We've Got Papers!
Find Your Term Paper:    
    NAVIGATE
  Home
  Join Now!
  Got Questions?
  Contact Us

    MEMBERS
  Username: 
  Password: 

    SUBJECTS
  Arts & Plays
  Biographies
  Book Reports
  Business
  Computers
  Creative Writing
  English
  Geography
  Health & Medicine
  History
  Legal & Government
  Miscellaneous
  Music
  Poetry & Poets
  Religion
  Science
  Social Issues


Term Papers on History

Immigration To America
Number of words: 652 - Number of pages: 3

.... differences among them. This instilled fear within these immigrants. Uncertain of their future, several immigrants saw America has an adventure and a "beacon of hope." Upon arriving at Ellis Island immigrants underwent questioning, medical examinations, and other upsetting ordeals. Each passenger had to answer a series of about 30 questions that were recorded on lists. These questions included name, age, sex, marital status, occupation, nationality, etc. Several immigrants didn't know how to write or spell their own names, so immigration inspectors created one for them. Passengers were .....

Get This Paper

Racism - After The Civil War
Number of words: 606 - Number of pages: 3

.... their whole lives in slavery had little knowledge of the outside world. This lack of knowledge would not be helpful in trying to find work once they were released. Plantation owners with a lack of workforce were eager to offer extremely low pay to their former slaves. In addition, the work force of the plantation would often live in the same quarters they did while enslaved. These living conditions showed little change from the living conditions African-Americans had faced while enslaved. While the former slaves lived on the ideal that they were now free, the fifteenth amendment was under hea .....

Get This Paper

Theatre Review Three Tall Women
Number of words: 600 - Number of pages: 3

.... had needed assistance as well as a pillow for her back. The other characters, B and C, were convincing in their costumes and makeup. However, I didn't truly understand their characters. I couldn't tell if the nurse, B, was annoyed with the old woman or if she felt sorry for her. Character C, the lawyer, didn't really have a defined character except that she exhibited no sympathy for the old woman. Her facial expressions were blank at times and her movements seemed awkward. After intermission, the play resumed and this time, the old woman was apparently dead. All three characters returned, b .....

Get This Paper

The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Number of words: 5165 - Number of pages: 19

.... schools, restaurants, public water fountains, amusement parks, and city buses were part of everyday life in Montgomery, Alabama. “Every person operating a bus line should provide equal accommodations...in such a manner as to separate the white people from Negroes." On Montgomery's buses, black passengers were required by city law to sit in the back of the segregated bus. Negroes were required to pay their fare at the front of the bus, then get off and reboard from the rear of the bus. The front row seats were reserved for white people, which left the back of the bus or no man' .....

Get This Paper

Themes Of Italian Renaissance Art
Number of words: 854 - Number of pages: 4

.... Artists became familiar with mathematics and the concept of space, as well as anatomy. Lorenzo Ghiberti studied the anatomical proportions of the body, Filippo Brunelleschi was interested in mathematics in architecture, Leone Battista Alberti, who was skilled in painting, sculpture and architecture, stressed the study of mathematics as the underlying principle of the arts (Fleming, 285). Leonardo also looked at the geometric proportions of the human body (Calder, 197). In painting, but especially in sculpture, artists were inspired to express the structural forms of t .....

Get This Paper

Psycho Film Review
Number of words: 328 - Number of pages: 2

.... gets killed, and her family and friends try to find out what actually happened to her. That is not the only way the plot goes, though. After the introduction of Norman, we realize that something is wrong inside his head. This develops through the end where we find out what is really wrong with him. This isn't really a side plot, just a developing issue. This is an excellent movie from all points of review. In all aspects, Hitchcock does an excellent job of making his actors work and fit in exactally where he wants them to. Everthing falls into place in the end, and we understand .....

Get This Paper

Irish Potato Famine
Number of words: 1093 - Number of pages: 4

.... to cover. Therefore, in an examination of the "famine", one must begin with the facts. Once the facts have been revealed, one may move to explore the truth (or falsity) of the history which developed around the circumstances. This information can lead to a sound judgment in this scenario. The world was lead to believe that the Irish famine was caused solely by a blight, "which destroyed the potato crop, the food on which more than half the population lived." Much of the world perceived the situation to be a great, albeit unavoidable tragedy; the use of the word "famine" in mo .....

Get This Paper

British Society
Number of words: 2328 - Number of pages: 9

.... and then there the oppressed, who are the back breaking workers. The factory workers and miners (the oppressed) were denied basic human rights and their opinion and beliefs were discarded as being useless. These workers wanted change and reform, however they did not speak out against their masters or government because of fear of retaliation by the oppressors, of punishment and also because of the lack of leadership skill to organize a revolt. The leadership that was needed was that of Harold Transome, a radical, and of his political agents that began preaching the need for change and .....

Get This Paper

Braveheart
Number of words: 778 - Number of pages: 3

.... of his life. He was educated and learned to speak Latin with his uncle who he also took him on a pilgrimage to Rome. He returned home to Scotland while in his late twenties to raise crops and a family. He soon was married to a girl he knew as a kid in secret so that none of the guards could enforce the law of Primal Nuctar, which is to bless the marriage by sleeping with the bride. He tried to dodge the law but failed. He fought off the soldiers of the king for what he knew was right. But his wife was captured and killed for assault on a king's guard. This is what ma .....

Get This Paper

The Age Of Exploration: Europe
Number of words: 516 - Number of pages: 2

.... He also explored the coastline of Central America. Juan Ponce de Le¢n set out to find the Fountain of Youth. He never did find the fountain, but he discovered the land that he named "Florida". Vasci de Balboa was the first to push through the jungle of Central America, On the other side he discovered a vast body of water that he named "South Sea", because he thought that it was South of Asia. This Ocean was named the "Pacific". Magellan, of Portagual, founded the narrow straits at the Southern tip of South America. It was later named the "Strait of Magellan". He .....

Get This Paper


« prev  41  42  43  44  45  next »

Copyright © 2024 Got Papers.com. All rights reserved.
Home | Forgot Password | Cancel Subscription | Contact Us