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Essays 1921 - 1950

Calculus and Sir Isaac Newton

of modern mathematics. The purpose here is to explore Newtons approach to developing calculus. Foundational Work The state...

A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...

Three Robber Barons

financial gods (Himick, 2004). According to Himick, Morgan had such power over wealth, if he said someone had money, that person h...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Writers Compared and Contrasted

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

Letters of Dames Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches

to take on a work, apologies for the lateness of a manuscript, etc.; however, the majority of the letters demonstrate the erudite ...

Arizona System of Criminal Justice and the Twenty First Century

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

is writing his memoir is conversational, which indicates that he tailored his account to appeal to a broad audience. The tone is ...

Alexandria and Antioch Exegeses

discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

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...

A Fictional Accounting of a Seventeenth Century Immagrant's Experiences

experienced world traveler. With the knowledge of what had happened to the native peoples of the Barbados, the native peoples tha...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

1890s' American Expansionism

area. As a consequence they sometimes still ran afoul of foreign entities and almost constantly had to deal with the aboriginal p...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

Essay Example on Walt Whitman and Changning American Society

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius

star through them. He could then compare the magnitudes of the stars by the number of glass plates needed to extinguish the light ...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Resistance, Subculture, and Hip Hop

on ten characteristic features of hip hop in Australia, that this music genre represents an authentic subculture. Some of these po...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Are People Better Off Today than a Century or More Ago?

may find that it was far easier to live in the past regarding our health. One author notes that a hundred years ago people gener...

The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...

Ideological Underpinnings in From Diggers to Dongas: The Land in English Radicalism, 1649-2000

the specifics of the ideology of how land should be controlled and managed varied overtime, there was a consistent belief that the...

Early 20th Century Niagara African American Civil Rights Movement

owners. Du Bois understood that blacks needed to secure a greater foothold in American labor and industry, but there was far more...

The Evolution of Human Resource Management

company restructuring and changing workforce demographics in the 1980s and 1990s" (Walker 2002). In recent years, there has been...

Early 20th Century Unions

large the models are at opposite ends of the spectrum. The IWW was dead set against capitalism and all it stood for (2001). The ...