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An Inside Look at the Labor Union in Thomas Bell's 'Out of This Furnace'

American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...

Charles Rearick's Pleasures of the Belle Epoque

Notably, Rearick conceptualizes these elements by relating the historical factors, including the conflicts prior to this era that ...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...

Medicine Evolution and Physicians

When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...

Japan and Spreading Western Religion

that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

State Power and the Wrongness of Karl Marx's Assumption

that some have criticized as being associated with communist or socialist types of rule and Republicans want smaller government bu...

Poor People's Movements by Piven and Cloward

In six pages this paper examines poor people's movements in this historical overview that makes references to Piven and Cloward's ...

Economic Equity and Efficiency of Treatment as They Relate to Acid Rain

horrible scourge on the environment, it would help us now to take a calm and rational look at what, exactly it is and its impact o...

The Conceptual View of Poverty and its Impacts

of society (2003). Over time, through Roosevelts New Deal, and other changes, there was attention paid to those who could not affo...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

Overview of the Cellular Phone Service Industry

had known how to do this, cell phones would have been on the market more than 50 years ago (Mehta, 2004). AT&T even developed a pr...

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...

New Zealand and Giftedness

student population by virtue of their special abilities. This reason, in and of itself, has enabled New Zealand to better underst...

Traditional Japanese Footwear Geta and Zori

some traditions are simply not embraced. The zori is also known as the flip flop (Kim, 2003). Obviously, the Zori is rather sophis...

Cinema Historically Examined

who attempted their own interpretations of the new application. All along, the original inventors knew of their potential finding...

Politics and Government in Sudan

primarily in the north part of the country ("Sudan: CIA"). Christians, who live mostly in the south and in Khartoum only make up 5...

Natural Environment Preservation and Perception

controlling is for one purpose, the convenience or even the profit of mankind. It is this "received" concept of wilderness which ...

History of Enlightened Despotism

several of the head governmental officials during the period of Enlightenment (Enlightened Absolutism, 2005). As a respected scho...

Agriculture and the Impact of the Industrial Revolution

sell crops. Farmers worked the land themselves. They would work for the love of the land and start family businesses. In fact, whi...

Spy Satellites and Their History

(Richelson, 1997, p. 295). This laid the initial groundwork for the construction of a spy satellite, and nearly nine years later,...

History of Marine Biology from Ostracoderm Fossils to Pacific Halibut

associated with fresh, not estuarine or salt, water (Forey and Janvier, 1994). Recent research has determined that, to the contra...

Japanese Footwear Tabi and Zoris

period (Kyoto International Community House, 2005). Japan was far more humid than China it seems and as such these designs were qu...

History of the LGBT Movement

sexual orientation. The LGBT movement first began to become a visible component of the American society in the 1970s. Homosexual...

Blood Banks and Inventory Control

necessary to reflect upon the reasons why blood supplies have declined in recent years. In the 1980s, the discovery of AIDS, Acqu...

An Avon Analysis

a foot in the door in China (Colbert, 2005). China has banned direct selling (because many consumers there find it difficult to te...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

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, ...

Special Ed and How It Has Evolved

Elementary and Secondary Schools Act (ESEA)" ("History," 2005). Of course, the term handicapped would eventually be deemed to be n...

Law Enforcement and Collective Bargaining

private industry employees, law enforcement officials began wondering why they should not be receiving similar rewards. In privat...