Essays Tagged: "tensions"

Sectionalism

troversial topics to worry about along with the vast diversity in the nation, caused separation and tensions throughout the country. The most prominent of the previous topics was slavery. This ...

(4 pages) 111 1 3.9 Feb/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Locke study notes: Used for presentation.

archy, this was not helped by their aforementioned suspicions of the monarchies Catholic sympathies.Tensions came to a head in the exclusion crisis when Parliament attempted to change the rule of here ...

(8 pages) 310 5 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS

y family singing along with Hillbilly songs on theradio. Along with entertaining the music eased thetensions of living a meager existence in Appalachia.By relating with these song writers and the stor ...

(2 pages) 55 0 4.5 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Theodore Roethke: This is about the basic life story and the meaning behind this dramatically influential American poet's works. It's AP English vocabulary, change as needed.

arts with witty, moving, and provocative verse. That same man would also write of intense personal tensions and the horrors of living in peccadillo.Famous poets such as Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and ... arts with witty, moving, and provocative verse. That same man would also write of intense personal tensions and the horrors of living in peccadillo.Famous poets such as Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and ...

(7 pages) 86 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Tension Between Majority Rule and Minority Rights Throughout History

Tensions between Minority Rights and Majority Rule Throughout the history of theUnited States of Ame ... he need of thepopulation to get it's mail. There were other incidents that have also displayed thesetensions of government choosing between majority rule and minority rights. There was,for instance, t ... orced to take extreme measuresto stop any part of it from spreading. This is a clear example of how tensions grew out ofthe governments need to chose between majority rule, (in this case the common ci ...

(4 pages) 74 0 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Tension Between Majority Rule and Minority Rights Throughout History

Tensions between Minority Rights and Majority Rule Throughout the history of theUnited States of Ame ... he need of thepopulation to get it's mail. There were other incidents that have also displayed thesetensions of government choosing between majority rule and minority rights. There was,for instance, t ... orced to take extreme measuresto stop any part of it from spreading. This is a clear example of how tensions grew out ofthe governments need to chose between majority rule, (in this case the common ci ...

(4 pages) 58 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Janie's Struggle To Find Her Voice. Character from Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

ers her will to find her voice when she is living with Logan. Since she did not marry him for love, tensions arise as time moves on and Logan begins to order her around. But Janie is young and her wil ...

(2 pages) 88 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Ibsens "Doll House"

torical dramas to plays dealing with social problems.It was the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life.Written during the Victorian era, the controversial play featuring a femalep ...

(5 pages) 154 2 4.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

A critical look at Ibsen's "A Doll house"

torical dramas to plays dealing with social problems.It was the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life.Written during the Victorian era, the controversial play featuring a femalep ...

(5 pages) 139 0 4.3 Apr/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

An essay about how the book "The Survival of the Bark Canoe" is interdisciplinary.

e area's, is about society and self. I found myself thinking about this core when reading about the tensions building up between the members of the group taking the canoe trip. How do the group dynami ...

(4 pages) 35 0 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. A book of racism and misunderstanding, explores the consequences of two seperate cultures intermingling.

their belief that they are superior to the Indians. "Forster draws an unforgettable picture of the tensions between colonial rulers and the Indian professional class (Critical Survey of Long Fiction. ...

(1 pages) 121 1 3.4 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Who was to blame for the Cold War?

he two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed in the Cold War can be attributed to Stalin's policy of Soviet expansion. It i ... talin as a catalyst to the Cold War.Stalin's foreign policies contributed an enormous amount to the tensions of the Cold War. His aim, to take advantage of the military situation in post-war Europe to ...

(6 pages) 268 1 4.3 Jun/1994

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Lawrence R. Tenzer,White slavery and the civil war

War. Tenzer emphatically states that the possibility ofwhite slavery is a definite contribution to tensions of civil war.White slavery resulted from the strict laws and social practices ofthe South. ...

(3 pages) 88 1 3.4 Nov/2002

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

Hate Groups

oday's society where differences between people are magnified and everyone is discussing diversity, tensions between different groups are remarkably high. The extreme of this tension is brought out in ...

(7 pages) 194 0 4.1 Dec/2002

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

Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692.

ns of a small village, Salem, where ownership of land and boundaries were in dispute, increased the tensions. To men and women brought up in a restricting evangelical world, the troubles of 1692 were ...

(11 pages) 111 0 2.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This is a four page essay on the interwar period between WWI and WWII, and the European advancements in warfare at that point in history.

of national policy". Because treaties such as these, the reciprocal effect of any deviation caused tensions which eventually resulted in global conflict. What we will discuss in the following essay w ...

(4 pages) 94 0 4.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Deals with the clash between the French and British (English) in the 1750s over the land in the Ohio Valley.

As the English and French boundaries began to meet by the 1750s, great tensions were wrought between the two contending countries. While the French were mainly occupying N ... an eight-man expedition headed by George Washington. Obviously, the French refused to withdraw, and tensions increased even more.Greed was the main reason for the Ohio Valley becoming a major area of ...

(3 pages) 60 0 3.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Analyze how the American way of waging war during WW2 influenced the United States in the conduct of limited warfare in the post-World War Two era.

ship. Use specific examples to support your answer.Answer:Even before World War II came to a close, tensions were already close to peaking between the Western European and American Allies and their no ...

(4 pages) 113 0 4.9 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

International Space Station.

, construction of the massive object is the most tedious objective. During the building of the ISS, tensions have run high several times when deadlines were missed or funds were not available. This sp ...

(12 pages) 125 0 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

1905 The Niagara Movement.

Niagara movement of 1905 due to the importance of this conference that was brought down by personal tensions between, W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Assembled at the annual meeting in Buffalo ... ajor groups, newspapers, churches, colleges, to help undermine the purpose of this conference. Also tensions were building between Du Bois and Trotter. At the conference they discussed issues that th ...

(2 pages) 31 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History