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Character of Jo in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

Examining Business Ethics

favorable opinion and thereby preserve the market capitalization available to them through stock market activity. Positive ...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

U.S. Fitness Programs for Children

are startling in terms of the how young his subjects are and the simple fact that many of the health problems could be alleviated ...

Rastafarianism, Santeria, and Islam

islands as slaves (Crawford, 2001). It was created from necessity for the slaves to continue practicing their native religion with...

Two Ancient Sculptures Compared

"unibrow" today--and wide, blue eyes. One is almost reminded of the wide eyed paintings of the 1960s when viewing this ancient pie...

KKK's History

blacks" (Trelease 625). Another author indicates similar perspectives stating, "White superiority was the philosophy of the Klan, ...

Book of Job Exegesis

twenty-five hundred years. Many scholars date the time and place of the recording of Job to the age of the Babylonian Exile, which...

Overview of Community Police Academies

strategies (2000). By and large, this has been a grass roots effort. However, not too long ago, the President committed approxima...

NJ Railroads' and How They Originated

did have ties to the railroad industry ("NJ Governors," 2003). South Orange is another example of a long-established suburb whos...

Ancient History of Mali

Mali trade centered not only around agricultural products, however, but also included ivory, and gold (Library of Congress Country...

Theories on Motivation and Management

variation in task complexity and the relationships between workers and managers in each. An example of a high task - low relation...

Sir Tom Farmer and UK's Kwik Fit Company

to succeed. Finally, most entrepreneurs are more interested in the start-up and early cycles of a business. Once a business beco...

Overview of Reflexology

massage is depicted on a wall painting in a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt which dates back to 2330 B.C. In Greece until about AD 200, Del...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Brazil's Landless Workers Movement Overview

rural poverty to urban poverty (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). Between 25 and 50 percent of every citys population live in shantytowns ...

Overview of the Roman Games

violent spectacles that the Romans loved (Roman Fun and Games, 2003). Gladiators were slaves and were made to fight one another, ...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Racism in Colonial America

Racism has been part and parcel of American society since its inception, and the colonial period featured racism in its most virul...

Overview of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

In eight pages this paper presents an historical overview of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in terms of its origin, economic imp...

Reaction to the Currency Crisis in Asia

In twelve pages this paper examines the origins of the Asian currency crisis and considers the international reaction to it, the i...

Christian Science Founder Mary Baker Eddy

In seven pages this research essay considers the origins of Christian Science as conceptualized by founder Mary Baker Eddy along w...

Enlightenment Modernity and Black Politics

efficacy of that groups interactions in the political framework then served as an additional aspect of efficacy for the individual...

Stock Market History

In twelve pages this paper considers the history and development of the U.S. stock market from its colonial origins through the su...

Policy, Marketplace Changes, and the International Monetary Fund

In twenty pages the IMF is examined in this overview that includes its origins, purpose, functions, and its influence upon monetar...

IMF History

In twenty nine pages the International Monetary Fund is considered from its 1944 origins to its contemporary structure and practic...

Economic Significance of 'New France'

In five pages this research paper examines New France or Quebec in a consideration of its origins and economic significance. Five...

Japanese Culture and Samurai

and strenuous training was required of these men with most of the training occurring on the Kanto plain which was also the most id...

The Rio Carnival

The writer describes the annual Carnival celebration in Rio De Janeiro, including some of the traditions and rituals that occur du...