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Conjecture of Pierre de Fermat Refuted by Mathematician Leonhard Euler

to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

Economics and Lasting Influences of U.S. Presidents

the second of what would become fairly regular Fireside Chats, FDR (1933) went directly to the American people via radio to outlin...

The Best War Ever by Adams

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

Global Position of America During the Last Century

would shape our interactions with others. In the earliest times of our history our independent spirit was deeply ingraine...

Women's Rights Movement and Contributions of the Antislavery Movement

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

Nineteenth Century Surveyor and Contemporary Map Inventor William Smith

rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese woman (in the area)," and therefore, she was also "an attraction that (would) bring men, Chinese and white, from miles aro...

Sneakers and Their History

tended to be rigid and lacked any color, and could be described as utilitarian but hardly fashionable (Flusser, 2003). It wasnt u...

Terra Nullius and 'New Holland' Myths

It is important for the student working on this project to understand that European imperialism was about political and national c...

Satire of Jonathan Swift

period in time, that logic, reason, and perhaps personal enlightenment regarding society as it involved reason and logic were the ...

Twentieth Century Literature and Theological Themes

young man who is certain that he offers more and that he is more everything than Orson. At the core of such behavior is an arrogan...

Colonial Projects and the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling

such things as "To veil the threat of terror/ And check the show of pride" and "The blame of those ye better/ The hate of those ye...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Treatment Delivery Systems and Addiction Treatment History

deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...

India's Caste System

In five pages this paper examines the caste system of India as it has existed for centuries. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

18th Century Virginia and Slavery

convicts to be shipped to the Colonies and the influx of Negroes into the States (1944). It did seem that while laws which allowed...

The People of 21st Century Japan

years ago. Economic integration almost precludes political confrontation" (Bovet 30). No country is immune from the crippling ef...

1834 Bermuda

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

Oregon Trail and Education

(2003). While not formal, the education was something for the children to hang onto. Obviously, the reason why formal education co...

Christianity Expansion

points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...

AIDS and the Bubonic Plague

insects is the rat flea." As the disease progressed, the victims heart beat wildly as it tried to pump blood through the swollen...

Doomed Native America

In five pages this paper examines how the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans was doomed from the beginning in a c...

Salem Political Order and Witchcraft

In eight pages this paper examines how the witchcraft that characterized Salem, Massachusetts of the seventeenth century was actua...

Concepts of Punishment, Justice, and Crime in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In five pages this paper discusses how this play is not a commentary on 17th century religious issues but deals instead with compl...

Analysis of Puritan Period Witch Hunts

gain greater understanding of the motivation behind these witch hunts, one must first consider the Puritan society of the late 160...

US Frontier Myth

In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...

American History, Sex, and the Nuclear Family

In seven pages this paper examines how the concept of the nuclear family and sexual perceptions developed in America during the ni...

America's New Industrial Age Society

many areas still held feelings of resentment towards the ex-slaves and conditions for American-Negroes were terrible. The grow...

New Jersey's History

In five pages the seventeenth through nineteenth century history of the state of New Jersey is discussed with the Lenni Lenape tri...