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Conrail Bought by CSX

their services. Across the industry, operating ratio "(defined as the ratio of operating expenses to operating revenues...)" (Mil...

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

The Abolition Movement

also mean they would have to pay higher taxes, but they were willing to do so (Ratification debate on the U.S. Constitution). The ...

Tennessee Folklore: The Ghost Lights of Chapel Hill

his lantern, as he searches for his lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; oth...

Siebert: The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

the Railroad, which would probably have delighted him no end (Quarles, p. 145). Seibert also does something else that has largely ...

Ousmane: “God’s Bits of Wood”

earliest in 1881, and again in 1920, 1925, and 1938; the strike that Sembene uses in his novel is the one that took place in 1947 ...

Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like it in the World The Transcontinental Railroad

people and the reader often finds himself shaking his head in amazement at what these people had to endure in order for this proje...

American Cultural Connection and 'The Celestial Railroad' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation

The Inspector General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation is a separate and independent organization. Its purpose is t...

Railroad Accidents

The general public does not know how many train accidents really happen. There are far more than most of us know. The big ones get...

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...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

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...

History of Latin Literature

long possessed in the oral tradition. It was during the 19th century that it seems literature actually emerged in written form and...

History of Cosmetic Surgery

such as a procedure to repair a cleft lip described in early tenth-century literature, the firm scientific foundations found in Gr...

Rome’s History

city was built, as Fabius writes, the adventure of stealing the women was attempted; and some say Romulus himself, being naturally...

Policing in the United States and Austria

control. The United States Patriot Act was designed in such a way that it refocused policing processes on federal levels of contr...

The Celts

would put an end to the Etruscan peoples prominence (Who were the Celts?, 2008). It is also believed that shortly thereafter the ...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Medieval Manuscripts

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...