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Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...

Primary, Secondary Sources, Lewis and Clark Expedition

This essay pertains to the use of primary and secondary sources in studying historical events. The expedition of Lewis and Clark i...

Overview of Texas Politics

This paper describes contemporary issues in Texas' politics, such as the charges against Gov. Rick Perry, as well as the historica...

Fictional Gubernatorial Campaign

This essay discusses various campaign issues for a fictional character who is running for the governorship of Texas. The paper bui...

Overcoming Slavery in the 1870s

This paper reviews key historical writings like Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln's campaign speeches and the 1848 Declaratio...

King Philip's War and School Bullying

This paper compares historical revision through theater and other factors to the way the various stories differ in regard to incid...

Alexander Hamilton On the Economy, A Summary

This essay offers a summary of "Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791" by Alexander Hamilton. The essay also relates this d...

How to Classify Culture

This paper challenges the historical concept of culture and discusses how the cultural representation in the US has changed dramat...

Comparative Analysis of Characters Mark Antony and Caius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

History of Women in Aviation

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

Increasing HR's Strategic Influence

benefits programs and tracked information such as vacation and sick time available to each employee. When that was HRs only funct...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

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 ...

Accounting Questions

of its economic life. The historical cost convention can result in some difficulties, as some assets will be written off, but may ...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

In the late 15th century, accounting became a specific science, thanks to the words of Luca Pacioli. Pacioli, a mathematician and ...

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...

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...

Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

Action Research

evaluation of the result of action" (Masters, 2006). Lewin argued for action research on the theory that the only way to understan...

Recording Industry and the Long Playing Vinyl Disc

Louis Daguerre used chemistry to permanently fix a photographic image and William Fox Talbot replicated positive prints from negat...

Popular Culture and Sound Synthesizers

In six pages this paper discusses the historical impact of electronic music on popular culture. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Human Resources Information Systems

same responsibilities it did before the entire face of business changed over the past generation. Rather than being only a cleari...

The Just War Theory

the United States and many representatives of Asia and South America. With this initial agreement international law was put into ...

Jesus Of History, Jesus Of Faith

means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain t...

Public, Policy, and Affirmative Action

This paper contains ten pages and considers the failure of the Affirmative Action program to effectively serve the public and incl...

Is The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos Nonfiction or Historical Fiction?

In five pages this paper argues that despite some fictitious elements this work by John Demos represents a text of historical fict...