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Slavery and the U.S. Civil War

would have been changed forever. Still, Davis was a leader in his own right. He was the only president of the Confederate States o...

Humanity and Injustice in Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills

Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills provide studies on issues of injustice and innate humanity, which shine through even ...

Ecology of Fear Reviewed

use federal dollars to do so. Many feel sorry for them. But then there is the other point of view. Why build homes in such a place...

Louis Armstrong's Musical Influence

In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Contents of Speech for Fictitious Candidate Jeff 'W.' McIllwain

In eleven pages prison reform and racism issues are addressed by a fictitious candidate in the year 2011 a year after the stock ma...

Reviewing A Long Kiss Goodnight Film

In six pages the 1996 film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Shane Black and costarring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson is di...

1920s' U.S. Labor Movement

and had existed since about 1900. It had grown quite large over and decade or so and was even able to stage a walk out in 1916. In...

California's 2002 Gubernatorial Election

had gotten credit for reforms in education, but he is largely blamed for the states $24 billion deficit, as well as for the energ...

Human Nature as Defined by Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper compares Frederick Douglass's definition of human nature with that of the Black Codes, Jefferson Davis, a...

Urban Artistry of Jazz Musician Miles Davis

his first name (Long ppg). Perhaps because in his music, the listener is the musicians accomplice, and from bebop to rap, Miles ...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

The Long Fuse by Laurence Lafore

yet they did not refrain from those actions. Lafore seems to shed light on how the threat to Austria and Hungarys integrity was a...

Three Views of the Slave Trade in Africa

and time period under discussion. Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New Worl...

California's 1999 8 Hour Day Restoration and Workplace Flexibility Act

This paper consists of five pages and examines this 1999 AB 60 legislation passed by Gray Davis, former governor of California. F...

Miles Davis' and Duke Ellington's Music

In sixteen pages this research paper contrasts and compares the careers of influential jazz artists Miles Davis and Duke Ellington...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

Civil Rights Activist Angela Davis

In a research paper consisting of eight pages the life and work of Angela Davis is considered with the focus on her evolving views...

Accountant Ethics and Compromise

In five pages this paper examines one author's assertion of how ethics can be compromised in the accounting profession through bil...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

Analysis of Michael Moore’s Essay, “Idiot Nation”

two hundred million stone-cold idiots in this country, that leaves at least eighty million who will get what Im saying" (Moore 132...

Critical Review of Jules Tygiel’s Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

and celebrities alike. Tygiel takes great pains not to overwhelm readers with too many facts and figures. He is well aware that ...

An Examination of Leadership

a goal, a direction, an objective, a vision, a dream, a path, a reach" (p.7). How do the individuals just noted demonstrate a visi...

Abstract for Article on Diabetes Screening

criterion for inclusion in the study as all children previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were excluded. Body mass index (B...

Book Report on 3 Books

Jewish. The student could also state they did not know he was German. What were the weaknesses, failures, or disappointments for t...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

Reaction: “When Smoke Ran Like Water”

had disastrous results: all of her family members have (or had) respiratory or cardiac problems, along with most of the rest of th...

American Realism, An Overview

nations early steel industry. Just as Charles Dickens exposed the underside of industrialization in Great Britain, Davis likewise ...