Abstract Roman de Tirtoff was a special man and someone who history will never forget. His work is known all around the world and has affected the lives of many people including his supporting, loving family. Erté was one of the most well-known designers of the 1920s because of his extraordinary design work. His … Read more
Magazine Coverage of Women: Doris Day The mid 50’s to mid 60’s were a very conventional time in US history. Women were supposed to be good mothers and housewives. Doris Day was the considered the ideal All American Girl. She was beautiful, blonde and vivacious. From the time she made a name for herself, … Read more
Introduction According to History Revealed, it is estimated that around twenty thousand people were sacrificed a year in the Aztec Empire. Several sources such as Cortes, Diaz, and Duran, have repeatedly given similar accounts of observations about Aztec human sacrifice where “each Aztec temple-complex dispatched two to six victims every twenty days” (Kerkhove, 1). … Read more
The war in Vietnam remains one of the most controversial wars in American history. The hearts of the majority of American citizens were against American involvement in this foreign conflict; and as a result, support for the war and American soldiers waned. Several presidents – President Harry S. Truman, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President … Read more
In the middle of destruction and terror, high winds plow through buildings and the rain floods homes and buildings. A massive earthquake rattled Charleston on August 31, 1886. The Charleston earthquake was about a magnitude of 7.3 with an epicenter in Summerville. SC (History.com). The earthquake killed one hundred people and it demolished hundreds … Read more
Sam Houston was born into one of the most chaotic times in American history. Problems with Native Americans, Mexico, and threats of southern cession were all dominant issues during Houston’s adult life. Although many people strongly disagreed with Houston’s beliefs, Houston never hesitated to oppose mass opinion so long as there was a chance … Read more
Intercultural stumbling blocks always exist between people who come from different countries. LaRay M. Barna describes six stumbling blocks during the process of communication in her reading ‘Intercultural Communication Stumbling Blocks’. These are: assumption of similarities, language difference, nonverbal misinterpretations, the presence of preconceptions and stereotype, tendency to evaluate and high anxiety. Many people face … Read more
The client who is being analyzed is Frank, a 68-year old Caucasian male with a right cerebral vascular accident (CVA) of the internal carotid artery and left neglect. Frank also has coronary artery disease and diabetes. Frank lives with his wife, and has an out-of-town son, with whom he has a strained relationship. Frank … Read more
Prior to the War of 1812, the United States was seen as a weak gathering of loosely associated nation states who agreed to defend each other, but it was not seen as a powerful nation. Because Great Britain saw the United States as weak and fledgling Britain attempted to conquer the United States and … Read more
Drawing on an intersectional feminist framework, as well as the critical insights of Jefferess (2002) and Daley (2013) regarding the reproduction of neoliberal and neo-colonial tropes, the purpose of this thesis has been to articulate… As a critical intervention into existing research, the most important contribution of this thesis to scholarship on celebrity advocacy … Read more
Summary for Molecular Biotechnology in Diagnostics: Step towards Precision Medicine Current advancements in Molecular diagnostics via new techniques and instrumentation have led to various applications in diagnosing cancerous, neurological, genetic and microbial diseases. The ability to gather large amounts of information on human genes and study them have led to the field of genetics … Read more
BACKGROUND : In 1970, Noriega, was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to aid in the U.S. struggle against the spread of communism in Central America. Late in the 1970s, Noriega was involved in drug trafficking and he was removed from the CIA payroll in 1977. After the Marxist Sandinista government came to … Read more
Over the last several decades there has been an increase, in Brazil, of people whom self-identify as being, “Black/Afro-Brazilian.” Although this is great in terms of accepting one’s own cultural identity for what it is, many of these reasons are not what they may seem to be at first glance. What is it that … Read more
In an article in The Washington Post, it states that “We are now a quarter-century into expectations that Chinese economic growth, which has created a substantial middle class, would inevitably lead to greater political openness. Yet the trend has been in the opposite direction, as Chinese ruler Xi Jinping centralizes all power to himself … Read more
Jairo Alvarez The Jungle as Propaganda The Jungle was a novel written by Upton Sinclair that addressed a multitude of issues in 1905. This novel displays propaganda using figures such as Jurgis and his family throughout the entire story. One of the biggest issues in the book that I found most engaging was the … Read more
