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Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

Western Roman Emperors and Power Disintegration

When discussing the fall of the Roman empire, what is actually being discussed is the fall of the "western" empire (including Ital...

Revolution Concept of Jacques Ellul

In five pages this paper examines Jacques Ellul's concept of revolution within the context of European history from the sixteenth ...

Gay History

In five pages this paper considers the history of homosexuality in ancient Greece, Japan of the seventeenth century, England of th...

Peace, Power, Leadership, Vladimir Lenin and Mohandas K. Gandhi

In five pages this paper discusses the obvious differences but also notes surprising similarities between these 20th century leade...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Historical Significance of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad II

In five pages the twentieth century relevance of Heart of Darkness is considered in this historical perspective of Joseph Conrad's...

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

Yugoslavian Cultural, Political, and Social Conflict

incorporated Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - three different ethnic groups, but a country in which the Serbians formed the dominant c...

IRA Actions in Great Britain and Terrorism

are made define an abstract concept, there will always be some groups who are able to find exceptions to the definition because of...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Commedia del'Arte and Cycle Plays

Noah, for example, might exhort the men on the audience to establish control over their wives whilst Noahs wife would...

20th Century Educational Inequality

excel in society. Our schools are not meeting these goals. Part of the reason is an almost myopic concentration on equality in f...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Was Couture Clothing As Popular In The 19th Century As It Is Today?

also known as haute couture - plays an historical role in the manner by which fashion has come to reflect an individuals social, p...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Kaplan, Imperial Grunts

to see Bissells point as Kaplan defines imperialism as "a form of isolationism, in which the demand for absolute, undefiled securi...

Article Analysis: The Movement West

move on to the next topic. However, some serious reflection reveals problems with this approach, and part of the reason for the i...

Imperialism in the Movies

the River (1935), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), King Solomons Mines (1937), Gunga Din (1939), Beau Geste (1939), and The Fo...

ENGLISH AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

through 20th centuries, English has spread ubiquitously throughout the world (Held, 2004). As a result of this, he concludes, the ...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...