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French Revolution and French Nationalism

that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...

Haiti and Revolution

country on the path to freedom. The Haitian Revolution technically took place between 1794 and 1804 but the bloody French Revolu...

Conservatism and British Political Philosopher Edmund Burke

actually been a supporter of revolution in the American colonies. Burke certainly believed in individual rights, but he stressed t...

Pivotal Historical Point of the 1789 French Revolution

so deplorable a condition as it did in France under the reigns of the last three Bourbon kings, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI ...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

American Colonists, England, France, and Spain and Their Treatment of Native Americans

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

European American Values and Native American Values

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

Revolution

less powerful countries would cease to exist. International terrorism as a method of revolution has turned into a specialized art...

The Relationship of African-American Men to Conflict Theory

The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

In five pages this report focuses upon Communist author John Reed's perceptions regarding the 1917 Russian Revolution and Bolshevi...

Tides of Revolution According to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Georg Buchner's Danton's Death

In five pages these two literary works are used to consider the differences and similarities between the Bolshevik and French Revo...

USS Maine Bombing in 1989 and the Reactions by American Newspapers

In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

This thesis paper examines this novel. Issues such as religion, revolution, morality and alcoholism are addressed. This five page...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

The Myth of the American Family as Discredited in Death of a Salesman and An American Beauty

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

1917's Bolshevik Revolution and Terror

were not a! unique episode in Soviet history, but rather part of a continuing cycle of terror. This regime did not, in fact, dis...

Identity of Native Americans, Religion and Politics

but it also led to a form of identity crisis for the descendants of these tribes. Part ancient heritage and part colonial industr...

1789 Objectives for King Louis the Sixteenth

In five pages a philosophical advisor writes to the French King in 1788 with recommendations for the next year and urges greater c...

Social Paradigm for Change Represented by the Scientific Revolution

1991). This invention meant that new ideas could be readily shared, and also, that it was much more difficult to the Church to c...

Evaluation of Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road to Equality

In eight pages this paper evaluates the writings contained within Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road To Equality Sorry Sisters This i...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

Americans' Dieting Obsessions

In 5 pages this paper discusses the American obsession with dieting and being thin. There are 5 sources cited in the bibliography...

Theories on the Advancement of Knowledge

In this five page paper the author questions whether the many advancements that have been made in knowledge are the result of evol...

West's Rise and Bulliet et al's The Earth and Its Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses the West's rise in a consideration of this 1997 text by Bulliet et al that includes the Atlanti...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Enlightenment Philosophical Age

In five pages this paper examines the Age of Enlightenment, such events as the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the impacts ...