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Pencil's Life Cycle

In ten pages a pencil's history is sketched in terms of its ancient origins and how it has evolved into the writing instruments of...

Kosovo and Whether or Not the Conflict Could Have Been Avoided

Yet certain things need to be kept in mind before we can go ahead and support the blanket statement we made above. First,...

Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Nietzsche's The Collapse of Western Metaphysics in the Areas of Reason, Morality, and Religion and Underground Man of Fyodor Dostoevsky

understandable given the conditions of the time. He opposed the rigid moral constraints of the time inflicted by the ruling bourg...

'Collegue' by Datatel and User Acceptance

The results, according to Stoik (2001), were that the "ability to systematically track student progress and intervene appropriatel...

Pivotal Historical Point of the 1789 French Revolution

so deplorable a condition as it did in France under the reigns of the last three Bourbon kings, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI ...

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

Conservative Muslim Women and the Difficulties Encountered When Living in Western Countries

and those who resist equality are vilified. In a culture where gender is a key determinant of the role in society equality is not ...

Western Europe and the Problem of Population

birth control, have not lost a lot of people to AIDS and so forth, the shift that is predicted would render slower growth. Whi...

Saugerties, New York's New Rhythm and Blues Quintet

successful, particularly in America, you must do the same thing over and over and over again" and NRBQ categorically refuses to do...

Comparative Analysis of Three Seasons Film by Tony Bui with My Year of Meats Novel by Ruth L. Ozeki

finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...

Affirmative Action's History

today. Many people look at minority doctors and lawyers and in the back of their minds wonder if they are really up to the job. Th...

Theory on Birth Order

developed by the individual. He also believed that if there were a number of years between siblings, new subsets of birth order we...

Should Cultural Artifacts be Returned to Their Countries of Origin?

1. "claims concerning the restitution of cultural properties to their ocuntries of origin" 2. "restriction of imports and...

Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

The Relationship Between Europe and Africa

in the early 18th century that the Fulani people east of present-day Sierra Leone invaded to convert the people of present-day Sie...

The Transformation of China in the 20th Century

and 3. Chinas policy towards the Soviet Union and its leaders as opposed to those it formulated in regard to the U.S. and its lea...

Staples Theory Applied to Canadian Prairie Development

those resources. The latter culture, that associated with the fur trade, is of particular interest when discussing the developmen...

Overview of Electronic Payment Systems

were linked in terms of exchanging money by using leased telegraph wires as well as "inaugurated" electronic settlements for accou...

Case Study of China's STS Manufacturing

produced relaxed a great deal. The move toward a "market economy" from one that has been state-run has been slow, however ...

Middle East Culture and Negotiations

and her Middle Eastern neighbors. Well then embark on a literature review to determine the main differences between the nations - ...

Church and State in the Petrine Supremacy

of power and influence as change came to the western civilization(s). Within each region discussed by Spielvogel we see differe...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Culture, Personal Preference, and Taste

of the valuer" (Ollivier et al, 2001). II. CONSUMERISM Human nature is defined by myriad elements, not the least of which ...

Overview of Cyanobacteria

from a site in South Africa" showed that there were a surprising number of organic compounds in the mix (p. 23). Watanabes analysi...

Independence of Samoa and the Mau Movement's Role

government which is heavily influenced by family and religion (Ryen, 1993). Slavicek (2002) observes:...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

Male Dominance and Heterosexuality

men seek to make that way. Chodorow (1974) notes that children typically are with their mother for most of their waking hours, wh...

The Political Animals Donkey and Elephant

Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton) (DNC, 2004). The donkey represented the anti-war faction (known as "Copperheads") (DNC, 2004). B...