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8th Amendment Controversy

rights under the Eighth Amendment have been violated, there is a window of protection within the scope of this amendment that affo...

Educational Equity and the Ojibwa People

the general population in terms of educational equity. At the same time, however, they continue to make progress. In the last de...

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...

The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield

dropping bombs from 30,000 feet or sitting in a headquarters building and pushing a button to annihilate soldiers thousands of mil...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

Mesopotamian Society and The Epic of Gilgamesh

Is not (even the core of) the brick structure made of kiln-fired brick, and did not the Seven Sages themselves lay out its plans? ...

Feeling A Lack of Control Over One's Environment

2001). Later, he placed new dogs with no harnesses in and unharnessed the original dogs and provided an escape. The new dogs look...

Twentieth Century History of France (1940-1944) and the Impact of Vichy on the Modern French State

defeat and foreign occupation France suffered between 1940 and 1944 form one of the darkest and most controversial chapters in the...

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...

Summary of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus

The author totally immerses herself in the tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her s...

The Historiography of Thucydides and Herodotus

that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

The Adoption of IFRS in Australia

many in the accounting profession in Australia that there was a need for renewal of standards, which had become outdated. There wa...

Causes/Effects of the High Divorce Rate

states that the "fragility of modern marriage" is related to the same factors that have elevated societys regard for this relation...

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...

Injuries in the Declaration of Independence

to demonstrate the objections, s this allowed the government to place troops in civilian households in order to use them as lodgin...

Exegesis: 1 Corinthians 15 - Resurrection Of The Dead

primary purposes. First, he is declaring and reaffirming that he is, indeed, Christs Apostle and has spoken the truth. Second, he ...

Kentucky Fried Chicken

his customers "fresher chicken, faster" (KFC, History, 2008). A year later, in 1940, Sanders created his now-famous original recip...

Argentina - Economy

were left with loans and other debts tied to the dollar which they could not pay (Lynch, 2008). Unemployment rose to 22 percent du...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Pressfield: “Gates of Fire”

"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

Frederick Douglass: The Inherent Cruelty of Slavery

a slave and, once he had escaped, carefully honed that skill along with his oratorical and writing skills for use as a tool in the...

Management at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

people work in Manhattan and a good number of the people commute from New Jersey. The region is often referred to as the "tri-stat...

Mark 9:38-50 Exegesis And Sermon

Bible 1995, p. 1489). Marks Gospel is written in rather straightforward and simple language. Mark seems to go from one event in C...

Post-World War II Developments in Art

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

Desertification and the African Sahel

empire that once existed in the Sahara (Brough & Kimenyi, 2004). Although there was the occasional drought-induced famine, the ea...