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Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

Reducing Dividends versus Share Issue Capital Raising

to pay dividends and raise funds elsewhere, either by borrowing or by issuing more shares. This would save the cost of the issue,...

1868 to 1938 Civil Rights in America

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...

A Civil War History of Devil's Den Action

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

Africa's Native Foods

to be so necessary for proper development of the physical body and freedom from disease. The Neurs especially valued the livers of...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

China's Rule of the Seas Report

account of daily life for the people in Ming China. One can actually visualize their lives and understand some of the ordinary tr...

Ethnic Groups in the United States

views. Generally, the idea of ethnic or racial tolerance takes two approaches; in the one, acceptance consists of ignoranc...

19th and 20th Century Development of Russia

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Timelessness of William Shakespeare's Play Hamlet

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...

Sociological Views on Sexual Harassment

resent the fact that they cannot date people they meet at work easily. In fact, some companies have rules against dating, and to m...

1900 to 1921 Foreign Policy of the US

came to be the inciter of "a series of huge blows" (1995, PG) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism as it existed in...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

A Civil War Personal Account

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

War of 1812 and Great Lakes' Fleets

27 officers in the Marine Corps (Parker, 1970, p. 10). Furthermore, the U.S. Navy, such as it was, only had three first-class war...

European Transitions from Ancient Times Through the 18th Century

also comes with other ideals and towards the end of the eighteenth century, things changed immensely. Trade had already opened new...

Monroe Doctrine to Cold War American Foreign Policy

nations. The 1824 U.S. isolation from the rest of the world would be formalized with the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy ...

'The Plague' of Albert Camus

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

Haagen Dazs Marketing

order to try to ascertain the way that the campaign was formulated. Campaigns need to change between the image they portra...

Two Views of the Story of Beowulf

"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...

Medical Views on Ovarian Cancer

any woman can get ovarian cancer. It just so happens that some women are more at risk. Signs and Symptoms The problem with ova...

Viewing US History Differently

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...

Medical Profession from 1780 to 1900 and Sexuality

She stated that sex was "only warranted as an expression of true and passionate love" (DEmilio and Freedman, 1988, p.56). DEmilio ...

Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...