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Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and the Power Struggle Between Stanley and Blanche

Mississippi and later St. Louis Williams was teased about his deep southern accent and changed his name to Tennessee. Because of f...

Sociology Contributions of Emile Durkheim

that views societies as moving, bit by bit, from "mechanically" governed societies, which are ruled by custom and religion, toward...

B.F. Skinner's Contributions

Law of Effect. In the Law of Effect positive effects serve to strengthen the stimulus/response connection while negative effects ...

The Bauhaus and Joost Schmidt's Contributions

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...

Economic Contributions of Smith, Ricardo, and Keynes

university in 1751 as a professor of logic. The lectures he gave covered subjects such as ethics and jurisprudence as well as the ...

German History and the Contributions of Helmut Kohl

was Chancellor between 1949 and 1963 and has been viewed as strong-willed, and as someone who created a Germany that was in line ...

American Historical Contributions of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin

revolutionary Americans divided up into planter democrats and capitalist elitists. According to another school, the basic division...

Morris County, New Jersey's Civil War Contributions

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

Sylvia Plath's Literary Contributions

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...

Ferdinand de Saussure and His Contemporary Linguistics Contributions

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

Sigmund Freud's Contributions

aggressive and constantly seeking self satisfaction and power. Because of this dueling reality man is often confused, and filled w...

Cuban Americans and Their Positive Contributions

Mexican-Americans; in Miami, mainly Cuban-Americans; in New York, mainly Puerto-Ricans, whose commonwealth has a unique status in ...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Latin American Independence Contributions of Ponciano Arriaga and Simon Bolivar

the necessity for political action as a means of supporting personal rights within a society commonly shaped by Spanish control an...

Women's Literature Contributions of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the Contributions of Romance Narratives

social and political patriarchy of the time dictated that estates automatically reverted to the control of the male heir, which in...

Musical and Libretto Contributions of Wolfgang Mozart's The Magic Flute

chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...

Positive Contributions of J.Q. Adams

He took an assertive rather...

Atomic Theory Contributions of John Dalton

made popular the theory of tiny atomic particles. HOW DALTONS THEORY ALTERED EARLY THEORY John Dalton, a British chemist as we...

Life and Mathematics Contributions of Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Omni Naevo Vindicatus (1733) Saccheris early work on non-euclidean geometry was considered to be very important, although he did n...

Ruth Benedict's Anthropological Contributions

School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...

Life and Contributions of American Gossip Journalist Walter Winchell

In seven pages this paper examines the contributions gossip pioneer Walter Winchell made to US society from the 1920s through the ...

Classical Sociologists' Contributions

In three pages the times and sociological contributions of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx are examined...

Archaeological Contributions of Howard Carter

In nine pages this British archaeologist is discussed in an examination of his many contributions regarding Egyptology with discus...

Global Civilization and Muslim Contributions

In eight pages this paper discusses how Muslim cultures have contributed to the world in a consideration of geography, medicine, s...

Rhetoric Theory and the Contributions of Stephen Toulmin's Principles

In six pages this paper examines how rhetoric theory and its development were influenced by Stephen Toulmin's principles. Six sou...

Inspirational Contributions of Frederick Douglass

In eight pages this paper discusses Douglass's life and the inspiration it continues to represent with factual information and per...

The Mathematical Contributions of Aristotle

In a paper that consists of five pages Aristotle's legendary math contributions are celebrated in terms of analysis, syllogism, an...