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Abolitionism/There Was No Other Way

moral conviction, and, especially. on the part of African American activists, a fierce visceral passion for freedom" (Bordewich 4)...

Women in the Church: A Historical Overview

embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...

Recent Changes in Aviation Security

over the past several years things have changed, concerns linger. In a recent report it is learned that airports are overwhelmed b...

The Gambino Family

Luciano would bring the Mafia into the modern age, putting the group into organized crime. Out of the ruins of the Masseria and Ma...

The Financing of Opera in London in the 1730’s

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

Reflections of Society in Eighteenth Century Art, Music, and Literature

This paper examines the ways in which Eighteenth Century society is reflected in the art, music, and literature of the period, kno...

The Long Career of the Aerosmith Rock Group

Marilyn Manson come along that do things for shock value, but people arent threatened by rock n roll anymore" (Hay 104). This real...

Functions of the United Nations

This research paper offers an overview of the United Nations, its history and relevance, as well as its diminished capacity in the...

History of Ohio from the Civil War Through the 1960s

In eleven pages this paper examines the economic and political history of Ohio with such topics of Cincinnati's industrial evoluti...

Questioning the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism is a factor that has characterized many eras in history that substantially precede the rise of Hitler and the Third ...

'Ardo e scoprir' Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

German Composer Heinrich Schutz and His Music

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Eighteenth Century Musical Influences

In four pages this essay examines the impact upon the Enlightenment upon the music of the eighteenth century and how it reflected ...

Slavery Perspectives

In five pages various perspectives on slavery are considered in a comparative analysis of African Americans in the Colonial Era by...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

NC During Colonial American and Early Republic History

Bays, Rivers, Isles, and Islets belonging unto the Country aforesaid; And also, all the Soil, Lands, Fields, Woods, Mountains, Far...

Romantic Era and History of Science

specialization." The first learned societies and academies already had been formed, but botanists were left out of this first loo...

Reconstruction, Progressive, and New Deal Eras and Government's Role

also addresses some of the history of social work. Role of Government in Reconstruction, Progressive, New Deal The years followi...

Reconstruction Period and Social Welfare

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

A Hollywood Marxist Interpretation

bold enough to make that first move. The cold war lasted roughly between 1945 and 1990 (Roberts, 1993). Thus, what happened is th...

Resistance, Subculture, and Hip Hop

on ten characteristic features of hip hop in Australia, that this music genre represents an authentic subculture. Some of these po...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

New World Colonization by England

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

Twentieth Century British Trade Unions

ensured that workers, government and employers all contributed to the social fund, and thereby provided health care and disability...