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Paul Johnson's Modern Times

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

Metropolitan Greek Collection and the Rare Kouros Art

In five pages the Kouros at the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Gallery is analyzed in terms of its posture, style, historical and aes...

Canada's Sikh Community

Canada's Sikh community is examined in an historical overview consisting of 13 pages....

Different Types of Sociological Research Approaches

those aspects (religion) and rather than offering alternatives, asks the subject to place religion on a sliding scale of importanc...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones Reviewed

for the slave trade won their freedom through the Supreme Court. Joseph Cinque and the 53 captives revolted in the Caribbean on th...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Spielberg/Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale issued a statement on his companys web site that explains his perspective on the literary design of both his book a...

Johnson: "Everything Bad Is Good for You"

when one is watching television rather than having any other experience" (Winn). But Johnson finds something of value in this expe...

Texas Politics: The 1930s to the Present

seems that he believed originally that the tax revenue was enough, but in the end it turned out that a raise in taxes was in order...

Runciman: "The Fall of Constantinople 1453."

portrait of the Byzantine Empire, Runciman shows us a civilization caught in the middle of a number of forces: the Turks invaded f...

Dirt Bikes USA Knowledge Identification

as well as buying ad space. however, there are still several areas where Schmidt and McFadden are missing the mark when it comes ...

The Film Traffic as a Statement on U.S. Drug Policy

editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...

Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the importance of such things in their society. The reader is presented with infantry battle that denotes honor and valiant beha...

Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers

people who have persevered throughout farming history in the nation. In so many instances it seems that the nation forgets these p...

“Freakonomics” by Levitt and Dubner

that criminals tend to be from impoverished backgrounds and it may well be that many abortions are done in relationship to impover...

Wallace Stevens: “Disillusionment at Ten O’Clock”

ceinture is a cloth belt), strikes a romantic note, but again, these are what the gowns do not look like. This may indicate the gl...

Killing the Truth in Iraq

accusing Basras police force of "being infiltrated by Shiite militiamen" ("American Journalist Found Shot Dead in Basra"). He quot...

Taking Over From Steven Jobs

a bed, they are purchasing the ability to have a good nights sleep, therefore when they are buying a computer, they are buying the...

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Harris and Bacon

are in all books...three that collect the experiments of all mechanical arts; and also of liberal sciences; and also of practices ...

Erin Brockovich, from an Ethical Perspective

directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film Erin Brockovich is based on a true story, which dramatizes the catastrophic health consequ...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Thoreau and Bryant's Impacts Upon the Writings of Oliver, Stevens, and Frost

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest by Steven Stern

resources against possible intrusions by other groups (Stern 22). Therefore, economic decline or improvement became intrinsically ...

Making Policy and Lance Leloup and Steven Shull's The President and Congress

These factors apply to both the President and Congress and are influential in the decisions they reach. Later examples will highl...

Enforced Leisure and Its Dangers

Much of Europe always has predisposed to "big government" and a view that the government needs to oversee the welfare of its citiz...

Steven Shapin's A Social History of Truth and The Leviathan and the Air Pump

be. However, accounts of the world are made by observers and are therefore subject to the individuals experiences, personal perspe...

Definition of Globalization and its Dangers

expense of myriad unsophisticated societies. As such, this dichotomy of progression has rendered globalization a much-contested c...

Social Role of Poets

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...