Frontier Thesis

In the midst of the Napoleonic War between Great Britain and France, the United States found it’s self in a strange positon. While it had declared neutrality during the war, the warring nations imposed several sanctions on the U.S. Great Brittan began taking U.S sailors as hostages and forcing them to work in the British Royal Navy, which you can imagine would have greatly helped Brittan’s war effort against France by building up its naval power. In effect, it was the United Stated that was…

industrialization, people still prefer to be more “natural” than more “industrialized” after wage increase. Through their choices towards foods, no matter how industrialization has changed the world, human beings are still closely linked with foods and nature. (Thesis statement needs further modification).Not matter how they are financially more…

this is mocked in the opening chapter in mentioning his school of thought: ‘metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology’, the sheer length of which hints to and pokes fun at the absurdity of his arguments to come throughout the novel. In fact, Pangloss’ thesis is so often met with its antitheses of misery and suffering in his adventures that he ought to forgo his dogmatic adherence to it altogether. Despite the absence of a valid synthesis of the two, and the untenable position his complacent Optimism…

A powerful and influential Civil Rights activist, a U.S. Representative and Senator, a best-selling author, the “Leader of the Free World” (Wilentz 4), and a “Pulitzer Prize” winner (Featured 1) are just a few of the terms that can be used to describe the man who became the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America. He juggled hostile foreign affairs as well as domestic racism that threatened the safety and future of millions of Americans (A&E Television Networks 8). John…

Nationalism and Colonialism in the German Empire Within these two novels, there lies a common theme which aims to further develop and explore the state of the German mindset within the late 18th to early 19th century. One of these themes is the German belief of their racial superiority over all other existing races. The people of the German Empire believed that their racial purity and specific traits made them of a higher standard than those of any other ethnicity. For example, Rash states that…

B. Assessing the impact of the California, New York, and Massachusetts statutes on Kansas state pay equity case law With respect to the four divisions differentiating state pay equity statutes nationally, Kansas’s current pay equity statute applies to all employers, public and private, and falls into the “equal work” or “equal worth” category with twenty-one other states. Kansas’s law does not include language that would potentially broaden the scope of comparison employees bringing claims…

Brown, Charles B. "Somnambulism. A Fragment." The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume 1, edited by Paul Lauter, D.C. Health and Company, 1990, pages 1165-1177. This short story was written my Charles Brown and published in May of 1805. This story set the precedent for America Gothic short stories. It influenced many Gothic writers one of them being Poe. Like many Goth short stories that followed this story had the death of a beautiful woman. It also had a male protagonist who was…

(Kent 30) which allowed men to treat women as a slave. Women were considered as irrational creatures because in that time period, men thought, “[women were] weak creature no endued with like strength and constancy of mind” (“The Significance of the Frontier in American History” give the page number) When you cite a title, add quotations. Despite their limited rights, they continued to have a big influence on the construction of the government of the United States; they were fearless to protest…

Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 5, No. 10, October 2015. p.164, G. O. Olusanya, “The Sabon Gari System in Northern States of Nigeria.”In Nigeria Magazine, 1967, No. 94; A. D. Edley, ‘The Sabon Gari System in Northern Nigeria: 1940’, PhD Thesis, University College, Los Angeles, 1976, P. L. Nku, “History of Sabon Gari Kano: From Colonial Period to 1978.” B. A. History Project, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1979; A. V. Dhilliwayo, “The Colonial Framework of Urban Growth: The Case of…

ACCOUNTING FOR AIRLINE FREQUENT FLYER PROGRAMS: MANAGEMENT INCENTIVES AND FINANCIAL REPORTING IMPACTS May 2012 Brian J. Franklin, BBA Accounting ‘12, College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, 907-268-4233 Ext. 401, bfranklin@frontiertutoring.com ABSTRACT The obligation to provide free or reduced-fare travel to passengers who redeem their accrued frequent flyer program (FFP) benefits represents a significant liability on…