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Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...

Facing East from Indian Country

history of the United States but are all too often not the focus of American history. While other authors seem to circumvent the r...

Columbus - Exploring Fact and Historical Distortion

the understanding of students, but reinforces the social privileges of the same social classes and national groups who have enjoye...

Hawkings Perspective on Time

This paper provides a critical discussion of Stephen Hawkings book A Brief History of Time. The paper’s author discusses how Hawk...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

King Philip II of Spain

the Spanish Inquisition were used to eliminate resistance to Philips policy of centralizing power under an absolute monarchy" (Phi...

Perspective on History

out, "different perspectives of what happened create different histories" (Wilson 1). The example of the voyages of Christopher C...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

The History of Canadian ECE

the ideas to learning, and finally B.F. Skinner who really made an impact. Skinner argued that development is affected by external...

Mahler and the Burning Bronx

hes a scrappy second baseman just traded to the Yankees from the Oakland Oaks. He asks the managers incessant questions and yells ...

Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique

This paper provides a reading of Betty Freidan's book, The Feminine Mystique. The author points out how the role of the woman has...

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Puerto Rico as Fernando Pico Knows It

2009). This book is an expanded version of Picos earlier Historia general and is distinguished by Picos use of primary sources and...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Magnet Schools

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

Africa and Profit From Slave Trade

(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...

Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

Going to Law School by Harry Castleman and Christopher Niewoehner

In five pages this report reviews the book's first few chapters in order to examine what valuable personality characteristics a la...

High School Libraries and Book Banning

their buildings. They fear that students will imitate some of the things in the book. At least, whenever a violent incident happen...