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A New York City Subway System Social History

of the tunnel in order to arrive at an exit point. Through its history, people have been pushed off platforms which had bystander...

Jazz Music and its History

comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...

President George W. Bush and Reforming Social Security

existed before 1935, these were extremely minimal. Social Services, as it is known in the United States, began during a bad econom...

History of Vipassana Meditation

apply to all of them. First, in the Buddhist tradition, there is no charge for any part of the program. Hosts not only do not ch...

UK and US Historical Curricula

in this paper when we discussed that students learning the cause of a mistake would hopefully not repeat it. Maxwell defin...

Comparison of 1790 and 1860 Economies

dispute. By 1860, slavery was in full force but shortly after that, the slaves would be freed. Both the 1790 and 1860 periods were...

Contemporary Actions and the Predeterminant of History

massive financial expansion as well as a corresponding population growth. The Renaissance can be termed neither solely positive o...

A Review of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Captain and time as an instructor and dean of faculty at West Point Military Academy. "Founding Brothers" is just one of seven hi...

Cultural Icons of Russia

In three pages this paper examines Russia's rich cultural history in a consideration of its dancers, artists, composers, and write...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Europe's Disenchantment Period

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

Overview of PHP Language

PHP initially was developed in 1994 by Greenland programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, who named it Personal Home Page tools. It was rewritt...

Overview of Male Hegemony

she stayed home and managed the house, watched the children and did other work "suitable" for women. Thus, the masculine hegemony...

Foreign Exchange Rate and Monetary Proposal

other hand, the Bank of Japan sells its own currency on the foreign exchange market for the purpose of keeping the value of the ye...

Nineteenth Century Italian Unification

power would arise to overshadow the papacy (Age of the Sage, 2005). After explaining the background of a fractured Italy, t...

History and Culture of Assyrian Americans

another reason why ?migr?s are so intent on passing it along (Horan, 2003). The Assyrians were apparently never numerous, and the...

U.S Foreign Policy and Argentina

was an East and West Germany. There was much strife in Ireland as well. Hence, as these things took a back burner, the U.S. milita...

History of Opera in China and its Social Implications

Huaguxi Opera, also known as "Flower Drum" opera was first seen in Chinas Hunan province, with the first mention of it in 1695 (Ch...

Islamic World, the West, and the Relevance of Medieval History

is based solely upon the influence of culture. Louis Rene Beres 2001 article entitled Terrorism and the Global Clash of Civilizat...

All About the Alexander Technique

(Goldberg, 2004). Alexanders clients found that his Technique not only helped them with breathing problems, but also a number of...

Societal Dependence and Cell Phone Technology

Its safe to say that cell phones are an ubiquitous part of society. While just a decade ago, that opera-goer probably would have b...

Culture of Costa Rica

and final voyage to the New World. Archeologists have determined that native civilizations existed in Costa Rica for thousands of ...

Black Barbers in the United States

This is extremely condescending, not to say insulting, but black barbers were quick to see that it could work to their advantage. ...

History of the National School Lunch Program

thus, diabetes, in children (Gleason and Suitor, 2003). The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act was passed in 2004 (Physi...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

History of Yoga and its Trends

thrust behind this discipline is that it involves slow stretches, that are timed, along with deep breathing. Those who are yoga ad...

Brown Forman Marketing Directions

of apprenticeship when he joined the company in 1904. Prohibition and temperance forces were growing by 1910, when George Garvin ...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

Growth of America from the U.S. Contribution to the 1812 War

people as it respects the rights of individual states and the federal government. To that end, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferso...