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The History and Uses of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine

This 8 page paper gives the history behind traditional Chinese herbal medicine, and its use in today's society. The writer argues ...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

American West and its Diversity

massive immigration in the early days when people came over from Europe. It began in the colonial times of course, but there was a...

Ritual and Museums

which is that the exhibits are intended to facilitate the "growth" and "learning" of the visitors (Virtual tour, 2004). The first...

Documentary 'The West' by Ken Burns and Stephen Ives

This paper examines how information on the history of the West was presented in this PBS documentary series in five pages. There ...

Rebranding a Museum

and special displays. The MMAH permanent collection includes a wide variety of works representing many cultures and eras. Among th...

West African Families and Female Circumcision

regions, the "lips" of the vagina, the labia minora and labia major, are also cut. The most severe form of female circumcision is ...

Germany and Women's Changing Status

the social consideration at the time. The role of the woman was firmly stereotyped, with an expectation that women should stay at ...

An Examination of the Cold War and Why It Did Not Result in a Major War

first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...

Emily L. Osborn, Our New Husbands Are Here

themes, and arguments Emily Lynn Osborns Our New Husbands Are Here investigates the sociology of households in the Milo River Val...

Modern East and West Germany

refugees from the Soviet zone to where some had fled during the war ("Germany"). Also among the refugees were individuals who had ...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Defining the West and Its History

by most, there are dilemmas that have surfaced as a result of the trek across the land. Further, it should be said that without th...

Islamic World, the West, and the Relevance of Medieval History

is based solely upon the influence of culture. Louis Rene Beres 2001 article entitled Terrorism and the Global Clash of Civilizat...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

Mexican Broadcast History

ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...

African History: The Bible and Africa

Shiloh, was captured by the Philistines for seven months, and then, returned to the Israelites, was kept in the village of Kiriath...

Effects of Colonization on South Africa

This research paper presents a short history of colonialism in South Africa. The writer focuses on slavery as a primary effect of ...

History, Government, and Bureaucracy of Contemporary South Africa

edge of the plateau is marked by a range of irregular mountains which descends abruptly into a coastal plain. South Africa also in...

South Africa's Apartheid and Economics

In six pages this paper examines the history of apartheid in South Africa in a consideration of its economic and workplace implica...

Human Services/African AIDS Orphans

sub-Saharan Africa, the number of AIDS orphans has reached desperate proportions (Roby and Shaw, 2006). In a region plagued by "ci...

Epic of Sunjata, Efuru, and Things Fall Apart Compared

In a paper consisting of six pages these three African novels written by Fa Digi Sisoko, Flora Nwapa, and Chinua Achebe are compar...

The Blood Knot by Athol Fugard

In eleven pages the 1961 play is examined in terms of the effects of the culture and history of South Africa in its textual conten...

Modern Times and Foraging Societies

group (or another one) can again use the area to meet its needs at a future time. Because foragers locations are never perm...

Overview of Kenya in East Africa

Though English is the official language of this nation, the lingua franca is Kiswahili, with Bantu languages comprising more than ...

Trans Civilization and Trans Ecological Routes Article by David Christian

In two pages this Journal of World History article is discussed in terms of its emphasis that the silk road trade routes of Africa...

African American History as Reflected Through Art

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

Southern and South African: Power of Christian Music

is "actually the confidence in the inner, hidden Holy Spirit inside of themselves as divine creations" (Ungureanu-Pamfi, 2011). Th...

The Transition of South Africa After Apartheid

program of peaceful coexistence, the Truth and Reconciliation commission has met with great success (Moller, 2007). Some inequiti...