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The Civil Rights Movement and Central High School

This relevant event is detailed in this comprehensive research paper that delves into the Civil Rights movement. Students are the ...

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863

In eight pages the events that led to Lincoln's famous 1863 Emancipation Proclamation are discussed. There is a comprehensive bib...

1960 to 1990 Separatism Legacy

issue is complex, all of the separatist issues since the 1950s are in effect. These include: the Donna Reed syndrome (50s), freed...

Overview of Haddon's Matrix

"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...

The Role of the Venetian Army during the Italian Renaissance

but no one can take away Italys prowess during the time period and the strength of the Venetian Navy is also something significant...

Wuthering Heights Chapter 29 and the Haunted Heathcliff

In five pages this paper examines the significance of this chapter's events involving the dream that haunts Heathcliff and how it ...

Michael Powell's film 'Peeping Tom'

of the film as we witness his actions and we become powerful voyeurs in the process, immersing ourselves in his world, and his sym...

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Compared

first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and in Fitzgeralds 1934 novel, Tender is the Night remain stellar examples of the realist g...

Arabs, Israelis and the Holy Land's 50 Year War

There were many thousands of Palestinians who were forced to make their home in Jordan after they were run out of their own countr...

Cultural Lessons of Tatiana Lobo's Assault on Paradise

In five pages Tatiana Lobo's novel is analyzed in terms of actual Costa Rica events and the fictitious plot with culture the prima...

Historical Indian Epic Mahabharata

Western thinking is presented in an interview with French author Jean-Claude Carriere who adapted the great epic for the stage. ...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Dante's 'Inferno'

hes writing" (Steinberg inferno.htm). It is the Canto which presents us with the innocent and frightened Dante. He is just beginni...

America and Terrorism

stock market was closed for several days and it would not be until the following Monday that the opening bell would ring-a task ac...

The Modern World Viewed Philosophically

In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...

American Prohibition and the Economic Boom of the 1920s

At the turn of the century, dry legislatures had been favoring womens suffrage and also allowed popular referenda in respect to wh...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Causes

In five pages this paper discusses the events that culminated in the U.S. bombing of these Japanese cities. Five sources are list...

Placing a Historical Value on 'The Iliad' by Homer

be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...

Overview of the Antitrust Case Involving Microsoft

develop Internet streaming technologies, would squelch competition. * October 27, 1997: The Justice Department files a complaint d...

Moscow's 1980 Olympic Games and Russia's Popular Culture

towards the attack, the United States Olympic team boycotted the event. "In 1980 it was a symbolic stand, backed up with all sort...

General Information Overview of Microsoft Corporation

percent are male. The average age of employees is 34.3 years and the largest age group is between 30 and 39 years - 49.9 percent a...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...

Historical Overview of the Oklahoma City Bombing

In six pages this paper presents an overview of the Oklahoma City bombing in an historical chronicle of the events that culminated...

A History of the U.S. Labor Movement from Presidents Richard Nixon to G.W. Bush

March 1970, for the first time in the history of the U.S. Postal Service, there was a walkout in Brooklyn which grew to include ov...

Beowulf's Epic Poetry

In five pages this paper examines such events as the Dane's nation rise, attack of Heorot, hero's arrival in Heorot, Heorot feast,...

Willam Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

In an essay of 12 pages, the events and elements that lead to the decline of order are examined. There is 1 additional bibliograp...

Alice Kessler-Harris's 'Out to Work'

This paper consists of a 5 page discussion of the important historical events relevant to women in the U.S. workforce. There are ...

Arguments for Making Ballroom Dancing an Olympic Sport

In five pages the high degree of skill involved in ballroom dancing is included in an argument that it qualifies as an athletic sp...

Guilt of the Survivor

In nine pages this paper examines the psychological difficulties that accompany surviving a catastrophic event such as war, a na...

An Examination of Bacon's Rebellion

him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...