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Charlemagne's Reign and Peasant Life

through tenants to day laborers (Riche 102). Tenants were obligated to pay rents either in silver or in kind and had to perform ...

Richard Wunderli's Peasant Fires The Drummer of Niklashausen

In five pages this paper discusses Hans Behem's peasant story as it is presented in this fifteenth and sixteenth century German hi...

A Social Worker's Perspective of Judith Guest's 'Ordinary People'

please all. They do not understand that they are hiding their real emotions, that they are running from their life, and from each ...

Offices in Uganda and the U.S. and Acme Paperclips

In a report of seven pages a fictitious Acme Paperclip company is used to compare issues of protection and safety of workers with ...

Part One of Faust by Goethe

at any time--Faust is ever completely satisfied with life, that is, if he is provided with a moment so perfect that he wishes for ...

The Historical Jesus in 3 Views

the context of Jewish salvation history (Sanders 88). Nevertheless, the issue of Jesus supernatural birth, as related in the gospe...

Cultural Control and Knowledge Workers' Research

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

Leaders of Social Movements and Their Challenges

good work in his book appropriately titled Good Work. Authors essentially provide a review of controversial professions, like gene...

United States After the Civil War and Considerations of Economics, Workers' Rights, and Ethnicity

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

Premodern Japanese Peasant Life

their unswerving and loyal oath, many peasants were beginning to grumble about the heavy handedness of the Warlords. Marikos hom...

KNOWLEDGE WORKERS AND WORKER ENVIRONMENTS

What, then, is a positive environment for the knowledge worker? Benest points out that competitive salaries and benefits is only a...

Health and Safety and the Workers Compensation Scheme in New Zealand

When the report was undertaken it was noted that there were significant inadequacies in the way the workers compensation is dealt ...

Peasant Village Life and the Effects of China's Cultural Revolution

to rid the Chinese Community Party of all of Maos rivals and enemies and to take control of their country through his leadership (...

Dada and Impressionist Art as Political Statements

favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...

American Workers, Colonial Power

of 3,450 Filipina/os, roughly 3,200 were men (Fujita-Rony, 2003, p. 134). This is not surprising, as it was a pattern for Asian m...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

Modern American, Aztec, and Yanomamo Families and Gender Structures Compared

agriculture, they are also considered fierce warrior tribes. Researchers have determined that the average population of a Yanomamo...

Comparing the Medieval and Modern World Views in 'Hamlet' and 'Everyman'

truly a message or morality play determined to convey the fact that none of the material goods any human being (or "every man") ac...

Escape and Myth in Comic Books

Do comic books as an art form simply represent a desire to escape from reality or are they the embodiment of a new form of modern ...

Reality Concept of Contemporary Science and Plato's 'Forms' Theory

In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...

Family Systems of China

In seven pages traditional and contemporary Chinese families are compared in terms of marriage customs, power according to gender,...

Contemporary English and Old English Are They the Same?

In five pages this paper examines modern English and Old English in a consideration of whether they can be regarded as fundamental...

Today's AIDS Victims' Treatment and the Plague Depicted in Boccaccio's 'The Decameron'

In four pages this paper compares the social problem of the Black Plague that is the subject of 'The Decameron' with the modern da...

Comparison of Contemporary Poverty and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Nineteenth Century Poverty in Hard Times

rather than the shameful exception" (Trevelyan, quoted in Johnson, 274). But even more dramatic was the change in attitude towa...

Do the Politics of Aristotle Reflect the Political System of Today?

In a paper that consists of five pages Aristotle's strong emphasis upon moral conduct in political leadership is compared with the...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and 20th Century

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares the concepts of science, philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and understand...

Contemporary Society and the Theories of Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

In eight pages this essay compares the theories of Durkheim and Marx in a conceptual consideration that includes modern issues suc...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

The Evolution of Urban Areas from the Middle Ages to the Present

This 5 page paper discusses the way in which the relationship between man and his environment has determined the economic, social ...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...