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Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

The Lowell Offering Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845 by Benita Eisler

In nine pages this report considers the lives of women who worked in fabric mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the mid nineteen...

Comedies of the English Restoration

entertainment. This particular period of English history (1642-1660) had been called the Interregnum." Morality was closely moni...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

Making America by Carol Berkin

The writer analyzes Carol Berkin's book Making America: Changes at the Turn of the Century, and relates such events, eras and peop...

Church and State Separation According to Pope Gelasius I

In five pages the authority duality as first conceptualized by Gelasius back in the fifth century is examined. Four sources are c...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Humanity

In three pages this paper examines the lack of humanity benefit from social changes as considered in the novel by Aldous Huxley. ...

Returning to the Neolithic Period's Agricultural Revolution

In five pages this report discusses the agricultural revolution of the Stone Age and how humanity evolved from primitive gathering...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Women and the Advent of Unions

of problems, but highlighted were the working conditions which had since been changed through unionism and the passage of labor la...

Social Science: Holy

sons of ministers or had themselves been ministers or studied in divinity schools" (Coser 283). This clearly lays a foundation for...

Role of Paul in Early Church/Early Russian History

is primarily tied to their being a Slavic people. The author indicates that the Slavs settled "beside the Danube, where the Hungar...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

The Evil in Humanity: Jackson’s The Lottery

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

The Carters and Their Work With Habitat for Humanity

" Another thing is that some of the projects that we undertake now, either in the Carter Center or through the Habitat for Humanit...

Price of Change/Global Warming

automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...

Social Change: How It Shapes And Impacts Society And The Human Family

did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the aspects of freed...

Scorsese's "Who's That Knocking At My Door" And "Mean Streets" - Brief Analysis

business transactions occur within the city limits, not to mention the fact that some of the wealthiest people choose to hang thei...

Humanity in "Frankenstein"

if not love, to have some sort of regard for him. But Frankenstein, who is not as admirable in the book as he is usually made to a...

Locke And Rousseau: Differences And Similarities Of Origin And Political Significance Of Private Property

He questioned the assumption that the will of the majority is always the correct one, and he argued that the goal of government sh...

Power Justification

The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and the Theme of Love

with the arrival of Stellas sister, Blanche, a delusional middle-aged woman that despite pious airs is the female equivalent of St...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...

Ideal of the Courtly Love Concept

the romantic saga of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, as depicted in Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or, the Kni...

Chapter XI of Bearing the Cross by Garrow

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

Comparative Analysis of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Misanthrope

word be spoken that comes not from the heart" (Moliere I.i). As this opening argument to the play suggests, Molieres view of fun...

Weapon Technology Advances and American Popular Culture 1920 through 1960

to make advances toward the enemy, and the advent of the machine gun in WW I replaced warfare which was fought as cavalry. The o...