Essays Tagged: "Pioneers"

Geronimo: A biography about the apache warrior.

gainst such daunting odds and held out the longest, he became the most famous Apache of all. To the pioneers and settlers of Arizona and New Mexico, he was a bloody-handed murderer and this image endu ...

(3 pages) 127 1 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Dickinson vs. Whitman. Their lives and their styles

Actually, her poetry wasn't published until after her death. Both Whitman and Dickinson were poetic pioneers because of the new ideas they used in their poetry. Emily Dickinson did not write for an au ...

(5 pages) 153 1 3.8 Oct/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Eli Whitney

Historians believe that one of the greatest pioneers in the birth of automation,American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacture ...

(3 pages) 52 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Mechanical Engineering

The Pursuits of Prairie Settlement: Why They Failed and Succeeded this essay is about why Canadians were able to remain on the Prairies and farm, and why some weren't able to.

away by the image of "the last best west". Settlement quickly began and flourished on the Prairies. Pioneers quickly signed contracts to stay on a settlement of a quarter section, 30 acres of which wo ... th problematic and advantageous for them. There were many things related to the economy that caused pioneers to fail in the Prairies. Prices, competition, disease, pests and soil quality are only some ...

(12 pages) 90 1 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Marketing Concept and Marketing Segmentation in Practice: Haagen-Dazs

INTRODUCTIONHaagen-Dazs were the pioneers in the market for creating distinctive and indulgent taste experiences by marketing to an u ...

(16 pages) 1348 2 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The history of Malaysia

cestors of the Orang Asli, the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, settle here, probably the pioneers of a general movement from China and Tibet. They were followed by the Malays, who brought w ...

(2 pages) 59 0 0.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Racism - Issues within the Australian Culture.

lways been defined in sexist terms. It has also been defined in racist terms. In the early days the pioneers' battle against the hard land was also seen as the struggle against the dangerous and 'wily ...

(9 pages) 199 0 4.6 Aug/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

"To what extent had african americans acheived equal civil rights by 1940?" A reviw of the civil rights and treatment of blacks in pre-civil-war America.

qual Civil Rights by 1940?The civil rights of black Americans have improved greatly since the first pioneersof the civil rights movement began their quest for equality. Though most people associatebla ...

(4 pages) 144 2 1.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

This here is for philosophy I.

Andrew WestbrookPhilosophy 101Portfolio I2)Alan Turing was one of the great pioneers of the computer world. It is with his works that we now of the "The Turing Machine" and "Tu ...

(3 pages) 31 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Southwestern Humor.

830 - 1860, during the Jacksonian Age, when the frontier was being settled by thousands of European pioneers who were flooding into the West. Since people were beginning to think of themselves as uniq ...

(9 pages) 66 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

This essay compares Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson in their style of writing as well as their lives and the subjects of their poems.

s, or at least their writing seems to be, they have very different styles of writing. They are both pioneers in the field of poetry for their own reasons. Walt Whitman was a people person, meaning he ... es the reader in the story but Dickinson doesn't.Although Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are both pioneers in the poetry world they are severely different in personality and their writing. Walt Whit ...

(3 pages) 113 1 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Biography of Davy Crockett and the battle of the Alamo.

someone in his family immigrated to New York in 1709. His family moved to the backwoods and became pioneers, which was a life full of danger and poverty. John, David?s father, was at first a soldier ...

(6 pages) 66 0 3.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay outlines the reasons why the Sumerian civilization has had the most effect on modern culture out of all of the other ancient civilizations.

ian civilization, those civilizations would not have existed without the help of the Sumerians, the pioneers who took the first steps of progress, allowing other civilizations to follow. The Sumerians ...

(2 pages) 74 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Louisa May Alcott

Flaubert; Guy de Maupassant; Anton Chekhov; George Eliot; Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, the pioneers of realism; Henry James; and Louisa May Alcott. These realists are some of the most famous ...

(3 pages) 63 0 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Discrimination and Reverse Discrimination

nOver the last century, mankind has made significant increases in the fight against discrimination. Pioneers such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Susan B. Anthony have made progress in thi ...

(9 pages) 411 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Henrik Isben's The Dolls House: A comparison and contrast of 2 main charachters, Nora and Kristine.

As women of the Victorian period, Nora Helmer and Kristine Linde were both prisoners and pioneers of the time. In that society, women were viewed as being inferior to men and were not provi ...

(4 pages) 92 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man How does the text suggest Stephen's mental language?

ing phenomena, and chose to gave a free flow of their emotions. Joyce was one of the great literary pioneers of the 20th century, since he was one of the first writers to use a stylistic form called " ...

(3 pages) 72 1 4.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The history of the atomic theory. This essay discusses Aristotle, Democritus and Alchemy.

DemocritusDemocratus is credited for being one of the earliest known pioneers of Atomic Theory, living around 460 B.C. The scientist thought up a revolutionary and puzzl ...

(3 pages) 23 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

out the times that were not brought to the attention of most. These depended on the exploits of the pioneers in writing to preserve these occurrences, so that the people of the future would remember.T ...

(5 pages) 81 1 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

The History of the Periodic Table

ement was given a number based on their atomic weights. Lothan Meyer and Dimity Mendeleyev were the pioneers who started the concept of organizing elements in a table based on their physical and chemi ...

(2 pages) 61 1 4.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry