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John Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

This 19th century text is analyzed in ten pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Commedia del'Arte and Cycle Plays

Noah, for example, might exhort the men on the audience to establish control over their wives whilst Noahs wife would...

20th Century Educational Inequality

excel in society. Our schools are not meeting these goals. Part of the reason is an almost myopic concentration on equality in f...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Color Photography History

were due to differences in the molecular structure. Subsequently, a lot of research was done to find various silver salts sensitiv...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Vacuum Cleaners That Work Automatically

In five pages the invention of autonomous vacuum cleaners is considered in terms of impact upon the workplace and the home. Five ...

Analysis of the Fool in in William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages this character analysis of the fool character in King Lear makes reference to Shakespeare The Invention of the Huma...

Machine Gun Technology and Warfare

speak in terms of military science. The systematic application of science to the development of weapons and to technology in gener...

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

The Printing Press

make a huge difference. One author notes, for example how "The dissemination of information suddenly became easy, affordable, acce...

Painting and the Invention of Photography

their work. Delacroix was known for aiming at capturing the "essence" of what he viewed rather then presenting his subject in trul...

HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

In the late 15th century, accounting became a specific science, thanks to the words of Luca Pacioli. Pacioli, a mathematician and ...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Fauvism and Henri Matisse

In thirteen pages this paper examines the artistry of Henri Matisse as it involves the invention of the Fauvist movement and its e...

Synthetic Cubism and the Works of Pablo Picasso

28). Similarly, it has been stated that abstract art grew out of the virtual disappearance of the recognizable nude or still lif...

The Nitroglycerin Invention and Alfred Nobel

In a paper consisting of seven pages Nobel's invention of dynamite and the ways it was used scientifically and industrially along ...

Media and Inventions of Thomas Edison

In ten pages this paper uses the lifestyle of the Amish as an example of a consideration as to whether or not society has been imp...

Printing Press and WWW Information Sharing

In five pages the inventions of the printing press and the Internet are contrasted and compared. There are 6 sources cited in the...

Digital Communication Evolution

In five pages the ways in which digital communications have evolved since the Morse code invention to complex digital voice and te...

Radio and its History

In five pages this research paper discusses Marconi's invention of the radio in an historical overview that includes its 'Golden A...

History of TV Technology

and current events. Television has of course been significantly refined from those very first efforts at image transmission...

Battleship Technology and its Combat Relevance

quite awhile. Philosophers of every time period have looked at war and tried to find a theory to explain it (Honderich, 1995). Her...

Harvard Business School 9-679-089 Case Study

increased vocabulary and provided for versions in French, German, Spanish and British English(Burgleman, et al 1996). The Speak an...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Invention of Electricity

In eight pages electricity is discussed as the most important invention with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison's contributions i...