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Judge Dee's Most Famous Cases

reader learns there are ways of old which at times served a greater purpose than anything we have currently. In several of the...

Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

Global Property Rights and Power Shifts

be seen as a bundle of rights which may be separable, for example the sub soil rights may be the property of the state, but others...

Western Domination from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

than any other nation in the world the Western world was coming into an age of discovery that would set the stage for all the deca...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

A History of the US' Federal Reserve System

since the late 19th century (Federal Reserve System of Minneapolis, 1988). During the Banking Panic of 1907 (the fourth in 34 year...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

Americans of the Nineteenth Century and Western Conquest

Her life journey coupled her with a man who became her husband and took her with him on his expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. What...

The Conservation and Environmentalist Movements of the Twentieth Century

into an era of plenty and sometimes excess. The television programs depicting the life during the period like Happy Days and Mad M...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Chile During Pjnochet

him killed (Londregan, 2006). It is noted that he was responsible for the murder of more than 3,000 citizens (Londregan, 2006). ...

Fayum Portraits

as to whether or not they actually resembled the deceased to any greater degree. Analyses of the paintings shows that they are oft...

GREECE AND POLITICS - 2000-2004

the 2000 election saw the diminishing of PASOKs power, while the 2004 election put the final nail of that power in the coffin. OVE...

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

Ageism and the 2008 Presidential Elections

differing by only around a decade or so. Grover Cleveland was President in 1908 and he was 47 years old (Scholastic.com). William ...

Janine Brody's Canada National Policy Opinion

Canada is made up of various regions with different needs and interests. Industries tend to form where there is a need. It would b...

China v. Western Europe Expansionism

to the brink of a new world direction. Interestingly, however, that direction would end abruptly as the leadership of China fell ...

20th Century Development and Industrialized Countries' Impact

Part of the "umbrella of protection" that has been extended to lesser developed countries by the more industrialized countries of ...

20th Century British India

but it pays to note also that other things would occur to render the necessity of government help. As a result, it is found that o...

21st Century Retrieval of Information

Many patrons can access the information from their home computers so that they do not even have to go to the library to see if a b...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

Erasmus/Praise of Folly

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

Geoffrey Barraclough’s Unconventional Interpretation of the Carolingian Empire in The Crucible of Europe

Carolingian Empire was a complete unification of Europe, but the denial of the many regional differences and the steadfast refusal...

Plight of Labor/Bell's Furnace

in words, never in deeds. In actuality, Carnegie was totally ruthless in his business practices, coldly treating the workers as if...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Churches and the French Revolution

France. And, as Hines (1999) states, "You might say that bread was the fuel that fired the Revolution, for just about every major ...