Essays Tagged: "Yale University"

Harriet Beecher Stowe

a very smart person. In fact, she had an intellect beyond most people. She married a professor from Yale University who died in a shipwreck. For years Catherine was in grief and was on the verge of me ...

(6 pages) 103 0 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Origin of the American Revolution (1759-1766)

ars before the outbreak of the American Revolution. The author, Bernhard Knollenberg, a lecturer at Yale University, previously published biographies of Lord Baltimore and Lord Cornwallis and many oth ...

(8 pages) 163 0 4.3 Dec/1996

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

Grace Murray Hopper.

e earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Vassar College, and a PhD in math from Yale University. She also got a job at Vassar while studying from her PhD. She taught until 1943, th ...

(2 pages) 34 0 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

A rose for emily by: William Faulkner

nt was not inherited. "He became friends with a young Oxford lawyer named Phil Stone, a graduate of Yale University and a man of somewhat cultivated literary taste, who would provide him with some of ...

(7 pages) 278 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Review of John Blassingame's "The Slave Community". Rather specialized, I'm afraid. Review of a book on slavery in the South.

unityJohn W. Blassingame was born in Covington, Georgia, in 1940. Blassingame joined the faculty of Yale University in 1970, where he taught in the African American Studies, History and African depart ... s Degree from Fort Valley State College, a Master's Degree from Howard University, and a Ph.D. from Yale. He passed away in February 2000, and is survived by his father, Grady Blassingame, his wife Te ...

(2 pages) 83 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Elia Kazan, the American immigrant and director

zan attended formal education at Williams College in Massachusetts; he later studied at prestigious Yale University's Drama school. Kazan was known of "Gadget" later on his life due to the fact, as he ...

(3 pages) 44 2 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors

Technological, political economical influence on the music of the 20th century

EconomicalMusic produced by Charles Ives reflects an impact of economy on art. After finishing Yale University he has realized that his ideas about music are not popular and won't provide support ...

(3 pages) 56 0 3.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Summary Paper on The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram Response to his writing Christina Mahoney

ommands against our better judgment.Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much pain a person would inflict on another person just because they wer ...

(4 pages) 115 0 2.6 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Do You Learn Better By Sight or By Sound? contains information on ways that sight and hearing work! tells how your brain reacts to sight and sound. BIBLIOGRAPHY

ue teaches people faster? How can you save time, but know the material you have to study?A study at Yale University involving this matter said that seventy- three percent of people learned faster by u ... ter than sound. Everyone knows that light travels faster than sound. The professors and students at Yale University did this same test, and said that most people do study better by sight, but not all ...

(5 pages) 22 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

The Order of the Skull and Bones.

mmon goal of wanted power a success for everyone involved in the group. It is presently residing at Yale University and is meant to get those who are inducted jobs right out of high school. Only 15 of ... change to fit the group and to agree with the most wealthy, powerful, and successful of them.Now at Yale this organization exists as a secret society and it has been known that they on occasion have g ...

(5 pages) 19 0 1.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Paranormality & Spirituality

George W. Bush.

her, Bush attended the prestigious Philips Andover Academy in Massachusetts before matriculating at Yale University. He graduated from Yale with a bachelor's degree in 1968, then returned to Texas and ...

(1 pages) 1271 0 2.0 Jan/2006

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

The Great Depression

The Great Depression Irving Fisher, an economist at Yale University in 1929, confidently stated, "The nation is marching along a permanently high platea ...

(3 pages) 23 0 0.0 Feb/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Campaign

a Methodist. He went to college for his undergraduate degree in History in 1968, and got his MBA at Yale University in 1975. He is married to Laura Welch Bush, and he has two daughters. He was a pilot ...

(8 pages) 19 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Napster

en several lawsuits against companies and colleges such as napster, University of South California, Yale University, scour exchange, and soon many more which all these companies have done nothing wron ...

(1 pages) 906 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Students Responsibility

n a semester.In the memoir called Unafraid of the Dark by Rosemary Bary. Rosemary who was attending Yale university and was very proud of it, had failed three out of four of the classes that she was t ... very proud of it, had failed three out of four of the classes that she was taking. According to the Yale university rules three failures result in a automatic drop out. She should have been drop out, ...

(1 pages) 1096 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The Archaeological Findings of Machu Picchu

emoved from Peru with permission from the Peruvian government, and are still currently possessed by Yale University. Upon this, Bingham excavated and illegally smuggled an estimated 500 artefacts from ... leave the country from a Peruvian antiquities dealer (Matthews 2005: Peru prepares lawsuit against Yale University to get back Machu Picchu relics). These acts were clear examples of Bingham’s u ...

(6 pages) 27 1 4.7 Aug/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Jacques Derrida: "Writing and Difference"

esence," according to Geoffrey Hartman, Karl Young Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University. Writing and Difference was first published in 1967, and it contains collection of e ...

(4 pages) 44 0 4.1 Oct/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Grace Hopper biography

onors and a Vassar College Fellowship. With that she progressed to earning her MA in mathematics at Yale University in 1930, and her Ph.D. in 1934, along with two Sterling Scholarships and an election ...

(2 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Henry Ford

is when he appointed his son, Edsel, to run the business for him. Unlike his father, Edsel went to Yale University and became very knowledgeable of machinery and the business behind it all. This, amo ...

(2 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Automotive Companies

AN AMERICAN POET

lliam Rose, and a sister, Laura, all of whom became writers" (Fenton). Stephen was 17, a student at Yale University, when he published his first book, entitled Five Men and Pompey (Fenton). "Civilian ... led Five Men and Pompey (Fenton). "Civilian service during World War I interrupted his education at Yale Univerisity. When the war was over he returned to Yale. In 1919, he received his master of arts ...

(4 pages) 12 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry