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Historical and Cultural Differences in Photography and Printing in the East and West

how large. Interestingly enough, it is also the case that the artistic documentation of culture also serves as the instrument thro...

The Influence of Missionaries in West Africa on Christianity

the Middle East and North Africa that religion has its foundations, it was only in the fifteenth century that the centre of Christ...

Islamic Integration in the West: Cultural and Political Barriers

material gain and technological advancement, while Islam is typified as highly traditional and driven by moral values rooted in an...

In What Ways Is Reading Literary Works of Another Age Of Value To Understanding History And To Understanding One's Place In History?

age help to dispel myths and mistruths about the past that have erroneously been passed on as fact. Sometimes history is portraye...

Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

The New Chrysler LLC - An Analysis

silent transmissions, semi-automatic transmissions, different wheelbases, power steering, air bags, the first minivans, the first ...

Comparing 3 paintings & painting/music

babies shown abandoned testifies to the fact that many of the women were mothers who were separated from their children. A red rob...

Geishas

Arthur Golden and then a major motion picture. In 1992, Golden traveled to Kyoto and interviewed Mineko Iwasaki, a legendary, reti...

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

Furniture/Desk and Chair

For instance, in January of 1976, Herman Miller, Inc. began marketing the first "fully integrated ergonomic chair, The Ergon Chair...

Protests Against Black History Month

abolished. Like Killfile, Cox sees Black History Month as a modern form of segregation, referring to it as the "intellectual equiv...

History as Biography: Emerson

what makes history. He states, in the beginning, "Of the works of this mind history is the record...Man is explicable by nothing l...

The Possible or Probable Causal Factors for the First World War

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the possible or probable causal factors for the first World War. This ...

History Repeating Itself But Not Exactly

In a paper consisting of seven pages the ways in which history repeats itself especially in reference to war but throws in some su...

Continuing Power Crisis in California

amount of finger pointing going on in California as to who is responsible for this most recent energy shortage. Nonetheless, few ...

Abigail Adams' 'Remember the Ladies!'

can produce, she would begin her correspondence to her husband, "Dearest Friend," and sign them "Portia" (http://www.masshist.org/...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

Homegrown Terrorism: Violence in the Pro-Life Movement

methods used by Islamic fundamentalists. That is, each faction uses bombs. Sometimes, assassination is used as well. There have be...

Early America and Opportunity

middle-class incomes once the frugality and struggles of their youth were over" (108). In essence, once the wilderness struggles w...

Ancient History to the 21st Century

time period, from around 3100-2686 BC the Egyptians had their "Early Egyptian dynastic period, with a succession of kings that str...

Women in Toltec and Aztec History

is also an element to the culture that believes in the forces that are both feminine and masculine, studying both in order to bett...

French and American Involvement in Vietnam

of Vietnam was born ("Earliest known history of Vietnam," 2007). In 1946, it was all agreed that Vietnam would be independent ("E...

History of the Lake Metroparks in Northeastern Ohio

thus the Northeastern shore of Ohio (Hansen, 2007). In terms of its history, which is not as ancient as some may believe, Hansen (...

The Flea in History

interestingly enough to mean "wingless siphon" (Kettle, 1995). The flea is a highly specialized creature and subsists by sucking ...

What Does Empiricism Teach About The Relationship Between Appearance And Reality?

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

History Of The African Methodist Episcopal Church

that was with Allen disagreed with his theological position and attached themselves with the Quaker movement (About.com, 2006). Th...

History Topics

Standard Oil of California negotiated a contract with the King of Saudi Arabia that granted the company the exclusive concession t...

Science And Religion: History's Ultimate Test

beginning of unique aspirations - as well as troubled alliances - within scientific and religious societies in relation to an orig...