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Renaissance to 1500 AD Classical Culture Influence and Spread

the individual" (Burns 395). Soon after the inception of the Renaissance, its progress was greatly accelerated by the influence ...

War of 1812 and Great Lakes' Fleets

27 officers in the Marine Corps (Parker, 1970, p. 10). Furthermore, the U.S. Navy, such as it was, only had three first-class war...

American Blackface and its Origins

It has been said that blackface was some of the most bold, blatant and extreme stereotyping in American history (History of Blackf...

Thailand's Cultural Diversity and its History

excpetionof the South was under these hinduiz ed Mon-speaking people (Rajadhon, 2002). Subsequently, during 957 - 1257 the same ar...

New Jersey's Gross Income Tax Analyzed

current governor James McGreevey says that corporations should pay more. The governor explains that Corporate Business Tax once ...

Western Religion - Trends

faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...

Overview of the Genetic Disorder PWS

genetic cause is loss of yet unidentified genes normally contributed by the father" (Internet source). Information at the PWSAs we...

Mass Consumerism's Origin and its Impact

this in more detail the role of consumerism and the way it fits in with mass culture can be used to determine what mass consumeris...

Hospital Setting and Administration of Medication in a Consideration of Competence Building Through Reflection, Experience, and Training

is overwhelmingly female, though nursing also is experiencing a gender shift as more men come to the profession than at any time i...

Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse

Islam total control of the Mediterranean, so that -- as one Arab writer of the time put it -- the Christians could no longer "floa...

Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Overview of the Roman Games

violent spectacles that the Romans loved (Roman Fun and Games, 2003). Gladiators were slaves and were made to fight one another, ...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

World Trade Organization and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Origins

GATT, it is different and it replaces the GATT (Iowa State University, nd). The GATT was basically a set of rules that had no inst...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

World Trade Organization and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Origins and Objectives

initially established as a customs union that possessed free trade among the Member States, has also been instrumental in levying ...

Economy and Trade of Southeast Asia

and information which found their way from east to west and vice versa: the early spread of Buddhism, for example, was a result of...

Societal Marketing and Green Marketing

of long-term health (Bernadette and DSilva, 2002). The Ricoh Group commented that such a strong movement towards green procuremen...

Overview of Ethics

such as telling someone they look good when asked, even if they dont believe that person looks good. Of course, these are relat...

Western Concepts on Imagination and Its Origins

of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...

'Well Being' Etymology

English period (Etymonline.com, 2003). It derived from the Old English word "wel," which shares the same Germanic source as the Ol...

Europe During the 19th Century and National Consciousness

its own flavor, identity and special talents. Additionally, leaders want their members to adhere to the rules of the government, a...

An Examination of Violence Statistics

were robbed in the workplace. Between 1994 and 1996 violent victimizations in the workplace decreased by 21 percent, paralleling a...

Political Power and How It Originated

a social contract. In other words, how is it that man is born free but must obey the law? Locke was by no means a theorist who tho...

Defining Postmodernism

Our religions have become marginalized and even our basic concepts of what is right and wrong become warped (McDermott, 1998; Beam...

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species

of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. He then moves on...

Christianity Expansion

points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...

Two Ancient Sculptures Compared

"unibrow" today--and wide, blue eyes. One is almost reminded of the wide eyed paintings of the 1960s when viewing this ancient pie...