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  • History of Swimming

    History of Swimming

    Swimming was invented before recorded history. Humans discovered how to swim by accident. A person probably fell into the water and struggled to shore using a dog-paddle stroke. There was an Egyptian hieroglyph for swimming dating from 2500 BC. The ancient Greeks and Romans made swimming an important part of their military training programs. There have been known swimming contests that were organized in Japan as early as the 1st century BC. During the Middle

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    Essay Length: 767 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Black Feminists Debate Whiteness

    Black Feminists Debate Whiteness

    Black Feminists Debate Whiteness Stephanie Philipovich & Angela Torchia Passage #1: "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are very happy. See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play."(Morris, pg. 7) Passage #2: here is the hous it is green and white it has a red

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    Essay Length: 371 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Digital Photography History

    Digital Photography History

    Introduction What is digital photography? Digital photography is a form of photography that utilizes digital technology to make images of subjects. Until the advent of such technology, photography used photographic film to create images which could be made visible by photographic processing. By contrast, digital photographs can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing. Using the information I have managed to gather from the internet and

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    Essay Length: 3,615 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2009 By: Victor
  • History of California to 1899

    History of California to 1899

    History of California to 1899 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article or section provides some complete reference citations, and includes a list of references or external links. However, its verifiability remains partly unclear because it has insufficient in-text citations. You can improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate. History of California To 1899 Gold Rush (1848) American Civil War (1861-1865) ________________________________________ Since 1900 ________________________________________ Maritime Railroad Slavery

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    Essay Length: 7,000 Words / 28 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Early American History

    Early American History

    Tara King Page 1 Aug. 31, 2008 History 1013 Early American History Through out reading this chapter I discovered a lot of very interesting things that had never been brought to my attention before. I really enjoyed learning some of the history that took place in America before it was actually given the name "America". One of the first things that grabbed my attention was when I was reading about the Aztecs and their somewhat

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    Essay Length: 491 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Us History

    Us History

    For a country as powerful as the United States, there comes a responsibility to protect its allies, neighbors, and supremely itself. However, there are times when this sense of responsibility misleads the U.S. into using force that is excessive or unnecessary. We are walking a fine line of political laissez-faire and obligation to intervene, but add the element of a Ў°Lyndon JohnsonЎЇs obsessive fear of the spread of Castro-style communismЎ± (Musicant 363), and consequently, we

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    Essay Length: 1,291 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Uncovering History in Our Own Backyard Solvang

    Uncovering History in Our Own Backyard Solvang

    Uncovering History in our own Backyard Dr. Solberg has his own stamp on discovering American history. He has had a long interest in the ordinary person and was quoted as saying "People that carry history are a needed part of our past." He did his doctorates on diaries from the 18th century. And has sent much of his time studying letters sent to Norway during the 1930s and 1940s. Dr. Solberg started the lecture by

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    Essay Length: 957 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2009 By: Mikki
  • A.P.U.S. History Outline

    A.P.U.S. History Outline

    I. Urbanization A. Industrial Sources of City Growth 1. Until the Civil War, cities were centers of commerce not industry. 2. Cities were places where merchants bought and sold there goods. 3. After mid-century, industry began to abandon the countryside. 4. NY, Phil., Brooklyn, St, Louis were among the largest cities. 5. Many smaller cities became one-industry towns. 6. As factories became bigger, their size cont. to urban growth. B. City Building 1. The commercial

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    Essay Length: 857 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2009 By: Wendy
  • History of Coca Cola

    History of Coca Cola

    History of Coca Cola Coca Cola a company founded in 1885 by John Pemberton and his partner Frank Robinson has had a historic era in it's growth till 1970 passing through two owners and a number of people, managing it at the top which made Coca Cola what it is today. The company in the early 70's was at its critical stages of losing its pre eminent position as the No.1 cola drink in U.S.A.

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    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Ibm History

    Ibm History

    1890-1938: The early years IBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. But its origins can be traced back to 1890, during the height of the Industrial Revolution, when the United States was experiencing waves of immigration. The U.S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population, so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means

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    Submitted: March 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Us History

    Us History

    Even before the eve of the Revolution, the colonists constantly had the image of independence lingering in the back of their heads. The colonists felt that they were first on a loose leash, and as that leash tightened over the years, the colonists began to understand their true culture and identity. As time passed, the colonists developed a greater sense of their identity and unity as Americans and by the eve of the Revolution, even

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    Essay Length: 1,138 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2009 By: David
  • Soccer History

    Soccer History

    Games similar to soccer were played in China as early as 400 B.C. In 200 A.D. the Romans played a game in which 2 teams tried to score by advancing the ball across a line on a field, which means no soccer goals. They passed the ball to one another, but not by kicking it. Also in the 1100's, London children played a form of soccer (World Book Encyclopedia, S p.73). In the early 1800's,

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    Essay Length: 590 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Blacks and Jews

    Blacks and Jews

    Trees and tolerance are flourishing along Eastern Parkway - once a barren boundary between the blacks and Jews of Crown Heights. When the community erupted in riots seven years ago, Eastern Parkway was the line in the sand between Orthodox Jews who lived in detached houses to the south and blacks in turn-of-the-century row houses to the north. But today, the newly beautified parkway is a symbol of recovering race relations citywide. Crown Heights Community

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    Essay Length: 589 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2009 By: Fonta
  • A People's History

    A People's History

    A People's History of the United States 1492 – Present by Howard Zinn takes a realistic viewpoint that is not seen in many textbooks, and that is exactly the point. Zinn writes about the dark sides of United States icons, which students are rarely taught about. Through historical examples, such as Christopher Columbus' treatment of Native American Arawak Indians, Zinn supports his thesis. In Zinn's book, he displays his displeasure with the way Americans are

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    Submitted: March 22, 2009 By: Top
  • History the Wepon Review

    History the Wepon Review

    History the Weapon By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The article "History The Weapon" can be described as being similar to the game "Telephone", in which a phrase/message becomes completely misrepresented as it passes from person to person over a period of time. History, according to the article, is subject to the influences of the historian. It describes many examples of how history can be interpreted so differently depending upon how the recollection benefits specific goals

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    Submitted: March 22, 2009 By: Top
  • The Titanic - History of a Disaster

    The Titanic - History of a Disaster

    The Titanic - History of a Disaster On April 14,1912 a great ship called theTitanic sank on its maiden voyage. That night therewere many warnings of icebergs from other ships.There seems to be a conflict on whether or not the warnings reached the bridge. We may never know the answer to this question. The greatest tragedy of all may be that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone on board. According to Walter Lord, author

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    Essay Length: 1,399 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2009 By: Top
  • American History X

    American History X

    In many ways, the media must be involved in ethnic and racial issues. The media is to provide the public with information useful to them. The media is on the public's side. Racial stereotyping is a problem that is out in the public. Drugs, teen pregnancy, child abuse and rape are also problems that affect the people of the world everyday. The media has a job to make these issues aware to the people and

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    Essay Length: 435 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • History of the Tibetan Genocide

    History of the Tibetan Genocide

    For 48 years, China has occupied Tibet. In Tibet's history, there has been over 17 percent of the Tibetan people killed, and 6,000 monasteries ruined. For starters, Tibet was never part of China. During the first few years when China was in control of Tibet, the Chinese declared that Tibet should be part of China, because an Emperor of Tibet once married a Chinese princess. Years later, the Chinese said that Tibet was part of

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    Essay Length: 508 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Is It Black and White?

    Is It Black and White?

    The skin color of a person used to be a big issue in America, which appeared to have been resolved; however, it is still a big issue today. Although there is no longer slavery, a number of people continue to act in a racist fashion. They pass on these thoughts of prejudice and racism to their children, who then pass it on to their children and so forth, therefore it becomes extremely difficult to prevent

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    Essay Length: 1,002 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Yan
  • History of Baseball

    History of Baseball

    Baseball seems always to have lived more in myth that in history. Children in England and the United States had been playing variants of the game for years such as rounders, one o’ cat, and base. In 1845, some young men in Manhattan organized themselves into the Knickerbockers BaseBall Club and wrote down the rules of the game they were playing. Twenty years later dozens of baseball clubs in New York and Brooklyn, and their

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Tommy
  • History of Ferrari

    History of Ferrari

    Enzo Ferrari was born in Modena Italy on February 18 1898. He came from a well to do family that owned a metal foundry making railroad parts, they were the first in his town to own a car. When WWI came Enzo's father and brother (Dino) were drafted into the Italian army, whom both died from influenza in 1916. Enzo was forced to leave school to run the foundry, when the business collapsed he started

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The History of Nike Inc.

    The History of Nike Inc.

    Nike (originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports), was founded by University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman in January 1964 (Yahoo finance NKE profile page as of Jan. 2 2008). The company initially operated as a distributor for Japanese shoe maker Onitsuka Tiger, making most sales at track meets out of Knight's car. Many top Oregon runners began wearing the shoes, and the shoe's popularity grew quickly because of Kennan

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Stenly
  • History

    History

    H I S T O R Y The word history is most commonly used to express a thing that has already happened. So one can say that the mankind LIVES the history. But the term history does not mean only this - it means much more: it can also mean a kind of science, that has a growing importance in the developed world. But why has history as science such a big importance? It's because

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    Essay Length: 1,145 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Taiwan History and Economy

    Taiwan History and Economy

    Immediately following World War II, Taiwan was still a predominated agricultural economy with half its labor force employed in agriculture and about 44 percent of net domestic product generated in that sector. However, basing on the infrastructure left behind by Japanese, a strong agriculture foundation and the capital assistance gathered from the United States, Taiwanese remarkably developed the pre-condition for economic takeoff. They successfully managed agriculture to provide a considerable net capital flow to non-agriculture.

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    Essay Length: 637 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Eastern European Jews and Blacks

    Eastern European Jews and Blacks

    Eastern European Jews came to New York for a few reasons. One reason was due to the treatment that they received back in Eastern Europe. “In 1891 thousands of privileged Jews were expelled without warning from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev. Thousands more were deprived of their livelihoods as innkeepers and restaurateurs in 1897 when the liquor traffic became a government monopoly. Finally, coercion culminated in violence. The ‘spontaneous’ outbreaks of 1881, the massacre at

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    Essay Length: 369 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: July

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