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Edgar Allan Poe, September 11, 2001, Revenge, and Judgment

that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...

Two Canadian Historical Writings Compared

In Peter MacLeods (University of Ottawa) 1996 article "Catholicism, Alliances and Amerindian Evangelists during the Seven Years Wa...

U.S. West Coast and the Decline of the Sea Otter Population

to continue at this rate (Englander PG). The otters depend upon the ocean as a means by which to sustain life, with shellfish one...

Go West on the Transcontinental Railroad

voyages or three-month-long overland treks, both equally dangerous, as well as prohibitively expensive for most people. When the ...

Post 911 and U.S. Islamic Communities

States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...

Forests, Forest Growth, and the Effects of Deer

forests. Study after study, as well as anecdote after anecdote, are pointing to the idea that as deer population increases, potent...

Post September 11th Foreign Policy in America

to either acquire or maintain political superiority. After the September 11 attacks upon the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Ame...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

US Empire Crisis and the American Involvement in Vietnam

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

American History and Railroad Construction

end-of-the-track towns called hell-on-wheels" (The Iron Road). Explosions and avalanches were commonplace for the Chinese crews, ...

Discussion of Corporate Culture

Schein (1985 cited in Smith, 1998) provides a threefold classification of culture which includes the elements of assumptions, valu...

Gulf War, U.S., Iraq, and a Contrast of Ideologies

of the group. Functionalists believe that every state has the universal right to provide those elements which will strike a balanc...

A Case Study of a Special Needs School Component

given attention to this discrepancy noting that the amount and type of homework assigned to special needs students differs from th...

Young Girl's Cross Cultural Observations of Ritual and Religion

varied types of ritual which characterize her new home and the interrelationships between the various members of her new family. ...

American Obesity and Fast Food

unhealthy no matter which perspective one takes. Just how unhealthy is fast food? How does it contribute to obesity? The U.S. Sur...

Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo

was given carte blanche to enforce the laws and priorities of Trujillo. Political opponents simply disappeared. Others were murder...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

Overview of Community Police Academies

strategies (2000). By and large, this has been a grass roots effort. However, not too long ago, the President committed approxima...

4th Quarter 2002 U.S. Economy Performance

at the overall figures, this rally in the second quarter meant that the economy was still seen to grow in the year, showing an inc...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

Great Britain, Pearl Harbor, and Prior Knowledge of the Japanese Attack

States government, in order that we would have to respond. "Roosevelt had repeatedly and publicly stated that America wo...

US Involvement in the Iraq War

is, the United States (and the United Nations), has given Iraq years to comply with regulations which quite clearly they have no i...

Is It Possible for Biculturalism and Patriotism to Coexist in America?

as well. In todays world, the issue of bi-culturalism and patriotism is an important one - one precipitated by the unrest ...

Controversy Over the League of Nations

in retrospect, it is not certain whether or not the best move was made. The United States of Americas rejection of the League of ...

Unconventional Weapons Sought by North Korea

out that she is a sovereign country with the right to arm herself as she sees fit. Others, however, perceive this direction as a ...

Roles of the G.H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations in the Somalia Operation Restore Hope

no "overriding American national interests" in Somalia and saw Bushs efforts as a needless waste of military funds which would res...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

U.S. vs. the Middle East Dictatorship Perceptions

this in mind, then, it is not surprising that there is such turmoil in that region. Interestingly enough, both democracy and dic...

Post Second World War Capitalism and the Bretton Woods System

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

United Nations and the Importance of America's Continuing Presence

far removed from the days when a country could independently govern within its own boundaries in oblivion to what was occurring on...