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Cold War Origins and its Cultural Implications

Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...

Examining Business Ethics

favorable opinion and thereby preserve the market capitalization available to them through stock market activity. Positive ...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Overview of Reflexology

massage is depicted on a wall painting in a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt which dates back to 2330 B.C. In Greece until about AD 200, Del...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Overview of Contemporary Judaism

The Jews wait for God to send the Messiah who will save them. This is the primary point of divergence between Christians and Jews...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer Compared

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

Character of Jo in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

History and Future of TCP/IP

p. 10). Many large businesses also continue to rely on their old SNA (systems network architecture) for crucial applications (Pas...

Brazil's Landless Workers Movement Overview

rural poverty to urban poverty (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). Between 25 and 50 percent of every citys population live in shantytowns ...

U.S. Fitness Programs for Children

are startling in terms of the how young his subjects are and the simple fact that many of the health problems could be alleviated ...

Rastafarianism, Santeria, and Islam

islands as slaves (Crawford, 2001). It was created from necessity for the slaves to continue practicing their native religion with...

Two Ancient Sculptures Compared

"unibrow" today--and wide, blue eyes. One is almost reminded of the wide eyed paintings of the 1960s when viewing this ancient pie...

KKK's History

blacks" (Trelease 625). Another author indicates similar perspectives stating, "White superiority was the philosophy of the Klan, ...

Defining Postmodernism

Our religions have become marginalized and even our basic concepts of what is right and wrong become warped (McDermott, 1998; Beam...

Hospital Setting and Administration of Medication in a Consideration of Competence Building Through Reflection, Experience, and Training

is overwhelmingly female, though nursing also is experiencing a gender shift as more men come to the profession than at any time i...

Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse

Islam total control of the Mediterranean, so that -- as one Arab writer of the time put it -- the Christians could no longer "floa...

World Trade Organization and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Origins

GATT, it is different and it replaces the GATT (Iowa State University, nd). The GATT was basically a set of rules that had no inst...

Economy and Trade of Southeast Asia

and information which found their way from east to west and vice versa: the early spread of Buddhism, for example, was a result of...

Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

Mass Consumerism's Origin and its Impact

this in more detail the role of consumerism and the way it fits in with mass culture can be used to determine what mass consumeris...

Overview of Community Police Academies

strategies (2000). By and large, this has been a grass roots effort. However, not too long ago, the President committed approxima...

NJ Railroads' and How They Originated

did have ties to the railroad industry ("NJ Governors," 2003). South Orange is another example of a long-established suburb whos...

Book of Job Exegesis

twenty-five hundred years. Many scholars date the time and place of the recording of Job to the age of the Babylonian Exile, which...

Ancient History of Mali

Mali trade centered not only around agricultural products, however, but also included ivory, and gold (Library of Congress Country...

Poland's Nationalist Movement Origins and Its Character

organism. * Dmowskis was a distinctively anti-romantic nationalism. He thought the ideals of Polish romantic nationalism--the bro...

Overview of the Roman Games

violent spectacles that the Romans loved (Roman Fun and Games, 2003). Gladiators were slaves and were made to fight one another, ...