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The Age of Discovery, 2002.
A brief examination of how the Age of Discovery (15th to the 17th century Europe) effected both the population of Europe and the population of the New World.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper shows the positive and negative effects of the Age of Discovery on the society of the time. The European population largely enjoyed the positive benefits - exposure to new cultures and open trade routes, new goods and advanced technology. The negative impacts were felt by the populations who were "discovered" for the first time by the Europeans.
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"Not unlike the way the ?race for the moon? became the driving force of American scientific exploration during the 1950?s and 1960?s, the race to control the trade routes to the far reaches of the globe and to expand its technological knowledge of navigation became the driving force of Spanish foreign and domestic policy during the period of world history from the 15th to the 17th centuries. This period is also commonly called ?The Age of Discovery? by European historians. The economic impact of Spain?s forays into the New World or worlds ultimately changed the face of European knowledge of the world and the economic structure of Europe. Both the residents of Spain and Europe as a whole, however, experienced both positive and negative effects of this exploration. However, the effects upon Europe were on the whole largely beneficial, because of the increased exposure to new goods and the expansion of technology and knowledge that came as a result of colonization and exploration. However, the impact upon the existing inhabitants of the New World was largely negative."
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The Age of Discovery, 2004.
A comparative analysis of Spain and Portugal during the Age of Exploration.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how, driven by a desire for spices, Portugal and, later, Spain, took the lead in launching voyages to discover a direct ocean route to the Indies and how the expeditions of Portugal and Spain opened a great period of exploration and eventually led to the colonization of America by Europeans. In particular, it looks at how the countries differed in terms of the lands discovered, the people involved in their discovery, and the intentions behind these voyages of discovery. It also shows how the main differences between Portugal's and Spain?s Ages of Discovery are geographical, economic, and the approach taken towards the voyages.
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"Three main men were responsible for the discoveries made by Portugal throughout the period of ?The Age of Discovery?: Henry the Navigator (1394-1460); Vasco de Gama (1460-1524), and Magellan (1480-1521). Henry the Navigator was responsible for sponsoring the first navigations around the African coast; Vasco de Gama navigated the Cape of Good Hope, and established the sea route to India, opening up trade routes to East Asia for Portugal; and Fern?o de Magalh?es (or Magellan) was the first person to have circumnavigated the globe, bringing about great prestige for Portugal, and revolutions in scientific thought."
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The Age of Discovery, 2001.
A paper focusing on European exploration following the Middle Ages.
970 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, $ 34.95
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This paper discusses land and sea explorations undertaken by various European nations. The author cites specific explorers and their achievements. Also discussed are the effects of all "exploration" on indigenous cultures.
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"The Age of Discovery was instrumental in the expansion of European civilization. The Age of Discovery produced European empires, stimulated economies and brought significant changes to most of Europe. European expansion and discovery affected not only Europe, but changed the societies and cultures of the civilizations that the Europeans impacted (annihilated). Euro-centrically speaking, the most important impact of the Age of Discovery was the role it played in changing Europe from an agrarian economy to a commercial and industrial capitalistic system."
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"The Discovery of Insulin", 2006.
A book report and positive review of Michael Bliss' book "The Discovery of Insulin".
912 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper positively reviews Michael Bliss' book about the medical discovery of insulin, stating that Bliss manages to relate the story of the discovery of insulin in an exciting, engaging way.
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"One might predict that a book detailing the history of a medical discovery might prove to be rather dull reading. However, The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss demonstrates that this is certainly not necessarily the case. The story that Bliss relates has all the elements of an intriguing novel - fascinating characters, conflict, scandal, and inspirational outcomes. Yet, the book is a carefully researched document rather than a work of fiction. The human side of medical research is revealed, both in the activities and thoughts of the scientists involved in the discovery of insulin, and in the heartwarming stories of diabetes sufferers whose lives are saved by the discovery."
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Self-Discovery in "Araby", 2005.
An examination of James Joyce's narrator and his voyage of self-discovery in his short story "Araby".
749 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper looks at how James Joyce's protagonist in "Araby" travels to the bazaar on a quest to obtain an exotic treasure for his lady love and how, like a mythic hero, he has overcome obstacles on his journey. At the end of his voyage, however, he finds no Holy Grail but only flowery knick-knacks. It examines the narrator's journey of self-discovery, focusing on the author's use of narration, diction, imagery, and language to establish a tone that conveys this discovery.
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"Joyce chose a first person narrator in this story. This choice is essential because it allows the reader to establish an immediate empathy for the protagonist as well as to overlook the foolishness of the boy's infatuation with his older neighbor. The narrator at first is a very innocent child: he reports matter-of-factly on the appearance of his street and the death of the priest who rented a room in his house. The speaker lists The Memoirs of Vidocq among the priest's few possessions, even claiming to like this book the best, but fails to see the irony in this choice of literature by a holy man."
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Gold Discovery at Sutter?s Mill, 2002.
An analysis of the effects of the gold discovery at Sutter?s mill on Californian society.
2,662 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in 1848 and outlines the many changes it brought to the west. The paper details how the discovery of gold brought a socially libertarian society to California. The paper describes what the West was like before the gold rush, and examines the various changes which occurred thereafter. The writer provides opinions and views of various authors and historians on this topic.
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"Though the two attempted to keep the discovery of the gold a secret, the word eventually spread ? from east, to west, to all over the globe. California?s society would never be the same again. Prior to the discovery of gold at Sutter?s mill, in January of 1848, most Americans considered the west a faraway land. It was populated by few, and almost no one wanted to change that. Frontiersman, trappers, and religious refugees populated it. For the most part, only the extroverted, adventurous types went west."
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"The Discovery of What It Means to Be An American", 2002.
An analysis of author James Baldwin's essay, "The Discovery of What It Means to Be An American".
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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The paper analyses the meaning of "freedom" in African-American author, James Baldwin's essay "The Discovery of What it Means to be an American". The paper shows that what Baldwin does in this essay, as well as in a number of his other essays, is to question those American assumptions about freedom by reminding us how differentially they apply.
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"But Baldwin forces us to see how;blackness; as a category applied to humans has almost nothing to do with race or skin color or any other biological or physical attribute as we might believe that it does. Instead, blackness - or whiteness - is a way of designating power between different Americans."
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Lear's Journey of Self-Discovery, 2006.
This paper analyzes William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of King Lear" and describes how the title character is taken on a journey of self-discovery.
1,408 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper details the plot of Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of King Lear" and asserts that from the first scene it is clear that Lear lacks basic self-knowledge and that his ignorance of his own true nature is to blame for his many problems. This writer of this paper also focuses on Lear's journey of self-discovery and ponders whether his unhealthy imagination was the root cause of his eventual insanity.
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"Lear's new, clearer self-perception coincides with his growing madness. Just at the moment when freshly gained self-knowledge allows him greater empathy and knowledge of others, his mind, already perceived by others in the play to be failing, degenerates further. This leads to an odd vacillation between verity and delusion, or as Edgar later comments, "matter and impertinency mix'd, reason in madness." It is in this period that Lear makes some of his most stabbingly accurate self-assesments, and although here his imagination seems to go most awry, progress is actually made."
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The Discovery of Childhood, 2003.
A critical study of three main ideas about the idea that the notion of "childhood" was a discovery of the eighteenth century.
3,072 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses how Philippe Ari?s? book, "L?Enfant et la Vie Familiale sous L?Ancien R?gime", or "Centuries of Childhood" in translation, which was published over four decades ago, is still regarded by many as the ultimate study in the development of childhood over the centuries. It looks at how although there have been numerous works published over these past forty years that contradict Ari?s? hypothesis and that contain very convincing and diverse data and statistics to back up their claims, the majority of the critics hold fast to the idea that the relationship between parent and child changed from cold and distant in the seventeenth century, to loving and affectionate by the end of the eighteenth. This paper dismisses that thesis and proposes that childhood was certainly a notion that was accepted before eighteenth century sensibilities and it was, in fact, only the idea of how children should be treated that truly changed.
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"Much of the evidence to support the idea that children were regarded at best indifferently, and at worst disdainfully, is found in the ideals of religion, and specifically in Christianity, of the times. A thirteenth-century hagiographical book entitled Golden Legend was very popular and influential into the seventeenth century, and throughout the tales the emphasis that the saints acted like adults even as small children was very pronounced. There were also popular biographies of actual children like Edward VI and Lady Jane Grey that portrayed them more adult-like than child-like even in their extreme youth, for they were grave, sage, and were masters in many disciplines by an extraordinarily young age."
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Christopher Columbus And The Discovery Of America, 2002.
Argues that Columbus did not "discover" America since it was already inhabited by non-European human beings.
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Argues tht Columus did not "discover" America since it was already inhabited by non-European human beings. Discusses Columbus' achievement as the first European to sail the Atlantic & bring European culture, religion & values to the land he discovered. His passion for discovery. His point of view that he and his men owned all they "discovered," & the existing inhabitants having no value as human beings. Contends that Columbus' discovery of America was a major element in the mythical, not actual, past of the nation.
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"This study will argue that Christopher Columbus did not "discover" America, and that only by twisting reality can it be said that he or any European "discovered" a land which was already inhabited by other human beings. The basis of this twisting of reality is that the inhabitants of the "New World" were less than human beings, and therefore it cannot be said that the land was inhabited at all, but was instead populated by semi-humans, by near-animals, by non-Christian savages with no civilized qualities. In reality, however, the "Indians" Columbus "discovered" were indeed human beings with a subtle civilization and a fully developed religious belief system. Therefore, Columbus did not "discover America" because it had already been discovered and populated by human beings long before his arrival. He and his fellow arrogant and ethnocentric Europeans imagined ..."
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"Clinical Supervision: A Four-Stage Process of Growth and Discovery"., 2002.
A discussion of this book by Rober Taibbi.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses Robert Taibbi's highly acclaimed 1995 book, "Clinical Supervision: A Four-Stage Process of Growth and Discovery", and evaluates its merit.
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Columbus' True Discovery, 2002.
An argumentative paper about how Christopher Columbus did not really 'discover' America.
1,857 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This study argues that Christopher Columbus did not "discover" America, and that only by twisting reality can it be said that he or any European "discovered" a land which was already inhabited by other human beings. The writer argues that the basis of this twisting of reality is that the inhabitants of the "New World" were less than human beings, and therefore it cannot be said that the land was inhabited at all, but was instead populated by semi-humans, by near-animals, by non-Christian savages with no civilized qualities. In reality, however, the "Indians" Columbus "discovered" were indeed human beings with a subtle civilization and a fully developed religious belief system. The writer continues his argument that Columbus did not "discover America" because it had already been discovered and populated by human beings long before his arrival.
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"William M. Davidson and Henry Noble Sherwood argue in separate articles that Columbus was indeed a great man who discovered America. Davidson calls Columbus "The Great Navigator" and says that in Columbus "passion for discovery rose to the dignity of an inspiration" (Davidson 248). Sherwood writes that Columbus and his men found "naked savages" in the new land and that Columbus treated them well (Sherwood 253). It is crucial to the argument that Columbus "discovered America" that the context be established first in which the beings which inhabited that land are thoroughly dehumanized. The more that dehumanization process can be carried out, the more easily Columbus and his fellow Europeans and descendants can argue that there were no truly human beings when Columbus arrived and therefore it has to be said that he did indeed "discover" that land. The more one sees the natives as animals, as savages with no concept of God, the more one can argue that Columbus discovered the land on which they live. Accordingly, whether the Europeans brutalized the natives of the "New World" or treated them well though condescendingly, in their own minds and to one another the Europeans in general sought to portray the natives as less than human."
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Feature Selection in Knowledge Discovery and Databases (KDD), 2004.
Explains the KDD process, with an emphasis on the research area known as feature selection.
1,834 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper explains KDD as the overall process of discovering useful knowledge from data and then goes on to describe the steps in this process. Emphasis is placed on feature selection, a popular research area in pattern recognition, statistics, and data mining communities.
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"Data mining is the application of specific algorithms for extracting structure from data. The additional steps in the KDD process, such as data preparation, data selection, data cleaning, incorporating appropriate prior knowledge, and proper interpretation of the results of mining, are essential to ensure that useful knowledge is derived from the data. Blind application of data mining methods (rightly criticized as "data dredging" in the statistical literature) can be a dangerous activity easily leading to discovery of meaningless patterns."
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The European Discovery of the New World, 2005.
A look at the impact that European colonization of North America had on the New World.
1,922 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper describes the history of the European colonization of North America. The paper first takes a look at the brutal decimation of the Native American population caused by the European exploration and colonization efforts, with particular focus on the effects of the British empire, and then discusses the gradual transformation of the colonists from British subjects to American citizens. From there, the paper touches upon the American revolution, the Constitutional Convention, the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the institution of slavery in America, and the U.S. Civil War. It points out how America emerged as a nation hardly recognizable from the America the British had begun.
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"?Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn,? wrote Christopher Columbus to the king and queen of Spain following his third voyage to the Americas in 1498 (Brinkley 1). But even after visiting the New World three times he still had no idea what he had truly started, and he certainly saw no sign that he had began a new era in history. Yet, the history of European involvement in America had begun. Over the next several decades Spanish conquistadores made more and more voyages to the New World, and the royal treasuries grew. Settlements were established and the other European powers, seeing their opportunity, soon made efforts to establish colonies of their own."
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The Rational Market Individual and the Discovery of Society, 2002.
Explains change in the way that people and society came to be seen with the rise of capitalist forms of production.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 89.95
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Emphasis in this paper is put on understanding how citizens or subjects, over time, came to be seen as "individuals" within a rational market environment in which all social processes were related to the capitalist economy and the forces of the greater economy.
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