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The rise of entertainment during the Gilded Age

The Gilded Age marked a time of industrial revolution, growth, and prosperity. The Gilded Age sprung out of post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction and is defined by the rapid economic and population growth.

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Classical influences and intertextuality in Ben Jonson's Volpone

Ben Jonson is a writer who was deeply influenced by earlier novels in both themes and structures.

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Allen Ginsberg's childhood and influences on his poetry

Allen Ginsberg was born to Louise and Naomi Ginsburg on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. His father Louise was a poet, a high school teacher, and a restrained Jewish Socialite. His mother Naomi Levy was Communist and a nudist -- who went insane in early adulthood.

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Britain and France's imperial competition for control of Egypt

Britain and France locked horns over Egypt at the dawn of the New Imperialism. Both nations had significant interest in Egypt for reasons of money, pride and power; both nations staked claims to the area before the turn of the twentieth century.

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Major events and ideas of the Classical Era and French Revolution

The Classical Era, lasting from 1750-1800, recaptured the aesthetic ideals of ancient Greece and Rome. It is defined by the emergence of the enlightened ideas of philosophers that favored reason, clarity, and breaking down class barriers.

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Evolution of programming languages from machine code to net-centric computing

Computers, more specifically the hardware that allows computer to process data and the languages that have evolved to make that process more streamlined, continue to improve and evolve based on technological, cultural, and social evolution.

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Changing consumer preferences and their impact on British hospitality

The consumers are changing, both in terms of numbers, origin and type. Therefore there are demography induced changes in consumer needs, which are based on change with the times and with the change in population, both in terms of numbers and ethnicity.

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Personal transformation through education and peer influence at Stevenson School

Again, do to family issues, we moved around almost constantly -- Denver, Colorado, back to Korea, then to China again.

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Economic benefits of opening the US-Mexico border

The enforcement of the borders of the United States has been a debated subject during the Obama Administration.

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Technology and postmodernity as drivers of twenty-first century social change

What factor(s) do you think will shape and/or determine the major social changes that will occur during the twenty-first century?

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