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Revolutionary Development of the Internet

years later, software for personal computers became available. This software heralded the entrance of Bill Gates to the technologi...

Comparison of 1790 and 1860 Economies

dispute. By 1860, slavery was in full force but shortly after that, the slaves would be freed. Both the 1790 and 1860 periods were...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

Pinochet and the Chilean Revolution

was elected by a coalition of five political parties; the Communists and Socialists were the mainstays of this group, which "elect...

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Historical Perspective

Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the president to the Anti-Slavery society, would first become acquainted (Adams, 2003). Stanton also ...

The Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Scientific Revolution

to by separate from Catholicism is a significant development in human history. The Counter-Reformation, as its name implies, was ...

Creative Essay on the ‘Revolutionary’ King Lear

could have joined forces with another expatriate, Edmund of Gloucester, much like Fidel Castro did with the revolutionary Che Guev...

Peter Dear: “Miracles, Experiments and the Ordinary Course of Nature”

the 17th century, a time when religion was a powerful force in society, and when going against church teaching was considered here...

The Iranian and Guatemalan Revolutions

Iranian Parliament authorizing the nationalization of property belonging to foreign oil companies; at the time, the Anglo-Iranian ...

The Battle of Cowpens

were taken without what was now a deeply ingrained sense of restraint. Revolutionary warfare was simple and to the point....

Understanding “The Big Switch”

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...

George Washington and the Revolutionary War

as a great leader and notes the following: "Realism, strategic imagination, adaptability, and political savvy are all aspects of W...

Warfare Technological Change and Sociological Impacts

There are many points of comparison between wars. This is certainly true of the Jacobin phase of the French...

How has the Internet Impacted on the Global Environment?

The writer takes a broad look at the way that the use of the internet has impacted across the global interdependent with the prog...

Industrialization in the US Child Labor and the Progressive Movement

Introduction Labor reform was a critical focus...

The Age of Exploration and Onwards - Social and Economic Development

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

The Puritan Revolution and Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

Post-Revolution Britain and Satirical Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at post-Revolution Britain and the satirical literature that emerged from there. Gay's ...

Mao's Cultural Revolution and Durkheim

its members a sufficient degree of homogeneity" (Durkheim, 1956). As is obvious, such an ethos was the entire justification behind...

'Revolutionary' Citizenship and the American Experience

This paper considers how the modern concept of citizenship has been shaped by the American experience and also features a comparat...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

England After the Industrial Revolution

the industrial revolution sprang new industries where workers emerged as skilled as opposed to unskilled. Many of the skills they ...

Factors in Bringing about the Age of Revolution

and poor urban workers" and this coalition of the middle class and poor "gave the revolution its driving force" (Schmiechen, 1999)...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

The Industrial Revolution in America

the world" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 550). Raw materials and finished goods could now be shipped all over the country. The Cumber...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

French, Spanish, and British Colonists

who were most oppressed by the British rule. One author notes that the history of this goes back, beginning: "[I[n 1215 at a place...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...