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Essays 1981 - 2010
is direct without being trivial in his analysis of the events he covers. This direct approach however serves the topic and the st...
sentiment was expansionist tendencies on the part of Congress. Drew and Snow point out that at this point in history the acquisiti...
one that considers all factors when interpreting past events. For an interpretation of ancient literature, for example, the histo...
from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...
lumber flourished in Oregon, Washington (Oregon Blue Book, n.d.). The timber industry collapsed in the 1990s but that decade also ...
years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....
the use of resources one strategy is to increase the income gained form services, this has been successful with services income in...
shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...
and Italy. France was suddenly a power to reckon with. During the Napoleonic era, many lands were conquered for France. Of cours...
of enabling managers to move VOIP (voice over IP) to a lower-end, less-expensive device that migrates employees calls with no retr...
industry would locate along a waterway is understandable and even forgivable for the time in which it occurred. Rivers were magic...
huge country (Kaplan, 2001). Wihtin this country were seven great powers (competing with one another in both military and economic...
upon its varied uses (Mohr, 1993). Another viable theory for the reasons why and how man ultimately developed herds stems f...
the centralisation of political power as potent nation-states emerged throughout Western Europe. The Northern Renaissance was also...
several of the head governmental officials during the period of Enlightenment (Enlightened Absolutism, 2005). As a respected scho...
associated with fresh, not estuarine or salt, water (Forey and Janvier, 1994). Recent research has determined that, to the contra...
It was the revenue from the sale of tobacco "that produced the first returns on the investment of the Virginia Company" (Faragher,...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
and elsewhere. It was there that these people became known as Babylonians, Syrians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians (Mathewson, 1994). ...
could be used therapeutically both in the treatment of his own diseases and in those of the plants and animals he found important....
In many ways Turkey contradicts all of our images of an Islamic nation. While many quasi experts have...
the first use of gunpowder, creating greater capabilities in weaponry and therefore greater need for external defense from within ...
The battle included the use of guns and dynamite. When the battle ended, sixteen people were dead, and almost 160 were wounded (A...
As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...
For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
In five pages this paper considers the history of transportation and communication with a technology emphasis. Five sources are c...
it still has a "middle," or whether we can contemplate that it will have an" end." According to Jack Bowman (1993), "1. A perform...
compound interest is as follows. Assuming that the principal is equal to E9 and the amortization period is d10, payments in a year...
In five pages this paper examines Paris history during this time period in terms of growth and the effect of the French Revolution...