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Essays 1951 - 1980

Cesar Chavez and Bella Abzug

a force generated by a small group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. Through this groups passion and efforts, changes...

US and a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

movements, such as slavery and temperance3. Following the Civil War, womens rights leaders hoped to receive universal suffrage, an...

Gas Prices Assessed Econometrically

to modern business. OPEC began increasing oil prices less than two years later; the country and indeed the entire developed world...

US Civil War and Reasons for the North's Victory

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Morris County, New Jersey's Civil War Contributions

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

International Women's Movements and Issues of Globalization

issues is a situation which traces its roots far back into history. The indigenous women of Latin America have been suppressed by...

US Women's Suffrage and its History

and became the first woman in America to preside over a meeting of both men and women. Afterward, the New York State Legislature p...

EcoTerrorism and Eco Sabotage vs. Civil Disobedience

provides a more peaceful perspective and make environmental civil disobedience known. Civil disobedience in many ways highlights t...

After the Civil War and the Role of Women in Virginia

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

U.S. South Before the Civil War, Slaves, and the Role Played by Religion

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

Government's Only Legitimate Form, Human Nature, and Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of th...

U.S. History's Watershed Event, the Civil War

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

U.S. Civil War and Reasons for the South's Loss

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

US Civil War and Women in Combat

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Prewar Nazi Germany and the Origins of Anti Semitism

much of Germany for centuries. In the span of time following the Protestant Reformation Jews had begun to make numerous inr...

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

Poland's Nationalist Movement Origins and Its Character

organism. * Dmowskis was a distinctively anti-romantic nationalism. He thought the ideals of Polish romantic nationalism--the bro...

Investigating the Civil War Causes

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

The Turn of the Century Expansionism of America

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

The Role of Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement

threatened the position of men, "especially as new machines permitted less skilled operatives to perform tasks formerly assigned t...

Civil Engineering and Reinforced Concrete Design Concerns

carved a niche in the civil engineering marketplace in a period of fewer than 25 years, but more research and new codes are necess...

Civil Engineering and Mechanics of Materials Study

accommodate all internal and external environments possible within the field (Purdue, 2003). Within the discipline and study of t...

Women and Multiculturalism's Disadvantages

support rigid and inhumane practices toward women. Celebrating diversity should not extend to an embracing of those ideologies, no...

UK Law and Consumer Protection

definition of a consumer. In 19589 when the Molony Committee was set up in order to consider the way that consumer law should deve...

Civil War Context of Literary Characters Henry Fleming and Huckleberry Finn

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

Civil Engineering and Hydrology

In three pages hydrology is examined in a civil engineering context that includes such elements as precipitation, flooding, and se...

Comparative Analysis of Progressive and Populist Reform Movements

of Smith (1972) we hear a defensive tone as he indicates that the issues involved "economic concentration, unfair taxation, welfar...