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Essays 121 - 150
also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...
matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
children (Farris 149). However, maintaining home and hearth did not provide sufficient stimulus for a passionate woman like Maria...
simply because it was one of the nations most important cattle producing states. This was not a state that caused people to thi...
well, but the number of children from these other cities were minuscule when compared to those that shipped out of New York. It in...
been wrinkled by the hands of time. Rather than being strictly a portrait of age, however, Kollwitzs 1934 self portrait is also a...
to demonstrate that negative exposure at an early age can determine the onset of phobias. Watson developed along this Behaviorist...
has changed considerably over the years as has the political identity of this country and how it is perceived both by its citizens...
invents a new method of counting and determining the size of the atoms or molecules in a given space and in the other he explains ...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
wealth was not distributed as equally and people were born in one place and mainly stayed put for much of their lives. Yet these d...
Triple-digit inflation and the fact that currency as a means of payment was stuffed in mattresses (instead of invested in financia...
much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew u...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
same time officials felt compelled to somewhat shield the public from its alarming aspects in order to maintain civic composure. ...
inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...
3 pages in length. The beginning of the twentieth century was rife with improvements to everyday commodities that up until this t...
in 1999, for example, ranks Reagan eleven out of a list of forty-one U.S. presidents. His name is only topped by such greats as A...
African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...
times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...
the second of what would become fairly regular Fireside Chats, FDR (1933) went directly to the American people via radio to outlin...
does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...
young man who is certain that he offers more and that he is more everything than Orson. At the core of such behavior is an arrogan...
tended to be rigid and lacked any color, and could be described as utilitarian but hardly fashionable (Flusser, 2003). It wasnt u...
is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...
63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...
"nationalism and racism have dominated South Africas history" (Foster, 2003, p. 657. The emergence and dominance of white South Af...
prostitution, and gambling (Bolz, 1995). They also engage in money laundering schemes (Bolz, 1995). This latter focus is the crux ...
and diabetes are just two of myriad diseases and conditions that modern medical sensors serve to help in situations beyond the ind...