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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...

The English Language

are considered quite strong. How did English emerge? What is its history? A few hundred years ago, English was simply a hodge pod...

Roman Catapults

that Archimedes and his engines were actually capable of throwing stones that were 3 times as heavy as that (Cuomo). And, their ap...

Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude

a sense of machismo (Paz 31). Throughout the work, various observations are made, which provides the reader a sense of who the Mex...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

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...

Turkish Business and Leadership

This 8 page paper is written in 2 parts,. The first part looks at a Turkish business; Çolakoglu A.S, a yarn manufacturer, and exam...

Wireless Communication

The beginnings of wireless goes back to the eighteenth century when Marconi would obtain a patent to increase the Wireless Telegr...

King Philip II of Spain

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...

Special Education/Literature Review

Itards efforts to help the child are widely acknowledged as constituting the beginnings of the history of special education (Smith...

Habeas Corpus

to a hearing by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. At such hearings, evidence is presented that the detainee should be considered...

The Clown by Boll Heinrich

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

The Landmark Case of Roe v. Wade of More Than a Generation Ago

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

Indian Music and the Tabla Drums

the emission of harmonics(Courtney, 2001). Musicians play the tabla (or a smaller one at least) by placing it in their la...

Science and Art According to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

NATO and Nation Membership

clear to them that the road to Prague "runs through Washington" (2002, p.634). What does that mean? Although NATO is made up of a...

Overview of Special Purpose Entities

while the media is referring to what Enron officers did as "off-balance-sheet" partnerships -- "those hundreds of Enron entities t...

Nationalism and its Global Impact

These ideologies vary, of course, both according to country and time. What is considered a conservative ideology today, in fact, ...

A Description of World Civilizations from Ancient Times to 1500

well as carried new innovative things from other societies and so served to pass ideas along from village to village. Back then t...

Confirmation and Baptism

churches and communities that are not Catholic can also be channels of grace (McEoin, 1997). In other words, the Church recognized...

Gunpowder's Invention and Historical Impact

and explosives has ranked among the top three most important elements of modern civilization along with printing and the Protestan...

'Mysterious' Land of Eastern Europe

they had stepped back into history. These travelers brought back the mythology of the Balkans, which included tales of the undead,...

Machiavelli's Theories On Government

classical realism and to assess the general ethical issues raised by realism and the relationship between science and politics" (F...