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Essays 1771 - 1800

Tokugawa's Fall

the shogunate around 1568. By 1573, the shogunate was nearly abolished. Nobunaga was assassinated in 1582 at which time, his prot?...

Guqin Music and the Chinese Zither Instrument

a large number of other ethnic groups with distinct cultures. The westward expansion of the Chinese empire during the Tang dynast...

History and Practice of Zen Meditation

beginning of all things--the Buddha. And for those in a hurry --there developed the satori-- or sudden enlightenment. It was often...

China and Rights of Women

In five pages this paper examines this historical problem as addressed by the Bejing UN conference on women's rights in 1995 with ...

New York's Inner City Architectural History

In ten pages this paper refers to Luc Sante's Low Life in a historical consideration of New York City's urban architecture in term...

Artistic Critique and Historical Perspectives of the Mona Lisa Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci

In four pages this research paper presents an artistic critique and some historical perspectives upon this famous Da Vinci paintin...

Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

In six pages this paper discusses Michigan's Mackinac Bridge in an historical overview that includes its record for safety and as ...

Unresolved Issue of Gun Control

In seven pages a historical perspective is taken regarding the unresolved gun control issue in an examination of governmental legi...

It is Time to Break Up America's Love Affair with Guns

In a paper consisting of twenty pages the right of America to own arms is examined from an historical perspective and the argument...

Impeachment of President Bill Clinton

In twelve pages this paper examines the process of U.S. presidential impeachment in a historical context, a consideration of Secti...

History of the Chickasaw Indians

In fifteen pages this paper examines the Chickasaw Indians in an historical overview that includes religion, culture, and U.S. gov...

Roberts v. Louisiana and Mandatory Capital Punishment

In nine pages this paper examines mandatory capital punishment in a historical chronicle that includes Roberts v. Louisiana, the l...

The Controversy Surrounding the Move Towards Making English the Official Language of the United States

This ten page paper analyzes the English Only move that is gaining strength in the U.S. This paper presents a converse view of th...

Frank Ford, Experimental Typographer

used much like the Japanese alphabet. Although the symbols do not do away with the traditional alphabet entirely, identifying the...

Credit Cards and Their History

The earliest development of bank-issued credit cards, the forerunners of what are now Visa and MasterCard, was instituted by the F...

Overview of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

In eight pages this paper presents an historical overview of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in terms of its origin, economic imp...

Autobiographies of African Olaudah Equiano and American Benjamin Franklin

the letter pulls the reader into the familiar structure of the book, and creates the continued expectation of familiar concepts, n...

'Third World' Sierra Leone, Africa

In eight pages this research paper examines the historical, economic, and ethnic background of Sierra Leone and what it reveals ab...

Florida Panther and its History

In fourteen pages this paper examines the Florida panther in an historical overview that includes habitat preservation alternative...

75 Year Old New York Woman Interviewed

In ten pages this paper presents an interview with a New York woman that spans her life from the early 1920s to 1979 and includes ...

Historical Perspective on the Middle East and Western influences

the two-headed structure of the palace and residence of the consul-general; dualism of urban spaces with the contrast between loca...

How Growth is Promoted by Increasing Minimum Wage

This argumentative paper consisting of eight pages discusses how raising the minimum wage makes sound economic sense by refuting c...

Changing Role of Official Development Assistance

In sixteen pages this paper considers Official Development Assistance in a historical context that discusses its global economic a...

British Competition Bill and the EU

In seven pages this paper discusses the British Competition Bill and the impacts of the European Union in this historical overview...

Oliver Twist and Historical Context

the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...

Klinkenborg’s “Sand Creek”

mentions herself once, which is when she says that she stood on the sand bluff that overlook the site of the Sand Creek massacre. ...

Speaking Out: The Bonus Seekers, Textile Worker Strikes and Resistance to the Native American Reorganization Act

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Writings

freedom without any practical restraints, has been given all the space it wants (1978). This sort of freedom, which in a sense is ...

Personal Perception of Judaism

small child, I knew I was Jewish, so I really do not remember when this identity was established or how. I did not think about it ...