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The Titanic
<view this essay>.... bad it went down on it's maiden voyage. On the boat there were
28 stateroooms and suites for the first class passnegers (Titanic, p.2).
Special staterooms located on decks B and C of the shop were designed with
different motiefs. The upperclass passengers had about eight different
styles to choose from, so they could better enjoy the voyage (Titanic,
p.2). Some of the suites had fire places that burned coal in the sitting
room and gigantic beds in the bedroom. the most expensive suite had five
rooms and a private bathroom, this truly was a luxury liner. Most upper
class people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It
was 92 ft. wide and 11 .....
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Historical Analysis On 1920s
<view this essay>.... Renaissance took shape; it was a time when African Americans began an intellectual movement. Harlem became the center of African-American culture. Most African-Americans began a movement to rethink their values and appreciation of their roots and Africa. The "Great Migration" began at this time. Approximately two million Southern blacks move to northern industrial centers in hopes to escape the oppressive nature of the deep south. However, for every upside their is a downside. The decade was a period of rising intolerance and isolation. Americans retreated into a provincialism evidenced by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the anti radical hysteria of th .....
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Imigration And Discrimination
<view this essay>.... who singlely used America's fear of immigrants to advance his own political goals it was Attorney General Palmer. The rise of Communism in Russia created a fear of its spread across Europe, and to America. Palmer tied this fear to that of immigration. He denounced labor unions, the Socialist party, and the Communist party in America, as being infultrated with radicals who sought to overturn America's political, economic, and social institutions. Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids t .....
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Constantine The Great
<view this essay>.... had to fight his rivals for the throne, and he did not finally establish himself as sole ruler until 324.Constantine in his early life was a solar henotheist, believing that the Roman sun god, Sol, was the visible manifestation of an invisible "Highest God" who was the principle behind the universe. This god was thought to be the companion of the Roman emperor. Constantine's faith in this god is evident from his claim of having had a vision of the sun god in 310 while in a grove of Apollo in Gaul. In 312, on the eve of a battle against Maxentius, his rival in Italy, Constantine is reported to have dreamed that Christ appeared to him and told him to inscri .....
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J.P. Morgan
<view this essay>.... with wealth and power." Despite conflicting opinion on his persona, his influence and character shaped the business world more so than any other person at the turn of the century. Morgan was a banker, railroad czar, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a handful of millionaire barons who controlled the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation. The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hart .....
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Documentary...the Cuban Missil
<view this essay>.... with consequences of a poor decision making still being felt by Cuba.
The film shows the vast United States Military response, to the news of live Russian missile silos and manufacturing plants in Cuba. After obtaining Fidel Castro's approval, the Soviet Union worked quickly and secretly to build missile installations in Cuba. On October 16, 1962, President John Kennedy was shown reconnaissance photographs of Soviet missile installations under construction in Cuba. After seven days of guarded and intense debate in the United States administration, during which Soviet diplomats denied that installations for offensive missiles were being built in Cuba, Presid .....
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History Of Psychology
<view this essay>.... in this transitional process between philosophy and psychology. The evidence presented should show that Wundt and James were extremely instructive and influential figures in the .
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, the son of an Evangelical pastor, was born near Manheim, Germany, on 16 August 1832. He was from an academic family with members who were scientists, professors, government officials and physicians. He was often inattentive in his own schooling and was a habitual daydreamer. He failed his first year of high school and was sent to Heidelberg to live with an aunt. Here he improved academically and graduated at age 19. He decided to embark on a career in .....
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Racism In The Movies
<view this essay>.... involves the relationship that a black neighborhood has with an Italian owned pizzeria and a Korean owned convenience store. There is a conflict that occurs when one of young men from the neighborhood enters the pizzeria and demands that the owner, Sal, include on his wall of famous Italians, famous Blacks as well. Sal refuses, telling the man that it is his pizzeria and he can have whomever he wants on the wall. The man leaves feeling even more frustrated than before and decides to organize a boycott. To his dismay, he is only able to recruit a single person.
Another conflict occurs between Mookey and one of of Sal’s sons. Sal’s son is an outspoken racist, .....
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