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17th Century World History

Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...

A Short History of Cigarette Advertising

focusing on the positive aspects of cigarettes, tobacco companies would encourage smoking and they would often target certain grou...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

Analysis of Michael Moore’s Essay, “Idiot Nation”

two hundred million stone-cold idiots in this country, that leaves at least eighty million who will get what Im saying" (Moore 132...

History of New York Gangs

This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...

The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Developmental Psychology, Its History

This research paper presents a thorough overview of developmental psychology's history. The writer begins with the discipline's or...

Its Past, Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice

This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Trends in Late 19th Century US History

This paper presents an overview of five trends in American history that occurred after 1877, industrialization, expansionism, prog...

Twentieth Century Gender History

This paper presents an overview of the 20th century events that changed the way society perceives and understands gender and women...

Christianity, the Early Roman Perception

This essay draws upon three writings from the second century to discuss the way in which Roman authorities perceived Christianity ...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Education Reform and the Decline of Moral Education

Starting with the common school movement of the nineteenth century, the author of this paper discusses how the emphasis on moral e...

Erosion of the Exclusionary Rule Protection

This paper examines cases dating back to the nineteenth century as the author considers the meaning and application of the exclusi...

Imagery in Two Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

History of Cosmetic Surgery

such as a procedure to repair a cleft lip described in early tenth-century literature, the firm scientific foundations found in Gr...

Mark Edmundson's "On The Uses Of A Liberal Education" - Argument Against His Point Of View

virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without the benefit of decision-making or to experience the decision-making...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

Medieval Manuscripts

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

American Landscaping

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

History

simple event people can become confused about a truth based on the fact that everyones "vantage point" or perspective is different...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

Competing Views of Abnormal Behaviors

characteristics that clinicians would place within the scope of mental disorders would not necessarily be perceived as problematic...