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The United Nations: History.

the purpose of establishing ways to settle crises peacefully, prevent wars and codify "rules of warfare" ("History of the United N...

Escalators

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

Special Education/Literature Review

Itards efforts to help the child are widely acknowledged as constituting the beginnings of the history of special education (Smith...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

800 rooms and rising an "impressive" seven stories.6 The hotel featured a "central grand court surrounded by tier after tier of co...

Prince Hal and King Henry

say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...

The Importance of the Attack on the Tuscarora Indians

things gone differently, todays world might have been different too. Some have speculated that there is a definitive turning point...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

U.S. Ethnic Relations' History

a demographic shift so rapid that it is expected within the lifetimes of todays teenagers, no single ethnic group - not even white...

History and Contemporary Issues of African Americans

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...

Haunted America by Patricia Limerick

people who eventually fought each other had prior history together. "Before whites and Indians would feel inclined to fight each o...

American Society and Racism

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...

Taoism, West, and Hinduism

Hinduism. There is not a very large population in the United States of practicing Hindus, but there are some, and it pays to explo...

U.S. Voting Rights

is 18 years of age has the right to vote in all general governmental elections. NOTEWORTHY VOTING RIGHTS HISTORY The first notewo...

U.S. Political Parties: History and Roles

"Political parties may be viewed as democratic equivalents of groups found in all governments- those supporting the established re...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

China as a Future Threat

does supersede the competition in many respects. For example, its GDP supersedes that of India by quite a bit (Karmali 49). China ...

The Emergence Of The Modern Congress And Presidency

and every bureau" (Sundquist, 1981, p. 38) every year. Prior to that Act, each department and bureau had to submit their own progr...

Ballet

of her toes), wearing the bell-shaped white tutu that is, for many, the enduring image of the ballet dancer" (Webb, 2006; 41). ...

A Brief History on the Most Devastating U.S. Hurricanes

While a relatively weak hurricane would have done little damage in our earlier history either in terms of lives taken or in terms ...

Western Civilization Research Documents Summarized

on twelve clay tablets. The epic tale is of a Babylonian king, two-thirds god and one-third man. Another key character in the stor...

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

Intermediate English as a Second Language Class Reading Lesson Plans on US History Themes

the topic and an understanding of the goals that are valuable to intermediate ESL leaders. The following are the four central que...

Widmar v. Vincent

This case involves the rights of a registered student religious group to use the facilities of the University of Missouri, facilit...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Benjamin Rader/American Sports

of sport and leisure, it seems that Benjamin Rader (2003) does a good job in outlining the relationship between the advent of citi...

U.S. History and the Definitive Component of Race

reveal that there are others involved in slavery at the time. Hoffman explores the concept of white slavery. The notion that there...

A Review of The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives

and static in their nature. That characteristic has, in fact, increased over the two century history of the organization. Polsby...