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Tuberculosis and New Mexico

threatened almost everyone, regardless of social status. The disease ultimately led to many states implementing what was called ...

Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

The Nebraska Prairies in Cather’s O Pioneers

the cat down) and how to do it (she coaxes it). When that fails, she immediately forms another plan, to get help from someone else...

20th Century Russia

power to see to it that Stalin took over after his ultimate demise (Pipes, 1994). Nevertheless, their myriad comrade associations...

Calypso

in the call and answer format, with matching phrases with the use of many V - I cadences and then open cadences to allow the respo...

Winston Churchill: An Effective War Leader

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

American History: 19th Century

the hopes of finding work (The United States Of America, Part Five, 2007). "As immigration exploded, urban populations surged from...

The 19th Century Buildings

towards the wealthy and powerful as could be inferred through looking at some of the stations. A good website for pictures of famo...

Challenges to 20th Century Imperialism

excuse is often that the colonizers are there to "save" the natives by introducing them to Christianity, or to "educate" them; in ...

A Comparison of Sparta and Totalitarian Systems

mother, and until the age of 30 and possibly beyond were dedicated to their training and to their service to the state" ("The Cult...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Foreign Policy in 19th Century United States

United States, and our northern and southern borders were stabilized through treaty negotiations with Canada and Mexico" (Chimes)....

Henri and Julia and World War I

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

Wealth in the 19th Century

are many who claim that during this particular time he was a man who truly abused and used his workers, and did nothing but gain i...

Early 20th Century History

important trade partners for the United States (The Social Studies Help Center, 2007). "From 1914 to 1916 trade with the Allies gr...

PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD AND ITS ART

Gabriel Rossetti; William Holman Hunt; John Everett Millais; James Collinson; Frederic George Stephens; Thomas Woolner; and writer...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Engines and the Development of a Superpower

The new mode of transportation and the new roads it needed meant that people no longer had to live close to work, and suburbs deve...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

Jews and Persecution Reasons

this premise had become a common notion and it persisted for centuries, something that would create more areas of persecution ("Pe...

Architecture Hi Tech and Postmodernism

inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

Cinematic Perspectives of Society and Race

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

Twentieth Century and the Culturally Conflicted Media

cultural influence and at times, military advantage for the country. At the same time, the various forms of mass media have deve...

Trumpet Music and 20th Century Composer Karl King

fits with the spiritual title, it also has a slightly Spanish flavor that conjures visions of a sleepy town at sunset and an evoca...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

New York Tenements and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....