SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :History of Distance Learning

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; ...

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 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...

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)...

Harley Davidson; SWOT Analysis

the door (Harley Davidson, 2007). These humble beginning with the bike that had a 3-1/8 inch bore and a 3-1/2 inch stroke had perf...

Category Management

with suppliers. The concept of no longer being fully self-contained and remaining isolated from the outside has come to be less u...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

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, ...

Canadian Government/Pro & Con on Centralization

statement that "Canadian federalism has more advantages than disadvantages" (Atlantic Canada). As the term "federalism" refers to ...

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...

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...

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...

Women in the Church: A Historical Overview

embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...

The Democratic and Republican Parties Compared

not want to pay more taxes which might go to social programs and help the poor. Of course, the truth lies somewhere in the middle ...

Kievan Rus

Igor who died in a journey/battle and then his wife Olga took over the rule D. Olga (945-964?) There are chronicles that speak of ...