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Hoover Dam

after the agreement was made, and Congress finally came up with the money for the project, there was a bidding war (Ward, 1994). ...

The Region of Calabria

peninsula is separated from the rest of northern Italy by Basilicata; the Ionian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea serve as nautical east/wes...

Modern Asia, A History

to cure the problems the colonial power fell from its colony. A separate electoral formula was introduced with the 1909 Government...

Sport of Horse Show Jumping Overview

direction. The goal is to jump cleanly over a complicated course within a specific amount of time (Show jumping). This can be over...

US Unemployment

money can help people until they get back on their feet. This program has its roots in the Great Depression when a great deal of p...

Blues Music History

The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...

Ancient Greek Tyrants

2005). In the case of a dictator this individual ruler is elected, and a tyrant is not elected. "A tyrant is a person who came int...

Shortcomings of Social Security

Act provided only retirement benefits and only to workers (Steinbrink and Cook 209). One of a multitude of little known facts pert...

History of Wedding Dresses

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

New York Attorney General's Office

to the time before there was even a United States of America. In New Netherlands, a schout was appointed and reported directly to...

INDIA, CHINA AND OUTSOURCING GIANTS

Indias background has its roots in the fight against colonialism, until 1947, the battle had been freedom from Great Britain. Foll...

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CAR

the 1960s, the "Big Three" had most of the automobile market share. Other factors helped the automobile. One of these was ...

Overview of McDonalds

at the time. In 1954 Ray Kroc went to see this hamburger stand and was amazed at how quickly all the customers were being served (...

THE DRY MARKET INDICES

one indicator of the economy, the Baltic Dry Index is just as important. The Baltic Dry Index measures how much it costs to ship d...

NIKE INC. AN OVERVIEW AND STRATEGIC FUTURE

Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman met in the late 1950s at the University of Oregon (Nike Inc., 2009). Bowerman, who liked...

The Great Depression

nonmember banks so that the deposits would be secured by the government (Auerbach and Kotlikoff 406). This means that the governme...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

Omaha Nebraska: The Ideal City?

easy access to the mountains and the seashore alike. It would have plenty of flat ground for easy walking but just enough rolling...

Immigration, Pros and Cons

human rights, democracy and peace is the standard," then European immigration to North America can be regarded as a blessing; how...

Hawaiian Creole English (HCE)

of HCE. HCE developed, then, integrating English words into Pidgin Hawaiian, but over time, Pidgin Hawaiian words were integrat...

Overview of Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)

smaller in diameter and streamlining the required power supplies (History of Welding, 2006). A special electrode wire, which Bern...

Overview of Theater Design

In nine pages theatrical or stage design is the focus of this overview that includes history, production phases, and importance. ...

Overview of the Development and Use of Flash Memory

by Toshiba and in 1989 they announced the release of the NAND flash drive. This was an improvement with faster write and read spee...

Israeli-Palestinian (Arab) Conflict

Theodor Herzl, who published the manifesto known as Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) (Remnick 72). It expressed what another rad...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

Negative Ramifications of the Canadian Indian Act

the federal government sought to eradicate the Native peoples. This fact is substantiated in the literature itself. L.F.S. Upton...

The History of Algebra

was a book entitled al-Kitab al-muhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala which translates as Compendium on calculation by completio...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Womens Program and observed a second black hole in Circinnus (Harvard University Gazette, 1997). In 1975 the center started its a...

The Gayety Theater and Its History

The Gayety Theater in Brooklyn operated from 1892-1932 and featured vaudeville acts. This paper offers an overview of its history....

Developmental Psychology, Its History

This research paper presents a thorough overview of developmental psychology's history. The writer begins with the discipline's or...