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Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

Pressfield: “Gates of Fire”

"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

Frederick Douglass: The Inherent Cruelty of Slavery

a slave and, once he had escaped, carefully honed that skill along with his oratorical and writing skills for use as a tool in the...

Management at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

people work in Manhattan and a good number of the people commute from New Jersey. The region is often referred to as the "tri-stat...

Mark 9:38-50 Exegesis And Sermon

Bible 1995, p. 1489). Marks Gospel is written in rather straightforward and simple language. Mark seems to go from one event in C...

Post-World War II Developments in Art

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

The Just War Theory

the United States and many representatives of Asia and South America. With this initial agreement international law was put into ...

Jesus Of History, Jesus Of Faith

means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain t...

Human Resources Information Systems

same responsibilities it did before the entire face of business changed over the past generation. Rather than being only a cleari...

Carrying out the Holocaust

2002). One of these main "coordinators" was a man named Adolf Eichmann, who escaped to Argentina after the war (The Holocaust, 20...

Action Research

evaluation of the result of action" (Masters, 2006). Lewin argued for action research on the theory that the only way to understan...

Oliver Twist and Historical Context

the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...

Speaking Out: The Bonus Seekers, Textile Worker Strikes and Resistance to the Native American Reorganization Act

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Writings

freedom without any practical restraints, has been given all the space it wants (1978). This sort of freedom, which in a sense is ...

Personal Perception of Judaism

small child, I knew I was Jewish, so I really do not remember when this identity was established or how. I did not think about it ...

Accounting Questions

of its economic life. The historical cost convention can result in some difficulties, as some assets will be written off, but may ...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

Injuries in the Declaration of Independence

to demonstrate the objections, s this allowed the government to place troops in civilian households in order to use them as lodgin...

The Adoption of IFRS in Australia

many in the accounting profession in Australia that there was a need for renewal of standards, which had become outdated. There wa...

Klinkenborg’s “Sand Creek”

mentions herself once, which is when she says that she stood on the sand bluff that overlook the site of the Sand Creek massacre. ...

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

In the late 15th century, accounting became a specific science, thanks to the words of Luca Pacioli. Pacioli, a mathematician and ...

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Historical Perspective

Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the president to the Anti-Slavery society, would first become acquainted (Adams, 2003). Stanton also ...

The Historiography of Thucydides and Herodotus

that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...

Causes/Effects of the High Divorce Rate

states that the "fragility of modern marriage" is related to the same factors that have elevated societys regard for this relation...

Historical Consideration of Dante’s Inferno

He was relatively well educated, in both Christian and classical literature (Books and Writers, 2008). In addition, it is perhaps ...

Increasing HR's Strategic Influence

benefits programs and tracked information such as vacation and sick time available to each employee. When that was HRs only funct...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...