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Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

The Alabama Crimson Tide

mud. At any rate, the name stuck; it appears that "Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News" did more to populariz...

African Americans in Early America

(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...

Therac-25: A Socio-Technical System

this safety net should have been provisions that insured the computer would detect when a high-powered electron beam was chosen by...

The Senate and Its Part in the Canadian Legislative Structure

General, who is the Queens representative except when the Queen is in Canada (Forsey, 2005). The Governor General is appointed by ...

The United Church of Canada

Methodists into the United Church of Canada if fascinating in itself. The Presbyterian component of the merger originated with Fr...

Racism and Class: 1890 to 1929

dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

IBM Proposal for a Knowledge Management Program

nineteenth century, and develops through the twentieth century, always based in the development of new technologies. IBM have been...

Globalization - Overview

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

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

major transportation route of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the years preceding the Louisiana Purchase the Spanish ...

Gambling Interventions for Chinese-American Men

as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...

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...

Salvation and the Old Testament

this account of Jesus ministry portrays it as a "coherent judgment comprising sin, chastisement and restoration" (Clifford and Ana...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Conservation and Whales

open boats equipped with harpoons and lances and began thousands of years ago in the Arctic off Norway, from Japan, and probably e...

Financial Crises and Panic

virtually all Americans are well-aware of the resultant mass hysteria of the 1929 crash on Wall Street, there has not been signifi...