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  • How and Why Did China Lose Its Position as a World Leader During the 19th Century

    How and Why Did China Lose Its Position as a World Leader During the 19th Century

    Before the 1800s, China was a super power before the time the Europeans came to their country. They comprehended further more about the world than the Europeans did, and had already started trading there. China had the largest known market in the world at the time, selling all sorts of exquisite products. This meant that China was home to one of the major economies on the planet. But it was even the smallest of things

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Day My Wold Turned Upside Down

    The Day My Wold Turned Upside Down

    It was a Friday afternoon in May of my freshman year when my Dad met me at the front door. This was odd, but I didn’t think much of it at the time since he was supposed to have had a doctor’s appointment that morning. I had been in a good mood walking home since had received an A on one of the hardest global history tests of the year, and I was thinking of

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    Essay Length: 775 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • Englishmen 17th Century

    Englishmen 17th Century

    FIRST ESSAY: Thomas Hobbes described the life of most Englishmen in the 17th century as "nasty, brutish and short." How far does the evidence presented in Past Speaks chpt. 2, suggest that little had changed by the mid 18th century? Chapter two of Past Speaks, covers many different articles that discusses the many social classes that were present in Britain at that time. When Thomas Hobbes described the life of the Englishmen as "nasty, brutish

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    Essay Length: 1,357 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Jessica
  • 21st Century Living

    21st Century Living

    The 21st Century is just around the corner and with it will come many changes in today’s modern society. Changes occur daily, yet taken into view yearly these changes become extremely noticeable. The people of today’s society are changing everyday, and therefore so is the world. This report will express personal beliefs on what will occur in the 21st century. Within it are examples such as, crime rates, personalities, religion, and living environments. The 21st

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    Essay Length: 751 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Turning 18

    Turning 18

    Turning 18 – Becoming Aware I have always been confidant in who I am, but when I turned eighteen I started to question, “Am I an adult or am I still a kid?” I really am not sure, and feel that this question is a necessary one to answer in order to truly know myself. I want to find out if I have changed going to the Oxbow boarding school, and if being eighteen really

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Difference of Ideals Between 19th and 20th Centuries

    Difference of Ideals Between 19th and 20th Centuries

    Difference of Ideals between 19th and 20th Centuries There are many ideals that occurred over the 19th and 20th centuries. These ideals covered many genres of music from piano music, orchestral pieces, to operas. The composers of these times tried many different techniques and styles making a lasting impression on the Romantic era of music. Some of the most influential composers during the 19th century that we discussed were Franz Schubert, Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chopin,

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Centuries of Change

    Centuries of Change

    Are women necessarily inferior to men or should they be treated as objects? Are they maybe even considered objects that can be molded by man, the creator's, ideal? Is this an obstacle that women still have to face in today's society? If we are going by what is being portrayed in cinema today, then this theme is still a story line in recent flicks. Earlier works portrayed men as god-like creatures and women as mindless

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Hobsbawm's Theory on the General Crisis of the 17th Century

    Hobsbawm's Theory on the General Crisis of the 17th Century

    Hobsbawm’s Theory on the General Crisis of the 17th century It is generally accepted by historians that there was a ‘crisis’ that blanketed all of Europe during the 17th century. A myriad of revolts, uprisings and economic contractions occurred almost simultaneously and had a profound impact on the socio-economics of the entire continent. The topic for discussion in this paper is the effects that this ‘crisis’ had on Europe and its developments. In particular,

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Philip Vs Mitsushita: A New Century, A New Round

    Philip Vs Mitsushita: A New Century, A New Round

    Case background: This case is about two giants in the global consumer electronics market, namely Philips and Matsushita. Their international strategies and organizations are very different ЎV while the former pursued a localization strategy, the latter pursued a global standardization strategy; while the former made use of highly self-sufficient national organizations (NOs) for strong local responsiveness, the latter adopted Ў§1 product 1 divisionЎЁ structure for cost cutting. Nevertheless, both companies encountered their difficulties as the

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The 21st Century

    The 21st Century

    The 21st Century There are so many things that can be learned in an hours worth of research, or even ten minutes. It is amazing though, how so many people just in the last ten years are oblivious of what their own country has endured, and the history it has gone through, to grow, change, and develop into the country it is today. During this project I learned that many things, that were so important

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Imperialism, Colonialism and Identity in 20th Century Fiction

    Imperialism, Colonialism and Identity in 20th Century Fiction

    In the mid-1800's, Imperialism began to emerge as a way for countries to expand their territories. It was viewed as a way of increasing land, resources, and power. Strong European powers, chiefly, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, Russia, and also the United States began their colonial campaigns to gain wealth, power, natural resources, a market to sell industrial goods, national prestige, or occasionally to improve the lives of the colonial people. European colonialism expanded to

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Struggle of Equality for Blacks in the 21st Century

    The Struggle of Equality for Blacks in the 21st Century

    The Struggle of Equality for Blacks in the 21st Century On December 29, 2004, Richard Blakey was applying for a job interview at the very prestigious Public Relations firm, Ketchum, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was the only black man applying for the job. Little did he know that he had no chance of getting the job no matter how qualified he was for the position because he was a black man and his counterparts were

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    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Stenly
  • War from the 16th and 17th Century to Invention of Gunpowder

    War from the 16th and 17th Century to Invention of Gunpowder

    WAR FROM THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY TO INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER The invention of the powerful artillery guns would change man's role in warring engagements. The artillery guns at first were very limited by their own design. The guns were very heavy and had to be transported by water, which meant that only towns and fortresses that were close to a body of water could be attacked with artillery also known as the cannon. There

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    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Farms Inc.: Responding to Twenty-First-Century Challenges

    Farms Inc.: Responding to Twenty-First-Century Challenges

    Problem: Which strategy for future business development should be chosen to guarantee company’s growth and success in the future? Competition: James Perdue family's company is one of the largest in the US poultry market, selling more than 48 million pounds of distinctly yellow chicken products and nearly 4 million pounds of turkey products each week. Vertically integrated, Perdue Farms sees its birds from the egg to the supermarket meat case. Perdue is expanding its value-added

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Anna
  • What Was Keynes’ Theory and How Did He Influence the World Economy in the 19th Century?

    What Was Keynes’ Theory and How Did He Influence the World Economy in the 19th Century?

    What was Keynes’ theory and how did he influence the world| economy in the 19th century? Before the 1930s the US economy had been ruled by the forces of supply and demand and with as little government interference as possible and it seemed if everything went smooth. But in reality the system favorite the middle- and the upper-class, so about half of the American population did not participate in the economic growth. Wealth and purchasing

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Kevin
  • From the Collection of Nineteenth Century Short Stories You Have Studied, Select Three with a Supernatural Theme, and Consider Their Effectiveness Within Their Genre.

    From the Collection of Nineteenth Century Short Stories You Have Studied, Select Three with a Supernatural Theme, and Consider Their Effectiveness Within Their Genre.

    Short stories started to gain popularity after the industrial revolution; as printing became more widespread it was much easier to get a short story published in a newspaper or magazine. The advantage of a short story over a novel is that it manages to hold the readers attention, as the short story tends to be dramatic, has no need for a sub-plot and are without lengthy description. Where novel writing is complicated, has many different

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • How Is Suspense Created in Turn of the Screw?

    How Is Suspense Created in Turn of the Screw?

    “How is suspense created in The Turn of the Screw?” The Turn of the Screw is a very suggestive and highly ambiguous story. Its suspense and horror is generated primarily by what is not said and what isn’t shown. Because of the vague and very mysterious story, the viewer is compelled to fill in the blanks from his/her own personal fears. The audience ultimately conjures up a more horrifying set of images and circumstances. The

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: regina
  • Changes in the Early 19th Century

    Changes in the Early 19th Century

    There were many changes that occurred in the early nineteenth century. America was a relatively new country that people wanted to explore and find more about. In the 1800’s there was visible change in the economy such as the Irish and German immigrants, the inequalities of women, and the Second Great Awakening. Immigrants in the 19th century played an important role in society. Many Europeans were coming over to America for the main reason

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Appoggiatura in 18th Century Music

    Appoggiatura in 18th Century Music

    APPOGGIATURA IN EIGHTEEN CENTURY MUSIC Appoggiatura, from the Italian word appoggiare which means “to lean upon” is one of the most complicated ornaments especially in eighteen century music. It is usually called a grace note and it is a note of embellishment usually one step above the main note. As Michel Debost says on his book “The Simple Flute”, the appoggiatura got his name because the note is outside the harmony, is part of a

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: July
  • 19th Century Literatue

    19th Century Literatue

    Literature Main article: 19th century in literature Charles Dickens Mark Twain in 1894 Jane Austen Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan PoeOn the literary front the new century opens with Romanticism, a movement that spread throughout Europe in reaction to 18th-century rationalism, and it develops more or less along the lines of the Industrial Revolution, with a design to react against the dramatic changes wrought on nature by the steam engine and the railway. William Wordsworth and

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • 19th Century Architecture

    19th Century Architecture

    19th Century architecture is a wide subject only because there were so many beautiful and magnificent buildings built. The Houses of Parliament were built between 1840 to 1865. It was built by Sir Charles Barry in a Gothic Revival style. The buildings cover an area of more than 8 acres and contain 1100 apartments, 100 staircases, and 11 courts. The exterior, in it's Revived Gothic style, s impressive with its three large towers: Victoria Tower

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Witchcraft in the 15th Century

    Witchcraft in the 15th Century

    In this paper, I will explore many aspects of the outbreaks of the witch accusations and witch trials which plagued England and the rest of Europe from approximately 1450 to 10. Though numerous theories have been provided as to the reasons for these hunts and trials, there are three which are the most prevalent, and able to support themselves. These three theories are the topics of: gender, as a stepping stone towards the oppression of

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    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Yan
  • Catholism 19th Century

    Catholism 19th Century

    The Sixers won their seventh straight game, 95-94 on Saturday as a late Wizards rally fizzled. Allen Iverson led Philly with 35 points, while Jerry Stackhouse poured in 38 for the Wizards. The Jazz failed in their attempt to reach seventh heaven, losing 107-85 to the Spurs. Kidd went crazy in the Crunch Vote for the 2003 All-Star starters Where do you watch your team? Play: Triple-Double | Virtual GM Holiday shopping: Great gift ideas

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: July
  • African American in 19th Century

    African American in 19th Century

    The Civil war after effects; set the scene for what would become a long road of discovery, hardship, violence, and freedom however, during this process of transition the American people went through emotional as well economical changes which added additional stress to an already stressed nation where many groups became fearful and were subjected to racism which crossed over the boundary of liberty and Justice for all. Equality had become an endangered liberty guaranteed by

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Victor
  • Was the 5th Century Bce a "golden Age" for Athens?

    Was the 5th Century Bce a "golden Age" for Athens?

    The 5th century BCE was a period of great development in Ancient Greece, and specifically in Athens. The development of so many cultural achievements within Athens and the Athenian Empire has led scholars to deem this period a "Golden Age." It is true that his period had many achievements, but in the light of the Athenians treatment of women, metics (non-Athenians living in Athens), and slaves it is given to question whether or not the

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: July

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