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The Banking Panics of the 1930s

would become insolvent. This was not so unusual. What was unusual about the 1930s-around the time that the Bailey Savings and Loan...

Gap Analysis: Global Communications

Horngren, Sundem and Stratton (2002) provide a view of the alternatives available to organizations in Global Communications positi...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

Death of Ivan Ilych and The Iliad

the woman to his commander, but withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight in retaliation for the humiliation imposed upon ...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Structure and "Most Admired" Status

weeks for total immersion and teaching by senior management. In so doing, Dell has been able to create an atmosphere that GE has ...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

The Great Depression

a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...

Changes in Russia Between 1500 and 1800

a lack of development in his own country had been to embrace the ideas of others (Roberts, 1993). This is not unique. Many leaders...

Alexander the Great

years he had already established his position in Greece and Macedonia and began to earnestly pursue his fathers plans of crusading...

Pharaoh Ramses II

fact that he was "the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and h...

Capitalism: The Views of Marx and Weber

instinct (Marx as cited in Tucker, 1978). Here, the point of alienation is emphasized. The drive which is within man is truly rema...

The Global Warming Debate

unfreezes and temperatures climb. Alaska appears to be on a direct and damaging collision course with time, inasmuch as its entir...

Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”

it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerou...

Winston Churchill

then leaving this party to belong to the Liberal Party, "which, he believed, better represented his economic views on free trade. ...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Augustus, Alexander, Pericles and Western Civilization

excellent sense of humor" that made him popular with his troops (Syvertsen). His values and character, and his rapid conquest of m...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Policy Formation: Great Britain, France and Nigeria

been the case, of course, but at least in recent history equality and political representation have been considered important topi...

Turning Points

pride and sense that he must be completely honest, telling her that he has these feelings in spite of knowing she is inferior to h...

The Great Chicago Fire

been very well off. At the same time, it seems that there was a lot of money in the area. After all, there had been private mansio...

Point of View: Atwood and Ford

her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...

Great Entrepreneurs: Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Oprah Winfrey, and Sir Richard Branson

one of the more notable entrepreneurs whose work spanned the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Whitney is most rem...

Fitzgerald’s Novels and Landscape

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

Jay Gatsby, an American Dreamer

ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...

Masters of Dance: Diaghilev and Balanchine

names in dance. Their contributions to ballet revolutionized the art form. This paper discusses their contrasting styles; and then...

Events of the 20th Century

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

Going from Good to Great at Walgreens

extreme, painful-one big, discontinuous, shattering break" (Collins, 2001). None of these is true, and believing in them has the...

The Great Gatsby, the Novel and the Film

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...