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London's Early History

for his death (Wells, 1931, 469). In effect, Caesar was consumed with one goal: to satisfy the desires and urges of Caesar. Well...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

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...

Paraplegia

when the disease is treated and cured, the paralysis can disappear; however, nerve damage in the paraplegic is typically unable to...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

U.S. Constitutional Rights and Minorities

degree throughout the 1950s and 60s. Although 46.4% of all American women between the ages of 18 and 65 now work outside the home,...

American Hotel Industry Changes

law and it is enforced by the Wage & Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). This Act was amended in 1940, 1947, 1949...

The Error of Reconstruction by Kenneth Stampp and Revisionist History

Chapter One "What was real and fundamental was the idealism and the nobility of the two contending forces: the Yankees struggli...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...

Collective Bargaining and its History

the World (IWW) or the "Wobblies," but their revolutionary rhetoric almost assured that they would fail and alienate far too many...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

The Rise of the AFL

we are slaves! (Journal of United Labor, May 1881)" (Hallgrimsdottir; Benoit, 2007; 1393). This was referred to as wage slavery be...

The Nineteenth Century Ghost Dance Era

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

Populism

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

Rome’s History

city was built, as Fabius writes, the adventure of stealing the women was attempted; and some say Romulus himself, being naturally...

Barack Obama's Speech On March 18, 2008: Race

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

History of Latin Literature

long possessed in the oral tradition. It was during the 19th century that it seems literature actually emerged in written form and...

History of Cosmetic Surgery

such as a procedure to repair a cleft lip described in early tenth-century literature, the firm scientific foundations found in Gr...

A History of American Fashion

to emerge in the latter part of the 1800s. Today, people are fashion conscious and this is something reflected in popular culture....

Policing in the United States and Austria

control. The United States Patriot Act was designed in such a way that it refocused policing processes on federal levels of contr...

Influence of Women in American History

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

major transportation route of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the years preceding the Louisiana Purchase the Spanish ...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

The Celts

would put an end to the Etruscan peoples prominence (Who were the Celts?, 2008). It is also believed that shortly thereafter the ...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Action and Self Analysis Plan for Health

Health Analysis The ten areas covered in this analysis are: risk for stroke; cancer genetics; high blood pressure and renal dise...

Haunted America by Patricia Limerick

people who eventually fought each other had prior history together. "Before whites and Indians would feel inclined to fight each o...