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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...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Voting Rights Laws"). Before the Civil War, "the United States Constitution did not provide specific protections for voting" ("Be...

Business Plan for Coca-Cola

advertising budget regularly is more than $500 million (Chura, 2002), and competition for its business is more than only substanti...

A&W

with the use of tray boys (A&W, 2006). In 1922 Roy Allen took on a partner; Frank Wright, it was using the initial of their surn...

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...

Globalization - Overview

that had been spurred by Genghis Khan in 1100 across Eurasia (Ferraro, 2006). The Ottoman Empire in the 1300s spanned "Europe, Nor...

911: Significantly Changed Many Lives

better get the attention of their true target(s). Once regular citizens have been drawn into the web of bombings, hijackings and ...

The History of Government in Italy

of the House of Savoy became King of Italy in 1861 and Rome was incorporated in 1870 (U.S. Department of State, 2006)....

Avian Flu: A Student's Perspective

to the human population as well. Interestingly, biotechnology plays both a positive role and a negative role in this potent...

The Iroquois and their War with New France

to wage the most effective fight they had to ally themselves with one or more of what in actuality was the enemy. Interestingly, ...

Turning Points in Japan’s Modern History

taking place in a world that was growing more modern. The authors illustrate that, as is perhaps often in the case of long wars a...

Proteus Vulgaris

2000, p. 6888). Transmission Proteus is commonly found in such venues as hospitals and long-term care facilities (Gonzalez, 2006)...

Sramana Tradition & Hinduism

of Hinduism, and it is generally revered and considered to be the source of dharma.5 "Veda" can be translated literally as "knowl...

The Impact of the Euro as a Single Currency

the third stage of the EMU would commence and participating currencies had been introduced ("History of the euro," 2006). The euro...

Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"

North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civili...

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...

History of Theatrical Lighting

necessity of lighting the stage meant the use of oil lamps and dozens of candles, but the smoke was irritating and the open flames...

"The History and Mystery of Lightening"

theology, to Scandinavian mythology, Hindu theology, African mythology, and Navajo healing rituals. The reader then explores mank...

The History and Development of Computer Aided Design

the CAD programs that were designed with engineering application, such as the automotive and aeronautical industries where there w...

A Brief History on the Most Devastating U.S. Hurricanes

While a relatively weak hurricane would have done little damage in our earlier history either in terms of lives taken or in terms ...

Stalingrad Operations

on 18 December 1940" (Shrier, 2006). It seems unlikely that even signing the pact would have saved Russia from invasion, since Hit...

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...

Slavery and Cash Crops in Virginia’s History

the 16th century, tobacco was already considered something of great worth. One author, Thomas Hariot, back in 1590, wrote A Briefe...

The History of the Internet

it is known, had emanated from the history of Silicon Valley. The 1970s ushered in the Silicon Valley phenomenon. The name Silico...

Understanding Terrorism Based Upon The Terrorist Act of 9/11

Security Research, no date), a point duly clarified by International Terrorism and Security Research: "The strategy of ter...