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The Rise and Fall of Civilizations Between 1500 and 1815

world population was only about 425 million and most of those people lived in Asia (Roberts 279). Hence, Asia had quite a lot of p...

PBS/Corp. Partnerships & Strategic Alliances

this trend, Austin points out that the "era of ever-bigger national government is coming to an end" (Austin, 2000, p. 7). In previ...

Outline for "History of the Prospective Payment System"

(2004, August 3). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Retrieved November 11, 2006 from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/p...

About Nellie Bly

to lean on, as demonstrated by her round-the-world trip in 1889. This was a radical departure in thinking for this time period, wh...

Richard Orsi/Sunset Limited

been presented in dichotomous terms. On one side is the "selfish, greedy, corporate interests" and on the other, stand "the people...

Forensics

While initially only visible fingerprints were collected and analyzed, the collection techniques quickly evolved so that fingerpri...

Boeing vs. Airbus: The Question of Government Subsidies

of the latter company. Boeing, on the other hand, has relied more on internal strategy to keep the company afloat. The battle ha...

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...

Progress Comes at a Price: American Civil War

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

Important Groups of People in Nevada's History

Many Indians remain in the area, along with individuals who are in the fur business. Fur trappers and traders are a part of Nevada...

Evolution Of Gospel Music In America

anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...

The Importance of Assyrian History

first king to actually inflict his control past his own city-state (BetBasoo, 2006). He essentially laid down the model that all o...

The Evolution of U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policies

however, their rights to the newly settled lands was ephemeral as well. Soon in her history America was looking westward....

Chateau de Versailles: History

his architects one can see what was perhaps the simple brick exterior that appears even more rustic as it is set off by ornamentat...

Correctional Psychologists

each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Information Privacy and Web Pages

In fact, that has been the case in more than one instance in the past (Hoy, Grubbs, and Phelps, 2003)....

Cinderella’s Sisters by Dorothy Ko

feet regardless of the suffering. Also as noted, most people assume it was only a practice that illustrates the power of men, th...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Aviation Safety: Passenger Carriers vs. Cargo Carriers

sun). Another man whose name is known to aviation, Glenn Curtiss, "wins a silver trophy and national acclaim for becoming the fir...

Leadership Models

"Factory System model" of leadership that was prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called for management lead...

Kennedy/Profiles in Courage

Senators that follows. Kennedy begins with a profile of John Quincy Adams, and how Adams was castigated by members of his own pa...

History of the La Purisima Mission

each located a "stiff days march" (about 30 miles apart) from one another (The Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery). The region, ...

Earth: History And Comparison With Other Planets

as the most significant astronomical impression made in the Greek period. Building upon the "wealth of knowledge" (Anonymous, 200...

Importance of Black History Month for African American Youth

of the white people. The history focuses on how the nation was founded, the Civil War, how the Depression affected people, the Wor...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

Department of Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinics

the nation are veterans (Dynes, 2005). The VA estimates a total number of 299,321 veterans are homeless (Caswell, 2005). These i...

Joseph Stalin and Potsdam

(2005) also notes that one "important point has thus far been ignored by historians. It was Hopkins who suggested the idea of a jo...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

Windows: A Key Technology in the Development of Multimedia Computing

Such was not to immediately be the case, however. DEC canceled the project in its preliminary stages and the world would have to ...