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Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

US and a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

movements, such as slavery and temperance3. Following the Civil War, womens rights leaders hoped to receive universal suffrage, an...

Gas Prices Assessed Econometrically

to modern business. OPEC began increasing oil prices less than two years later; the country and indeed the entire developed world...

Cesar Chavez and Bella Abzug

a force generated by a small group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. Through this groups passion and efforts, changes...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

US Civil War and Reasons for the North's Victory

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Morris County, New Jersey's Civil War Contributions

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

Serving a Volleyball and its Kinesiology

spin in a particular movement (Hudson 54). Kinesiology is an area of study that considers the developmental sequences that defi...

Weimar and Dessau Phases in Architecture's Bauhaus Movement

witnessed in the arts was the combination of the Weimar Academy of Arts, the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, and the newly affil...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

Books and Films Reflecting British Realism

an exaggerated representation of the fiction from which they are culled. The realist movement of the 1960s was centered on "the ...

Naval Warfare during The Civil War

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

1920s' U.S. Labor Movement

and had existed since about 1900. It had grown quite large over and decade or so and was even able to stage a walk out in 1916. In...

Finding Ways to Fight Terrorism

the acts and (2) why they commit the acts. It was one of our own citizens who planned and executed the Oklahoma City...

Eamon de Valera and Irish Politics

run in Ireland. Perhaps it was his earliest experiences in America that led to his stubborn refusal to accept the Irish political ...

Democracy and Latin America

arise in its place. Indeed, the respective governments were not about to allow such a perceived takeover without as much as an al...

Anti Terrorist Legislation of the United Kingdom

strongly by Cohen (2001). He notes that...

Issues Prior to the U.S. Civil War

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

Canada, The Philippines, and Women's Roles

the open. The center believes that in the near future the women in the rural areas will be treated better and that the living cond...

Civil Disobedience Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

Ethics, Eco Sabotage and Civil Disobedience

for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...

History and Evolution of Hare Krishna

of Hare Krishna, which partakes of the spiritual side of life by eschewing that which is overtly materialistic and shallow. Creat...

Two Fraud Cases

Fraud continues to be rampant in the corporate world. Prudential Securities were charged with late trading. A manager for Johnson ...

Harlem Renaissance and the Influence of the Irish Renaissance

time after the Enlightenment. Yet, when the twentieth century neared, something new was stirring in Ireland. While the Irish Renai...

Nationalist Success and the Spanish Civil War

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

Educating the Socialist

This paper traces the importance of education in driving social movement. There are two sources in the bibliography of this three...

Mainstream Muslims

The jihadist movement has not only affected its victims, it has affected mainstream Muslims in many negative ways. The term and co...