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American History: 19th Century

the hopes of finding work (The United States Of America, Part Five, 2007). "As immigration exploded, urban populations surged from...

Violence & Terrorism

and Jenkins, 2006, p. 2009). Robison and his colleagues suggest that at least some of the ideology driving terrorism is religious...

Refinements in "Miranda"

is a very important principle. Common Law Modification to the Constitution - the "Miranda" Case The case that changed the arrest ...

Should The Bible Be Used To Teach History

who do not believe in God often try to argue the point on the historicity the text. Since the texts have been shown to be reliable...

Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix

begin to see that different stakeholders involved had different concerns. The owners were divided. They realized that money would ...

The Canadian Nation, the Boer War and the Conscription Crisis

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

Gross and Fink/Telecommunications

of this text. Part 1: Electronic Media Forms While the original form of telecommunication, i.e., the telephone, can trace its o...

The English Language

are considered quite strong. How did English emerge? What is its history? A few hundred years ago, English was simply a hodge pod...

A History of Medications

medicinal purposes, but it is thought that its origin is tied to the caves of France dated to as early as 25,000 BCE ("History of ...

Book Review of Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses

served as a form of currency in these regions because it was used as wage compensation. A crucial point Standage made is that bee...

Jazz and New Orleans

ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...

Fifty Years of Men’s Fashion from 1950 to 2000 and Designers of Change

Cinema was dominating mens fashions as businessmen sought to dress like Gregory Peck in The Man with the Gray Flannel Suit while t...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

The Paraguyan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism/South Africa

"nationalism and racism have dominated South Africas history" (Foster, 2003, p. 657. The emergence and dominance of white South Af...

Roman Catapults

that Archimedes and his engines were actually capable of throwing stones that were 3 times as heavy as that (Cuomo). And, their ap...

Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude

a sense of machismo (Paz 31). Throughout the work, various observations are made, which provides the reader a sense of who the Mex...

History Political Concepts

a completely positive way but the nation attempted to heal its wounds regardless. Industrialism and Progressivism: Industry allow...

Slavery: From Ancient Times to the Modern Day

the following: In todays world, it seems that the people are turning a blind eye to what is really going on as it respects the top...

Ginn sur Mer Project, the Bahamas

as well (Snyder). It gave a $20,000 playground to the "tiny community of Montverde, near Bella Collina in Lake County" and $2.5 mi...

The Electoral College

the state legislators could elect the president but that would lead to the president being obligated to the states; popular vote c...

Why Capital Punishment is Necessary

is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...

History of the Sherman Antitrust Act

crushed their competitors. Ultimately the public became angry and Congress passed a bill aimed at breaking up the trusts and resto...

Doing Business in Ethiopia for an American Company

In many cases it is not only the firm that benefits economically but also the African people themselves. Many regions of Africa w...

Rewriting History with William Shakespeare's 'Richard the Third'

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

A History of American Organized Crime

by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...

Interpretation v. Historical Fact

not be the facts the book contains, but rather with the historian who wrote it (24). For instance, Carr cites the example of a Bri...

A China Overview

decentralized and output would accelerate rapidly (2003). China however has become a valid trading partner for many nations. Stil...

Alternative School Development

districts in the nation had at least one alternative school and about 88 percent of high school districts had at least one alterna...