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Essays 511 - 539

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

From the Light into the Darkness of Japanese History

from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...

Arts and Socrates

much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...

Twentieth Century British Trade Unions

ensured that workers, government and employers all contributed to the social fund, and thereby provided health care and disability...

Women and Geoffrey Chaucer

to some extent. One critics opinion seems to support such a perspective: "The Wife of Baths negative image seems only to have chan...

Period of Enlightenment

life, whereas before there was no tolerance of any other culture or lifestyle other than that of the Euro-centric Christian model....

Issues of Partnership and Scientific Integrity

For example, if scientists are supported by R.J. Reynolds, they realize the people who pay their salaries will not want to find ou...

'Some keep the Sabbath going to church' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

Neolithic Period to Tang Dynasty Chinese Paintings

were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...

Humanist Erasmus

the more blatant abuses of the Church, such as the sale of indulgences, but on the whole "remained devout, orthodox and sincere" (...

African American Education Throughout History

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

Restoration to Victorian Age British Literature

authors here Addison and Alexander Pope as well as Swift, Steele and influences from Voltaire. In the age of Johnson between abo...

Colonial Women of Latin America

Because of this, the family changed from being the focus of both production and consumption toward a paradigm in which it was simp...

Blackpool's Architecture, Land Use, Industry, and Growth

the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...

Hellenistic Style Characteristics

(Hellenistic Art, 2005). One subject of art was sculpture, something that was clearly very important to the Greek people t...

Historical Relationship Between Spain and Islam

This influence occurred even in the face of the ideological and geographical separation that existed between Christians and Muslim...

British Empire and Photography

of Empire" (pp. 19- 20). The second wave of the British Empire expansion and the development of photography coincided, and as a n...

A Hollywood Marxist Interpretation

bold enough to make that first move. The cold war lasted roughly between 1945 and 1990 (Roberts, 1993). Thus, what happened is th...

Nineteenth Century Italian Unification

power would arise to overshadow the papacy (Age of the Sage, 2005). After explaining the background of a fractured Italy, t...

Tammany Hall and Political Impropriety

The perks are a part of the deal. He gives an example by saying that if he knew a bridge was being built, he should buy land aroun...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Development of Social Work

p. 130). Figures from the early part of the century reveal that "50 to 66 percent of working families were poor and that a third ...

Graphic Design and the Gutenberg Galaxy

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

17th and 18th Century Censorship of the English Stage and Jeremy Collier's Pamphlet, 'A Short View on Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage'

the name of Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) embarked upon his own personal crusade to censor these works on religious grounds. The pub...

Progress and Ideals of the Enlightenment

and the second seeks to "alter the self-understanding of groups which have been defined in negative ways by a dominant culture" (L...

The Gambino Family

Luciano would bring the Mafia into the modern age, putting the group into organized crime. Out of the ruins of the Masseria and Ma...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Early Modern Europe as Portrayed by Theodore Rabb in The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe

Modern Europe, 2001). Religious belief went hand in hand with nationalism and politics, with the result that war ensued (Early Mo...

Historical Development of Prisons

accompanying technological advancement changed society to such an extent that people felt they had no guidelines for how to behave...