For 21 years, William the Conqueror built England into a very dominant country that he handed over to his son, William Rufus. ... Henry made promises to the country that would help win their approval. ... Henry was very generous to his subjects and his nobles to gain the support of the country. ... Matilda was the only daughter of Henry I and his wife Matilda, and sister of William the Atherington, heir to the English and Norman thrones. ... Henry agreed that if the Barons took the oath, he would consult them before trying to marry her outside of the country. ...

• Word Count: 4692
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

• Word Count: 4263
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The band left the country the next day on a planned vacation, but Morrison turned himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles upon his return. The press had a field day prior to his arrest while he was out of the country. ... Away much of the time, Jim's father fluctuating between treating his children as recruits and exercising little parental authority, choosing instead to let his wife apply whatever discipline might be necessary (Faris and Faris, p.142). ...

• Word Count: 3338
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... After 1956 however, with Khrushchev's new approach to Socialism and his denunciation of Stalin, there were increasing calls for independence among the communist bloc countries who ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... After 1956 however, with Khrushchev's new approach to Socialism and his denunciation of Stalin, there were increasing calls for independence among the communist bloc countries who ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... After 1956 however, with Khrushchev's new approach to Socialism and his denunciation of Stalin, there were increasing calls for independence among the communist bloc countries who ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

In a country that he considered too conservative, conformist, spießerhaft' and charged with latent violence' (Elsaesser, 1996: 25), he also deals with the issues of ageism and crossing social boundaries. ... And yet, in the next scene we meet Emmi's daughter, whose white, German husband is feigning illness in order to have time off work and is too lazy to raise himself out of his armchair to fetch another beer, preferring to order his wife to do this on pain of a beating should she refuse. ... Take, for example, the couple's honeymoon in a foreign country. ...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Arthur Miller, winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes strength, human spirit, and familial love. Alice Griffin believes that Miller's plays are important internationally (xii). ...

• Word Count: 11015
• Approx Pages: 44
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I plan on researching the effects of rap on today's youth. As Glenn Collins explains, "the influence of rap is now evident in the nation's language, music, fashion and advertising" (C15). I also plan on researching the effects of good clean lyrics that Will Smith uses, compared to the vulgar and v...

• Word Count: 5064
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During this period the Indian sub-continent was part of the British Empire, and the country was run by the British middle class, which Eric's family was a member of. ... He was forced to flee the country, and thanks to the betrayal began to look deeply into the whispers of what was really going on in the USSR. ... In 1943 he began to write Animal Farm, and the next year Orwell and his wife adopted a son. In 1945 his wife died during an operation, and he went off to Europe to be a reporter. ...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most sign...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School