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Spontaneous Generation and Kuhn's Model of Scientific Revolution Undergraduate
(2012)
Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" describes the cyclical process by which science develops. This process, far from one of slow, gradual accumulation, is a process of revolution in which one framework ...
Sino-Korean Relations and the Ming-Qing Transition Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
China and Korea have long had a close relationship. However, during the early Qing dynasty, the relations between China and Korea were not as warm as usual. Following the Chinese Ming dynasty, one of the more intimate ...
Night of Broken Glass Remembered: How the New York Times Reported Kristallnacht in a Historical Context Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
It is often said that news organizations write the first draft of history. However, news organizations are not just recording history and filing it away. They distribute this draft to the public, whose world perceptions ...
Transnational Water Issues in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq: Planning and Investing for the Future Undergraduate
(2016)
The connection between access to clean and reliable water and social
unrest is a relationship that is beginning to be fully understood. The
Euphrates River provides drinking water for nearly 27 million people,
water for ...
American ideals reinforced through advertisements Undergraduate
(2016)
The economic and housing boom that followed World War II paved the way for America to become the consumer-driven economy that it is today. These booms also created competition among companies, therefore leading to the ...
The Influence of Indigenous Artistis in the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas Undergraduate
(2012-10-01)
In the late sixteenth century the Spanish cosmographer López de Velasco ordered maps of cities and towns in America to be produced and returned to Spain to gain a more accurate understanding of Spanish territory in the New ...
The Enduring Persecution of Queerness in Germany from Hilter to Adenauer Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
In The Enduring Persecution of Queerness in Germany from Hitler to Adenauer, Parker Manek etches a disturbing picture of the 20th-century landscape in which gay Germans lived and died. Manek explains how the disasters and ...
Hugo Falcandus, the History of Tyrants, and the Normalization of Norman Sicily Undergraduate
(2014-04-01)
In “Hugo Falcandus, the History of the Tyrants, and the Normalization of Norman Sicily,” Arthur Dixon tackles a complex period in history with concise analysis and provides unexpected insight. He elucidates the ways in ...
A Gigantic Shark from the Lower Cretaceous Duck Creek Formation of Texas Undergraduate
(2015-06-03)
Three large lamniform shark vertebrae are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. We interpret these fossils as belonging to a single individual with a calculated total body length of 6.3 m. This large individual ...