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Travels of Marco Polo

In 5 pages this paper argues that this travel book is actually an important history text. There is 1 source cited in the bibliogr...

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very pressure it places upon youth. Thr...

Richard Wunderli's Peasant Fires The Drummer of Niklashausen

In five pages this paper discusses Hans Behem's peasant story as it is presented in this fifteenth and sixteenth century German hi...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Daily Life in China by Jacques Gernet

In five pages this paper analyzes Gernet's text, which realistically presents the history of China and in so doing exposes the com...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

Bridge On The Drina by Ivo Andric

In five pages the references to politics and history that exist in this 1945 Yugoslavian text are discussed. Five sources are cit...

Family Exploration in Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang-Mei N. Chang

In five pages this paper analyzes how the author probed her own family history in this text. There are no other sources listed....

Mormonism Perspectives

In eight pages this research paper presents an analysis of 4 texts each concentrating upon a different part of the history of Morm...

America in Our Time by Godfrey Hodgson

his analysis by discussing the impact that the assassination had on the country. In other words, he shows why this time qualifies ...

A Book Review of Milton Meltzer's 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime'

In 5 pages, this paper focuses on a popular middle school textbook's exploration of the Great Depression's economic crisis and the...

Apartheid's History

In this more contemporary society the people are no longer tied to one another and their social bonds are impersonal. In t...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

Education and its History

in power to remain in power, while those who quite possibly had the talent and ability were relegated to a calling more suited to ...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Kennedy/Profiles in Courage

Senators that follows. Kennedy begins with a profile of John Quincy Adams, and how Adams was castigated by members of his own pa...

Viewing US History Differently

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Muslim and Christian moral principles and beliefs. In and of itself, that information is fascinating and, considering the state of...

Text Summary of Carr and Snyder's The Management of Telecommunications

demonstrate that the subject matter is a puzzle--hence a picture of a jigsaw puzzle is provided with various technical terms--and ...

A Description of World Civilizations from Ancient Times to 1500

well as carried new innovative things from other societies and so served to pass ideas along from village to village. Back then t...

Tank Warfare Development

In five pages the history of tank warfare is examined with a discussion of Armoured Firepower The Development of Tank Armament 19...

Night by Elie Wiesel

In five pages this research paper examines Wiesel's authobiography in terms of author consideration, his thesis, and compares actu...

Financial Crises and Panic

virtually all Americans are well-aware of the resultant mass hysteria of the 1929 crash on Wall Street, there has not been signifi...

H. Thomas Johnson's Relevance Regained

In five pages this text review considers business practice and education in three sections that include history and accounting man...

The Colonizer and Colonized by Memmi

In five pages this paper examines Northern Africa's colonization and the colonizer and colonized roles that were influenced by pol...

Book Review of An Outline of Confucianism by D.Y. Lee

In five pages this text is reviewed and discussed in terms of the history of Confucianism and how this philosophy has evolved thro...