Whether or Not the Conflict Could Have Been Avoided

Yet certain things need to be kept in mind before we can go ahead and support the blanket statement we made above. First,...

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

Laws of Exclusion and Japanese Immigration

workers from immigrating to the US (Peck 12). Ironically, the exclusion of the Chinese served to encourage Japanese immigration, ...

A Review of The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives

and static in their nature. That characteristic has, in fact, increased over the two century history of the organization. Polsby...

Benjamin Rader/American Sports

of sport and leisure, it seems that Benjamin Rader (2003) does a good job in outlining the relationship between the advent of citi...

Widmar v. Vincent

This case involves the rights of a registered student religious group to use the facilities of the University of Missouri, facilit...

Reviewing the International Criminal Court

a pivotal player in the precursors to the ICC. The Geneva Convention, signed into effect in 1864, was one of these precursors. I...

Black Barbers in the United States

This is extremely condescending, not to say insulting, but black barbers were quick to see that it could work to their advantage. ...