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Essays 1921 - 1950

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...

Historical Roman Crucifixion Evidence

From this examination we can perhaps understand that Roman crucifixion was not something that was limited to only criminals. Peopl...

Significance of Slave Narratives

control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...

TV's Historical Evolution

the Royal Institution in London, England. Images appeared on his television set which were complete with tonal gradations of light...

Brief History of the Coca Cola Company

fountain retailers. In addition, Coca-Cola has substantial ownership interests in numerous bottling and canning operations. They...

Pentateuch as Interpreted by T.E. Fretheim

can be seen as counter-productive: it is necessary to look both at the validity which the compilers accorded to their sources and ...

Anita Diament's The Red Tent

speak of history and these are powerful conditions spelled out in the fictional work of Diamant. Through her book we see parts of ...

Global Affairs and the Historical Role of the United States

influence. There are other aspects of power as well, however. Some contend that the U.S. may be declining in military power and ...

The Hebrew Bible by Jon Levenson

biblical theology," is central to Levensons position on Old Testament theology. This essay drew immediate attention. Barr (1996) r...

Historical Overview of the US Progressive Movement

Movement played an extremely important role in American society during the first twenty years of the twentieth century. There wer...

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

History, Recreation, and Public Administration

major thrust of this movement was to formulate a less corrupt and more responsive government -- one that could cope with the press...

Historical Accuracy of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

out of his clan like a fish onto a dry sandy beach, panting" (Achebe 92). In other words, the women would reiterate what the prove...

Review of Flora Nwapa's Efuru

Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...

Discussion of the Patriot Act

tapped to run it (America at war, 2004). At this point, Bush makes his "if youre not with us, youre against us" speech ("America a...

Summary of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus

The author totally immerses herself in the tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her s...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

The Adoption of IFRS in Australia

many in the accounting profession in Australia that there was a need for renewal of standards, which had become outdated. There wa...

Kentucky Fried Chicken

his customers "fresher chicken, faster" (KFC, History, 2008). A year later, in 1940, Sanders created his now-famous original recip...

Behaviorist Psychology v. Humanistic Psychology

a danger that is no longer present. The student researching this topic should understand that there are several disciplines that...

The 1982 film Gandhi and its Historical Accuracy

Indian commune where everyone shares the work, no matter how demeaning. Gandhis years in South Africa are spent in a series of tac...

Emancipation Quest for the Women of Taiwan

as a factor in the equation that supported the ideal that women are inferior. Based on a conviction of inferiority, male authorit...

Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Film Spartacus

most of the country. Thought the Roman legions are shown to be quite disorganized and are at the end of their empires zenith, they...

G.B. Nash, C. Crabtree, and R.E. Dunn's History on Trial Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past

and the Teaching of the Past" (1997) is written by three educators who were involved in the development and controversy over the N...

Sixteenth Chapter of James L. McClain's A Modern History Japan

involvement for, while the scheduled Olympics were to be held in Japan in 1940 but were canceled due to the evolution of the war, ...

Gender Bias in Education: Girls’ Diminished Participation in Classroom Discussions

We begin with a brief literature review, then follow that with a discussion of the consensus, if there is one, of what the literat...

Concept of Race

what they felt made them distinct was not their colour" (McCaskell HistoryRacism.htm). What made the different people noticeably...

Australia's Republican Movement and its History

while Australians do argue morality in a general sense, there are no extremes in terms of "private indulgence and public penance" ...

Can Globalization Be Reversed?

globalization but most agree that the word describes a world where market forces are the driving forces. Trade and investment are ...

Exegesis of the Seventh Chapter of Luke, Lines 11 to 17

behind him. As Jesus approached the town gate (Luke 7:12), a funeral procession for an only son was coming out of the gate. The...