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Essays 601 - 630

Patrick Henry and George Washington

George Washingtons early life, leading people to speculate that it was typical for a boy of his class and status (George Washingto...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Banking Leadership

The bank has evolved into a regional bank, with a clientele of individual consumers and small to medium sized businesses (Washingt...

Case Study on an Elementary School's Student Assessment Process

learning and performance. The different methods account for students who are better able to demonstrate learning through a project...

Article Review on Racketeering and Organized Crime

States and is found in ten states (Gately, 2005). For each member caught, the maximum penalty is a life sentence (Gately, 2005). C...

War Contrasts and a Review of Living in the American Century 1940-1950 Exploding Into a Brave New World by Henry Allen

In two pages this September 1994 article featured in The Washington Post is reviewed as it pertains to the Second World War. Ther...

WaMu's collapse and Enterprise Risk Management

mistakes (Grind, 2009). But, even by 2001, Killinger had created fractures in the structure and in the operations that would lead...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

9/11 Attacks Were No Conspiracy

a significant lack of support and growing suspicion over the policies of President George W. Bush contributed to the belief that t...

The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Case

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

Greeks and Washingtonians and the State Capitol

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

George Washington

most important qualities possessed by Washington and thus a quality that would be reflected in the successes of his army. ...

From the Revolution to the Civil War: The Long Sleep of Carleton Wankybucket

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...

Obama and Reelection

13, 2011, President Barack Obama spoke at George Washington University about the dire crisis facing the nation in the form of the ...

Washington DC and the 2015 World's Fair

attracting attention and exhibitions from all across the globe, showcasing the latest cultural and technological contributions to ...

Criminal Sentencing and Racial Disparity

because one man is black and the other white. While such racial disparity often occur at many stages of the criminal justice syste...

Washington Irving’s Worldview

(Irving [1]). The author indicates that if he were left alone he would have been very happy doing nothing for his entire life. Thi...

Analyzing the First, Third, and Seventh Presidents of the United States

role of Americas first President, seeking to separate his persona as the general "who was first in war" from the President "who wa...

The Evolution of the United States Presidency and its Relationship with Congress

the Framers of the Constitution had in mind when they established the use of checks and balances in Congress but one can see that ...

The Symbolic Function of Marriage in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

NBA Bullets vs Heat in 1996

Howard by Brubaker and Asher. Main Issues * Rileys oral statement to Mourning that he would be the highest paid player on the team...

An Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage

opposition of gay marriage. Making such a radical exception to the traditional constraints of marriage would introduce problems i...

Watergate as Covered by the Print Media

Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - would ultimately lead to one of the most shocking...

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...

Comparing Themes in Medea and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...

The Scurlock Photographic Studio in Twentieth Century Washington DC

"The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise" was published in 2009 by Smithsonian...

Responses to Essays in The Bedford Reader

and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...

Post-Reconstruction, African American Leaders

This essay begins by describing the stance of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Marcus Garvey on the...