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Populism

formed a political party, the "Peoples Party or Populists" (Agricultural discontent, 2007). While the Populists goals were basical...

Appalachia: Culture and Social Problems

The mountain peoples who populate the mountainous regions of the southern Apalachias are, by majority, the descendants of English ...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Microsoft Zune

may want to preserve, but there seems to be little complaint about that among current customers. The Zune made a reasonable...

Immigration, Pros and Cons

human rights, democracy and peace is the standard," then European immigration to North America can be regarded as a blessing; how...

Ship Registry and Certification

Kyokai (ClassNK), 1899 * River Register of 1913: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) * Croatian Register of Shipping (CRS),...

The Relevance of the History of Philosophy

they at least try not to have affairs. They give to charity, pay attention to raising their young, and also model a good example f...

GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD AND ITS IMPACT

The roots of the GASB were actually launched in 1906 as the National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers (Foltin, ...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

The Quality of Perugina Baci Chocolates

years, but this was a good thing for Perugina ("The history of Perugina," 1999). In 1929, Giovanni Buitoni was introduced to Musso...

American Express Diversity Plan

jobs in his career, he was the director of federal contract compliance during the Carter Administration (Knowledge@Wharton, 2006)....

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Questions on American History and Politics

elected to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Black faces dominated the state legislatures...

History of Wedding Dresses

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

The Facts Surrounding Gun Control

reiterates this fact time and time again. Gun control attempts through legislation have been a miserable failure in their e...

TAX PLANNING AND U.S. CITIZENS

that one would think would be enough to keep things moving. But neither the federal government nor income taxes are quite...

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...

AN ANALYSIS OF "SIMPLE JUSTICE"

It pointed out the fact that blacks were not only getting a separate education, but a very unequal one. Nor was the inequality jus...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

The Great Depression and the 2009 Economic Recession

overnight. As Smiley observes, in the years preceding the Great Depression, "the United States had achieved a higher degree of co...

American Nationalism

Germany, historically, Turkish families who have lived in Germany for generations are not regarded as German (Ignatieff, 1995). ...

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 &...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

The History of Microsoft

Harvard, and Allen enrolled at University of Washington, only to drop out and work at Honeywell (Lesinski, 2006). It was 19...

Observations in History, Nationalism, and Military Strategy and Technology

measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not only was sci...

NIKE INC. AN OVERVIEW AND STRATEGIC FUTURE

Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman met in the late 1950s at the University of Oregon (Nike Inc., 2009). Bowerman, who liked...

The Great Depression

nonmember banks so that the deposits would be secured by the government (Auerbach and Kotlikoff 406). This means that the governme...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

AL-QAEDA AND CONNECTION TO TERRORISM

terrorism, defined as "The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, t...

Starbucks; Past, Present and Possible Future

teacher, Zev Siegel a history teacher and Gordon Bowker a writer. The name Starbucks originated with the novel Moby Dick by Herman...