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Essays 121 - 150

Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and the 'Letter'

my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

Studying History and the Importance of Nation States According to Von Ranke

This paper discusses von Ranke's views on studying world history and the global importance of nation states in a paper consisting ...

Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen and A People's History of the US by Zinn

by such elements as patriotism and mindless optimism rather than a desire to set out the facts and analyse them with any degree of...

Archaeology and History of Stonehenge

Stonehenge's history and archaeology are examined in 5 pages....

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

The Error of Reconstruction by Kenneth Stampp and Revisionist History

Chapter One "What was real and fundamental was the idealism and the nobility of the two contending forces: the Yankees struggli...

Paraplegia

when the disease is treated and cured, the paralysis can disappear; however, nerve damage in the paraplegic is typically unable to...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Painter Lee Krasner

works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

Computers and Their Early History

In five pages the computer's early history is discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

American History

for farming" (Dawes Act, 2008). II: Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner was a man who developed a thesis: ...

Rome’s History

city was built, as Fabius writes, the adventure of stealing the women was attempted; and some say Romulus himself, being naturally...

Policing in the United States and Austria

control. The United States Patriot Act was designed in such a way that it refocused policing processes on federal levels of contr...

The Celts

would put an end to the Etruscan peoples prominence (Who were the Celts?, 2008). It is also believed that shortly thereafter the ...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

American History

experience in the war for a soldier other than seeing battle, worrying about home as it became vulnerable, dreaming of freedom and...

Amerindian History, Culture and Accomplishments

developed; they were located along the "shores, rivers and creeks of southeastern Alaska to northern California," and they were a ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

to customize therapies to variations in genetic makeup" (The Childrens Hospital, 2007). They are noted as being one fo the first h...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

Kupuna and the Hawaiian Culture

play a role in it" (273). As with many schools, and educational institutions around the nation, the Hawaiian schools need a deep...

History of Latin Literature

long possessed in the oral tradition. It was during the 19th century that it seems literature actually emerged in written form and...

History of Cosmetic Surgery

such as a procedure to repair a cleft lip described in early tenth-century literature, the firm scientific foundations found in Gr...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Medieval Manuscripts

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...