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An Analysis of the Stock Market Crash of 1987

The humor seemed to be endless during those hard times but not everyone was laughing. There was still some panic. One unfortunate...

A Look Back at Tiananmen Square

This 6 page paper discusses the events that occurred in the six weeks leading up to the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square. ...

Enlightenment Philosophical Age

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

Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan Earthquake Compared

building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...

Leaders: Controlling or Controlled?

survey of history so taking three disparate examples seems reasonable. As for whether or not leaders control events or vice versa...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Pat Conroy's Novel The Prince of Tides Compared with 1991 Film Adaptation

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

Significance and Historical Accuracy of the Book of Exodus

Genesis and Exodus compiled these texts during the Persian Period of Israelite history (or later0 and, therefore, "had virtually n...

Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital

especially unhappy time in the dreadful lives of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, and if you have any sense at all you will shu...

Softball Tournament Planning

people suggest allowing at least three to six months to plan and event of this type (Carey, 1992). Others suggest that planning fo...

Manager Memo and Letter from an Unhappy Trade Show Meeting Attendee

of firm commitments we had at the time that we had to decide on the venue. It appears that attendees are either unable or unwilli...

Gold At Sutter’s Mill in California

epidemic, the discovery meant only "great misfortune," as it ruined all is "hard, restless and industrious labors" and meant that ...

Postcolonialism In Korea, China And Japan

mean that a country or region was "colonized" by another nation. It can simply refer to political or other ideals and how they hav...

POLITICAL EVENTS: 1950S-1990S

Senator Joseph McCarthy began his communist witch hunt, trying to root out the "evil red influence" from everything ranging from g...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

Using Statistical Analysis and Explaining Probability

collected on the same date each month, the 12th. However, even during a day there are a number of different data points which coul...

Commedia del'Arte and Cycle Plays

Noah, for example, might exhort the men on the audience to establish control over their wives whilst Noahs wife would...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

Revolution Concept of Jacques Ellul

In five pages this paper examines Jacques Ellul's concept of revolution within the context of European history from the sixteenth ...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Gay History

In five pages this paper considers the history of homosexuality in ancient Greece, Japan of the seventeenth century, England of th...

Historical Significance of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad II

In five pages the twentieth century relevance of Heart of Darkness is considered in this historical perspective of Joseph Conrad's...

John Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

This 19th century text is analyzed in ten pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

19th Century US Labor Movement

16). The author goes on to talk about Jacksons Democratic party and the problems it has had. For instance, many policies associate...