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Overview of the The Silk Industry : Brief History, Modern Day Markets, Trade and Production

time, there was a shortage of raw silk because of the growing competition of silk cloth production within the major centers in Eng...

American History and Railroad Construction

end-of-the-track towns called hell-on-wheels" (The Iron Road). Explosions and avalanches were commonplace for the Chinese crews, ...

History of the Louisiana Purchase

or concerns which arose from the potential purchase of this territory. Initially, Louisiana was owned and controlled by the...

Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the Present

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

History of Texas and the 'Runaway Scrape' Battle

their homes and their towns to somewhere out of Texas that would be safe (Bredeson, 1996, See also Texans Return to 1836, 2001)....

The Role of Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement

threatened the position of men, "especially as new machines permitted less skilled operatives to perform tasks formerly assigned t...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Greek Themes

Civilizations/Myths. This work offers a greater understanding of Tartts work in that the implied use and meaning during the Greek ...

History and Fate of the Great Basin's Anasazi

between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada ... The landscape is more than half empty" (Christensen, 2003). Technically, however, t...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

The Park and the People A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar

4) Redefining Central Park; 5) The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City; and, 6) The Past Fifty Years, in additio...

Reading Education History

eye" which meant that there was more to reading than decoding. Reading was perceived now as a process. The key motto was "reading ...

Social History and Collective Memory

a word or phrase. Analysis of these lieux de memoire can account for the basis from which the collective identity of the group is ...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Wildlife and the Impact of Urbanization

addition, urbanization brings about the need for "linear land use" such as roads, power lines and trails, and the introduction of ...

Abused Child and Historical Abuses of the Irish in The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

History of the 'Dragon Lady' U2 Military Aircraft

planes in our military fleet. It has, in fact, performed many critical missions over the years. These include such historical ev...

Behaviorism

to demonstrate that negative exposure at an early age can determine the onset of phobias. Watson developed along this Behaviorist...

eCommerce History

put a spacecraft into space, but they had not yet managed a manned flight and the US work feverishly to be the first to achieve th...

A Brief History of Cubism

first example of Cubism. The portrait of five nudes assembled around a fruit arrangement is truly a mind-boggling combination of ...

World History Changed by 3 Important Battles

documents of this particular battle in a less biased view than what he grew up with (LeBlanc, 2002). His book, The Tsars Last Arma...

The Balkans A Short History by Mark Mazower

Indeed, the organization of nationalism was spurred on due to the role played by patriotic clergies. Mazower (2002) indicates ho...

Political and Social History of Greece

in ancient Greece comes to us through their stories, their tragedies. "Greek tragedies dealt with universal themes that are still ...

History and Achievements of the WTO

"After World War II, industrialized nations created the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the General Agreement on T...

Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler

coordinated air and ground attacks to stun his opponents into defeat. This was the key to the German defeat of Poland in 1939, Bel...

Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Pauli Murray's Proud Shoes, and History

families are quite diverse. In Murrays case we have one side of the family that came from free blacks. Although they were poor t...

History and Architecture of Sicily's Villa del Casale

the same impressive mosaics. Seindal notes that the villas original owner would have been of the...

Eye on the Future Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900 by Henry C. Klassen

other scholars for generations to come, as Klassen has established himself as the foremost authority on local business history i...

Roses and Their Medicinal Uses Throughout History

the heart that beats in agony". A more plausible accolade of the rose, however, is found in the oldest known Chinese Book of Medi...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...