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Pros and Cons Regarding the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

the threat of an atomic bomb attack as idle, that was no justification for the United States to engulf an entire society in what c...

Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder and the Richmond Slave Revolt of 1800

In eleven pages the differences between Bontemps' novel and other historical accounts of this slave revolt are examined. Six sour...

Bagel History and Production

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the bagel in terms of its historical background and production. Twenty sources are cited in...

Election 2000 from a Historical Perspective

In two pages previous elections of 1824 and 1876 in order to put the problematic 2000 election into historical perspective. Two s...

Dead Sea Scrolls and 'Hellenistic Roman Palestine'

In nine pages this paper discusses how many historical questions could be answered through the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish his...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Database Management and Use

the past has been a repository of past events, a record of organizational history in several areas. "But these days we expect mor...

Defining "Crusade" And "Jihad"

The concept of Jihad has long been at the forefront of controversy in its indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. O...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

Historical Significance of Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano

its measure, of showing the enormous cruelties practiced on my sable brethren, and strengthening the generous emulation now prevai...

Historical Validity of Tariq Ali's Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

or Reconquista. The Reconquista culminated in the taking and sacking of Granada. This would lead into the Spanish Inquisition. W...

Historical Importance of William Shakespeare's Works

book (Rubinstein 28). He apparently married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and their surviving children, both girls, were illiterate (Rub...

US History and the West's Role

"Americans" from European backgrounds would have been unable to imagine that one nation could be as vast as the United States even...

Brief Nursing History

Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...

US Women's Suffrage and its History

and became the first woman in America to preside over a meeting of both men and women. Afterward, the New York State Legislature p...

History and Trends of Canadian Immigration of Italians

Background to Italian Immigration Historically, Italians had been coming to Canada for literally hundreds of years as John Cabot ...

Survival of Native Americans v. Europeans in the Colonial Americas

and those who consider the Native American as having an innate land ethic which allowed them to not only harvest enough from the l...

A Discussion of Caretakers of Our Common House by Carol Lakey Hess

values within mixed religious communities and they grow from this socialization, women too need an environment where they can asse...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

Three Discussion Questions from Week Two

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

KKK's History

blacks" (Trelease 625). Another author indicates similar perspectives stating, "White superiority was the philosophy of the Klan, ...

National Air Space System Improvements

In five pages system improvements for National Air Space are discussed in a historical overview and consideration of WAAS and LAAS...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

Overview of Direct Manipulation Interfaces

the user (Smith, 1997). As a term "direct manipulation" (DM) refers to a style of human-computer interactive design that features...

An Analysis of Adam and Eve

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

Greek Funerary Vase/Krater ca. 750-735 BC

base and down the pedestal. There are two main strips of illustrations divided by a geometric band. To either side of the vase are...

Muslim and Christian Conflict

"the Quran states: The closest in affection to [Muslims] are those who say: We are Christians, for among them are priests and monk...

Divorce in America

hold families together as some claim. Some experts believe that Protestant sects do little to hold families together, unlike Catho...

Past and Present Motion Picture Special Effects Technology

actual event with which the audience is familiar with an example being the Pearl Harbor catastrophe of December 1941 that was repr...

Racial Issues

(Measuring racial discrimination, 2004). Native Americans "are incarcerated in federal prisons at higher rates than any other mino...