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Societal Understanding of the Concept of Childhood

12). The idea that childhood is a social construct was formulated by Philippe Aries in 1962 (King, 2007). Aries argued that whil...

Television and Its Historical Impact

2009). One very different thing to emerge was MTV. People by that time were used to situation comedy and drama, but music was gear...

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...

Algeria, the Army and Independence

named Colonel Hourai Boum?di?ne told the Algerian people that it was the armys mission to defend the Algerian culture while at the...

Views of Art Critic T.J. Clark

Currently, he is a Chancellors Professor of Modern Art at the University of California at Berkley.8 Born in Bristol in the United ...

Rome’s History

city was built, as Fabius writes, the adventure of stealing the women was attempted; and some say Romulus himself, being naturally...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

The Biological, Psychological, and Social Obstacles to Understanding Transsexuality

the treatise Feminization of males and masculinization of females (Meyerowitz, 2002). Meyerowitz (2002) claims Steinachs research...

History of Latin Literature

long possessed in the oral tradition. It was during the 19th century that it seems literature actually emerged in written form and...

The Celts

would put an end to the Etruscan peoples prominence (Who were the Celts?, 2008). It is also believed that shortly thereafter the ...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Gambling Interventions for Chinese-American Men

as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...

Policing in the United States and Austria

control. The United States Patriot Act was designed in such a way that it refocused policing processes on federal levels of contr...

American History

for farming" (Dawes Act, 2008). II: Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner was a man who developed a thesis: ...

Kupuna and the Hawaiian Culture

play a role in it" (273). As with many schools, and educational institutions around the nation, the Hawaiian schools need a deep...

THE DECLINE OF SOCIAL SECURITY

now, simply wont last. Whether it goes bankrupt in 2014, as the most pessimistic folks think, or 150 years down the line, which is...

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: ITS INFLUENCE ON POLITICS AND SOCIETY FROM 2000 BCE TO 1500 CE

This 5-page paper examines the history of the Catholic Church and Christianity until 1500 BCE, and examines its influence on gover...

Amnesty International and Social Justice

of Human Rights (Khan, 2006). Its mission has evolved from blanket support of human rights to targeting specific abuses such as g...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

to customize therapies to variations in genetic makeup" (The Childrens Hospital, 2007). They are noted as being one fo the first h...

American History

experience in the war for a soldier other than seeing battle, worrying about home as it became vulnerable, dreaming of freedom and...

Amerindian History, Culture and Accomplishments

developed; they were located along the "shores, rivers and creeks of southeastern Alaska to northern California," and they were a ...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...