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Computer Attacks and Internet Security

The company was the victim of a "classic Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack generated by the coordinated efforts of many ...

New York State and Federal Government Budget Process

the President must request funds for discretionary or appropriated programs because these fall under the authority of the Senate A...

National Cathedral of Washington DC

serve as a visible symbol as a national house of prayer. The Cathedrals commitment to avoiding any connection with public support...

1911 to 1914 Revolution in Mexico

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

Environmental Change and Sedimentary Strata

with this theory is Williams Smiths principle of faunal succession, which asserts that when living things die and decompose, they ...

Germany's 'Kristallnacht'

among other things, to ensure the "racial purity" of the German people and to "clarify the position of Jews in the Reich" (Austin)...

Answering Cold War Questions

arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal...

The Structure of Beloved by Toni Morrison

girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

The Failure of the American Intelligence Community Exposed by the September 11 Attacks

patrols at our borders, strengthen the security of air travel, and use technology to track the arrivals and departures of visitors...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Characters of Mademoiselle Reisz and Edna Pontellier

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

An Examination of Eastward to Tartary by Robert D. Kaplan

is difficult to imagine from the confines of our own democratic country. And yet, clearly these are truths the world...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down A Story of Modern War

it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American ...

Invasion of Iraq by the United States

a rationale for invasion is essentially correct. The United Nations first issued Iraq an ultimatum to disarm and destroy all of it...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Its Issues

that is a powerful tragedy, it is a truth that has happened throughout time, over and over, as one culture envelopes another. Okon...

Lancelot of the Lake by Corin Corley

laid down by the knight, the youth did not dare "utter another word, except to commend the wounded knight to God" and he also expr...

The Best War Ever by Adams

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

The Evolution of Alaska the Territory into the State of Alaska

of Secretary of State William H. Seward (Cohen, 1996). Initially, however, Seward would be ridiculed for the purchase of Alaska. ...

Massachusetts and Slavery's End

us unles it be lawfull captives taken in just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us. And thes...

Student Supplied Case Study on Moral Pastoral Practice

worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...

1692's Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts

Puritan village in 1688. While the Parris family settled in over the next several years, the town leaders the Putnams and the Port...

A History of the US' Federal Reserve System

since the late 19th century (Federal Reserve System of Minneapolis, 1988). During the Banking Panic of 1907 (the fourth in 34 year...

World War II A Chronological History

and all important rights related to that (1997). The second was the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor," which outl...

European History and Religion from the Sixteenth Century to Today

seventeenth century. During the Enlightenment, there was a change in thinking and a transitioning from religious thought to i...

Currency Exchange Rates' Influences

An example of this may be seen as the recent events in the United States and the bombing of the World Trade Centre. This was seen...

Summary and Critique of 'Organizing And Activating Effects Of Sex Hormones In Homosexual Transsexuals'

oral testosterone undecanoate Andriol. Based upon a battery of comprehensive cognitive tests that were performed both one week pr...

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and History

of the nation. We see this in the turmoil of the families presented in the novel, and in the issues which relate to such condition...