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  • Art History

    Art History

    In the American wing of the Allentown art museum is a small painting that hits really close to home. It is called the View on the Lehigh River above Mauch Chunk. This is a genre scene that shows a small homestead in the foreground of a landscape of the Lehigh River. It was painted in 1862. View on the Lehigh River shows what life may have been like living along the Lehigh during that time.

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    Essay Length: 1,348 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: October 15, 2010
  • 1984 And History

    1984 And History

    Thinking back into history, many important events have occurred in history since the publication of 1984 by George Orwell in 1949. In no specific order there would be the Holocaust, The creation of the United Nations, NATO (North Atlantic treaty Organization), and even The Iron Curtain being established. After 1984 was published huge events also occurred in history. There was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Korean war, the Vietnam War, the creation of the Berlin

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    Essay Length: 883 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: October 16, 2010
  • History Of War Coverage

    History Of War Coverage

    War Coverage Edward R. Murrow, former reporter for CBS once said, "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if weÐ'...remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment unpopular." Times are changing when it comes to the media covering wars. There was once

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    Essay Length: 2,306 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: October 16, 2010
  • History Of Racquetball

    History Of Racquetball

    HISTORY OF RACQUETBALL In the 1940's a man named Joseph G. Sobek got tired of how hard handball was on his hands. He was dissatisfied with the indoor sports. He worked at a rubber factory in Bridgeport, CT when he decided to start a new sport. He lived in Greenwich, CT and was professional tennis player and a pro squash and handball player. It is said that in 1949, Sobek and a partner began playing

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    Essay Length: 651 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: October 17, 2010
  • American History X

    American History X

    American History X American History X is about a life of white supremacist skinheads. Skinheads are like the Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK. The movie is a story shown in part as Edward Furlong, known as Danny Vinyard in the movie, has to write a paper about his brother Edward Norton, known as Derek Vinyard, and the simplicities of skinheads and how they are subjected into this type of life style. Derek

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    Essay Length: 636 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: October 17, 2010
  • History Of Computers

    History Of Computers

    Chris Miller Ms. Rozanski English III May 20, 2005 History of the Computer The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first large-scale, computer. The ENIAC was built for the military to calculate the paths of artillery shells. Later on it was used to make calculation for nuclear weapons research, weather predictions, and wind tunnel design. "The ENIAC was brought in to use inn February of 1946 and was used unit October 1955" (Encarta).

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    Essay Length: 793 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: October 18, 2010
  • History Of Psychology

    History Of Psychology

    Psychology became an independent field of its own through the work of Wilhelm Wundt. He was the first one in history to be called a 'psychologist'. Wundt set out decidedly to establish a new science. As founder he took it as his right to define the first standard in psychology, Structuralism. Structuralism The idea is that conscious experience can be broken down into basic conscious elements. The second standard of psychology was 'functionalism'. As its

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    Essay Length: 395 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 18, 2010
  • Ymca History

    Ymca History

    The YMCA The YMCA has a very clear and concise mission statement. Their mission is "to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all". The YMCA is the nation's largest not-for-profit community service organization in America. With more than 2,500 YMCAs, they are able to meet the health and social service needs of 18.9 million men, women and children in over 10,000 communities in the United States.

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    Essay Length: 694 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: October 19, 2010
  • Rap History

    Rap History

    Rap music originated as a cross-cultural product. Most of its important early practitioners-including Kool Herc, D.J. Hollywood, and Afrika Bambaataa-were either first- or second-generation Americans of Caribbean ancestry. Herc and Hollywood are both credited with introducing the Jamaican style of cutting and mixing into the musical culture of the South Bronx. By most accounts Herc was the first DJ to buy two copies of the same record for just a 15-second break (rhythmic instrumental segment)

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    Essay Length: 1,365 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: October 19, 2010
  • The History Of The Internet

    The History Of The Internet

    The History Of The Internet In the early 1960's people saw great value in allowing computers to share information about their important scientific findings. J.C.R. Licklider, a brilliant man from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) was the first person to develop a global network of computers in 1962. Lawrence Roberts, also of MIT, connected a Massachusetts computer with a computer in California in 1965 using dial up telephone lines. This eventually brought about the

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    Essay Length: 385 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 20, 2010
  • The History Of Vitamins

    The History Of Vitamins

    THE HISTORY, USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VITAMINS AND NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTS A Vitamin is any organic compound required by the body in small amounts for metabolism, to protect health, and for proper growth in children. Vitamins also assist in the formation of hormones, blood cells, the chemicals of the nervous-system, and genetic material. The various vitamins are not chemically related, and most differ in their physiological actions. They generally act as catalysts, combining with proteins to

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    Essay Length: 1,667 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: October 20, 2010
  • The History Of Boot Camps

    The History Of Boot Camps

    INTRODUCTION In the military, boot camp represents an abrupt, often shocking transition to a new way of life. Discipline is strict and there is an emphasis on hard work, physical training, and unquestioning obedience to authority. The new private is told when to sleep, when to get up and when to eat. He marches with his platoon everywhere he goes such as to meals and to training. Orders must be obeyed instantly and personal liberty

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    Essay Length: 2,371 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: October 21, 2010
  • History Of The Internet

    History Of The Internet

    Internet pre-History: Ancient Roads of Telecommunications & Computers by Gregory Gromov Introduction URL of this page: http://www.netvalley.com/intval_intr.html The Internet is a global network that consist of hundreds millions of computers around the world. All of them can be connected (two ways communicate) with each other. Up to now more then half of the American households were connected to the Internet. People pay their bills; book airline tickets and hotel rooms; rent, sell and buy homes,

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    Essay Length: 3,651 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: October 22, 2010
  • History Of Cable Television

    History Of Cable Television

    The History Of Cable Television The 1940's and 1950s Cable Television originated in 1948 as a service to households in mountainous or geographically remote areas where reception of over the air television signals was poor. Antennas were erected on mountaintops or other high points, and homes were wired and connected to these towers to receive the broadcast signals. By 1950, 70 cable systems served 14,000 subscribers nationwide. In late 1950s, when cable operators began

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    Essay Length: 942 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: October 23, 2010
  • Baseball History

    Baseball History

    Baseball History Deeply embedded in the folklore of American sports is the story of baseball's supposed invention by a young West Point cadet, Abner Doubleday, in the summer of 1839 at the village of Cooperstown, New York. Because of the numerous types of baseball, or rather games similar to it, the origin of the game has been disputed for decades by sports historians all over the world. In 1839, in Cooperstown, New York, Doubleday supposedly

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    Essay Length: 1,715 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: October 23, 2010
  • History Of The Media

    History Of The Media

    Out of the many articles relating to crime in the New York Times, I chose three articles dealing with racial crimes. The earliest article, dated December 16, 1883, is titles "Accused of Killing a Negro" and covers a story that could be a possible murder case. The second article is dated December 16, 1933 and the slightly sensational title, "Negro, Freed by Court, Hanged in Tennessee; Lynching Handled Quietly, Sheriff Says", sums up practically the

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    Essay Length: 2,401 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: October 25, 2010
  • History Of Tv

    History Of Tv

    The Effects of Antidepressants on Physical and Psychological Symptoms of Depression This article informs about a study that makes the connection between psycholgogical and physical symptoms of depression, and it highlights new possibilities of treating physical complaints separately. It is a known fact that mostly unexplainable physical symptoms appear in depressed patients, and often they are the signals that indicate to physicians the presence of an affective disorder. These symptoms are most commonly: fatigue, sleep

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    Essay Length: 297 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 26, 2010
  • History Of Dreadlocks

    History Of Dreadlocks

    Various elements are combined to formulate the idea of style. They include the clothes people wear, the way one walks and even how people talk. However, one element that forms the relationship between style and lifestyle is hair. According to many people their hair is one feature that places them in a category separate from other individuals. This is the case with the dreadlock hairstyle. Dreadlocks have a very detailed and sometimes complex history and

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    Essay Length: 389 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 26, 2010
  • History Of The Internet

    History Of The Internet

    Introduction While many people think that the Internet is very young, they are sadly mistaken. The early beginnings of the internet began in 1965 when MIT connected 2 computers together and the computers were able to speak to each other using packet switching technology. This stemmed from the launch of Sputnik the first artificial satellite to be sent into space. This worried the United States that they were behind in the times and created the

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    Essay Length: 1,287 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: October 28, 2010
  • Peter Carey's The Fat Man In History

    Peter Carey's The Fat Man In History

    Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History By Michael Huynh Entrapment and Isolation are common attributes of characters throughout several of the stories in The Fat Man in History. This comes across in many forms, both physical and mental. In most of the stories both entrapment and isolation often the result of the interaction of both. Stories which this theme is apparent are Crabs, Windmill in the West, and A Report on the Shadow Industry.

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: October 28, 2010
  • Early Protestant Missionary Efforts In The Philippines

    Early Protestant Missionary Efforts In The Philippines

    EARLY PROTESTANT MISSIONARY EFFORTS IN THE PHILIPPINES: SOME INTERCULTURAL PROBLEMS1 1. Introduction As a trained social anthropologist, I would like to present the findings of a three-year research on the early impact of Protestant missionary efforts at the turn of the last century. Some of these could be useful not only to Filipinos but also to other Asian churches as we reflect on the future of Christian mission in Asia. It is important for

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    Essay Length: 5,039 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: October 28, 2010
  • History And Moral Development Of Mental Health Treatment And Involuntary Commitment

    History And Moral Development Of Mental Health Treatment And Involuntary Commitment

    History and Moral Development of Mental Health Treatment and Involuntary Commitment The history of involuntary commitment has been developed and created through the history of mental illness and the constructs of society. Government policy has been created to treat mental illness and this philosophy of mental illness and its treatment goes as far back as Greek Mythology. The belief about mental illness has changed throughout history and at times thought to be due to, possession

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    Essay Length: 10,129 Words / 41 Pages
    Submitted: October 30, 2010
  • History Of The Cell

    History Of The Cell

    History of the Cell The word cell was coined by Englishman Robert Hooke (1635-1703), after viewing slices of cork in a microscope. The word cell was derived from the Latin word cella meaning small container. The microscope created new possibilities in the study biology. It allowed scientists to look into a completely new view of cellular biology. Galileo is credited with the invention of the microscope. Two of the main pioneers in microscope usage were

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    Essay Length: 466 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 30, 2010
  • American History X: Analysis Of Lighting And Color

    American History X: Analysis Of Lighting And Color

    American History X "American History X" is divided into two color schemes, black and white, and color, these schemes symbolize the before and after of Derek Vinyard's life. The film is about the life of an "idol" skinhead and D.O.C. member Derek Vinyard, and how his life of hate and racism has affected his family and himself. Throughout the movie the importance of color and lighting is obvious, because it divides the movie into

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    Essay Length: 2,113 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: October 30, 2010
  • History Of The Metric System

    History Of The Metric System

    Unlike today, where most scientific communities use the standard unit of measurement called the metric system, early measurements were based on human body parts. In time, nations developed their own different units of measure. Due to all the different national measurements, it was difficult for scientists to understand each other, resulting in chaos. For example, if the United States conducted an experiment and France wanted to mimic the experiment, the different units of measure would

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    Essay Length: 691 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: October 30, 2010

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