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The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...

Erasmus/Praise of Folly

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

Leadership: A Comparison of Notorious Leaders

of the transformation of society. Leaders give people hope and vision. For example, during the Reagan eighties, people became exci...

Twentieth Century Leaders

1994). Hitler proved an able and courageous soldier in World War I, winning the coveted Iron Cross twice. He was blinded temporar...

Movies/Then & Now

theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...

Changes in Educational Paradigms and Curricula During the Twentieth Century

there is the idea that knowledge underlies the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scie...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

The Growth of the Coca Cola Company

does in its own country. At present, Coca Cola is a company that has locations in two hundred countries ("Coca Cola," 2006). It ...

Management in the Twenty-First Century

go to terrorism as well as terror at work in the form of workplace violence. In fact, workplace violence was rarely seen but in th...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

“The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

Was the Barons' Rebellion a 'Deliberate and Enlightened' Revolution?

Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

Family Sociology Change

work force and the womens movement. When it comes to a family, society expects that the man and woman will play clearly defined, a...

Shifting Newtonian Paradigms

of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...

Twenty First Century, Newton's Paradigm, and the Chaos Theory

theory has arisen out of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices c...

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

The Reconquista and the Spanish Explorers

most of Spain was united; the exception was Navarre, "which remained separate until 1512" (Reconquista, 2006). Spain, like most c...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Structuralist Approach

In fact, this theorist would focus on problems related to the periphery7. The school did focus on structural unemployment and th...

The Economist, the World Bank, and Development Economics

In five pages this report considers an article that appeared in The Economist in March of 1997 pertaining to development economics...

21st Century Retrieval of Information

Many patrons can access the information from their home computers so that they do not even have to go to the library to see if a b...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

Political and Economic Power Correlation

In six pages this paper discusses the Enlightenment of the 19th century in terms of how Jefferson, Paine, Smith, Rousseau, and Loc...

Individualism in Knight of the Lion by Chretien de Troyes

the first prolonged first-person account is given by Calogrenant and tells of how he ventured into the "forest of Broceliane" (De ...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

Immigrants Today and of the Second Wave and a Consideration of Their Financial Status

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

The U.S. in the Coming Century, Its Role

This research paper discusses the part that the U.S. will play in the twenty-first century. The writer describes global issues as ...

The Long Career of the Aerosmith Rock Group

Marilyn Manson come along that do things for shock value, but people arent threatened by rock n roll anymore" (Hay 104). This real...