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Mainstream America and Being African American

suburbia ideal, even though they were raised in that setting. For the African American it may be different for they may have been ...

Andy Warhol, A Twentieth Century Genius

One can begin to see that Warhol would make his mark in the advertising industry with attention to fashion. During the 1950s, And...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

Cultural Impacts of Jimi Hendrix and His Music

of the most integral components of human expression. We must admit that the role of Hendrixs art and the precise type of impact i...

Sigmund Freud's Contributions

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

Truck Drivers Defended

Driving An article in a nearly ten-year old issue of The Economist (12/26/92) makes a valuable point that most people still dont ...

Gelsey Kirkland, Ballet Dance Artist

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Life and Times of Karl Marx

and only some application in French" (pp. 6). In short, it would appear that he was a typical and educated, middle-class, studen...

Life and Theories of Sir Isaac Newton

Newtons discoveries interrelated, in fact, with many others of this time period. The first radical departure of science from the ...

Mark Twain's Life and Times

vocation was to become licensed as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River" which is where he came up with his literary name, M...

Seeking Answers in the Cosmos with Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Aristotle

In ten pages this paper examines the lives and astronomical contributions both literally and figuratively speaking as they relate ...

How Incredible Odds Against Them Were Overcome by Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

to construct a code for living that would be world-renowned. One of his favorite stories concerned a formative period in hi...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

Economic Theories of John Maynard Keynes, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

In twelve pages these economists' lives, theories, and contributions are examined. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography....

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 ...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Aquinas by F.C. Copleston

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

The Brief Life of Actress and Singer Aaliyah

time of her death had two Grammy nominations and two platinum albums (Smolowe, 2001). She was also on her way to a strong acting c...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud

and that his Oedipus complex theory is rooted in Freuds fervent desire to excel in order to win his mothers favor. The Freud fami...

The Life of A. Philip Randolph

Elizabeth Randolph. His father named him Asa after one of the great kings of the Old Testament" (APRI, 2002). He was born on April...

Modern Art and the Impact of the Russian Revolution

II would introduce sweeping reforms, the largest and most influential of them being the freeing of the serfs(Service, 1998). This ...

Life and Works of Shaka Zulu

would mold him into the fierce and merciless warrior he would become. A young man in his twenties, he was drafted into the arm...

Erik Erikson's Contributions to Science

was born to Karla Abrahamsen in Frankfort Germany on June 15, 1902 (Wu, 2002). Eriksons Danish father had abandoned his pregnant ...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Abigail Adams, An American Woman by Charles W. Akers

In this paper containing five pages this insightful bibliography of an American First Lady is discussed as it reveals an accurate ...