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Desmond Seward’s Wars of the Roses

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Approach to Human Interaction

is indebted to both of these predecessors. Kenny (2008) observes that "Anyone familiar with Goffmans dramaturgical approach will n...

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...

Oranges as the World's Leading Commercial Crop

Columbus brought orange seeds with him to the New World in 1493, and orange trees were known to have been in cultivation in St. Au...

Weapons and Their History

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century

In six pages this paper examines how the Western world of the 20th century was affected by the scientific breakthroughs of the 17t...

Public Health Nursing and Screening Processes

In two pages this review of a journal article details research on such screening procedures and discusses why early screening and ...

The Retailer of the Century: Wal-Mart

undermine a great deal of what Sam Walton had hoped to create with his original stores with "down home" feeling. Wal-Mart Weakness...

The Services and Core Competences of UPS

The writer answers a set of questions posed by the student looking at the type of service strategy adopted by UPS, the core compe...

Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World and Johann von Goethe's Living Hand to Mouth

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these two works in terms of the importance of the contemporary world's awareness o...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

Parenthood and Its Problems

inflict gentle reprimands. Even within the toddler stage, there are several individual periods of growth where one stage ends and...

Observations in History, Nationalism, and Military Strategy and Technology

measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not only was sci...

"The Effects Of Television" By William Henry III

activity and increase in food consumption due in great part to highly effective advertising. The authors support for this argumen...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

Radar's Role in World War II

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

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...

Politics of the Cold War

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Democracy In America by Alexis de Tocqueville

The credence of de Tocqueville's observation, 'Two tendencies in fact result from equality; the one first leads men directly to in...

US Foreign Policy, Israel & Cold War Era

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

From the Invention of the Automobile to the Kent State Massacre

1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...

First World War to the Vietnam War: The Evolution of American Policy

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

World War I - Causes and Effects

support that does not contain any expressed or implied limitations; an agreement to offer unlimited aid. Significance: In the cont...

Japanese Americans After World War II

In six pages this paper discusses the social problems associated with the US interment of Japanese Americans during World War II a...

First World War and Global War Sources

use of their forces; hence these organizations tend to support belligerent foreign policies" (pp. 107). On the other hand, one may...

Lindbergh Falls From Grace After Many Years Aloft

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...

First World I Role of Germany

for example seemed to have been swept into a war which it would ultimately lose. But in a sense, Germany can be seen as the aggres...