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of the time were the primary motivators for virtually all of the immigrants to the United States. The example of the Irish serves ...

much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew u...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

Europe was influenced by the views of the early Christian church" (Magistra Rosemounde of Mercia, 2006). In many ways it was, at t...

that the secular governments. Priests were often criticized as being greedy and extortionate. As a result of this unrest conflict...

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

who effectively directed the masses. According to Perry M. Rogers, author of Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Source...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

texts, such as the works of Hippocrates and Galen, were held by the Roman Catholic Church, whose policies toward medicine were des...

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

(Why expansion, 2006). The U.S. economy had thus been expanding, except for one short recession, for "more than eighteen years" (W...