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Ancient Greek Tyrants

2005). In the case of a dictator this individual ruler is elected, and a tyrant is not elected. "A tyrant is a person who came int...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

New York City Draft Riots of 1863

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

US Unemployment

money can help people until they get back on their feet. This program has its roots in the Great Depression when a great deal of p...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Gays and a Social Movement Analysis

lead to crisis of regime/legitimacy and thus revolutionary movements; 3. broadening of access to institutional participation in po...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Philosophy Through the Ages

the goal of his philosophy was to provide "common sense" (Honderich 754). Differing also from Descartes, Reid argued that the mind...

Overview of Incarceration

to incarceration, and how effective those are as well. But before we begin, there are a few things we need to address...

Constitution of Cameroon

country until the late 1800s (Countries of the World, 2003). Because of Cameroons coastal borders, European slave trade often cam...

Sport of Horse Show Jumping Overview

direction. The goal is to jump cleanly over a complicated course within a specific amount of time (Show jumping). This can be over...

Civic Participation According to Schudson

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

Widmar v. Vincent

This case involves the rights of a registered student religious group to use the facilities of the University of Missouri, facilit...

2000 Treatment Program for Cervical and Breast Cancer Prevention

of Cancer Prevention and Control, 2004). Cervical cancer could be eliminated if every woman had regular Pap tests because this te...

Benjamin Rader/American Sports

of sport and leisure, it seems that Benjamin Rader (2003) does a good job in outlining the relationship between the advent of citi...

Evangelism

(Grossman, 2005). David Bebbington said that evangelical Christians exhibit four specific characteristics (reprinted exactly as i...

Racial Demarcation in Charleston South Carolina

largely free black population and this population was accepted as craftsmen and in the retail environment alike. Many blacks in C...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Aviation Safety: Passenger Carriers vs. Cargo Carriers

sun). Another man whose name is known to aviation, Glenn Curtiss, "wins a silver trophy and national acclaim for becoming the fir...

Leadership Models

"Factory System model" of leadership that was prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called for management lead...

Kennedy/Profiles in Courage

Senators that follows. Kennedy begins with a profile of John Quincy Adams, and how Adams was castigated by members of his own pa...

“The American Indians”: A Critique of the Web Site

cell phone. There are numerous other hints, however, that "The American Indians" web site is more of a commercial site than a tru...

Information Privacy and Web Pages

In fact, that has been the case in more than one instance in the past (Hoy, Grubbs, and Phelps, 2003)....

Cinderella’s Sisters by Dorothy Ko

feet regardless of the suffering. Also as noted, most people assume it was only a practice that illustrates the power of men, th...

Department of Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinics

the nation are veterans (Dynes, 2005). The VA estimates a total number of 299,321 veterans are homeless (Caswell, 2005). These i...

Joseph Stalin and Potsdam

(2005) also notes that one "important point has thus far been ignored by historians. It was Hopkins who suggested the idea of a jo...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

Windows: A Key Technology in the Development of Multimedia Computing

Such was not to immediately be the case, however. DEC canceled the project in its preliminary stages and the world would have to ...

The American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

Mistakes in Trials Worldwide in the Last 200 Years

seven years in areas closed to slavery; Illinois was a free state and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had closed the Wisconsin Ter...