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Containment in US History

United States, or it was believed to be a threat, and there was a great deal of effort aimed at keeping the United States society ...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

Runaway Mothers: Reasons For Leaving

sent them scrambling to revise the law to include only infants. This was also a lesson for other states offering or considering t...

The History of Algebra

was a book entitled al-Kitab al-muhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala which translates as Compendium on calculation by completio...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Human Sexuality: Female Orgasm

to 180 beats per minute (Keesling, 1999). The mind and body work synergistically to bring a woman to orgasm, utilizing thoughts, ...

The History of the New York Fire Department

Part I). They were put into place to further regulate any homes which would be newly erected in and around the city (Young Chapter...

Estimating the Dynamics of Mutual Fund Alphas and Betas

The concept of beta is well known, even though beta as a measure often is referred to as a measure of risk, which it is not....

Fight Club/Injured Male Egos & Dystopia

film is much more complicated than the "how." On the day that Tyler emerges from Jacks subconscious, the airline loses Jacks lugga...

The Importance of History to Professional Military Personnel

Once they had gotten to the enemy lines they would use their bayonets and that, plus their superior numbers, would often turn the ...

“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

Chateau de Versailles: History

his architects one can see what was perhaps the simple brick exterior that appears even more rustic as it is set off by ornamentat...

Turning Points in Japan’s Modern History

taking place in a world that was growing more modern. The authors illustrate that, as is perhaps often in the case of long wars a...

"X-Men" - Relationship To the Study Of History

and racism" (Baron, 2003, p. 44). Two points in particular that bring a connection between X-Men and the study of history is how...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

The Significance of Studying Military History

addition to perhaps studying liberal arts. Studies vary from nation to nation, but it seems as if training in the military does o...

The History of Government in Italy

of the House of Savoy became King of Italy in 1861 and Rome was incorporated in 1870 (U.S. Department of State, 2006)....

Article Analysis: Stearns: Why Study History?

from the past must serve as our most vital evidence in the unavoidable quest to figure out why our complex species behaves as it d...

Eight Factors Of Irony And Complexity: Influence Upon Cycles In Mexican History

establishing Mexicans as "people of corn." There are a number of issues associated with corn and its historical influence over th...

History Of The Miranda Law

anyone who is considered to be a criminal suspect must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to any legal inquiry. One...

History of American Education, 1950-1980

that is largely what the period was about. The episode first discusses Brown v. Board of Education and then moves on to talk about...

“A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity”

use of mathematics generalizations could be made from certain observations which could be applied to other observations, that patt...

The History Of The Spanish Language

for practical matters, in order to trade and communicate. This take u was a slow progression and started the influences of modern ...

Stuik’s “A Concise History of Mathematics”

and the development of the numbers such as three being the adding of the words for one and two being put together. When talking ...

Ethiopia: History, Politics and Challenges

built monasteries and churches, and "the great churches carved into the rock in and around their capital at Adefa" (A general hist...

History of Christianity

particularly "the division of the Roman Empire into western and eastern components" (History of Christianity). The Roman Catholic ...

History of Herodian Dynasty

in the case of John the Baptist, he should feel that Jesus followers were becoming a political threat to his rule. Herod Agrippa...

History of Islam: Sudan and the Dinka People

"Throughout many historical periods, Sudan had served as a bridge linking Asia, Africa and a number of Mediterranean countries. Th...

History of the La Purisima Mission

each located a "stiff days march" (about 30 miles apart) from one another (The Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery). The region, ...

Earth: History And Comparison With Other Planets

as the most significant astronomical impression made in the Greek period. Building upon the "wealth of knowledge" (Anonymous, 200...