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Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis

Davis clearly outlines the many ways in which slavery was a truly ancient institution in which the "Arabs and their Muslim allies ...

The Impact of World War I on Australian Art and Artists

to the gracious host to the worldwide event known as the 2000 Summer Olypmics. Art, Wartime and the land "Down Under"...

Historical Importance of the 1930s' Dust Bowl

the Dust Bowl was an area of land that had been so depleted of its natural resources that it dried up and turned into dust that no...

Ideas and Events of the Medieval and Renaissance Eras

Europe. He directly linked the power of government to religious reform, and brought the clergy under the jurisdiction of the crown...

'The Iliad' by Homer

the student works on this project, he or she will want to consider the ways in which the story deals with legendary events that ma...

History and 'The Iliad' by Homer

and Achilles argue over who has the "rights" to one of the "spoils of war," which in this case is a person, a girl who has already...

Educational History and Women

colleges and institutes of education. "But it would take time" (Anonymous The Education of Women, 1998; women.html). In the follow...

Historical Perspectives on New England Slavery

farmer or artisan, the master and the mistress shared it, and when it was finished, the white and the black, like the feudal chief...

A Discussion of Acid Rain

of fossil fuels from coal-powered plants and automobiles), the pH scale, which measures acidity, drops, meaning a component is mor...

Discussion of Brown v. Board of Education

initiated a process of change that cannot be abandoned. In the Short-Term Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on t...

Wine and Cooking History

use of any other food product in cooking, a reality that is in all honesty, difficult to actually timeline. We note that "From ...

An Additional Excavation in Jerusalem Proposal

Bible, despite growing perceptions to the contrary, is an accurate historical record and not just the myth that some would prefer ...

Man's Fate by Andre Malraux

understand the primary instigator was the significantly diverse meaning for "peaceful coexistence" (Shinn, PG) between the main pl...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

In Support of Capital Punishment

penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...

Significance of Tavern in Parts I and II of Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare

plays we start with "Henry IV" part I. The first mention of "tavern" is in scene II where Falstaff is joking, presumably, with Hen...

History and Current Situation of Domestic Violence

What is Domestic Violence? Domestic violence, or battering as it is sometimes called, is "a pattern of behavior used to establish ...

African American Religion and How It Originated

west coast of Africa, but even within this area religious traditions varied greatly" (African-American Religion in the Nineteenth ...

History of the Komodo Dragon

also know that they "have a relationship with dinosaurs, but they are not descended from them, as is sometimes believed. Rather Ko...

Discussing Funding Options for Crown Corporation

plant will increase Crowns capacity by about 85 million pounds were year and increase revenues by $3 to $4 million per year. * Ear...

U.S. Federalism and the Rights of States

Federalism is also a method of protecting the people from the excesses of government and provides a check and balance against the ...

Disintegrating Cultural Identity fo Aymara Peoples?

of society. In short, to outwardly encourage assimilation would be nothing short of advocating the quest for control. The ways i...

Analyzing the Catholic Baptism Sacrament

Incarnation of Christ, the material universe is sacred".3 Essentially, it is through the sacraments that the world of God and the...

Failure of Afghanistan's Humanitarian Aid

exists in Afghanistan today. The recent events which have flung the United States into an all-out war with Afghanistan have...

Discussion of Price Theory

behind supply and demand to collude in anti-trust situations. By using the price theory to explain economics, theorists are basica...

U.S. and Turkey Dating and Selection of Mates

is the mother who stays at home and cares for the children and the father who works outside the home in order to provide financial...

Islam and the Hijrah

and goddesses. The commerce and economy largely depended on the tourist dollars. When Muhammad (pbuh) began preaching that there w...

Consequences of 1905's Russian Revolution

the power of the peasants and their growing discontent. As time passed and conditions worsened, the people continued to get les...

Vindication in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

damned by critics as a "cowardly, furtive attack on divine truths and simple faith" (Craddock 60). Gibbons ostensible purpose in ...

Electronic Music History

Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...