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Social Work Pioneer Sarah Collins Ferenandes

little was done to assimilate these different cultures and little was done to help the new city population to understand and deal ...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

A Variety of Viewpoints on Racism

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

Cinematic Perspectives of Society and Race

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

1911 to 1914 Revolution in Mexico

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

A Short History of Cigarette Advertising

focusing on the positive aspects of cigarettes, tobacco companies would encourage smoking and they would often target certain grou...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Labor Unions and Women

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

The Canadian Electoral System Should be Reformed

percentage of the popular vote but retrieve few seats in Parliament (Robertson, 2008). Because the end result is not always what p...

Methodology of Anna Julia Cooper

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

The Revolutions in Spanish America and Their Effect on Spain

early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

Empire of Faith; the Early 20th Century in the Middle East

has made it and its faith-the overwhelming number of Middle Easterners are Muslim-a center of world attention for decades. This pa...

Beginnings of Behaviorism

it is the dominant ideology of a given time. In the early history of psychology, the zeitgeist was first structuralism, then funct...

Commentaries on Taiwan

548). As this suggests, commentary written by Dutch writers predate the observations penned by Yu. For example, Reverend Georgiu...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

Social Security Reform: Costs and Benefits

Administration, 2005). 1950: The first "cost of living" increase is approved 1975: Cost of living increases become automatic, tied...

A Tale of Amazonian Adventure

writer for "The New Yorker", David Grann becomes caught up in the legendary tale of renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harris...

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? by Karen Seccombe

those that work instead of punishing them. The arguments come from the women on welfare. They represent the interest of the impo...

Political and Social Changes in Great Britain from 1900 to 1914

In five pages early 20th century social and political changes in Great Britain are considered in terms of the origin of the modern...

Black Elk Speaks to John Neihardt

In five pages John Neihardt's interview with Lakota Indian Black Elk who managed to survive the Wounded Knee massacre is examined ...

'True Story of Ah Q' by Lu Xun

In twelve pages this paper discusses Lu Xun's texts and the issues resulting in the early twentieth century Chinese society collap...

Past and Present Muckrakers and Yellow Journalism

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares muckraking and yellow journalism of the early 20th century. Nine sources are cited...

Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler

In five pages this research paper analyzes both the famed composer of the early 20th century and his Symphony No. 4. Four sources...

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and the Characters of Clarissa and Septimus

In five pages this paper examines the characters in this Virginia Woolf novel in terms of how they reflect changing social moods o...

Leisure and Work in 1900 to 1920 Urban US

This paper discusses early 20th century leisure and work as conceptualized in urban America in a consideration of Kathy Peiss' 'Le...

Early Palestine and Jews

In eight pages this paper discusses the early Palestine in a consideration of a Jewish boy's story before the fifteenth century A....

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

The Octopus by Frank Norris

This point of view gives Norris freedom from having to make all of the action occur to a protagonist or observer and also, the rea...

Critical Opinions on 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

In eleven pages this research paper considers the diverse critical opinions regarding this landmark early 20th century African Ame...