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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...

Was Couture Clothing As Popular In The 19th Century As It Is Today?

also known as haute couture - plays an historical role in the manner by which fashion has come to reflect an individuals social, p...

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 ...

Comparison of the Inventions of Computers and Trains

This essay consists of fifteen pages and considers whether the computer or the train was the more significant invention in terms o...

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 ...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

The Printing Press

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

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...

Invention by Design by Henry Petroski

out that "Engineering is a fundamental human process that has been practiced from the earliest days of civilization" (Petroski 2)....

Internet Invention

the Internet was unveiled in 1983 (Internet, 2006). Prior to the start-up, "a number of demonstrations were made of the technology...

American Dream Invention of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

In six pages the inventor of the 'American Dream' myth is examined in a consideration of his contributions. Five sources are cite...

Durability of the Republic/A Proposed Invention

very inception of the country. The fact that many Americans of that era found the idea of Washington being made king appealing ind...

Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and the Fatherhood Theme

In six pages the father's role in society is examined within the context of Auster's nonfiction text. There is 1 source cited in ...

Technology and the Inventions of Thomas Edison

In five pages technology development is considered through an illustration of the electric light bulb invented by Thomas Edison. ...

Gunpowder's Invention and Historical Impact

and explosives has ranked among the top three most important elements of modern civilization along with printing and the Protestan...

Contemporary Classroom Invention of Music and Montessori

childhood education. She would not only enact an educational methodology which would directly aid the societally disadvantaged ch...

Invention of Jay Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...

Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries' English Feasting History

at the high table (The Table & Table Manners, 2005). This particular table was actually much higher than, or rather raised above, ...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

19th and 20th Centuries' Changes in Scientific Research Funding

the aim of advancing in terms of methodology when uncovering longitude at sea (1991). This situation had been for the most part re...

Wiccan Traditioins and Last Century's Witchcraft Perspectives

Wiccan traditions and have a long-standing history in centuries of community activity and ritual beliefs. During the Crusades, th...

Eighteenth Century Absolutism vs. Twentieth Century Totalitarianism

He emphasized public improvement and in only twelve years restored public order and set the country on a path toward economic stab...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

Similarities and Differences Between the 17th Century Scientific Revolution and 18th Century Enlightenment

matter, "organic and inorganic alike," could be defined in terms of extension and motion (Burns, 1969, p. 567). Therefore, Descart...