Decades later, through Davis' most careful and deliberate execution of filming and editing, this film is still able to elicit an emotional response. ... Without vocally declaring input on the subject, Davis allows the evidence to speak for itself. ... While interacting and interviewing some subjects, Davis takes a step back and allows participants to speak about what they would like. ... Which I believe is a prevalent truth in the content of Davis' film Hearts and Minds (1974). ... While also paying attention to Davis' style of filming, much like Klawans article, Brooke writes, ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Battle of Dallas occurred on May 28th when Confederate troops led by General William J. ... For personal reasons, Confederate President Jefferson Davis disliked General Johnston. ... Davis made this ruling based on personal preference and political popularity, ignoring the possible effects it could have on the battlefield. ... The political importance resting on the Atlanta Campaign drove Davis to transfer leadership of the Army of Tennessee to General John B. ... He appealed to Davis for multiple reasons, all of which supported his political career. ...

• Word Count: 2262
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story in which it could see reflected the influence of the author's life. ... William Cuthbert Faulkner was a writer who was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. ... Teresa Towner in her book "The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner" states that Faulkner's great grandfather, called for many people as "the Colonel" had a great influence on Faulkner's imagination and perception of the South, she also states: "in his fiction, subconsciously and on purpose, Faulkner used the materials o...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While already a patriot, a legend and declared as Scotland's greatest hero within Scottish history, it is appalling to note that prior to Braveheart, William Wallace was a name unmentioned and unheard of in historical books. ... However, film does tend to capture the "essence" or what Natalie Davis calls the "spirit of a period". ... Natalie Davis however comes up with a new definition of "historical authenticity" applicable to film-based history. ...

• Word Count: 2102
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These initiatives were pursued by Liberal PM William E Gladstone, whose government passed an important Act that ensured some security for tenants and that led to future progressive law reforms for the people of Ireland. ... These include internationally acclaimed artists such as William Yeats, James Joyce and Bernard Shaw who were, significantly, all influential in both the cultural and political development of modern Ireland. ... Its founding members, Michael Cusack (an IRB member) and Maurice Davis, stated that the GAA was formed "for the preservation and cultivation of our national pastimes...

• Word Count: 1434
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This theory was found in the writings of Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner who were important figures in the history of Social Darwinism (a social and political Philosophy that believed in the existence of natural laws of social evaluation and argued for a hands-off approach to human social affairs). ... Functionalist Theory: Functionalist Theory also known as Davis-Moore Theory, which named after its founders Wilbert E. Moore and Kingsley Davis. ... Davis and Moore began with observation that virtually all-human societies in the past and the present have been characterized by diffe...

• Word Count: 1973
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book, Sugar Blues, William Dufty quotes a 1957 article published in the Michigan Organic News, where Dr. William Coda Martin categorized "refined sugar as a poison because it is stripped of life forces, vitamins and minerals" leaving behind pure, refined carbohydrates that cannot be utilized by the body unless the proteins, vitamins and minerals removed during refining are available (Dufty 154). ...

• Word Count: 2214
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The distinguished Abraham and his partner William F. ... In February the people of the south had themselves a meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, they declared a new constitution, set up a government and elected Jefferson Davis as president for the southern states and they called it the confederate states of America. ...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate