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U.S. Cultural Progress from the Years 1880 to 1990

to the workers. Each worker then performed a specific task. An automobile that took 12.5 worker-hours to build in 1912 was down to...

Greek Tragedies and the Role of Sacrifice

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

Weight Machines v. Free Weights

decision as to which method is best. "Ask athletes, trainers and sports medicine specialists about improving muscle strength. Wh...

Jewish Custom of Handwashing, Netilat Yadayim

was later extended for handling food. Jesus refers to a controversy going on during his time about whether it was required to wash...

Rousseau, Dobree, Congreve, and Dramatic Style

In five pages this trio of critics and playwrights are considered in terms of their differing styles and theories as reflections o...

1st to 4th Century A.D. Roman Mosaic Development in Great Britain

In eight pages this paper examines the development of Roman mosaics in Britain during this time with Cirencester and Fishbourne Ro...

1920s' and 1990s' Similarities

feeling that was captured in many parts of the world. The Roaring Twenties was a time of prosperity and celebrations. The 1920s ...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

Post Second World War Era and its Influences

In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

An Article on Childhood Obesity and Television Critiqued

In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...

An Analysis of The Things They Carried

This five page report analyzes the structure utilized by Tim O'Brien. The contention is presented that this utilization effectiv...

Homosexuality and Oscar Wilde

In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...

Why Dot-Coms Failed in E-Commerce

A paper addressing various reasons why dot-com businesses failed for a period of time. The author presents data about the number ...

Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century Kingship

In five pages this paper examines the concept of kingship within this time period with the emphasis upon France and England, and t...

Russell Baker's 'Taking the Saps' on State Lottery Flaws

In five pages this June 1996 Russell Baker article published in The New York Times on the state sponsored lottery flaws is discuss...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

Mexico During the Late 19th Century and Sport

war had ended in 1848 and since that time, American-Mexican relations would change. The latter nineteenth, and early twentieth, ce...

1560 to 1890 European Dominance

process several centuries before. We can argue that one of the first influences was the development of the use of gunpowder and h...

Manufacturing and How to Become 'Lean'

qualities. Examples include: damage during transportation, rework double handling; misidentification in storage; loss in storage; ...

Gilgamesh, 'The Odyssey' and Heroic Epics

In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...

'The Poor' and Changing Attitudes

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was one such man and he wrote of his times, first for a renowned city newspaper (The New York Evening Sun),...

Wig and its History

was some gap until the latter part of the Middle Ages. It was not until the sixteenth century that the wig became a generally ac...

U.S. Supreme Court and the Georgia State Supreme Court

In eleven pages this paper considers the histories of both courts and also provides case details of N.Y. Times v. Sullivan, City o...

Audiences' Changing Responses to King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the way in which each generation's audiences has responded to King Lear, relating it to their o...

Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Management

In ten pages this paper examines Dell Computer Corp. in a consideration of supply chain management and strategic procurement with ...

Culture and Society According to Marie Henri Beyle, a.k.a. Stendhal

In five pages this paper discusses how Stendhal regarded the culture and society of Stendhal's time as revealed in the text De l'A...

Concept of Time in The Sound and the Fury and 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

The Tradition of American Prose

In this paper consisting of five pages the ways in which American prose reflects the issues and the times in which it was composed...