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Gender Assumption in Boys Don't Cry

of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...

Islam and the Hijrah

and goddesses. The commerce and economy largely depended on the tourist dollars. When Muhammad (pbuh) began preaching that there w...

Sociologist Karl Marx's Life and Theories

of Christianity, and went to school. He would later have nothing to do with religion, even coining the phrase related to the idea ...

Spy Satellites and Their History

(Richelson, 1997, p. 295). This laid the initial groundwork for the construction of a spy satellite, and nearly nine years later,...

California's Migrant Mexican Farm Workers

CUOM, which is a group of Mexican workers who worked in the Imperial Valley (2005). In 1933, a strike was called and three quarte...

An Inside Look at the Labor Union in Thomas Bell's 'Out of This Furnace'

American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...

Creation of Pangea and Its Changes

In five pages this paper offers a historical perspective on this land mass and the changes registered in animal and plant life. S...

How Has The Internet Affected Life

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

Historical Jesus

Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...

A Reading of Fawn M. Brodie's Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History

This paper provides an analysis of Brodie's historical biography of Thomas Jefferson. The author attempts to address various inco...

The Importance of Geography In Braveheart

This paper examines the importance of geography in the historical-drama, Braveheart, which detailed the life of William Wallace. ...

The family in Great Expectations

existence of alcohol. To him, the rotting barrels that once housed unlimited supplies of beer were symbolic of how he viewed Miss...

Meteors and the Defense of the Earth

The rare fragment that survives and actually lands on earth-that is a meteorite" (pp. 90). Krajick (1999) adds that modern...

New York's Inner City Architectural History

In ten pages this paper refers to Luc Sante's Low Life in a historical consideration of New York City's urban architecture in term...

75 Year Old New York Woman Interviewed

In ten pages this paper presents an interview with a New York woman that spans her life from the early 1920s to 1979 and includes ...

Life of Flavius Josephus

In five pages the life, works, and historical significance of Flavius Josephus are discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibli...

'1791' and 'Amadeus'

post as court composer and imperial Kapellmeister). In the movie Salieris music is simpleminded - this could have never been the ...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

Roman Attitudes Depicted in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Film Spartacus

facts are strictly accurate in the portrayal of his life and death. But we can argue that in the film, despite the inaccuracies th...

Life and Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In five pages this research paper explores the early 19th century philosopher's life and approach to philosophy with emphasis bein...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

Post-World War II Developments in Art

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

Bronte’s Jane Eyre/Joyce’s The Dead

because he is married to another woman and she will not compromise her morals or her principles. However, when she is offered a ch...

Nick Carraway/The Great Gatsby

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

Marriage During the Victorian Era and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...

'The Pardoner's Tale' and Avarice

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

Existentialism and No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

In four pages this paper discusses Sartre's assertion 'Hell is other people' within the context of the existentialism of his play ...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...