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Protests Against Black History Month

abolished. Like Killfile, Cox sees Black History Month as a modern form of segregation, referring to it as the "intellectual equiv...

Furniture/Desk and Chair

For instance, in January of 1976, Herman Miller, Inc. began marketing the first "fully integrated ergonomic chair, The Ergon Chair...

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

What Does Empiricism Teach About The Relationship Between Appearance And Reality?

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Out In The Redwoods/An Oral History

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

History of the Lake Metroparks in Northeastern Ohio

thus the Northeastern shore of Ohio (Hansen, 2007). In terms of its history, which is not as ancient as some may believe, Hansen (...

The Flea in History

interestingly enough to mean "wingless siphon" (Kettle, 1995). The flea is a highly specialized creature and subsists by sucking ...

Women in Toltec and Aztec History

is also an element to the culture that believes in the forces that are both feminine and masculine, studying both in order to bett...

French and American Involvement in Vietnam

of Vietnam was born ("Earliest known history of Vietnam," 2007). In 1946, it was all agreed that Vietnam would be independent ("E...

History of Chinese Art

is suspected that zhuan script came into existence due to the oracles significantly irregular patterns and overabundance of charac...

Assessment of the Observation 'Only the Curious Will Learn'

learning, however. It all begins with a question, and there can be no questioning without curiosity driving its origin. Incite to...

Bhopal, India's Union Carbide Plant and Ethics

removed a pressure gauge that was attached to the tank, stuck a hose in the hole and filled the tank with water (Dykes and Graham,...

Abigail Adams' 'Remember the Ladies!'

can produce, she would begin her correspondence to her husband, "Dearest Friend," and sign them "Portia" (http://www.masshist.org/...

Mathematics' History and Critical Milestones

that of harmony and resonance in music. The fact that musical pitches correlate directly to numbers, they concluded that this rein...

Marco Polo, Herodotus, and Their Histories

guilty of a second violence. They manned a ship of war, and sailed to Aea, a city of Colchis, on the river Phasis; from whence, af...

An Analysis of IBM

be known as IBM so many years later. The development of IBM is a patchwork, the Computing Scale Company of America is formed in 1...

1960s' Countercultures

completely rejected the "establishment" and decided that it was unwise to trust anyone over the age of thirty. This was clearly a ...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

United Kingdom and Problem with Racism

This research paper considers the issue of racism within the cultural context of the United Kingdom and that nation's history. Thi...

Medieval History Bias

In a paper consisting of 8 page the influence of bias in Medieval history telling is considered along with the ways in which histo...

Asia and Western Expansionism

The ways in which modernization in Asia was influenced by Western expansion are examined in five pages with references made to She...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

Historical Achievements of Man and Edward Gibbon

Strategic bombing was an aspect of World War II, and people didnt think much about that aspect" (Feld 961b-feld.html). There is n...

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...

More Than One History in the American Revolution

Histories in recent years have sought to go beyond the classical interpretations that have been presented in the past. This essay ...

A Review of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party by Alfred Young

In this five page paper the fact that our perception of history changes over time is illustrated with a look back some fifty years...