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History of Texas and the 'Runaway Scrape' Battle

their homes and their towns to somewhere out of Texas that would be safe (Bredeson, 1996, See also Texans Return to 1836, 2001)....

The Role of Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement

threatened the position of men, "especially as new machines permitted less skilled operatives to perform tasks formerly assigned t...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Greek Themes

Civilizations/Myths. This work offers a greater understanding of Tartts work in that the implied use and meaning during the Greek ...

History and Fate of the Great Basin's Anasazi

between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada ... The landscape is more than half empty" (Christensen, 2003). Technically, however, t...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

The Park and the People A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar

4) Redefining Central Park; 5) The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City; and, 6) The Past Fifty Years, in additio...

Reading Education History

eye" which meant that there was more to reading than decoding. Reading was perceived now as a process. The key motto was "reading ...

Social History and Collective Memory

a word or phrase. Analysis of these lieux de memoire can account for the basis from which the collective identity of the group is ...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Wildlife and the Impact of Urbanization

addition, urbanization brings about the need for "linear land use" such as roads, power lines and trails, and the introduction of ...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

History, Brands, and Product Life Cycles

not associated with the history. In looking at different brands it is possible to see this renewal occurring. There are brands s...

Vietnam A History by Stanley Karnow

was a region that had known internal war for quite some time and the interference of another nation did not change their culture ...

History of Telecommuting and 'Teleworking'

establishment of the home office has given rise to various forms of regional development and interworking, allowing small and medi...

Westward Settlement and Environmental Effects

Americans from the land). In addition, during the early part of the century and by Congressional Act, the U.S. forbid fore...

Colombia's History Since its Independence

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

A History of the Dictionary

in that language, and the world was well on its way toward the development of dictionaries as we know them today. In 1603, Robert...

History and Recommendations for Advanced Directives

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Television Sitcoms and Their History

simpler times in American history, times where families were always intact and times when the biggest problem was deciding whether...

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...

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...

Cooperation History and Evolution

idea of co-operation appears to be contrary to this theory, as with cooperation evolution may still take place, but natural select...

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

History Shaped by the Russian Orthodox Church

particular concern was the Viking marauders and Asian nomads and even factions of the people themselves who sought to exploit the ...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

The History of Fortune Cookies

in the middle of their Moon Cakes (replacing the yolk with secret messages). Patriotic revolutionary, Chu Yuan Chang took on the d...

U.S. Employment Prospects in History Teaching

quality of the programs would gather more attention than the state lottery. But, this isnt a perfect world and there are no perfec...

Women's Rights Movement Pioneers

in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...