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U.S. Wars and Artillery Uses

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

A Consideration of Adverse Possession

the statutory period of twelve years is sufficient to confer rights of possession, would no longer obtain. The proposals are desig...

The Evolution of the Americas

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

The Boston Tea Party

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

Analysis of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

case of Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the district court prevented the state or ...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Johannes Kepler and His Contribution to Astrology

advantage of an education and as such was able to afford himself a level of intellectual snobbery, but this is more that snobbery,...

France Before the Revolution and the Tensions Between the Sans Culottes and the Jacobins

those who joined in this group had some education, but none to rival that of the privileged classes. However, they had begun to un...

An Overview of Urbanism in America

the proliferation of entertainment and leisure. Films, plays, restaurants and night clubs are a part of the landscape. After th...

French Revolution and its Origins

was in large part what prompted the liberals to call for more equality (Halsall, 2004). The bourgeoisie and the peasants who comp...

Transformation and Seventeenth Century England

In 4 pages, this research paper considers the rapid changes England underwent in terms of religion, economics, and politics, citin...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

French Revolution and French Nationalism

that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...

Haiti and Revolution

country on the path to freedom. The Haitian Revolution technically took place between 1794 and 1804 but the bloody French Revolu...

French History and the Causes of the French Revolution

young age of five to his death, (1643 to 1715). His mother, however, made the actual decisions regarding the country until her de...

Scientific Revolution and the Connection Between Science and Religion

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...

Conservatism and British Political Philosopher Edmund Burke

actually been a supporter of revolution in the American colonies. Burke certainly believed in individual rights, but he stressed t...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

1547 England Protestantism

main issue with regard to English history of this period is the dichotomy between Catholic and Protestant, and the extent to which...

Economic Relations and the Economy of Argentina

Were the central bank of, say Ecuador, to fix the exchange rate of the Ecuador currency directly to the value of the US dollar, pr...

Contrasts and Similarities Between Haiti, France, and the United States from 1650 until 1850

which they were impacted and, in fact, in the manner they impacted others. France, the United States, and Haiti are particularly ...

Great Depression and the WPA, FHA and AAA New Deal Agencies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

to compare the situation in agriculture and in industry today with what it was fifteen months ago. At the same time we have recog...

John Locke and the Right to Revolt Against Government Authority

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

Industrialization and Theories

2000). The roots of modern anarchism are found in the nineteenth century and the Industrial Revolution. Frenchman Pierre Joseph...

Reforming Corporate Law and English Company Law Modernization

been tackled (Card et al, 1998). In the recent white paper it is also only this area which has received attention, stating that if...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Policy Implications of the Film Cool Hand Luke

for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...

Business History and Management

to improve its efficiency in steel making, or rather in the scheduling of steel making. The company maintained its own mines for ...

Contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo to the Scientific Revolution

Robertson, 2004). Johannes Kepler was another important scientist responsible for the Scientific Revolution (Field, 200...