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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 ...

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...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

What is Hinduism?

adherents and the West. Features of Hinduism Many Hindus endorse the idea of a transcendent God that exists "beyond the universe,...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

Biography of Gail Kelly

this school and during her final year became a school prefect (The Age, 2005). Gail then went to study Latin and modern history ...

THE DRY MARKET INDICES

one indicator of the economy, the Baltic Dry Index is just as important. The Baltic Dry Index measures how much it costs to ship d...

History of Professional Football and How it was Affected by World and National EventsA History of Professional Football

This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...

Muslim History: Damascus and Cairo

and the Christian Jerusalem comprised the major powers within Syria at the time.3 In relationship to Cairo, several years ...

The Relevance of Whitney's Cotton Gin

made life easier. Prior to the invention, one person might spend an entire day picking the seeds out of a pound of cotton (Yanak &...

How Eighteenth Century London Society Was Shaped by the Role of Women in 'The Rambler,' 'Evelina' and 'Moll Flanders'

freedom: poverty-stricken women of the eighteenth century England. The product of indigence, Moll learns to manipulate the system...

Singapore History since WWII

activities from business to entertainment to sex. The Internet is also regulated (2002). While not a dictatorship, the nation has ...

Wallerstein's Theory of World Systems

most developed are powerful and this allows them to determine the type of governance that fosters their continued power (Martin, 2...

A Review of David Christian's Article, 'Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History'

This paper discusses in 5 pages the notion that silk roads represent broad terms in world history not just in terms of civilizati...

Trans Civilization and Trans Ecological Routes Article by David Christian

In two pages this Journal of World History article is discussed in terms of its emphasis that the silk road trade routes of Africa...

Biography of Bob Marley

his genre, but his music made pop charts in the United States. He was able to break through barriers that other musicians could no...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

Modern East and West Germany

refugees from the Soviet zone to where some had fled during the war ("Germany"). Also among the refugees were individuals who had ...

World Cup History

of top nations withdrew from the 1928 Olympics. This unexpected action caused FIFA to make a decision that would influence the ga...

Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

History and Achievements of the WTO

"After World War II, industrialized nations created the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the General Agreement on T...

Holocaust and Adolf Hitler

to pay tribute to those men, women and children who endured unspeakable cruelty at the hands of the Nazi regime. Visitors to the ...

Analysis of Nike Inc.

could get his shoes on the most dominate runners in the field, the pack may follow (Labich and Carvell, 1995). The company sells ...

A Review of Staffing the World

are quite remarkable. The company was founded in Detroit in 1946 by William Russell Kelly (1905 - 1998) and was known as...

World History and Ethnic Group Persecution

The main reason why the Huguenots were unpopular with the majority in France during the time period was because they were not of t...

The Struggle for World Peace: More Attainable Now Than Ever Before

This 5 page paper argues that with the end of the Cold War, world peace is now potentially more attainable than at any time in his...

GI Bill

In twelve pages this paper examines the history and programs associated with the GI Bill which was passed after the Second World W...

WWW History

1989 at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Geneva, Switzerland.(Berners-Lee, 1). It was at that time that a young ...

History of Detente from WWI to Nixon

In seven pages a detente history is presented from the First World War until the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Th...