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Ira Berlin?s "Many Thousands Gone", 2005.
This paper discusses Ira Berlin's book "Many Thousands Gone", which traces the evolution of black society in the New World.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper explains that Ira Berlin's book "Many Thousands Gone" demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was constantly changing as the nation moved toward independence: (1) Beginning in the early seventeenth century, the Charter Generation of slavery was a society with "black" slaves, indentured servants and Atlantic creoles whose position was determined by social and economic status and not by color; (2) The Plantation Generation, whose wearing labor was the sole meaning of black society and, (3) finally, the Revolutionary Generation who represent a freed black society. The author points out that, even in the worst of circumstances, slaves always held a strong card, the threat of rebellion; and, through negotiation, slaves not only carved out an independent social sphere but also they created their own world. The paper relates that, in each generation, slaves' and masters' correlation and co-dependence as well as the political and economical influence of slavery were important influences in the history-making of America.
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"Ira Berlin described the political impact in all three generations. The primary reason for slaves, indentured servants and Atlantic Creoles to be imported into America was to work the hard fields and other tasks white colonials could not do. Although in the Charter Generation slaves could become masters and own slaves, whites did not allowed too long for this inferior society to compete with them. For example, Anthony Johnson, an Atlantic Creole who gained his freedom after many years of labor, struggled to negotiate and deal with white colonials. "Vulnerable black people paid premium prices for goods and services that white men and women bought cheaply," Berlin described."
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"Slaves Without Masters" by Ira Berlin, 1993.
A critical review of the work on the lives of the freed slaves in pre-Civil War South.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, £ 50.95
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"This study will examine how the freed slaves in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) South lived, worked, and interacted with the white supremacist society around them. The source for this study will be Ira Berlin's Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.
The reality of life and work for the free Negro in the South before the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation was a mixed one: "Freedom allowed blacks to reap the rewards of their own labor, to develop a far richer social life, and to enjoy the many intangible benefits of liberty . . . Some free Negroes . . . acquired wealth and social standing. A few masterless slaves themselves became slave masters . . . Yet neither were they free. Instead, Southern free Negroes balanced precariously between abject slavery, which they rejected, and full freedom, which was..."
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The U.S. Government Thrift Savings Plan vs. the Roth IRA, 2002.
A comparison of the U.S. government?s Thrift Savings Plan and The Roth IRA for military pension plans.
2,120 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 46.95
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This paper examines use of rate of return and annual cash flow analysis techniques to evaluate the relative benefits to the military member of investing in the U.S. government Thrift Savings Plan or the Roth IRA. This paper includes charts, graphs and calculations. The author of the paper states that the analyses are only an average of historical returns, future performance is not guaranteed.
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Introduction
Assumptions
Historical Trend Data
Rate of Return Analysis
Annual Cash Flow Analysis
Conclusion
References
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"Enlisted members of the United States Armed Forces have, just within the last year, been given a new vehicle through which to invest their retirement money--the government Thrift Savings Plan, or TSP. Available to civilian federal employees for years past, the TSP works much like a 401(k) plan works in the private sector, offering "military members the potential to supplement military retirement significantly and also reduce current taxes by contributing from pre-tax dollars and watching tax-deferred earnings accumulate" (Air Force News Archive, 2002, n.p.). The current limit on annual contributions for service members is capped at seven percent of a member's base pay, but that limit is expected to increase to ten percent by the year 2005 (Air Force News Service, 2002)."
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?Many Thousand Gone?, 2004.
A review of the book, ?Many Thousand Gone? by Ira Berlin, about American slavery.
756 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper examines "Many Thousand Gone", a book written by Ira Berlin that traces the history of slavery in America. It analyzes how Berlin provides insight into the many different areas of life for African-Americans, including an overview of 200 years of history and details of culture within the enslaved communities. It looks at how the book traces the progress towards freedom and the obstacles and setbacks America, as a whole, had to overcome.
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"Freed blacks were not truely free, but more free than slaves on the plantation, and had very little rights. They lacked many fundamental rights such as voting rights, serving on trail juries, testifying in court, and in some places not even being able to travel without having the proper papers on them at all times. Some southern laws denied blacks access from using public areas, some populated areas provided segregated areas of low quality. Since they where limited on owning property and could not work alongside whites even in factories, or mills, it was hard to provide any standard of living. If you were a fortunate free man of color living in the north it was possible to obtain a very small patch of land."
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A Nation of Narrow Vision, 2001.
An analysis of the evolution of the African-American culture according to Ira Berlin's article, "Time, Space, and the Evolution of African-American Society".
1,165 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 28.95
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The essay demonstrates how Ira Berlin?s article presents the evolution of African-American culture in a new light. Before WWII, most texts about American slavery portray the African-American as the happy and contented slave at ease in his plantation surroundings. While studies done in the past three decades realize this as a misconception, many studies cite the institution of slavery itself as the common developmental denominator shared by members of African-American society. The essay explains that, unlike other studies which group all members of African-American society together, Ira Berlin divides the black society of colonial America into three separate and distinct cultures, and presents the theory that the class distinction that evolved within the black society stemmed as much from the factors of economy, cultural diversity and geography as they did from the confinements of slavery.
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"Given the wild winds of economic, political and societal change that swept across the nation during the last half of the twentieth century, the year 1977 appears to have passed through the annals of American history somewhat uneventfully. The roar of the sixties' riots and the violence of the Vietnam Era had taken their toll, and with the Watergate Scandal barely three years past, a still shell-shocked America of '77 quietly mourned the passing of Presley and placed their political faith in a farmer from Georgia. In retrospect, 1977 appears to have been quite an unmemorable year in American society and culture, an unremarkable moment in time that passed passively into the past along with Pong, PacMan and platform shoes. In reality, however, the year 1977 marked a milestone in the nation's culture, for it was during this year that both modern American and modern African-American society turned on its collective television set and found itself face to face with its collective past. For six consecutive nights in 1977, an enamored nation watched as Africa gave birth to Kunta Kinte, America gave birth to slavery, and Alex Haley's Roots exposed the harsh beginnings of the African-American culture. It touched nerves, but it also touched hearts, opened eyes and widened perspectives."
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"Berlin Journal", 2002.
Examines the significance of the Berlin Wall through the book, "Berlin Journal" by Roger Darton.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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Although the Berlin Wall was erected by the East German government in order to stop the mass exodus of refugees from East to West Germany, it acquired in the course of its twenty-eight-year life span symbolic meanings which transcended the pragmatic political intention behind its building. As a demarcation line between East and West, the Wall played a significant symbolic role in the "imaginative geography" of the Cold War, detente, and finally the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe which brought to an end the dominance of a bipolar world system. This paper examines the significance of the Berlin wall from the eyes of author Roger Darton and his book, "Berlin Journal".
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African-Americans in Antebellum U.S., 1997.
Analyzes sociologist Ira Berlin's theory that blacks freed before the Civil War formed a caste distinct from whites & black slaves, with political & socioeconomic subcastes in North & South.
4,275 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 10 sources, £ 95.95
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"This essay investigates Ira Berlin?s thesis (1974, 1976) that free Negroes in the antebellum United States formed a caste distinct from free whites and black slaves, and that this caste contained three distinct regional subcastes, in the North, the Upper South, and the Lower South. The investigation, using more recent and more detailed historiography, will consider whether Berlin?s categories remain viable, whether they need to be replaced in toto, or whether they need merely further elaboration, and, if so, what sorts of elaboration will be needed.
The general perspective arrived at here is that Berlin?s categories need detailed elaboration within each of his three major regions. Freed African-Americans formed local communities and unique personal identities that cannot be forced into Berlin.."
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA), 2005.
This paper discusses, in the context of the modern times, the cultural conflict in Northern Ireland between the IRA, the Unionists and the governments.
1,945 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 43.95
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This paper explains that, within its historical context, the IRA formed as a pro-Catholic organization in Northern Ireland to react against British rule, presents a religious issue: The guerrillas of the IRA count on sympathizers from the Catholic population on both sides of the border; whereas, Protestant fears of the Catholic threat became the stock in trade of the Unionist Party. The author points out that, in the modern era, the IRA is still using guerrilla and terrorist tactics and many of the efforts to restrain violence have failed; Even though recently there have been more meetings between the IRA and the British government, violence is a continuing problem with the peace agreements always breaking apart, and cease-fires appear presently to be very fragile. The paper stresses that coming up with a negotiating solution for the problem is difficult because both sides have objectives that are completely incompatible plus the continuing factors: The continuing tendency of the Tories to play for the Unionist MP's support; the inertia, which prevents any constituency arising in British politics to do and the deja-vu factor of hopelessness.
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Current Problem
Possible Solutions
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"In modern times of the IRA, which I consider in this report to be roughly the sixties to the present, political as well as religious issues must also be considered in terms of history. Ireland was partitioned into Northern and Southern Ireland in the 1920s, and the Irish Free State was formed after fighting and conflict. This involved political turmoil between Northern Ireland and the UK Parliament, as well as the Irish Republic and its government. The IRA was involved at this time at leading a war against the Irish Free State, which was designed to give Northern Ireland over to UK control."
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The Berlin Blockade as the Beginning of the Cold War, 2002.
Discusses the political factors that lead up to the Berlin Blockade and how that act helped launch the Cold War.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 43.95
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The Cold War is considered by historians to be one of the most prominent social and political developments of the later Twentieth Century and served to form the political and economic alliances which impacted almost every aspect of modern life. The development of the Cold War can be traced back nearly a century, but the event that triggered the outbreak of the Cold War itself is believed to be the Berlin Blockade. This paper investigates the causes of the Berlin Blockade and how this event came to pass, with reflection on how the Berlin Blockade helped chart the development of the Cold War itself.
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"A Thousand Acres", 2007.
This paper discusses "A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley, a re-vision of Shakespeare's "King Lear".
3,548 words (approx. 14.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 70.95
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The paper examines the similarities and significant differences between Jane Smiley's novel "A Thousand Acres" and Shakespeare's original "King Lear". The paper illustrates how "A Thousand Acres" is a feminist re-vision of the Lear tragedy where the patriarchal myth is best grounded. The paper shows how, by giving voice to the women seen as vile in Shakespeare's text, Smiley manages to shed a new light on the traditional story and make it more compatible with modern consciousness.
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"Thus, Jane Smiley's re-vision of King Lear works as a displacement of traditional patriarchy: the author demits Lear from his role as a patriarchal figure, persecuted and betrayed by his ungrateful daughters. The main characters in A Thousand Acres, as well as the main directions in the plot, are all mirroring the Shakespearian tragedy: the prosperous farmer in Iowa - Larry Cook/ Lear decides, on an impulse, to renounce the absolute rights on his property, and to divide the family land among his three daughters: Ginny/ Goneril, Rose/ Regan and Caroline/ Cordelia. The names of the characters themselves are plain allusions to the main characters in Shakespeare's text."
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'The Berlin Stories', 2004.
A report on the wild and decadent lifestyle as presented in Christopher Isherwood's book 'The Berlin Stories'.
983 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 24.95
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This book report reviews Christopher Isherwood's book 'The Berlin Stories'. The paper highlights examples of the wild, decadent and colorful lifestyle in Berlin before World War II, by tracing the characters portrayed in 3 short stories, 'The Nowarks', 'Sally Bowles' and 'On Reugen Island' contained in this book.
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"The story that best describes decadent or debauched behavior however is "Sally Bowles." The heroine encountered by Isherwood here is Sally Bowles, a 19-year-old English girl who works as a singer in The Lady Windermere, a cabaret. No doubt a colorful character, Sally exemplifies the wild and wicked lifestyle of her time. Sex for her was a mere trifle. She points out the men she sleeps with no hint of self-consciousness or shame. "That's the man I slept with last night. He makes love marvelously. He's an absolute genius at businesses and he's terribly rich." (Isherwood, 1963, p. 23). Seduction, fun and games, are all part of Sally's way of life as well as that of the people around her. "For heaven's sake, don't leave me alone with this man! Or he'll seduce me down the telephone. He's most terribly passionate" (Isherwood, 1963, p. 22)."
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"The Fall of Berlin 1945", 2007.
An analysis of the book "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor.
1,629 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 37.95
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The paper relates that the book "The Fall of Berlin 1945" offers not only a detailed look at how and why Berlin fell in 1945, but also provides a historic look at warfare and the horrors of war. The paper looks at how Beevor's book includes scrupulous research, numerous maps and a clear understanding of the mechanics of war, giving the reader a comprehensive knowledge of the last days of the Third Reich. The paper is of the opinion that it is an excellent history book and should be considered in any study of World War II.
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"Beevor's book opens with the desperate situation in Berlin in the last month of 1944, when bombing raids were common and the people's motto was simply to "Survive!" (Beevor 2). He shows how, through fear and desperation, society began to disintegrate and the Nazi stranglehold on the country began to release. The opening chapters follow the many battles and tactical maneuvers that led to the final fall of Berlin, including assessments of the armaments used to win the war. For example, Beevor writes of the Soviet tanks used in the Vistula, "The rapid advances of Zhukov's tank armies were partly due to the simplicity and robust construction of the T-34 tank and its broad tracks, which could cope with snow, ice, and mud" (Beevor 20). He also follows some of the most important military leaders in the war and shows how their decisions affected many of the decisive battles leading to the fall of Berlin."
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"Ten Thousand Lovers", 2005.
A critical review of "Ten Thousand Lovers" by Edeet Ravel.
1,110 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper is a critical essay of the politics of representation of the characters in Israel in the novel, "Ten Thousand Lovers," by Edeet Ravel. Quotes from the novel and external sources are included ,along with a list of works cited. An analysis of the Hebrew and Arab relationship is also discussed.
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"This novel uses Israel as a focal point of hybridity. This is a nation where many different cultures, languages, and opinions come together. It is essential to the success of this country that all the parts cooperate together to operate as a whole. Ravel does a beautiful job of illustrating this importance through the stories and actions of her characters. The provided history of linguistics and integration of italicized Middle-eastern culture into the text solidify the efforts of Ravel to represent the diversity of Israel. Everyone can be thought of as a ten thousand-faced dice. Upon one roll, one face will be completely exposed to the naked eye, and will be used to reprsent the dice as a whole."
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The Berlin Blockade of 1948, 2002.
An analysis of the options available to President Truman in 1948 regarding the blockade of Berlin by the USSR.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, £ 31.95
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This paper examines the alternatives available to President Truman and his advisers in 1948 regarding responses to the blockade of Berlin by the USSR. The author assesses the value of each alternative and explores the potential Soviet responses to each of them, then concludes that an airlift is the best alternative.
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