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Peace, Power, Leadership, Vladimir Lenin and Mohandas K. Gandhi

In five pages this paper discusses the obvious differences but also notes surprising similarities between these 20th century leade...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Historical Significance of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad II

In five pages the twentieth century relevance of Heart of Darkness is considered in this historical perspective of Joseph Conrad's...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Amarna Letters/Egyptian Foreign Relations

c. 1386-1321 BCE (Lorenz). Akhenaten is renowned for the religious revolution he initiated during this reign, which attempted t...

1920s' Prohibition and Its Impact Upon U.S. Crime, Religion, and Economics

reality throughout the United States and many wished to end these corrupt practices seen in many a saloon across the country. T...

U.S. Prohibition Movement from 1920 to 1933

per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes" (Volstead Act of 1919, 1997, p. 1). Furtherm...

Holton/Forced Founders

describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...

Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries' English Feasting History

at the high table (The Table & Table Manners, 2005). This particular table was actually much higher than, or rather raised above, ...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...

Nineteenth through Twenty First Centuries' Global Power Shifts

Germany and Italy were not major players in the global empire race of the 19th century as they had just become unified until the 1...

The Development of Russian art from the Mid Nineteenth Century to the Mid Twentieth Century

Impressionism 227 Socialist Realism 260 References 267 Table of Figures Figure 1 Tair Salakhov The Shift Is Over 183 Figure 2 ...

Twentieth Century as 'the American Century'

like anything was possible and the sky was the limit when brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted their homemade plane a short ...

Porto Cath as the Twentieth Century's Greatest Invention

members who experienced cancer. One, the elder, did not have the option to receive a port cath due to their non-existence. The mot...

Seventeenth Century Puritan Colonization and Nineteenth Century Reconstruction Explored

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

Twentieth Century's Most Significant Discovery

important to all forms of life. Wilson said: "Looking back on the sheer volume of innovation that took place during the century, ...

Paris During the Eighteenth Century and London During the Nineteenth Century

(Burns, 1969, p. 566). This worldview came to full flower in the eighteenth century with the philosophical movement known as the E...

The Twenty-First Century and the First Century Compared

the Apostles in the Bible helps us realize that nearly a generation passed before the events of Jesus life were recorded into the ...

Wiccan Traditioins and Last Century's Witchcraft Perspectives

Wiccan traditions and have a long-standing history in centuries of community activity and ritual beliefs. During the Crusades, th...

Eighteenth Century Absolutism vs. Twentieth Century Totalitarianism

He emphasized public improvement and in only twelve years restored public order and set the country on a path toward economic stab...

19th and 20th Centuries' Changes in Scientific Research Funding

the aim of advancing in terms of methodology when uncovering longitude at sea (1991). This situation had been for the most part re...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

20th Century's Most Historic Events

In seven pages this paper discusses important historical events during the 20th century including changes resulting from the Cold ...

Looking Back at the Culture of the 20th Century from the 22nd Century

This 8 page paper gives a cultural history of the 20th century from the perspective of someone living in the 22nd century. The wri...