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Escalators

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

Terrorism and Effective Deterrents

the courts. Consider President Bushs assertion that terrorisms main motivation is that they "hate us." Public opinion polls that ...

Kupuna and the Hawaiian Culture

play a role in it" (273). As with many schools, and educational institutions around the nation, the Hawaiian schools need a deep...

American History

for farming" (Dawes Act, 2008). II: Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner was a man who developed a thesis: ...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

American History

experience in the war for a soldier other than seeing battle, worrying about home as it became vulnerable, dreaming of freedom and...

Amerindian History, Culture and Accomplishments

developed; they were located along the "shores, rivers and creeks of southeastern Alaska to northern California," and they were a ...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

to customize therapies to variations in genetic makeup" (The Childrens Hospital, 2007). They are noted as being one fo the first h...

BMW "Newness" and the Product Life Cycle (Case Study Analysis)

The case goes on to note that BMWs latest marketing strategy is to provide the consumer with an interactive website and by using t...

The Dalai Lama: A Religious Celebrity?

no one particular leader who "heads up" the religion the way the Pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church (Das, 2007). The ...

Using the Sociological Model to Understand Will Smith’s Life Cycle

second of four children of Caroline and Willard C. Smith; his mother worked for the school board and his father owned a refrigerat...

A Conceptual Metaphor for Life

considering the journey chronologically. Starting with childhood, the student can discuss what he remembers of his earliest year...

The Lure of California

Old Globe in Balboa Park and the La Jolla Playhouse on the campus of UCSD. They bring in the greatest playwrights and actors from ...

Billy Collins

many different ways. For example, one author illustrates how, "You can read a Billy Collins poem to someone who hates poetry and t...

Michelangelo: His Life and Works

wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, ...

Mary Shelley

the year of 1816 that Mary began to write her infamous novel Frankenstein. "She took a challenge, set by Lord Byron, to write a gh...

Glittenberg, Transcultural Nursing in Guatemala

to protect their anonymity; however, the actions and attitudes that Glittenberg describes reflects the cultural orientation of the...

George S. Patton

was quite proud of his heritage and also of the nations founding. One could say that he was extremely patriotic. Patton would grow...

Malcolm X

was no realistic goal for a nigger, Malcolm lost interest in school" and thus dropped out of school (Estate of Malcolm X, 2008). I...

John Joseph Gotti Jr.

later they moved once more, into East New York (Crime Library [2], 2007). It is noted that as a boy, with the...

Perillo/Dangerous Life

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

Thoreau, Walden

of the soil" (Thoreau 326). In one of most famous lines in his text, Thoreau writes that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desp...

Robert E. Lee

name, having done nothing to be reprimanded for (American Civil War, 2008). In 1831 he got married to Mary Ann Randolph Cu...

Christo: Life and Works

Galerie Schmela, D?sseldorf" (The-Artists.org., 2007). Then in 1964 he moved to New York where he began what was called his "store...

W.E.B. DuBois

that time Great Barrington had perhaps 25, but not more than 50, Black people out of a population of about 5,000" (Hynes, 2007). T...

'Picturesque' Landscape as an Evolving Concept

of "picturesque", that these contradictions deviate from the more static and formal view of nature, that:...