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Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Social Security System and Its Impacts

to restore security by those that had lost it as a result of changing lifestyles associated with their changing occupations. As f...

Charlemagne's Historical Importance

one of the most important legacies left by Charlemagne involved literacy. Hartman (2006) states that with his influence, "there wa...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Autobiographies of African Olaudah Equiano and American Benjamin Franklin

the letter pulls the reader into the familiar structure of the book, and creates the continued expectation of familiar concepts, n...

Semitic Origins of the Hyksos

the Hyksos rulers (Redmount 68). Manethos text as interpreted by Josephus describes the Hyksos rulers as "sacrilegious inv...

The Controversy Surrounding the Move Towards Making English the Official Language of the United States

This ten page paper analyzes the English Only move that is gaining strength in the U.S. This paper presents a converse view of th...

US and Japan Trade Conflict

In ten pages this paper discusses the contemporary historical trade conflict between Japan and the United States....

Historical Anthropology Questions

A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...

Substance and Symbolism of the African Mask

reminiscent of African culture as a whole is to miss the point of the masks intent. There are a variety of masks and they are mean...

Cake Culture and History

or within a pastry case (Stringer, 2004). Then came Renaissance and Italian bakers who were apparently renowned for their abilit...

U.S. Hazardous Waste Facilities and Historical, Archaeological, and Cultural Information

problem stems from the fact that polluted water flows directly into the Apalachicola Bay from other sources, rendering the bay def...

History of Traditional Costumes for Chinese Weddings

reciprocate human generosity, and therefore there is a custom of offering food, money, etc. in the name of the deities that is oft...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

The Conceptual View of Poverty and its Impacts

of society (2003). Over time, through Roosevelts New Deal, and other changes, there was attention paid to those who could not affo...

Africana Studies and Diaspora

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

Historical Influences Upon the Culture of Iran

In ten pages the cultural development of Iran is examined in a historical overview that includes Western, Islamic, and Persian inf...

Past and Present Waterloo Village, NJ

and negotiated the return of all prisoners as well as offering 1,600 pounds to purchase any land they owned in the colony as well ...

Latin American Film Series for Americans Creation Proposal

In eleven pages this paper proposes a Latin American historical and cultural film series for Americans in an overview of various u...

Analysis and Cross Cultural History of Prostitution

In five pages this paper examines prostitution in terms of its historical origins and from a cross cultural perspective with socia...

Historical Significance of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad II

In five pages the twentieth century relevance of Heart of Darkness is considered in this historical perspective of Joseph Conrad's...

The Peloponnesian War of Thucydides and Greek Culture

In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...

An Analysis of the 1995 Film, Se7en

This paper provides an analysis of the film Se7en (Seven), in terms of form, cultural-historical background, and how the film is u...

Culture and History of the Eastern Woodlands' Miami Indians

In eight pages this paper presents a cultural and historical overview of the Miami Indians. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Jewish Daughters Empowered by Their Mothers

In thirty pages this dissertation proposal focuses upon the empowerment Jewish daughters receive from their mothers despite many r...

Paul Johnson's Modern Times

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

To Be A Slave In Brazil, 1550-1888 by Katia M. De Queiros Mattoso

In five pages the slave trade and the foundation of cultural and historical racial prejudice it cemented are examined within the c...

Native American Students' Acquisition of Language and Reading Level and the Effects of Culture and History

In five pages this paper discusses how various cultural and historical factors impact the acquisition of language and reading unde...