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Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

Islamic Influence on Medieval European Women

Europeans were studying at Muslim universities, located mostly in Spain, by the 13th century (The Islamic world to 1600). Even aft...

Expansion During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

suggests that the Spanish Empire was not doing well during this time period and that the rulers never really recovered from the fa...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Questions and Answers on Early Nineteenth Century English History (1800-1840)

resulted in a huge public outcry against the King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression a...

Outsourcing in the Twenty-First Century

actions available to companies facing the need to cut back on operations while at the same time focus more clearly on core busines...

An Analysis of The Cherry Orchard

her home, even if that is done in a happy context, there is a sense of nostalgia. There is also a sense of loss. There is for exam...

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

Late 19th Century Opiate Use

This paper pertains to the use of opium and its derivatives, especially laudanum, during the later half of the 19th century. Four ...

Sir Isaac Newton, Biography

This essay present a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, renown 17th century mathematician and scientist. Three pages in length, two so...

Political Transformation and the Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration

With the Mid-nineteenth century potato famine in Ireland, hundreds of Irish fled here. Although they received a less than hospitab...

A Deadly Epidemic That Lasted Centuries

There are dozens of infectious diseases that have taken the lives of millions and millions of people. Some data back to many centu...

Trends in Late 19th Century US History

This paper presents an overview of five trends in American history that occurred after 1877, industrialization, expansionism, prog...

Segregation in the 21 Century

Diversity remains political economic challenge even in this new century. This paper reviews racial housing segregation as it has ...

Constitutional Reform and the Middle East

This paper pertains to constitutional government and reform, with a special focus on the nineteenth century and the Middle East. T...

Indian Boarding Schools Good or Bad?

This paper compares and contrasts the positives and negatives of nineteenth century boarding schools for Native Americans. There a...

Developments in Medicine during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century

that it did was that it would give physicians a direction in which to focus as they looked for the etiology of various illnesses (...

Management and Leadership in American Business History

literally with nothing and achieve financial success and economic stability for his family. It also had its dark side, howe...

Continuity between Judaism and Christianity

any connections to the Jewish faith or even that "Jesus himself was Jewish" (Sandmel 251). However, this situation was very diff...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

A Comparison Between Herland and Brave New World

and quite different from the well known dystopian view of Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World, which was written more than a decade ...

The Conservation and Environmentalist Movements of the Twentieth Century

into an era of plenty and sometimes excess. The television programs depicting the life during the period like Happy Days and Mad M...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Technology and Changes in American Culture

were large multi-branched entities and several generations typically lived under one roof. This was, in fact, a necessity in thes...

Andy Warhol, A Twentieth Century Genius

One can begin to see that Warhol would make his mark in the advertising industry with attention to fashion. During the 1950s, And...

A STUDY OF COMMON IDEAS IN LATE MEDIEAL EUROPE

about humanitys relationship to God was that God was chief ruler. "Praise God at your waking," it says in the first article of the...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Kurt Lewin: Understanding How To Lead Change

throughout the entire process of change if that process was going to be effective. The notion of change at any level is notorious...