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Sneakers and Their History

tended to be rigid and lacked any color, and could be described as utilitarian but hardly fashionable (Flusser, 2003). It wasnt u...

American Citizenship Policy and the Effects of Mexican Immigration

the U.S. and Mexico is a long one, and it is a history which reflects the changing attitudes of Americans. While at first we anxi...

Role of Women and Male and Female Relationships in Poetry of Yeats, Hardy, Arnold, and Tennyson

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

The Body Project by J.J. Brumberg

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

Development of the Early Piano

than was possible with the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ (Leland, 1995). This need was met by a Paduan harpsichord maker nam...

Cooley's Looking Glass Self Theory

-perception. Cooleys Theory: Overview, Critiques and Assessment [The first part of the "body" of the paper should explain who Cool...

1834 Bermuda

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

Isolation Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

Comparing the Self-Portraits of Female Artists Kathe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, and Paula Modersohn-Becker

been wrinkled by the hands of time. Rather than being strictly a portrait of age, however, Kollwitzs 1934 self portrait is also a...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

The Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

lives as they struggle to hold together the fabric of society and their authenticity. It is the sacred, discovering that it has a...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

Early Perceptions of Mental Illness

that if mental illness was caused by a weakened or weakening of the mind, then the stable environment and care that was provided i...

A Tale of Amazonian Adventure

writer for "The New Yorker", David Grann becomes caught up in the legendary tale of renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harris...

History of New York Gangs

This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...

Dahl, Williams and Pediatric Patients

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

Immigrants and Minorities in Editorial Cartoons

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of editorial cartoons that were published during the late nineteenth and early...

Commentaries on Taiwan

548). As this suggests, commentary written by Dutch writers predate the observations penned by Yu. For example, Reverend Georgiu...

Canadian Chinese Immigrants, The Head Tax

required that all Chinese immigrants had to pay a "head tax," that is a tax that was imposed simply for entering the country. The ...

Privilege and Creative Destruction The Charles River Bridge Case by Stanley I. Kutler

The legislature granted the petition to build a bridge over the Charles River on March 9, 1785 and passed an act incorporating the...

Early Palestine and Jews

In eight pages this paper discusses the early Palestine in a consideration of a Jewish boy's story before the fifteenth century A....

Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones

Spain up until the time of the Civil War. However, the point that Jones emphasizes the most is that the Amistad case essentially w...

Witch Hunts and Their Decline

In four pages this research paper examines reasons why the European witch hunts were finally in decline around the late 17th and e...

English Asylums and Neoclassicism

In five pages this paper traces England's early asylums to seventeenth and eighteenth century neoclassicism. Two sources are cite...

Life and Times of First Polish President Jozef Pilsudski

In six pages this paper discusses how Pilsudski's harsh early twentieth century rule enabled Poland to achieve independence and st...

Opening the Mind's Door in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In six pages this research paper presents the argument that in Heart of Darkness, Conrad sought to open reader's minds to the impe...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

The Plight of Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This six page essay references two feminist works by authors Rebecca Harding Davis and Anzia Yezierska. The author utilizes passa...

Women and Paul the Apostle

In five pages this research paper examines 1 Corinthians 14, lines 24 and 35 in a consideration of whether or not early Christian ...