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  • The Mutability of History in 1984

    The Mutability of History in 1984

    One of the issues raised in 1984 is the idea that history is mutable or changeable, that truth is what the Party deems it to be, and that the truths found in history are the bases of the principles of the future. Some Fascist German leaders of the time boasted that if you tell a lie loud enough and often enough, people will accept it as truth. The Stalinists perfected this modus operandi by re-writing

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Yan
  • Chemistry (history of Salt)

    Chemistry (history of Salt)

    History of- “Evidence” shows sodium chloride was** important as long ago as when supposedly, mastodons were on the earth. Sodium chloride was being used before written history began. 2,700 years B.C there was published in China the Peng-Tzao-Kan-Mu, probably the earliest known pharmaceutical guide. (Sodium) A major part of this writing was devoted to a analysis of more than 40 kinds of salt, including descriptions of two methods of extracting sodium chloride and putting it

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    Essay Length: 771 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: David
  • History Outlines

    History Outlines

    I. To what extent did economic issues provoke the American Revolution? Consider in your answer any two for of the following: II. From 1760 to 1776 the Stamp Act and the Administration of Justice Acts provoked the American Revolution to a high extent. III. A. Stamp Act 1. Stamp Act Congress 2. Sons of Liberty 3. “No taxation without representation” IV. B. Administration of Justice Act 1. Virtual representation 2. Admiral courts 3. No trial

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    Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Hollywood Vs History

    Hollywood Vs History

    History vs. Hollywood The Patriot The Revolutionary war, sparked by the colonist’s anger towards taxation without representation, was a conflict between the United States and its mother country Great Britain. This event had been considered the most significant event in the American history. It separated the thirteen colonies from the tyrannical ruling of King George. The revolutionary war was not a big war, “The military conflict was, by the standards of later wars, a relatively

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    Essay Length: 924 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Steve
  • McDonald History

    McDonald History

    McDonald’s is a restaurant that everybody knows. McDonald was created by sibling Dick and Mac McDonald. The Brothers started out with opening a hotdog stand in 1937 called Airdrome. So the brother decided to expand the business and come up with a different type of restaurant. McDonald opens in 1940 in San Bernardino, California. The menu consisted of 25 items and most of was barbecue products. McDonald became a popular place for teen to hang

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: July
  • A Brief History of the Hybrid Vehicle

    A Brief History of the Hybrid Vehicle

    Brief History of Hybrid Vehicle Development First built in the early 1900s by inventors tinkering with combinations of the electric motor and the gasoline engine, hybrid vehicles were dropped when gasoline-fueled vehicles became more reliable and easier to start, and gasoline fuel more readily available. Research and development of hybrid vehicles was revived by concern about oil dependency in the1970s and about air pollution in the late 1980s. A number of hybrid vehicles have been

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    Essay Length: 2,639 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • G.I.S. a Brief History

    G.I.S. a Brief History

    G.I.S. “A Brief History” Although a relatively new addition to the Geographic field, with most of its main innovations in the last 40 years, G.I.S. (Geographic Information Systems) had several precursors. A history of this field has been attempted and usually takes several volumes to fulfill this goal. This paper will not attempt a full history, but will hit upon some of the Ideas and high points of this fledgling technology through the history of

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    Essay Length: 2,056 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Yan
  • Some Computser History

    Some Computser History

    The Analytical and Difference Engines (1835-1869): The English mathematician Charles Babbage (1792-1871) never got to build his invention, but his design had an uncanny resemblance to the modern computer. Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, wrote eloquently about the device and was history's first programmer. The ABC (Atanasoff Berry Computer) (1938): John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry designed the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State, and urged the university to patent their design. Nothing was ever

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    Essay Length: 515 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Bred
  • Different Ways to Compare Art History and Informational Technology

    Different Ways to Compare Art History and Informational Technology

    Different Ways to Compare/Contrast Art History and Informational Technology Robert Nealeigh Colorado Technical University ENG116-0802A-01 Susan Sampson April 22, 2008 Different Ways to Compare/Contrast Art History and Informational Technology In the essay that you are about to read, I will explain the differences in a compare and contrast essay on Art History and Informational Technology. I’ll be talking first about Art History and what we need to research, investigate and just plain figure out what’s

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    Essay Length: 491 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Black Beauty

    Black Beauty

    This book is for those who love animals. Everybody can enjoy reading this, but people who love animals will be especially moved by this book. This is the story about a horse named Black Beauty. He was a wise, brave, fine horse. He had a lot of hard experiences. He could understand men's words and feelings. He was sold several times, and had various kinds of masters. Some people treated him very well, others did

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: regina
  • What Is Art History

    What Is Art History

    What Is Art History? Many students do not get a chance to study art history until they take a college course, so art history may be a new field of study for you. Even though you are new to analyzing the visual arts, your learning skills in other fields will serve you well in this discipline. If you have ever analyzed a poem or developed an understanding of a historical period, you already come prepared

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    Essay Length: 2,276 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • History of the Mojave Desert

    History of the Mojave Desert

    The History of the Mojave desert What does the name “Mojave” mean? The Mojaves were a small North American Indian tribe that lived in the same area as what’s now called the Mojave desert. They spoke a Yuman dialect and were friends with all the other Indian groups on that land. The other native tribes in the Mojave were called Piutes and Chemehuevi. They didn’t have a formal government . They had common Indian rituals

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    Essay Length: 1,933 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • Influences on Ethics: Experience, Media and the History of Ideas

    Influences on Ethics: Experience, Media and the History of Ideas

    Influences on Ethics: Experience, Media and the History of Ideas Micah Gaither University of Phoenix GEN/480 January 16, 2006 Influences on Ethics: Experience, Media and the History of Ideas: It can be difficult to come up with a method of evaluating decisions and forming unbiased opinions. To understand how ethics are influenced it is important to understand (1) how ethics are formed, (2) which forces are shaping them, and (3) what is a popular method

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    Essay Length: 995 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: regina
  • Black Southerners

    Black Southerners

    This book is surely an interesting one but in some places one feels that the author should have gone into a bit more depth. At times while reading the book I had to look a certain aspect of black history on the internet. This at first is not a problem but afterwards the frustration kind of builds up. The book mainly discusses the rise of the 'peculiar institution' from the start of U.S. colonization to

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Artur
  • Examining a Philosophy of History

    Examining a Philosophy of History

    Examining a Philosophy of History That history contains errors, will not come as news to a person who has reflected on the topic. The very first history, a Greek one, History of Herodotus, written around 450 BC, likely had quite a number of fictional details so as to effect its purpose.1 Those parts of our history which are suspected to be fiction are, at least, through research and comparison, salvageable. What, however, is possibly more

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Saudi Arabia: History of Relationship to Us

    Saudi Arabia: History of Relationship to Us

    Although the United Sates and Saudi Arabia present the United States and Saudi Arabia’s relationship as excellent, there are actually two nations who have bitter disagreements but who allies through oil. The only thing that has held this alliance together is the US dependence on Saudi oil. The United States has felt and still fells that it is a necessity to have bases present in the Middle East to protect oil, and silently to protect

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    Essay Length: 888 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Anna
  • Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cat

    Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cat

    The narrator’s first cat’s name Pluto is that of the Roman God of the underworld. Pluto contributes to a strong sense of Hell and may even symbolize the Devil himself. Onyx cats have long been connected to bad luck and misfortune. The narrator’s wife even joking mentions that black cats are said to be witches in guise. From this one can assume that a horrible thing will be bestowed upon the narrator, though one might

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    Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Anna
  • Religion and History

    Religion and History

    Caroline Rogers Contemporary Civilization Professor Kitcher May 9, 2000 Religion and History Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche both develop the idea that history is important to the understanding of human nature through their examinations of modern civilization and religion’s fundamental role in it. Though the term “history” is somewhat vague with many possible connotations, Freud and Nietzsche both attempt to discuss the notion as it applies to their conceptions of present-day society. Nietzsche feels very

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    Essay Length: 2,074 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Victor
  • Black Hole

    Black Hole

    As cosmic events go, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae rank among the most spectacular, but nobody has sought to forge a link between the two ЎV until now. After three decades of study of their possible origins, researchers have concocted more than 150 theoretical models, but only a handful can come close to describing the true magnitude of the bursts. There are two leading theories ЎV the Ў§collapsarЎЁ theory and the Ў§supranovaЎЁ theory. According to

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    Essay Length: 460 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Tasha
  • A Brief History of Antarctic Whaling

    A Brief History of Antarctic Whaling

    The introduction of the factory ships into the fleets of existing commercial whaling operations in 1925 brought with it increased catches of predominantly blue whales due to their large size and yield of whale oil derived from the blubber that insulates whales in the cold seas. It is worth noting that humpback whales were also caught as they were slower swimmers and easier to catch, as the humpback whales were often found close to the

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Edward
  • Jackie Robinson - the Black Messiah of Baseball

    Jackie Robinson - the Black Messiah of Baseball

    English Skills 1 May 16, 2007 The Black Messiah of Baseball Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children. Robinson grew up in an area of poverty, and he also became affiliated with a neighborhood gang in his youth. (2) He was persuaded by his friend named Carl Anderson to abandon the gang. In 1935, Robinson enrolled into John Muir High School. There he

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Jack
  • Ap History Slavery

    Ap History Slavery

    The Constitution of the United States was first created in 1787, to create a structure and establish the responsibilities of the American government. The goals of its drafters were to protect the inherent rights of citizens of the United States of America, establish a Government run by the people, and separate the government’s powers between three different branches (Executive, Legislative and Judicial). By accomplishing the goals of the Constitution, its drafters unified the people of

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    Essay Length: 965 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Vika
  • Economic Policy in Recent Us History

    Economic Policy in Recent Us History

    Economic Policy in Recent U.S. History In the highly materialistic world that we live in, success is generally measured in financial terms. The same is true in politics, where the success of a politician, especially the President, is measured by how well the economy did during his term in office. It is specifically measured by how well they bring down unemployment, grow the economy and fight inflation. Two basic modes of thought on the subject

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    Essay Length: 303 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: David
  • Resilancey in Black Woman

    Resilancey in Black Woman

    RESILANCEY IN BLACK WOMAN The act of resistance and defiance is one of the most used human reactions that we as Americans often use this to express ourselves in society today. These reactions are also used when some one fee3ls that they are being treated unfairly or in an unjust manner. America is supposed to be a land of equal value and opportunity when it comes to being human. Obviously this is not the

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    Essay Length: 1,126 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • The U.S.Government Fostered Monopoly or Oligopoly Ownership Throughout Radio's History

    The U.S.Government Fostered Monopoly or Oligopoly Ownership Throughout Radio's History

    Ecology and Population Growth The estimated human population on the Earth today has grown immensely in the past 100 years. Now it is estimated that over 6,650,000 people live on our planet. The number changes constantly because people die and infants are born. There are an estimated 261 births per minute and an estimated 120 deaths per minute in our world. Anything could put a dent into the population and the normal deaths. If there

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jon

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