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Fontana, California and Davis's City of Quartz

agricultural commune, with most people looking out for the other, in which agricultural products were the primary focus of barter....

A.H.M. Jones' Athenian Democracy

In four pages this text is reviewed and comparisons are made between Athenian and American democracies....

The Error of Reconstruction by Kenneth Stampp and Revisionist History

Chapter One "What was real and fundamental was the idealism and the nobility of the two contending forces: the Yankees struggli...

Algeria, the Army and Independence

named Colonel Hourai Boum?di?ne told the Algerian people that it was the armys mission to defend the Algerian culture while at the...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...

Comparison of Texts on History

In six pages the history texts Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs, The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan, Cafe Europa b...

A Comparison of Film and Text for Text The Tempest

This five page paper compares this classic text to the film version by Paul Mazursky. Two sources are listed....

History Texts' Depiction of Native Americans

was not construed as legitimate. Today, that is far from the case. History is a valid and viable subject and one that is taught fr...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

Historiography, The Spanish Armada

the Armada, which was pivotal and crucial strategy of Philips II in ambition to invade England. Mattingly starts with the executio...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Assimilation of History's Lessons with Thatcherism

In nine pages theoretical comparisons are made between Look Back in Anger, a play by John Osborne, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Or...

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 ...

Three Film Versions of Richard III

foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...

History Topics

Standard Oil of California negotiated a contract with the King of Saudi Arabia that granted the company the exclusive concession t...

Websites on Black History and Information Verification

Europe" (also by Rashidi) also identifies Moors as synonymous with black Africans and describes how Moorish soldiers cross over fr...

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...

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

In eight pages this essay analyzes the text's complexity in terms of Bunyan's uses of setting, allegory, and characterization with...

Comparison of 2 Sherlock Holmes' Texts by Arthur Conan Doyle

This five page comparative analysis discusses 'The Valley of Fear' and 'A Study in Scarlet.' There are 5 sources listed in the bi...

October Sky Film and Rocket Boys Text Comparison

Creek Missile Agency as an homage to their hero Dr. Werner von Braun of the Army Ballistic Agency and built their first missile ou...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

Desmond Seward’s Wars of the Roses

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

Mexican Broadcast History

ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...

Gross and Fink/Telecommunications

of this text. Part 1: Electronic Media Forms While the original form of telecommunication, i.e., the telephone, can trace its o...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...