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Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Women in Toltec and Aztec History

is also an element to the culture that believes in the forces that are both feminine and masculine, studying both in order to bett...

French and American Involvement in Vietnam

of Vietnam was born ("Earliest known history of Vietnam," 2007). In 1946, it was all agreed that Vietnam would be independent ("E...

A Local Smoking Ban: Controversy Verses Reason

to do so. Those of us that do not smoke resent the fact that everywhere we go we are confronted with second hand smoke. When you...

History Of The African Methodist Episcopal Church

that was with Allen disagreed with his theological position and attached themselves with the Quaker movement (About.com, 2006). Th...

Impacts to California Water Resources

occurs during rainfall and snowmelts as well as from atmospheric deposits. Nonpoint sources can include everything from stormwate...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

History Topics

Standard Oil of California negotiated a contract with the King of Saudi Arabia that granted the company the exclusive concession t...

Personal Ethics Awareness Inventory

good. It is essential to do the right thing with the right consequence. For instance, debating about processes or procedures or ev...

An Analysis of IBM

be known as IBM so many years later. The development of IBM is a patchwork, the Computing Scale Company of America is formed in 1...

1960s' Countercultures

completely rejected the "establishment" and decided that it was unwise to trust anyone over the age of thirty. This was clearly a ...

Mathematics' History and Critical Milestones

that of harmony and resonance in music. The fact that musical pitches correlate directly to numbers, they concluded that this rein...

Marco Polo, Herodotus, and Their Histories

guilty of a second violence. They manned a ship of war, and sailed to Aea, a city of Colchis, on the river Phasis; from whence, af...

Beauty, Consumption and Habits of Thought

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's HIstory Writing

providing a complete description of the village, its geography, demography, religious beliefs, social beliefs, families, sex, food...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Rise and Fall of of the Qin Dynasty

considered to be "xian" or districts, but larger administrative districts were later formed. These were the "jun" or provinces (Qi...

The Role of the Physician: Differing Views in Accordance with Age, Gender, Ethnicity and OccupationVarious Perspectives on the Role of Medical Doctor

value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

Criminal Justice I

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

Websites on Black History and Information Verification

Europe" (also by Rashidi) also identifies Moors as synonymous with black Africans and describes how Moorish soldiers cross over fr...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

A Consideration of William Shakespeare's “King Lear”

bent, has produced in him that blindness to human limitations, and that presumptuous self-will" (282). It becomes readily apparen...

Unique U.S. Southern State of Louisiana

has been proactive in respect to opposing racism at every turn. Going back to an earlier time, in the all white groups which did...

Bhopal, India's Union Carbide Plant and Ethics

removed a pressure gauge that was attached to the tank, stuck a hose in the hole and filled the tank with water (Dykes and Graham,...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

Assessment of the Observation 'Only the Curious Will Learn'

learning, however. It all begins with a question, and there can be no questioning without curiosity driving its origin. Incite to...