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Technological Advancement and Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet

much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew u...

Immigration to Nineteenth Century America in 'The First Great Wave'

of the time were the primary motivators for virtually all of the immigrants to the United States. The example of the Irish serves ...

Samuel Johnson and George Berkeley on Metaphysics

or of material things. Berkeleys philosophical stance of immaterialism or idealism simply denied the existence of matter all toge...

Ethhics and Corporate Culture

importance of ethics and values have been sending that message to their employees more often than ever (Blank, 2003). Both the cu...

Pleasure and 19th Century Women in the Paintings of Mary Cassatt

In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...

Nationalism, Conservatism, and Liberalism During the 19th Century

laws, economic structure and political processes all supported maintaining this hierarchy. During the early part of the 19th cen...

Twentieth Century Genius Albert Einstein

invents a new method of counting and determining the size of the atoms or molecules in a given space and in the other he explains ...

Arizona System of Criminal Justice and the Twenty First Century

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Writers Compared and Contrasted

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

Letters of Dames Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches

to take on a work, apologies for the lateness of a manuscript, etc.; however, the majority of the letters demonstrate the erudite ...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...

Three Robber Barons

financial gods (Himick, 2004). According to Himick, Morgan had such power over wealth, if he said someone had money, that person h...

Love Canal and Hooker Chemical

at using the site for urban expansion. When the city forced the sale of the site through "imminent domain," Hooker added a disclai...

Twenty First Century Childbearing Practices of African Americans

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

Calculus and Sir Isaac Newton

of modern mathematics. The purpose here is to explore Newtons approach to developing calculus. Foundational Work The state...

Twentieth Century British Experimental Literature

Two significant examples of writers who broke away from traditional forms well before the end of the millennium are Virginia Woolf...

17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Resistance, Subculture, and Hip Hop

on ten characteristic features of hip hop in Australia, that this music genre represents an authentic subculture. Some of these po...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

is writing his memoir is conversational, which indicates that he tailored his account to appeal to a broad audience. The tone is ...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

Essay Example on Walt Whitman and Changning American Society

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

Twentieth Century Fashion Evolution

barriers. Hem lines rose and corsets were discarded, with women enjoying the increased feeling of freedom. Dresses were short and ...

Home Architecture of the Early South

a storehouse (Lane 9). In contrast to the shrinking forest of Europe where timber was already scarce, North America abounded wit...

Alexandria and Antioch Exegeses

discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...

Three Daughters of China by June Chang

became very disenchanted with what she saw. His policies stifled an entire nation, and Changs family was no different. Chang wit...

1890s' American Expansionism

area. As a consequence they sometimes still ran afoul of foreign entities and almost constantly had to deal with the aboriginal p...

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...