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Depiction of the Civil War in Barbara Brackman's Civil War Women and the Film Birth of a Nation

In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...

Biography of Leland Stanford

In six pages this paper discusses the life, entrepreneurial career, and California political role of Leland Stanford, for which St...

Average Citizens and the Effects of the Revolutionary War

In five pages this paper discusses how the Revolutionary War affected average people's lives when it was being fought and thereaft...

US Constitution and its Widespread Influence

In six pages this paper discusses how the US Constitution has influenced American life, meaning, and political theory. Seven sour...

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

Education and its History

in power to remain in power, while those who quite possibly had the talent and ability were relegated to a calling more suited to ...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

Immigrant Writers on Acculturation and Assimilation

sentimentality but her readership was attracted to such tales of courage, determination and, most important of all, success in Ame...

Lasting Legacy of Leo Tolstoy That Goes Beyond Literature

into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo T...

2 Essays by Barbara Mellix and Renato Rosaldo

he brushed the native explanation for headhunting aside. When Mellix was a child, mainstream American culture was, in some ways,...

Life and Impact of Artist Paul Robeson

and during the 1960s "serious health problems sidelined him for good" (Sellman, 2002; tt_154.htm). As mentioned, Robeson was th...

Life and Art of Poet Pablo Neruda

from a different era. Considering that he saw some of mans worst atrocities to his fellow man, it is no wonder that his poetry r...

Natural World and Being Human According to Barbara Kingsolver and Gary Snyder

humans in the natural world. As Kingsolver does in her essay "High Tide in Tucson," Snyder considers the fact that humans are part...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Plight of Native Americans

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

Oprah Winfrey, George Bernard Shaw, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Capitalism

In nine pages capitalism in its many forms are examined in terms of Oprah Winfrey's philanthropy, G.B. Shaw's play Major Barbara, ...

Life and Legacy of Niccolo Machiavelli

his native city. Though he had no previous political background, Machiavelli was appointed to serve as second chancellor of the F...

Contemporary British Politics and John Locke's Influence

In twenty pages this paper discusses John Locke's life and British political influence with such topics as the social contract and...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Welfare Reform Issues and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...

Connection Between Class and Race

work. The author takes a particular approach, but other authors write about race in different ways. Barbara Jeanne Fields h...

The Theme of Freedom in a Short Story Paper

life must endure social intolerance at one time or another; however, certain groups face prejudicial persecution on a regular basi...

President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt

In ten pages this paper examines the life and political importance of Egyptian President Nasser particularly in terms of his postw...

Overview of Politician William M. 'Boss' Tweed

This paper examines the life and times of 'Boss' Tweed in a complete overview that includes his compassion for immigrants and his ...

An Overview of Affirmative Action

In five pages this paper considers how the issues pertaining to Affirmative Action are depicted conservatively by Thomas Sowell in...

Many Faces of Education

In five pages 3 articles pertaining to higher education are discussed including those by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Barbara White, and...

Palestinians, Israelis, Global Politics, and Ethnic Conflict

In four pages a text by Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff is examined with the emphasis upon the Palestinian and Israeli ongoing e...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

Life and Writings of Leo Tolstoy

problems for him for the rest of his life. At sixteen he entered the University of Kazan, intending to become a diplomat. He quic...

Examining the U.S. Constitution

Few documents since the Magna Carta have had such a profound influence on social and political history as the Constitution of the ...

Cultural Concepts from an Anthropological Perspective

a unclouded awareness of that specific anthropologists viewpoint and his or her own cultural indoctrination. The Last of the Yahi ...