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Overview of the Molly Maguires Group

In six pages this paper examines the violent post Civil War labor history of the Pennsylvania coal mines in this overview of the M...

Overview of Witness Protection Programs

are criminals, who have received reduced sentencing from the government because of deals (plea-bargaining) they have made. Unfort...

Unidentified Flying Objects, Real or Imaginary?

UFOs are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages in which an effort is made to separate fiction from fact. Five sources...

'Camelot Years' of President John F. Kennedy

In six pages this paper discusses the fact and the fiction surrounding President Kennedy's brief time in the White House. Ten sou...

Montgomery Bus Boycott Participant Rosa Parks

In ten pages this paper discusses the fact and fiction connected with Rosa Parks' bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that resulted...

The True Voyages of Christopher Columbus

eyes of the world. It would also elevate Spains own social status in the world. Status and wealth were important considerations ...

Australian Press Council's 'Principle 5'

In five pages an analysis of this principle that requires Australian journalism publications to clearly differentiate between fact...

Comparative Analysis of Latest 'Hot' Books on Management

In five pages these books on management are compared. They are Tulgan's Winning the Talent Wars, Collins and Porras' Built to Las...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

Myths and Legends Surrounding Vampires

The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

“The Castle” : A Messenger

their idea of the Australian dream. The Kerrigans home, in their minds at least, is indeed their "castle". They willingly disreg...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...

Opinion Juxtaposition of Second Front Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John MacArthur and 1984 by George Orwell

conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...

Civil War Letters

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

4 Poems in Billy Collins' Nine Horses

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

The Arguments For Torture; Are They Right?

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

Frida: A Reaction Paper

surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

Norma Rae’s Depiction of Labor

sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

The Reagan Presidency

In a paper consisting of five pages Michael Schaller's text, Reckoning with Reagan is discussed and specifically considers the Ame...

'Colored Journalism' in Michael Moore's 1989 Docudrama Roger and Me

a powerful and effective piece of cinematography, for in its subtlety and simplicity it displays the mark of excellence in tastefu...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

Edward Hallett Carr's Essay 'The Historian and His Facts'

In five pages an overview and analysis of this famous Edward Hallett Carr essay are presented....

Life of English Essayist Charles Lamb

at Blakesware in Lambs mothers native county of Hertford (Ward and Waller, 2002). The business of London contrasted greatly with ...