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American Economy from 1990 to 2000 and Interest Rates

consumer demand (Delong 60). Slowly, unemployment rates continued to sink until they hit an all-time low of 4 percent during the ...

Baroque Period Technology and Science

At the same time, there was a new found wealth to come through the newly erupting middle class ("The Baroque" 2003). It was a time...

The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century by Jacob Burckhardt

individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...

900 to 1420 Rise of Catholicism

Church of Rome were initiated at the request of Byzantine emperor (Fiero, DATE). Pope Urban II ordered the first campaign in 1095,...

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century America Expansion and Migration

The best intentions often brought about an entirely different outcome; while explorers made sure to draw up at least an idea of wh...

China's Song and Qing Dynasties and Gender Roles

overrun by the Mongols. The Song Dynasty was known for its great changes in the economic and social climates of the country becaus...

Medieval and Renaissance Artistic Depictions of Women

womanly figure that offered men a very subdued connection to women. The fact that this connection with women was incredibly subdue...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fashions for Women

up slightly in the back in order to show a little bit of ankle or even the calf of her leg when flirting with a gentleman. Swim...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Architecture of Westminster Abbey and Its French Influence

of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...

1950 to 1970 Western European Integration, Economic or Political Factors?

Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen forties that had Europe scrambling for cover (Rosenb...

1865 to 1896 Native American Policy of the United States

The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...

Civil War Era as Portrayed in the Literature of Frederick Douglass and Nathaniel Hawthorne

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Irish Tensions

and four children slept in one comer, a widow woman in a second, the donkey in a third, and a pig in a fourth, of a cabin about 14...

English Literature and Love from the Romantic to Victorian Eras

on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of t...

Comparative July 2003 Stock Price Performance of Microsoft and Starbucks

kiosk in the lobby; a hospital or smaller office building may have space holding only a few insulated containers of coffee and sev...

Jean Baptiste Colbert and Louis XIV

believed that internal commerce was wholly useless for State wealth and, therefore, did absolutely nothing to promote it. As such...

1870 to 1914 Corporate America

with presidents. In addition having only limited power and little regulation in existence to hold these companies back. In additi...

U.S. First Ladies from the Time of Eleanor Roosevelt to Laura Bush

that they should work to promote various social policies. Eleanor Roosevelt was a controversial first lady, and was perhaps the fi...

1980s America

1920s, evangelists like Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson were recruiting members almost solely on the basis of their person...

Nazism in Europe and Germany and the Response of the Jews

the Jews into the concentration and extermination camps as part of the process of Hitlers "final solution". A Brief Overview of th...

Late 1940s and 1950s in America

upon closer examination, flaws barely perceptible by the naked eye could be seen which suggests that looks really are deceiving. ...

Interwar Years and Gold Standard Failure

then be repaid in gold or undepreciated paper. Such countries as France, the UK and the US took to the gold standard contingent r...

American Patriotism and Europeans

devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars. Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be neg...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

Migration and Immigration to California During the 1930s

did, but they were truly confident or very adventurous (Gregory, 1991). For the most part, the relationships had been there from t...

Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time

than the others. It may be that they are all true. However, FDR did change his will to leave half of his fortune to Missy, antici...

Variations in European and Native American Interactions

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

History of Herodian Dynasty

in the case of John the Baptist, he should feel that Jesus followers were becoming a political threat to his rule. Herod Agrippa...

Medieval Sculpture

were a period of tremendous changes in western Europe, particularly in population, demography, economics, politics, and military s...