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Inverting the Atlas : Geographically Based Food Security in Kalamazoo
(2013)The author describes the demographic changes in Kalamazoo with a series of maps that represent the city's changing population, ethnic make-up, the distribution of grocers and supermarkets, and household income from 1910, ... -
Inverting the Atlas: Geographically Based Food Security in Kalamazoo
(2013)This experiment took place in Kalamazoo, Michigan, because it is where I live and eat. Rich archival records, first-hand knowledge of the contemporary landscape, and conversations about its past were accessible. The ... -
An Investigation into the Development and Repercussions of West Berlin's Unusual Political Status
(1977)This essay deals with the factors which have culminated in Berlin's present division as well as the repercussions this division has had on West Berlin. It investigates the affects of West Berlin's isolation and enclosure. ... -
Irish Parliaments and The Northern Ireland Peace Process
(1998)The research paper that I have written is my attempt to summarize the events which have created the current tensions in Northern Ireland. It also provides an historical and political analysis of Irish parliamentary reform, ... -
The Irish Republican Army
(1977)The purpose of this paper is to give a broad overview of the Irish Republican Army with a concentration on the years of 1961-72. There are several reasons why I wish to focus upon the decades of the sixties and the early ... -
The Irreconcilable Committments: A History of the British Involvement in Palestine 1915-1939
(1978)The goal of this paper is to show how Palestine, a stagnant, backwater province of the Ottoman Empire, became such a hotly contested piece of land in the twentieth century. First, the development of Nationalist movements ... -
Is Jazz Dead? ( or has it changed its dress)
(2007)In this essay, I will first historicize jazz within a paradoxical American identity which sees itself embodied by both a broad common culture and fierce individualism. Jazz, as a participant in this paradox, is described ... -
The Issue of Human Rights in U.S.-Latin America Policy: An Internship with the Washington Office on Latin America
(1989)The first part of this paper will examine the reasons for the growth of the U.S.-Latin American Human Rights Lobby. It will present a brief historical overview of U.S-Latin American policy, and focus on the issue of Chile ... -
It Happened in Monterey: Being a description of social conditions and aspects of daily living in the city of Monterey, California in the decade preceding the annexation of that state into the union
(1964)In this paper, I have concentrated primarily on Los Californios, citizens of Monterey. This is not to ignore the American and other foreigners in the city. It is merely that their's was not the prevailing culture. Therefore, ... -
"It was a time of intense reevaluation": Gender Constructs in Weimar and Nazi era Cinema
(2009)The cinema produced during Weimar and Nazi Germany is not a new subject matter. It is a subject that contains a plethora of secondary sources and a unique historiography that began shortly after World War II. I began my ... -
It's Show Time: A Case Study of Channel Seven Special Report
(1980)A case study of the production of this half-hour program is the focus of this paper. The program, entitled "Fermi II: The Big Power Play," was aired in Detroit on March 21, 1980. A videotape of the program is submitted ... -
James Ramsay MacDonald: Politics and Influence
(1974)James Ramsay MacDonald was undoubtedly one of the most controversial figures of his time. He was a. man who was to rise from poverty to Prime Minister. He was a romantically handsome, elusive, unfathomable creature who ... -
The Japanese Dialectic : The Allied Occupation of Japan and the Establishment of a Free Market Welfare State
(2013)Many historians have described the conflicting nature of many of the economic paradigms that Japan adopted during the period of post-war occupation. This study will address those contradictions and show how each economic ... -
“THE JAPANESE INVADE AMERICA”: An Overview of Japanese-American Intercollegiate Baseball, 1905-1936
(2022)This essay seeks to provide an overview of Japanese-American intercollegiate baseball beginning with the first voyage by Waseda University to the US in 1905 and ending with Waseda’s last tour of the states in 1936. The ... -
The Jefferson Image in the American Mind: Problems and Perspectives Since 1960
(1978)Thomas Jefferson still survives, a.side from the historical interpretations, in the form of the Jefferson Memorial and the Jefferson Home, Monticello. Rather than representing the particular achievements of Thomas Jefferson, ... -
The Jesuit Republic of Paraguay: A Utopian Christian State
(1989)After a brief summary of the Jesuit's interests in Brazil and Paraguay, the problems which I intend to explore are: Why did the Jesuits enjoy such success in these reductions?; Why were the Spanish and Portuguese so ... -
John Fiske and the Dogma of Evolutionary History
(1983)John Fiske was among the first Americans to embrace evolutionary science. Fiske first read Darwin and Herbert Spencer, another English evolutionary thinker, as a student at Harvard College in 1860. He was more impressed ... -
The Johnson County War
(1990)On the 13th of April, 1892, an intervention by the U.S. cavalry was needed to halt large-scale, vigilante hostilities that had erupted in Johnson County. Wyoming. The so-called "Johnson County War" was planned and led by ...