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Modernism and Literature

became sculptural" (Make It New: The Rise of Modernism). From another perspective one author notes, "It is usually thought that ...

Four Questions on Africa

according to lines drawn in Europe rather than on African realities (Edge 7). In reference to current unrest, Carlene Edie questio...

First Symphony by Peter Tchaikovsky's First Movement

contrasts with the A theme, the B theme is "admirable," but also has "wider ramifications" since it is chromatic (Brown 110-111). ...

Architecture Hi Tech and Postmodernism

inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...

Hedging and Exchange Rates Risks

ability of Australian companies to pay their debts and interest payments as a weak dollar would escalate the level, of debt. This ...

Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

The Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77

developing nations are politically weak individually and the JCC was able to co-ordinate the developing countries positions of the...

The United States at the Time of the First World War

al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that the...

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Causes of the Arab-Israeli War, 1947-1948

a huge Arab minority become a Jewish nation? (Miller, 2001). Miller says simply, "it could not" (Miller, 2001). The conflict that...

The Zionist Movement

changed. As nationalism became "a dominant value in the Western and Arab worlds...anti-Semitism increasingly focused on the Jews p...

Meteorology

(vertical levels, horizontal grid spacing, and temporal), computational domain (what values go in the equations), and coordinate s...

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

The Abolition Movement

also mean they would have to pay higher taxes, but they were willing to do so (Ratification debate on the U.S. Constitution). The ...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

the future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

The Polish Free Elections and the Breakup of the USSR

control over the military.1 Thus, the nation faced dual rule, and was (and remains) in transition. This is relevant to our questio...

The Work of Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...

Is the Feminist Fight Over?

was still needed, women split almost in half, with 48% saying yes and 45% saying no (Poll: Womens movement worthwhile). When men...

Stem Cell Research/Not an Ethical Issue

equivalent. Stem cells are extracted while the embryo is, as yet, an undifferentiated ball of microscopic cells referred to as a b...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

Gothic Movement in Literature

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

Langston Hughes, Three Poems

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

Dietitian Professionalism and the Green Movement

This essay offers a summary of research conducted by Wilson and Garcia (2011). Then the writer discusses personal belief pertainin...

Changes in The Popularity of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes There has been

a decrease in the use of defined benefit pension schemes and a movement towards defined contributions schemes. This paper looks at...

Katherine Dunham, Aspects of Her Legacy

This research paper discusses aspects of the career of Katherine Dunham, the first choreographer to research and incorporate Carib...

Mainstream Muslims

The jihadist movement has not only affected its victims, it has affected mainstream Muslims in many negative ways. The term and co...