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American Artists and Art from 1900 to 1950 Annotated Bibliography

world as well as that within the U.S. In comparison other articles reveal that American art has not been considered as successful ...

Are American Children Worse Off Today Than They Were at the Start of the 20th Century?

stay away from drugs while they are young. In essence, we worry for our children and think that our present society is no longer o...

HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE 1900 GALVESTON HURRICANE: A COMPARISON

During the late 19th century, Galveston had come into its own as a major ship port (Casillas, 2005). It had Texas first post offic...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Changes in America, 1877-1900

the cities were no longer small enough to be "walking cities" (Chapter 19, 2005). In addition, in a move that we still see today, ...

Post 1900 History of the New York Yankees

the first time on April 22, 1903, losing to Washington (The Official Site of the New York Yankees, 2007). However, with a never s...

Chap. Summaries, Modern Architecture by William Curtis

the suppression of these features, as both materials and decoration were sometimes subjugated to the goals of presenting united ar...

Change Reflected in Literature

who simply drank and tried to find themselves once again. This "Lost Generation" was very reflective of the changes in the world...

Major Changes in World History, 1900-1990

and the Crisis Decades (early 1970s-1991) (Palat, 1997). The so-called "Age of Catastrophe" comprises some of the greatest upheav...

Vienna and Budapest

of the Hungarian cultural assimilation of so many Jews, the very atmosphere of Budapest was different from that of Berlin, Vienna,...

Politics of Development in 3 Cities

pivoting around issues concerning one Petersons key areas, that is, the politics of development. A principal point of DeLeons anal...

Urban Outfitters

2008). Other stores opened in the interim, however. The company established its Free People wholesale division in 1984 and...

URBAN OUTFITTERS - MARKETING A BUSINESS

This is not to suggest that families cant be trendy or countercultural. But the problem with anything trendy or countercultural is...

William Wilson's "When Work Disappears" - HIV/AIDS

the work in the formal economy...These circumstances also increase the likelihood that the residents will rely on illegitimate sou...

Revision of Essay on 'Progress' and Environmental Destruction

for clean-up, the bottles and plates end up becoming trash, which ends up clogging landfills (and filling landfills) and ends up t...

Urban Planning

In five pages this paper considers holistic alternatives to urban planning with a diagram targeting the congestion of inner cities...

The Overworked American The Unexpected Decline in Leisure by Juliet Schor

able to analyze Schors findings through a careful definition of the problem, understanding the extent of it, considering how it ca...

Parr, Sutherland, and Bullen Article Analysis on Urban and Rural Children's Labor and Economic Responsibilities

or wages in order to sustain the family lifestyle. In all cases, middle and upper class children who do not have the same labor ob...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Recreation and Leisure

In five pages this paper discusses U.S. recreation and leisure and the roles they play. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

Algeria's Political and Civil Reforms from 1870 to 1920

In eight pages this paper examines Algerian history during this time period in terms of the increased pressures for civil and poli...

The Changes in Advertising from 1920 to 1940

of the market had increased from $14.2 million to $141 million (Peiss, 1998). The UK was held back somewhat due to the general str...

Duluth Lynching of 1920

Jackson and McGhie were not performers in the circus, however. They were cooks and simple laborers Clayton, Jackson and McGhie. ...

'The Old Guard' versus 1920 Avant Garde Music

From this artistic liberation emerged the avant-garde movement, which delighted in breaking the rules through unrestrained experim...

Politics and the Influence of Radio During the Years 1920 to 1940

the airwaves these days. But for the times (and in examining the history), the radio rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s was quite str...

1800 to 1920 Prostitution

This paper examines why women in New York City and Fort Worth turned to prostitution during this time period in eleven pages. Thr...

1920 to 1921 Neighborhood of South Boston

In seven pages this paper examines how South Boston's predominantly Irish neighborhood, also dubbed 'the Irish Ghetto' developed d...

An Examination of American History from 1865 until 1920

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...