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THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL Spanish and Mexican settlement of California ended up the same as so many other colonization attempts...

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

world. This blending of such culture has been credited with bringing societies closer together and allowing people to understand ...

use of or involvement with modern conveniences. Their choice to eschew the intrinsic benefits of contemporary technological advan...

In fourteen pages the Middle Ages are considered in terms of iconography and Christian symbolism's influence. Ten sources are cit...

In six pages this radical 1913 Russian musical ballet is examined in terms of its composer's revolutionary vision and the extreme ...

signify the "blood of the covenant" (Geffen, 1993, p. 28). It is a time-honored ceremony that is concluded when a family member (...

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

performing these rites for the multitude of abducted Africans who died in transit to the Americas. In the second chapter, Rabote...

p. 15). Financial backing is one of the most critical components of such an objective. The U.S. Agency for International Develop...

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

The authors recognize how utilizing this single Chicago community is not sufficient to represent the entire Chinese American popul...

favor "cooperation, discussion, a focus tied to people, hands-on activities, and whole-to-part learning," while white students are...

ground" (Wilbers, 1996, p. 02D). "The goal is not for one party to vanquish a second party (in the judgment of a third party), bu...

any legitimate claim upon the land, the New World was not uninhabited and European settlers necessarily had to contend with and ad...

the Code and ended with its demise" (Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by...

children (Briffault, 1927, p. 1415). This was the rule across Europe until the coming of Christianity and patriarchy. Patriarcha...

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

have long been "possessed" by adventurers, as this act would eternalize "the memory of those that effected it" (Smith). As this su...

older) of the United States tripled to about 34 million between 1940 and 1995. This group is expected to reach 80 million by 2050,...

sex (Dunn, et al, 2007). Statistics, such as this, indicate the clear need for HIV prevention programs that specifically target ad...

respect local tradition (Monmonier 71). The place-naming process outlined in Monmoniers book illustrates the transitional ...

president, he had as much of an ardent following as he did a collection of adversaries; however, this diverse constituency reflect...

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

Modernity," contains 6 chapters, which are characterized by the editors preferred political economy approach. Part 2, "Political T...

part of Hunters (2005) methodology, it serves to illustrate the point each author is making about extracting data based upon a mor...

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...