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Educational History and Women

colleges and institutes of education. "But it would take time" (Anonymous The Education of Women, 1998; women.html). In the follow...

Analyzing Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

same time, the importance of this identification should not be overestimated; his life experiences are not limited to the expected...

Placing a Historical Value on 'The Iliad' by Homer

be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

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...

Perspectives on Universality

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

Civil War General George B. McClellan

the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...

The Clown by Boll Heinrich

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare Critically Analyzed

to those who have never read the play or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg U...

Weep Not, Child by Ngugi Wa Thiongo

British colonials who ruled that nation. The Mau Mau rebellion actually began in 1952 in highland Kenya, a British colony where w...

U.S. Immigration and Illness

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....

Carrying out the Holocaust

2002). One of these main "coordinators" was a man named Adolf Eichmann, who escaped to Argentina after the war (The Holocaust, 20...

Definition of Normalcy

tall should weigh somewhere between 125-140 lbs, but the cultural message is clear: thin is in. Therefore, many who are a normal w...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

In Support of Capital Punishment

penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...

History, Recreation, and Public Administration

major thrust of this movement was to formulate a less corrupt and more responsive government -- one that could cope with the press...

Concept of Race

what they felt made them distinct was not their colour" (McCaskell HistoryRacism.htm). What made the different people noticeably...

Can Globalization Be Reversed?

globalization but most agree that the word describes a world where market forces are the driving forces. Trade and investment are ...

Exegesis of the Seventh Chapter of Luke, Lines 11 to 17

behind him. As Jesus approached the town gate (Luke 7:12), a funeral procession for an only son was coming out of the gate. The...

History of Judicial Review and its Justification

even more so in recent times. That branch is the judicial division, that division which oversees the actions of Congress itself. ...

Unresolved Issue of Gun Control

In seven pages a historical perspective is taken regarding the unresolved gun control issue in an examination of governmental legi...

It is Time to Break Up America's Love Affair with Guns

In a paper consisting of twenty pages the right of America to own arms is examined from an historical perspective and the argument...

Autobiographies of African Olaudah Equiano and American Benjamin Franklin

the letter pulls the reader into the familiar structure of the book, and creates the continued expectation of familiar concepts, n...

Overview of Ho Chi Minh

In six pages this paper presents a glimpse of the North Vietnamese leader from personal, political, historical, and media perspect...

History and Practice of Zen Meditation

beginning of all things--the Buddha. And for those in a hurry --there developed the satori-- or sudden enlightenment. It was often...

American Small Business and a History of its Growth

In eleven pages this research paper considers American small business development from an historical perspective. Nine sources ar...

Serbs and Kosovo Crisis in Yugoslavia

very hot, particularly in the regions closest to the Mediterranean. The largest portion of the region has weather patterns typica...

Land Grant Colleges and the Morrill Act

In five pages this paper examines the Morrill Act in a consideration of land grant colleges and their mission from an historical p...

Historians and Conception of the Nazi Program

If historians were to analyze this particular conversation between Adolph Hitler met with Marshal Kvaternik, the leader of the Naz...

Comparison of Second World War Jewish Genocide and Extermination of Native Americans

In five pages this paper defines genocide and then examines it in a comparison of practices against Native Americans and Jews with...