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Gold At Sutter’s Mill in California

epidemic, the discovery meant only "great misfortune," as it ruined all is "hard, restless and industrious labors" and meant that ...

POLITICAL EVENTS: 1950S-1990S

Senator Joseph McCarthy began his communist witch hunt, trying to root out the "evil red influence" from everything ranging from g...

Using Statistical Analysis and Explaining Probability

collected on the same date each month, the 12th. However, even during a day there are a number of different data points which coul...

Leaders: Controlling or Controlled?

survey of history so taking three disparate examples seems reasonable. As for whether or not leaders control events or vice versa...

Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan Earthquake Compared

building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...

The Bill Gates Story

emphasize that it is a Microsoft world already. His childhood was rather ordinary. Bills father was a lawyer and his mother, a sc...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Workaholics: A Categorization

read "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase". Yes, our labor is indeed rewa...

Developing Leadership In Public Organizations

and one they refer to as an "integrated approach" (NESGFOA, 2006). Agencies using the just-in-time approach are training people ...

Integrity: What It Is, and Why It Must be Part of Our Lives

of integrity be morally wrong? If integrity means standing up for ones beliefs, and if those beliefs are condemned by others, then...

Atwood & Bradbury/Best Dystopian Tale

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

How We Live & How We Feel About Dying

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

Psalm 54 Exegesis

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

Ukraine - Orange Revolution And After

they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnyc...

Should The Bible Be Used To Teach History

who do not believe in God often try to argue the point on the historicity the text. Since the texts have been shown to be reliable...

2 New Proposed Laws

inspection program" that pertains to "breeders, dealers, kennels and shelters with more than 25 dogs" (Seibel, 2007). Inspections ...

Humans and Nature

essay that illustrates her story about being African American is not every African Americans story and in truth it is quite differ...

Komatsu Case Study

the quality of all products. Caterpillar was dominant in both the U.S. and the world but Komatsu held a 60 percent share of the J...

Erikson Stage 8 : Integrity Vs Despair

Integrity in this sense is about wholeness as opposed to how we often use the term (to mean honesty) (Johansson, 2002). It is abou...

Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

EEO Violations (Personal Examples and Analysis)

named Selma began to work at his place of business and she began to flirt with him. The student asked her out, but then she turned...

Theological Reflection on the US Money Crisis

people who are now facing the consequences of rashly made decisions. In this fiasco, Wall Street and the large portions of the A...

Personal Narrative and a Clarifying Moment

operates under the principles of love and caring for each other. In the modern world this can be a handicap. I was employed as...

Willam Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

In an essay of 12 pages, the events and elements that lead to the decline of order are examined. There is 1 additional bibliograp...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

Americans Held Captive in Foreign Lands

the student was prosecuted to the fullest extent of their laws. The others left the country quietly. This seems to be a frequent t...

The Life and Career of Count Frontenac

This paper examines the personal life and political policies of Count Frontenac. The author addresses his relationship with the cl...

Taiwan's Economic Development

international cooperation allowed the island to industrialize quickly, and led to the continual upgrading of industry as well as a...

Eisenhower Years and Reflections of Its Poltics and Culture

Also Progressive Los Angeles the 50s, 2001). Just when the average working stiff had made up his mind relevant to issues s...