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Coe and Cuba's Pearl

Andrew Coe's Cuba, the Pearl of the Caribbean speaks of the beauty and history of the island. This paper examines the book, with e...

Babylonian God Marduk

In six pages this god is traced throughout history with similarities between the Biblical and Babylonian creation stories and the ...

Linda Gordon's Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Pitied But Not Entitled

professionals were at best ambivalent on the question of whether women, married or unmarried, should be full-time mothers or peopl...

The Censorship of Catcher in the Rye

A book with a long history of censorship is JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. This novel is discussed in depth along with the atte...

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow and McCarthyism

In five pages the climate of 1950s McCarthyism is considered within the context of Doctorow's book and discusses the subjectivism ...

Analysis of the Essenes

In five pages this research paper discusses the Essenes in an analysis that includes the Qumran vision of history, the Dead Sea Sc...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Review of The Arts of China by Michael Sullivan

In four pages this book that chronicles the development and history of Chinese art from the ancient period to the 20th century is ...

Analytical Reflections of A Preface to History Teaching Text by Carl Gustavson

In twelve pages Gustavson's book on the 'misteaching' of history is analyzed. There are no additional sources listed....

Mass Media Aspects

According to what I know, perhaps the most original video programming concepts were in the area of self-improvement: rumba lessons...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Book Report on Milton William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse

(2003) charges that its contents consist of what amounts to "stigmatized knowledge," in which supposed truths are verified to be f...

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...

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...

Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique

This paper provides a reading of Betty Freidan's book, The Feminine Mystique. The author points out how the role of the woman has...

Mahler and the Burning Bronx

hes a scrappy second baseman just traded to the Yankees from the Oakland Oaks. He asks the managers incessant questions and yells ...

Puerto Rico as Fernando Pico Knows It

2009). This book is an expanded version of Picos earlier Historia general and is distinguished by Picos use of primary sources and...

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

The History of Canadian ECE

the ideas to learning, and finally B.F. Skinner who really made an impact. Skinner argued that development is affected by external...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

The Erie Canal

its aftermath had its share of problems. One difficulty was the flooding that would sometimes occur (Bernstein, 2005). This was mo...

A Short History of Progress - Or Lack Thereof

past, we can use it to predict what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly whol...

Perspective on History

out, "different perspectives of what happened create different histories" (Wilson 1). The example of the voyages of Christopher C...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

King Philip II of Spain

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...