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1,500 Acre San Franciscan Presidio Site

Cultural resources are legally classified as part of the California environment and consists of archaeological sites as well as th...

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...

Final Lines of the Novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

they go on another trip, but Lolita runs away with another man. Humbert finds her years later, when she is 18 and married and preg...

Ancient History's Contemporary Social Influence

writing was the mainstay of civilised life. A seated scribe holding a papyrus roll was one of the most popular subjects in their e...

Life and Teachings of Jesus

my Beloved, with you I am well pleased (Luke 4:32) (Willimon, 2001, p. 7). The scene reminds the reader of the account of the crea...

Sinclair Ross' As for Me and My House and the Use of Narrative

the story written from a different perspective would have been worse, or better, is to ignore the fact that with a different form ...

Thirty Years in a Red House Memoir by Zhu Xiao Di

that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they na...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Setting

will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs ...

Property as Defined by Edmund Burke and John Locke

to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578). For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Pro...

Company Expansion and the Importance of Timing

to express concern over rising energy costs. To date, however, there is no evidence that significant pressures on either wages or...

Three Daughters of China by June Chang

became very disenchanted with what she saw. His policies stifled an entire nation, and Changs family was no different. Chang wit...

Higher Learning Degrees' Reputation and Prestige

is just as variable as are the people providing it. To some students prestige is everything. This contention can be no bet...

Freedom of Information Act in Australia

Applications must be filled out and the relevant application fees and processing charges must be paid unless such fees are waived ...

Computers and China

particular market, partly because of culture, and partly because the demand, until recently, simply hasnt been there. Dell Compute...

Article Reviews on Consumer Confidence

feel secure about their future ability to make money, the confidence level goes up. Aeppel (2005) on the other hand looks at the d...

Transformation of Modern China

essentially ripe for takeover so in 1644 the Manchus invaded and took Beijing. This was when the Qing dynasty, the last dynasty of...

Communication Skills and Their Career Importance

over 50,000 employees, the recruiters claimed that communication skills were the most important factor when they were deciding on ...

The Use of Marketing Strategies in China

The current status of media in this country is developing at a very rapid rate, indeed, the government are taking measures to rest...

Timothy Findley's The Wars and Setting

a man who has lost his childhood and lost more innocence than most people will in a lifetime. In this book we are presented wit...

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Josiah Bartlett: Founding Father

as is the case with many other unsung people from history. One must see, and understand, exactly how Josiah was important, despite...

The Printing Press

make a huge difference. One author notes, for example how "The dissemination of information suddenly became easy, affordable, acce...

An Examination of Food and Culture

the chapter goes on, other ideas are expressed. There is attention given to other cultures. Yes, culture still plays a major role....

Hansberry/Setting in ”Raisin in the Sun”

of escaping poverty and racism (Fanuzzi). Their lives in improved in some ways from life in the South, but they found that if they...

Self and Identity in the Art of Trish Morrisey and Cindy Sherman

Sherman Cindy Shermans work has often been noted as focusing on issues and questions of identity through a sort of self-por...

Training of English Instructors

role has developed, now in teaching the tutor must ensure that lessons are not just presentations of facts, they should help the s...

Work of Korean Artist Nam-Jun Paik

light-rays dance and transform as you move the magnet" that is connected to the movement on the screen of the television (Nankivel...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and Religion

the book was fundamentally Catholic and religious, but then would also claim that "There is no allegory -- moral, political, or co...

Discrimination in Hong Kong

given a high priority. During 1996-97, for example, about 14,900 children arrived from the Mainland and were enrolled in governme...