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the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

In five pages this paper examines Ancient Egypt's political system and structure in a consideration of viziers, the role played by...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle ...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

2002). In the wake of the bus boycott launched by black residents in 1955 in response to the Rosa Parks incident on a Montgomery c...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

cheat. They cheat with timesheets, for example, as well as cheat on financial statements which might include a deduction for a bus...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...