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The Paraguyan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism/South Africa

"nationalism and racism have dominated South Africas history" (Foster, 2003, p. 657. The emergence and dominance of white South Af...

Jazz and New Orleans

ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...

Fifty Years of Men’s Fashion from 1950 to 2000 and Designers of Change

Cinema was dominating mens fashions as businessmen sought to dress like Gregory Peck in The Man with the Gray Flannel Suit while t...

Slavery: From Ancient Times to the Modern Day

the following: In todays world, it seems that the people are turning a blind eye to what is really going on as it respects the top...

Ginn sur Mer Project, the Bahamas

as well (Snyder). It gave a $20,000 playground to the "tiny community of Montverde, near Bella Collina in Lake County" and $2.5 mi...

The Electoral College

the state legislators could elect the president but that would lead to the president being obligated to the states; popular vote c...

Why Capital Punishment is Necessary

is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...

The Canadian Nation, the Boer War and the Conscription Crisis

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

Gross and Fink/Telecommunications

of this text. Part 1: Electronic Media Forms While the original form of telecommunication, i.e., the telephone, can trace its o...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

The American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

Mistakes in Trials Worldwide in the Last 200 Years

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

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)....

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...

Panama and the U.N. Security Council

come under intense scrutiny. Some critics suggest that it is weak and even that it is not needed anymore. Others applaud the work ...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

Escape From East Berlin

It was intended to be impenetrable and did indeed inflict long-term damage to people and relationships separating families and com...

Abolitionism/There Was No Other Way

moral conviction, and, especially. on the part of African American activists, a fierce visceral passion for freedom" (Bordewich 4)...