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  • Until Relatively Recently in the History of Organized Education

    Until Relatively Recently in the History of Organized Education

    Until relatively recently in the history of organized education, females were not allowed into the male realm of the classroom. It is ironic that in the present day, researchers are finding that curriculums are satisfying the needs of girls more so than their sexual counterparts. In fact, the general lopsided performance of students in coeducational schools has raised the question: Would it be more beneficial to teach girls separate from boys? Elizabeth Weil examines each

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Tasha
  • History of Egypt

    History of Egypt

    Have you ever wondered about the secrets and mysteries of Egypt? How about the lives of some of the most important Pharaohs there? In this report I will reveal some of the mysteries hidden about Egypt. A lot of stuff began to go on in Egypt around 3500BC. That was when the first settlers came to settle in the Nile Valley. In 3100BC Egyptians began using Hieroglyphics Scripts and Narmer, a famous explore, unified upper

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    Essay Length: 286 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Anna
  • History of Telecommunications

    History of Telecommunications

    The Past 50 Years The history of the telephone has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. When the telephone was originally invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, communication across a phone line was only achievable by short distances and was only used to transmit voice data. With today’s technology, communications can span the globe and carry voice, data, and video. The earliest phone systems used rotary technology and a manual switching system requiring

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jack
  • The English Teacher

    The English Teacher

    The English Teacher The English Teacher is the third of the trilogy that began with Swami and Friends, and The Bachelor of Arts. This novel dedicated to Narayan's wife Rajam is not only autobiographical but also poignant in its intensity of feeling. The story is a series of experiences in Krishna's life - some joyful, some sorrowful; and his journey towards achieving inner peace and self-development, in the traditional Indian sense. About the Author Rasipuram,

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • History of Computers

    History of Computers

    The earliest existence of a modern day computer's ancestor was the abacus. These date back to almost 2000 years ago. It is simply a wooden rack holding parallel wires on which beads are strung. When these beads are moved along the wire according to "programming" rules that the user must memorize, all ordinary arithmetic operations can be performed. The next innovation in computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first "digital calculating

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: David
  • History of Microsoft Word

    History of Microsoft Word

    History of Microsoft Word Microsoft was created by a very smart man. That man wanted to help out people in the world, but he did not know he would become a billionaire in the process. His name is Bill Gates. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, was born on Oct. 28th, 1955. He was 19 yrs. old when he first set up Microsoft. His dream was that every home would have a computer. The U.S. Federal Trade

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • Recovering Identity Through Myth, History and Place

    Recovering Identity Through Myth, History and Place

    Recovering Identity Through Myth, History and Place Myth and history are necessary in explaining the world, and can be depended upon for guidance with one as reliable as the other. The idea of place, with its inherent myth and history, is an important factor in one's identity because place shapes character and events. Robertson Davies' Fifth Business, E. Anne Proulx's The Shipping News, Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion, and Jack Hodgins' The

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Stenly
  • English Literature

    English Literature

    The deaths in each of these stories are quite similar in certain ways, but also different. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” the death was a penalty for a crime that had been committed. What we see in the story is a last memory or dream, before the actual death occurs. At the time we don’t know this, but could probably guess after a few minutes into the story. When the board is removed

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Victor
  • American History

    American History

    Throughout the 1800’s and to this day, many talented leaders have embraced the government and its people. One of the most important leaders of his time was Andrew Jackson, the “Old Hero”. Jackson and his supporters, known as the Jacksonian Democrats, helped shape our country into an improved and stronger nation. They provided individual and economic freedom to the people and established a more efficient government. The chief issue the Jacksonian Democrats argued was “shall

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: July
  • History of Aids- 1981-1986

    History of Aids- 1981-1986

    We do not know how many people developed AIDS in the 1970s, or indeed in the years before. Neither do we know, and we probably never will know, where the AIDS virus HIV originated (see our origins page for some theories). But what we do know is: "The dominant feature of this first period was silence, for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was unknown and transmission was not accompanied by signs or symptoms salient enough

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Mobile Telephone History

    Mobile Telephone History

    Abstract : Mobile Telephone History This article describes how mobile telephones, for decades a near dormant technology, became the dynamic and perhaps most important communication tool of our lives. Commercial mobile telephony began in 1946. The cellular radio concept was published in 1947. But only since 1995 have mobiles become low cost, rich in features, and used world wide. We first examine mobile telephony’s early and bulky beginnings. Next, the long journey to analog cellular.

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Bred
  • Sex in History

    Sex in History

    As we human beings have changed and evolved over our thousands of years of recorded history, so have our attitudes and expressions of all things sexual. The only thing that hasn't changed much is society's desire to exercise a certain amount of control over an individual's sexual behaviour. Whether it be through church or state, educational institutions or popular media of the time, there have been rules and regulations, views and taboos about what we

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Definition of Science Fiction

    Definition of Science Fiction

    Perhaps one of the most versatile genres in films, television, books, artwork and any number of things today is science fiction. Many times I have seen a sci-fi movie filed under comedy or drama. That is one of the major things that has led to my love for science fiction, the simple fact that it can be so much more than just science fiction. I would like to present a definition of what science

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Imperfect Heroin in Prose Fiction

    The Imperfect Heroin in Prose Fiction

    The Imperfect Heroin in Prose Fiction There is one particular feature that sets the novel apart from any other literary genre. Literature has the ability to transport you into a world that is a product of individual imagination yet the realism expressed in the novel serves as a tool or road that leads to the emerging of conceived images. It is a time travel that has the ability to restore any period of growth in

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jon
  • Human History - Disobidience

    Human History - Disobidience

    "Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience." In the article by Erich Fromm "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem" the author discusses the positive and negative aspects of obedience and disobedience. This article was comprised in the early nineteen sixties when the Cuban missile crisis was still fresh on Americas minds According to Hebrew myth Adam and Eve

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Anna
  • White Man’s Burden World History

    White Man’s Burden World History

    The White Man's Burden, by Rudyard Kipling, suggested that Americans should encourage the cultural development of, people from other ethnic and cultural backgrounds until they can take their place in the world by fully adopting Western ways. This phrase expressed imperialism through a subliminal message. By culturing other people, the main process was by conquering their land and in effect expands America's own land. The White Man's Burden is a poem by the British poet

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Western Influence and History of Japanese Rock

    Western Influence and History of Japanese Rock

    Since the begging of the “Rock Revolution” in Europe and the United States, rock musicians such as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Cream toured constantly all over the world. This touring led to many effects in the countries and cultures they went to and helped pave the way for music to change in these regions. Japan has developed into a top five market for rock and heavy metal music, but it was these influences that

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jack
  • History of Oranges

    History of Oranges

    The sweet delicious juicy orange is eaten all around the world and was born as a sour fruit, growing wild in China. Dating back thousands of years, the orange was probably being cultivated by the Chinese by 2500 BC. It may also have found roots in the Assam area of India and in Myanmar. Mysteriously, for thousands of years, oranges seem to have remained an Oriental treat, not written up in the Middle East, or

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Top
  • History of Human Resource Management

    History of Human Resource Management

    People Management In this assignment I will be looking at the role played by the Personnel Management to Human Resource Management (HRM) for Sainsbury’s and there historic developments. I will also be looking at how the existing HR function for Sainsbury’s could be developed to work more effectively with the rest of the organisation. Human Resource Management (HRM) is fundamentally another name for personnel management. It is the process of making sure the employees are

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Stenly
  • A Brief History of Pink Floyd

    A Brief History of Pink Floyd

    I've always wondered how certain bands started. My favorite band is Pink Floyd. How did they meet? Where did they come up with Pink Floyd? Why "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn?" I think I found the answers to these questions. Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett on January 6, 1946 in Cambridge, England and Roger Waters was born George Roger Waters on September 9, 1944 in Great Brookham, England; both grew up

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Bred
  • Islam: A Brief History

    Islam: A Brief History

    AMDG BVMH 1-27-07 World Religions David Brennan Karen Armstrong’s 202 page book, Islam: a Short History covers the religion Islam and what the teachings have to offer. The author herself has written books on Christianity and Buddhism as well. She is a former nun who now lives a self-proclaimed ‘solitary life’. She suffers through the disease epilepsy and wrote about her trial in the 2004 book The Spiral Staircase. She believes that by writing on

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Anna
  • Shakespear History

    Shakespear History

    The Course Shakespeare, some critics suggest, invented the history play. When he stopped writing it, people lost interest. Part of a much larger revision of historical thinking in the Renaissance, the history play asks its audiences, then and now, to reconsider history in terms of CAUSE, ANACHRONISM, and EVIDENCE. Of these three, questions of cause may be the most palpable. Is history shaped by Providence or human machination? Think you know the answer? Shakespeare didn't.

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Yan
  • Specific Purpose: To Inform My Audience of the Steps To Becoming a Published Fiction Writer.

    Specific Purpose: To Inform My Audience of the Steps To Becoming a Published Fiction Writer.

    Specific purpose: To inform my audience of the steps to becoming a published fiction writer. Central idea: The publishing process is a long and mind bending one that most people tend to overlook when simply walking though a bookstore. Introduction: I. Mostly everyone has read the acclaimed novel the Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton. A. What most people fail to realize is that this successful novel was published when she was only 16 years old.

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Which Is a Better Source of Reliable Information Concerning Salamis В– Herodotus’ Histories or Aeschylus’ the Persians

    Which Is a Better Source of Reliable Information Concerning Salamis В– Herodotus’ Histories or Aeschylus’ the Persians

    Both "The Persians" and "The Histories" contain information regarding the battle of Salamis. "The Persians" is set in the period between the battle of Salamis and the deciding battle of Platea, and although a work of fiction, it has many valuable and useful bits of information. Firstly, it was written earlier than The Histories, by someone who had been in the battle itself. Therefore, most of the information would be accurate to Aeschylus. However, when

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • History Lesson

    History Lesson

    Ask George Washington what he thinks about fighting a war on credit. Back in his day, Congress printed money to pay for the Revolutionary War but neglected to tax anybody to back up this funny money of theirs. The bills were called continentals and in due course they lost all their value, hence the once-popular expression, "not worth a continental." When your money is not worth a continental that means you are suffering from inflation

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: David