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Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

In the late 15th century, accounting became a specific science, thanks to the words of Luca Pacioli. Pacioli, a mathematician and ...

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

The Printing Press

make a huge difference. One author notes, for example how "The dissemination of information suddenly became easy, affordable, acce...

Painting and the Invention of Photography

their work. Delacroix was known for aiming at capturing the "essence" of what he viewed rather then presenting his subject in trul...

The History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

Sequoyah and His Invention of Cherokee Syllabary

He even became known by the names George Gist and George Guess and served in the US Army in the Creek War yet he never learned ...

Using the Disruptive Incident Barometer for Functional Behavioral Assessment

period(s): Third grade school day. Number of levels of incident barometer: 20 (baseline of 12). Present baseline data across 5 da...

Life and Contributions of Sir Isaac Newton

(Hall, 1999). * Insistence on the experimental basis of true science (Hall, 1999). His major works: * Philosophiae naturalis pri...

Venture Capitalist Factors and Items

than likely that funding will not be forthcoming. This is not to say that the business plan should be overly long, however....

Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius

star through them. He could then compare the magnitudes of the stars by the number of glass plates needed to extinguish the light ...

Invention of Incandescent Light

light bulbs, and more. It was like a big jigsaw puzzle--and Edison made up the pieces as well as fitted them together".2 A light...

Cocaine and its History

"stimulant, aid to digestion, aphrodisiac and life-extender" (Appelboom, 1991)....

US Society and Television's Impact

television," 2006). He had already been given a patent for "the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and ra...

Printing Press and WWW Information Sharing

In five pages the inventions of the printing press and the Internet are contrasted and compared. There are 6 sources cited in the...

Digital Communication Evolution

In five pages the ways in which digital communications have evolved since the Morse code invention to complex digital voice and te...

Radio and its History

In five pages this research paper discusses Marconi's invention of the radio in an historical overview that includes its 'Golden A...

History of TV Technology

and current events. Television has of course been significantly refined from those very first efforts at image transmission...

The Nitroglycerin Invention and Alfred Nobel

In a paper consisting of seven pages Nobel's invention of dynamite and the ways it was used scientifically and industrially along ...

Post First World War Technology

spurring private industry; both the military and private enterprise then feed each other with information and inspiration. When ...

Comparison of the Inventions of Computers and Trains

This essay consists of fifteen pages and considers whether the computer or the train was the more significant invention in terms o...

Longitude by Dava Sobel

of the same size, so they all converge at the ends of the earth" (2). Another pertinent difference that Sobel points out...

Early Manufacturing and Nikola Tesla

Of all Teslas inventions and refinements, perhaps electric motors and wireless communication had the greatest impact on manufactur...

Telephone Invention and Its Historical Impact

In eight pages this paper explores the telephone's invention in a consideration of the changes that resulted and its global impact...

Color Photography History

were due to differences in the molecular structure. Subsequently, a lot of research was done to find various silver salts sensitiv...

Fauvism and Henri Matisse

In thirteen pages this paper examines the artistry of Henri Matisse as it involves the invention of the Fauvist movement and its e...

Analysis of the Fool in in William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages this character analysis of the fool character in King Lear makes reference to Shakespeare The Invention of the Huma...

Nineteenth Century Inventions

Inc., 2003). As an example we note that such inventors of the Middle Ages "could not generalize from a water wheel to the theory o...

Economic Growth and Inventions

1836. The beginning of this coincides wit the revival of the economy and the return to prosperity. The end of this increase is see...