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Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Qaddafi), Dictator of Libya

region. However, this period of calm was fleeting because when the Turkish Empire wrested control from the Arabs, a prolonged per...

Lutheran Refugee Services

n.d.). In 1939, the organization established a Welfare Department that included "an office for the rehabilitation and placement o...

Cocaine and its History

"stimulant, aid to digestion, aphrodisiac and life-extender" (Appelboom, 1991)....

Chinese Cinematic Art

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

Religion and the Role of Women in the Middle East

gender equality is seen throughout the world and not limited to the Middle East (Kandiyoti, 1991). To assess the link between wo...

Invention of Incandescent Light

light bulbs, and more. It was like a big jigsaw puzzle--and Edison made up the pieces as well as fitted them together".2 A light...

To What Extent Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Encourage Foreign Investment?

impact of reducing these barriers by determining an agreed framework (Wong, 2007). This is an agreement between two states...

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

Industrialism, Imperialism And Ideologies: Comparison

three with regard to his tactics for establishing his countrys supremacy. II. ROOSEVELT At the turn of the twentieth centu...

The Printing Press

make a huge difference. One author notes, for example how "The dissemination of information suddenly became easy, affordable, acce...

History of Women in Aviation

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Scholarship (True Historical Analysis) And Contemporary Entertainment (Popular Culture): Erroneousness And Embellishment

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

Internet Invention

the Internet was unveiled in 1983 (Internet, 2006). Prior to the start-up, "a number of demonstrations were made of the technology...

Invention by Design by Henry Petroski

out that "Engineering is a fundamental human process that has been practiced from the earliest days of civilization" (Petroski 2)....

Durability of the Republic/A Proposed Invention

very inception of the country. The fact that many Americans of that era found the idea of Washington being made king appealing ind...

Contemporary Classroom Invention of Music and Montessori

childhood education. She would not only enact an educational methodology which would directly aid the societally disadvantaged ch...

Invention of Jay Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...

Technology and the Inventions of Thomas Edison

In five pages technology development is considered through an illustration of the electric light bulb invented by Thomas Edison. ...

Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and the Fatherhood Theme

In six pages the father's role in society is examined within the context of Auster's nonfiction text. There is 1 source cited in ...

American Dream Invention of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

In six pages the inventor of the 'American Dream' myth is examined in a consideration of his contributions. Five sources are cite...

Nubia and Egypt

In five pages these two historical rivals are examined in terms of their cultural adversity based upon recent archaeological findi...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

The Environmental Impact of the Element Cadmium

of problems with cadmium have not been ignored. Such concerns have been voiced over the past twenty-year or so and early issues h...

Interpretation v. Historical Fact

not be the facts the book contains, but rather with the historian who wrote it (24). For instance, Carr cites the example of a Bri...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

Malcolm X Film by Spike Lee Historically Reviewed

also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...