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G.B. Nash, C. Crabtree, and R.E. Dunn's History on Trial Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past

and the Teaching of the Past" (1997) is written by three educators who were involved in the development and controversy over the N...

Sixteenth Century Spain

the entire imperial system was based on (Payne 2002). It was also the social norm to accept the aristocracy as leaders (Payne 2002...

Is The Uniform Crime Reporting System of the FBI Accurate?

The CIUS is the report most commonly used in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains...

Reasons for the Failure of Communism

due to implementation, and not that the ideal has failed, is something that is hard to prove. After all, it seems that it is easy ...

Law Enforcement and Collective Bargaining

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

History of Thoroughbred Race Horses

of the sport it was necessary to begin regulating the horses and the races and thus the Jockey Club was organized. This club also ...

F/A 22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Purchase Rationale

items, only a few of which are included in the paper and bibliography. 4. I found no financial analyses already completed, but the...

Capital Punishment and American Political Changes

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

Independence of Samoa and the Mau Movement's Role

government which is heavily influenced by family and religion (Ryen, 1993). Slavicek (2002) observes:...

Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...

C. Raymond Calhoun's Service During World War II

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

United Kingdom and Developments in its Mass Media History

each in order to tune in, which over 2.25 million people did" (BBC, 2004). This number apparently quadrupled by the 1930s. The fir...

Women and Orgasm

orgasms or pleasure had been routinely ignored. For many years it was routinely believed that there was no biological reason for a...

A Dentistry History

turpentine resin, gum, and a variety of metals (DFDA, 2004). During the Civil War dentists in the Southern United States used a d...

BMX Racing

sport all the same and is quite competitive. Athletes need to train just as if they are engaging in any competitive sport. And eve...

Affirmative Action's History

today. Many people look at minority doctors and lawyers and in the back of their minds wonder if they are really up to the job. Th...

The History of African Americans From the Civil War Reconstruction, through the Progressive Age, and the First World War

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

Overview of Instant Coffee Industry

coffee beans and created a process for removing the caffeine from the beans (Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, 1994). That would be ...

Management, Labor, and Strikes

$6.00 per week (Columbia Encyclopedia, 2004). In 1806, the Philadelphias Journeymen Cordwainers union called a strike, however, th...

Priesthood and Celibacy

a mandate for priests (McGovern, 2003). We also know that married priests were common because St. Paul told Titus and Timothy that...

Economic Effects of Balance of Payments

on the economy, its hoped that a better understanding of how the U.S. handles capitalism abroad can give a good idea of how well (...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

US Same Sex Marriage History

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

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...