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Slavery and the U.S. Civil War

would have been changed forever. Still, Davis was a leader in his own right. He was the only president of the Confederate States o...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Dr. Wade Davis and His Influences

remedies and the botanical pharmaceuticals of the Haitian peoples. Dr. Daviss early experiences, pre-Harvard, may have also influ...

Comparative Analysis of Latest 'Hot' Books on Management

In five pages these books on management are compared. They are Tulgan's Winning the Talent Wars, Collins and Porras' Built to Las...

Humanity and Injustice in Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills

Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills provide studies on issues of injustice and innate humanity, which shine through even ...

Answering Questions Science Cannot Through Religion

authority in all human action and interaction. But it is important to understand that regardless of the passage of time and the a...

Early Modern Society of France and Men's and Women's Status

a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...

Poullain de la Barre's Three Cartesian Feminist Treaties and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre

that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...

Christ A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...

Review of Christ A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

question who or what Jesus was. For those who are incredibly devout and believe every word of the Bible, and believe everything th...

1920s' U.S. Labor Movement

and had existed since about 1900. It had grown quite large over and decade or so and was even able to stage a walk out in 1916. In...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

California's 2002 Gubernatorial Election

had gotten credit for reforms in education, but he is largely blamed for the states $24 billion deficit, as well as for the energ...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Impeachment vs. Recall, Clinton vs. Davis

the worlds super powers. One of the most visible changes that has occurred since the onset and final outcome of Clintons im...

Angela Davis and Her Impact

prisoners who were apparently being held wrongly. It was this situation that ultimately led her to be on the FBIs most wanted list...

Personal Perspective on Social Stratification

old stereotype that the only way to get out of the ghetto is through basketball or rap has some truth. People are born into a cert...

Seeing is Believing by Margaret Miles

religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Edwin Davis and William Hogan's The Barber of Natchez

who were generally more accepted by white society if they worked hard and proved themselves intelligent and worthy of respect. ...

Central Los Angeles and Urban Unrest Causes

South Central L.A. that had been the hardest hit (Tucker, 1993). They also indicated that this area had had other problems stemmin...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

Civil Rights Activist Angela Davis

In a research paper consisting of eight pages the life and work of Angela Davis is considered with the focus on her evolving views...

The Cultural Transformation of Los Angeles

This paper examines two works regarding cultural changes in LA. The author discusses Mike Davis' book, City of Quartz, as well as...

California's 1999 8 Hour Day Restoration and Workplace Flexibility Act

This paper consists of five pages and examines this 1999 AB 60 legislation passed by Gray Davis, former governor of California. F...

Three Views of the Slave Trade in Africa

and time period under discussion. Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New Worl...

The Plight of Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This six page essay references two feminist works by authors Rebecca Harding Davis and Anzia Yezierska. The author utilizes passa...

The Long Fuse by Laurence Lafore

yet they did not refrain from those actions. Lafore seems to shed light on how the threat to Austria and Hungarys integrity was a...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...