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Overview of Vampirism

became a variety of vampire lore which abounded. Interestingly enough, however, the basic idea that this entity was the undead, ca...

A Century of U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia From 1850 Until 1950

that would be followed by Chinas self-strengthening movement and ultimately by another Opium War with Britain in which China would...

Comparison of David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, James Goodman's Stories of Scottsboro, and Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace

that strongly influenced human perceptions, judicial justice and dictated socioeconomic status. As the texts of Thomas Bells Out ...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

19th Century America Racial Issues and the Chinese Exclusion Act

the impact which this had upon Chinese immigrants, in terms of both race and gender, it is useful to look briefly at the history o...

21st Century Romanticism

that was seriously lacking throughout the country. This rebellious, free spirit criticized the very basic aspects of society, clu...

Analysis of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Why Abortion is Ethical and Should Be Legal in the Society of the Twenty First Century

moral and legal issues under constant debate over the issue of abortion but many of them are misleading, use misinformation and ar...

Early Monopolies of Europe During the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries

(Bisson 639). The goals of this organization included breaking the Portuguese monopoly on the spice trade and expelling the most r...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

Moral Virtues of Benjamin Franklin

chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

21st Century and the U.S. Social Security System

Silent Generation born 1925 and 1942 would save money in reaction to their parents poverty and they reaped the rewards of Social ...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

America in the Gilded Age by Cashman Reviewed

Cashman (1994) describes the unfolding of the industrial landscape in the years following the end of the Civil War. There were se...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

Western Roman Emperors and Power Disintegration

When discussing the fall of the Roman empire, what is actually being discussed is the fall of the "western" empire (including Ital...

Department Store and its History

other retail considerations. This revolution was not limited to retailing considerations alone, however, but extended all the way...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Social Evolution During the Nineteenth Century

their perception of his genius. (Gould 26) Where gender behavior is concerned, a complicated and controversial issue of de...

1870 to 1970, A Century of Political and Social Rights

to all citizens, regardless of race. This promising start soon faltered during the tensions of Reconstruction (1865-1877) when fed...

20th Century Race History

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

Projecting What U.S. International Relations Will Be Like in The 21st Century

cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...

An 18th Century Authors' Overview

is just one example, but he is still an example of a writer who characterized a generation. Swifts humor and sarcasm demonstrates ...

American Ambivalence Regarding the Death Penalty

overpopulation. For a prisoner over the age of fifty-five years old, the upkeep can be as high as sixty thousand dollars per year...