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Jewish History and Spain's 'Golden Age'

grand, self-improving - yet highly attainable - aspirations are what ultimately brought the era to be known as the Golden Age of S...

'The End of History?' by Francis Fukuyama

end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end p...

Analyzing On the Use and Abuse of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

Navajo Code Talkers

Philip Johnston, a member of a missionary family that had been raised on the Navajo reservation, realized that those facts made th...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Women in the Canadian Military Forces

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Sylvan Learning Systems

also offered a guarantee - if students did not gain at least one grade level following the typical 36-hours of instruction, the co...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Botero Painting 'Mona Lisa' and China

common people school education, which used to be privilege of ruling class...Confucius advocated a set of moral code on basis of f...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

What is Bluetooth Technology

Interestingly enough, the Bluetooth technology was named after Harald Bluetooth, who was King of Denmark during the 10th century ...

Web 2.0/Wave of Corp. Future

have been posted by a university, an institution or a business firm and consist of a series of inter-linked pages (Belcher 34). We...

Communism in Mexico

following among the people. Further investigation should help to clarify which impression is correct. In doing so, well also see h...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Italian Food/Breads & Dessert

not catch on as a food till the early nineteenth century (Demetri). The other popular dish associated with Italian cuisine is, o...

Knights of Labor in Northeast Wisconsin

as well as individuals who felt that the Knights of Labor were wrong in their focus and action. One such individual, Hugh Clews in...

An Overview of Gambling

part of the equation as do other factors. Personal preference is also something relevant. Some people enjoy watching the horses ra...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

"X-Men" - Relationship To the Study Of History

and racism" (Baron, 2003, p. 44). Two points in particular that bring a connection between X-Men and the study of history is how...

Recent Changes in Aviation Security

over the past several years things have changed, concerns linger. In a recent report it is learned that airports are overwhelmed b...

The Importance of AIDS Research

a mystery. The fact that one knows where they acquire the disease is comforting as it is reasoned that if one is monogamous or cel...

History Of Child Rearing Practices

(Hulbert, 1999). More children were attending school towards the middle of the century and the trend in education was away from th...

Comparing Greek Geometric & Archaic Vases

of warriors carrying a round shield and poised between two horses. A long-legged bird stands beneath each horse. Around the centra...

Lord of the Flies: Jack & Hitler

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

SWOT ANALYSIS: SATURN CORP.

to be an excellent alternative, an American company, building American cars, while management and workers actually got along. ...

A History of American Fashion

to emerge in the latter part of the 1800s. Today, people are fashion conscious and this is something reflected in popular culture....

HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

In the late 15th century, accounting became a specific science, thanks to the words of Luca Pacioli. Pacioli, a mathematician and ...