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European Clashes and the Xhosa Culture

fifteenth century (Mostert, 1982). But some came from Natal later, and other groups arrived in the Eastern Cape as a result of the...

The 'Lost Glories' of African Civilizations

There is little evidence today that these civilizations even existed and many people still find it hard to believe the evidence th...

Tax Cuts, Budget Deficits, and The National Debt

and cannot accomplish, and the length of time necessary for those changes to take effect. Moving too fast with monetary policy ch...

The Thesis of Henri Pirenne

In five pages Pirenne's thesis that the European economic decline of the Middle Ages began with the seventh century rise of Islam ...

Football Hooliganism, Society, and Culture

In the 1980s, as Smith (2002) points out, the main focus of sociological research into...

Late 19th Century European Imperialism

see how there were many commonalities. Many of the gains made by Britain were focused on the African continent. The desire...

France, Great Britain, and Postwar Europe's Left Wing Political Parties

good peacetime leader, and the connotations between his leadership and the recently ended war may have helped the downfall of the ...

International Expansion Types Advantages and Disadvantages

be staffed? Are executives willing to relocate to a foreign country? Many questions must be asked when embarking on such a major p...

Existence of Natural Rights

In five pages the existence of natural rights is considered within the context of John Locke's concepts and as they are manifested...

Second World War, Nazism, and Fascism

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

Indian and European Interaction Patterns

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

Europe, U.S. the Environment, and Diesel Fuel

In seven pages this report examines the environmental impact of diesel fuel and compares European and American uses. Nine sources...

Africa Colonization Benefits and Costs

foreign feet upon Africas ground was never the same once colonization occurred. For nearly as long as man has existed, racism has...

Early America, England and Rights of the Individual

right to political participation and freedom of religion, became the motivating forces behind the English Revolution of 1640, whic...

Cherokee Indians' Mortuary Practices

which the Cherokee deal with the dead has, of course, changed considerably over time as well. While today Cherokee mortuary pract...

Colonization and its Impact on the Caribbean and Latin America

Spanish would greatly control most of Latin America along with the Portuguese. Huge tracts of land were granted to the wealthy in ...

European Automotive Market and Issues of Pricing

better than most European nations at the time but took a turn for the worse as the recession of that time spread throughout the wo...

History of the European Unification

and on since the Roman Empire. The reasons for unification seemed to have stemmed mainly from the contention that at least three ...

Renaissance to 1500 AD Classical Culture Influence and Spread

the individual" (Burns 395). Soon after the inception of the Renaissance, its progress was greatly accelerated by the influence ...

1994 Rwanda Genocide

to play with theories of collective madness, mob mania, a fever of hatred erupted into a mass crime of passion, and to imagine the...

Pharmaceutical Industry and European Think Tanks

care issues will explore the relationship between European think tanks and the multinational pharmaceutical companies, specificall...

Aboriginal People and European Diseases

author notes that "On the night that the Aztecs drove Cortez out of Mexico City, in their retreat the Spaniards left behind an inv...

Historical Significance of Inventing Eastern Europe The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment by Larry Wolff

on, when Russia was but a small eastern European principality, the desire for cultural advancement was not of paramount importance...

European Cathedral Architecture and Geometry

history, is that of the arch. "An arch, in construction, is a rigid span curving upward between two points of support. It appears ...

Comparison Between the Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank

1998 approval of the single currency, the ECB was officially established (European Central Bank (a) 2002). These days, the...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

Life and Work of Isabelle Eberhardt

children, including their education. She "fell in love with the handsome preceptor and together they eloped along with her three c...

American Patriotism and Europeans

devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars. Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be neg...

Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas More's Utopia, and European Identity

with the following excerpt: "Under the equator, and as far on both sides of it as the sun moves, there lay vast deserts that were ...

Global Cultures' Interconnectedness

which can be seen as signifying something - in other words, to everything which has meaning within a culture," states David Chandl...