Essays Tagged: "expanse"

Cherokee, on native Americans

er tribes in the East.When Europeans first arrived in North America, the Cherokees occupied a large expanse of territory in the Southeast. Their homeland included mountains and valleys in the southern ...

(4 pages) 142 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Review on the novel "Playground of the Gods" by Cathy Spellman

s and fantasies. This place is Mora Utu-The playground of the Gods-a green jewel in the placid blue expanse of the South Pacific, the most luxurious and seductive private preserve anywhere on the plan ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Problems of nation building in Malawi

re-colonial Malawi centered on the Maravi Empire, a very loosely organized society covering a large expanse of territory. In the late 1800 the British colonized Malawi that was called then Nyasaland. ...

(4 pages) 93 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

A creative writing piece about the Arizona desert and how it contrasts from day to night.

The Forsaken ExpanseThe arid and sunburnt barren land of Arizona; eternal desert stretching for miles and miles. ...

(2 pages) 48 0 4.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

"The Untraditional Christ Figure" by Tom T. Shiftlet.

ing to Mrs. Crater, he swings "both his whole and his short arm up slowly so that they indicated an expanse of sky and his figure formed a crooked cross" (48). Shiftlet makes a visual reference to Chr ...

(3 pages) 35 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

King Arthur.

ing Arthur, an extraordinary warrior, lived his life trying to conquer the many lands over the huge expanse of Britain. Arthur's life was torn apart by his wife, Gwenevere's affair with his greatest k ...

(3 pages) 65 0 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.

was the eye of the blackbird; that is to say, a fixed (yet moving, or alive) reference point in an expanse. This expanse is the mind, the imagination. The only moving thing was a stirring of an idea ...

(7 pages) 70 0 1.3 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.

quired the U.S. government to pay the Mexican government $15 million dollars, this in return for an expanse of territory that later became the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Utah, Nevada, ...

(8 pages) 90 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts

Railroad

to cover the entire United States. Before the railroads were built, most of the west was just a big expanse of plains and mass Sierra Nevada Mountains. The seemingly untouched land would soon become t ...

(1 pages) 32 0 2.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Tourism in Cameroon, Greece and China. Why do so few people travel to Cameroon?

A little introduction or overview of this country will give us an idea of what it is like.The large expanse of savannah which covers the North of the country is home to the biggest national parks and ...

(28 pages) 117 0 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

What is manhood according to the character in Macbeth?

oretical expressions. Though countless debates have taken place upon a variety of fields within the expanse of the classification known as manhood, little clarification has come of it. There remains a ...

(4 pages) 45 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

What does it mean to be a citizen?

theorists and practitioners alike that are varied and many in response to defining a "citizen". The expanse of these theories ranges from the all-encompassing endorsement of world citizenship where na ...

(8 pages) 198 1 4.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Perception of Femininity as seen in "The Ring" and "A Doll's House"

eoretical expression. Though countless debates have taken place upon a variety of fields within the expanse of the classification known as femininity, little clarification has come of it. There exist ...

(5 pages) 36 0 5.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

US mexico border culture and economy history.

ive outcomes of this for both countries.The U.S Mexico border region before the 1800's was a barren expanse of land that stretched between two oceans. Before this time there was little or no natural r ...

(10 pages) 165 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Life of Charles Lindbergh

neers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an airplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down ...

(4 pages) 29 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Government issues- priortise upgrading the congested maroochy bridge,

n from Twin Waters to misery as she sees the long formidable wait ahead of her as she stares on the expanse of cars stretched for miles. She said "I frequently make two trips along the Motorway everyd ...

(3 pages) 17 0 1.0 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

WARS OF GERMANY

One such event, often overlooked, is the "Great War", 1914-1918. Like every people affected by the expanse of this war, Germans were deeply affected and forever changed. As a social, cultural, and ps ...

(17 pages) 38 0 3.8 May/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Hound of the Baskerville.

dmires the scenery of his birthplace. Soon, the group spots the fabled moorland, a gray, dream-like expanse. Observing Sir Henry's exultation, Watson decides that this New World traveler is indeed "of ...

(3 pages) 11 0 1.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Comparison of Genesis 1-2 and Enuma Elish

nd to mark the month with its phases"(pg16) and in Genesis 1-2 God said "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night; they shall serve as signs for the set times-the days ... they shall serve as signs for the set times-the days and the years; and they serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth."pg13 They both also say that there is light two lights, ...

(1 pages) 19 0 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The Affect Of Water On Ancient Western Life

ell near water. When the population in these areas increased, there was a need to expand. With this expanse, they moved farther away from the rivers and water sources. This meant that there needed to ...

(2 pages) 1154 0 3.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers