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1692 Salem Witch Trials

Salem, but our proposed question allowed the possibility of a number of factors influencing the trials and ergot poisoning was ju...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

History of Paris During the Late 18th to the Mid 19th Centuries

In five pages this paper examines Paris history during this time period in terms of growth and the effect of the French Revolution...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Mexico During the Late 19th Century and Sport

war had ended in 1848 and since that time, American-Mexican relations would change. The latter nineteenth, and early twentieth, ce...

Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Movement

artists involved in art nouveau were particularly interested in the way that the new technology which had evolved out of industria...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

The Concept of Manifest Destiny as it Applies to Early Life in California

Yankee settlement. Only two days after the American flag rose in the center of town in July, 1846, More than two hundred Mormon s...

Horror Cinematic Genre

horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...

A Fifty Year Old's Commentary on the Late Twentieth Century

(Bradley, 2002). While housing was growing, however, so were fears of atomic warfare, especially in light of the Korean conflict a...

The Transformation of China in Modern Times

for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is to improve upon what has existed in the past. The...

Avant Garde Artistic Movement and its 'Desert'

and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...

Late 20th Century Postmodernism

postmodernist thought, at least in some of its variants, deliberately divorces and separates itself from political ideologies of a...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Late 19th Century European Imperialism

see how there were many commonalities. Many of the gains made by Britain were focused on the African continent. The desire...

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...

Paris and London: Late 19th Century Urban Planning

cramped conditions had lead to many social ills. The changes were not made over night, but the aspects of change can be seen in th...

English Language Development from Geoffrey Chaucer to Samuel Johnson

that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was gouernor of Syria) And all went to bee taxed...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

NY Fiscal Crisis of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty First Centuries

to declining tax revenues (Guardian Unlimited, 2003). But it wasnt just tax revenues that brought Manhattan to the brink of bankru...

US Government's Failure of the Late Nineteenth Century Assimilation of Native Americans

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

Film Noir in the Nineteen-Fifties and Nineteen-Nineties

police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...

Architecture Hi Tech and Postmodernism

inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...

Foreign Policy Changes Since the Late 20th Century

there were two blocs, there were also nations which were left out, and these would be seen as the third world and so, nothing was ...

Late Nineteenth Century Labor's Rise

that the people should participate (Bennett, 2001). In effect, the government should be run by the people (2001). This is not by a...

19th Century Industrialism and Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

Bellamy notes, did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the a...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

Presidential Elections and the Influence of Lobbying

as soft money and issue advocacy" (Newlin Carney 337). However, pro-reform activist groups are adamant about the issue of raising...

1895 Farmer's View of Manifest Destiny

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...