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Horticulture and Agriculture

This paper consists of five pages and considers the horticulture and agriculture fields in terms of history and pioneering contrib...

In His Own Write - A Creative Look at George Gershwin

In six pages George Gershwin's own vantage point is applied to the American composer's life and musical theater contributions. Th...

History and Culture of Assyrian Americans

another reason why ?migr?s are so intent on passing it along (Horan, 2003). The Assyrians were apparently never numerous, and the...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

Spiritual Growth and Soren Kierkegaard

between ethics and religion.4 Because this seems whimsical at best and cumbersome, even nonsensical at worst, Im very glad to hea...

Life and Work of Marie Curie

a good university (Hole, 2005). "Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects. ...

Hong Kong Family Therapy and Systems Theory

colleagues applied the same ideas to families and discovered that systems theory provided an ideal medium for gaining insight into...

Judaism and Human Rights Advocate Abraham Joshua Heschel

the value of religious discourse allowed an "intelligent passion" (Novak, 1998, pp. 63-67) where fear and trepidation once lurked....

A Revies of Beyond Malthus by Brown, Gardner, and Halweil

ask, "How many people can the Earth support?" (Brown et al. 36). 3. Fresh Water: Water is a very serious concern for the future ...

Costing Case Study in Management Accounting

in this calculation and the contribution will be the net income. As a result the net income is the contribution 54 x...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

Astronomy's Modern Era and Famous Astronomers

the great discoveries of the twentieth century. What this discovery led to was the theory that black holes are not really black, ...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Business, Internet, and IS

the Internet, trading partners can bypass intermediaries and inefficient multi-layered procedures. Furthermore, Web-sites are avai...

European Settlement by the Vikings

not really gypsies or vagabonds. They settled. In fact, they are most known for colonization (Roberts, 1993). This may appear to b...

Energy Conservation and Nursing

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

A John Romita, Sr. Profile

fact that he had been stationed at Governors Island in New York Harbor during the war where he was doing recruiting posters (1999)...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Mid Twentieth Century Sierra Leone Decolonization and Nationalism

became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...

Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance Period

conquered peoples. This, of course, was not due to piety, but rather he believed that once converted to Christianity the German pa...

Microphones and Their History

a magnetic cap, so in theory this is essentially a speaker in reverse (Microphone History, 2003). Other than the dynamic...

Art of Greece and Rome

own artistic style (The Art of Rome, 2003). Greek art went through several different periods as well, the first being the ...

Anthropology, the Western Pacific Trobriander Islanders, Bronislaw Malinowski and Male Bias

male bias. The purpose of using Malinowskis work as an example of the male bias which permeates both historical and contemp...

Early Management Theoretical Pioneers

"produce rational, good and humane people" (Spartacus Educational, 2001). His argument was that people were inherently good "but t...

Prewar Nazi Germany and the Origins of Anti Semitism

much of Germany for centuries. In the span of time following the Protestant Reformation Jews had begun to make numerous inr...

Deviant Subcultures and the Chicago School of Sociologists

certain vulnerabilities in the species, good is overridden by the desire for something which is bad. This was a major contribut...

Visitor Studies and How They Developed

seek to attract the public. Visitor studies can be seen as historically categorised and studied in terms of the educational per...

Reading Education History

eye" which meant that there was more to reading than decoding. Reading was perceived now as a process. The key motto was "reading ...

Erik Erikson

attended to by his mother (Boeree, 2002). When Erikson was three his mother, of Jewish heritage, married Dr. Theodor Homberger an...

Overview of Early Hominids

suggests that this early hominid was no larger than a modern chimp. However, in order for trained chimps to successfully impersona...