Rachel Speght, pamphleteer and poet, was an important voice in the gender polemics of the early seventeenth century. She was the first of many authors to respond in print to Joseph Swetnam's Arraignment of Lewd, idle, froward and unconstan...

The author of several novels for young teens, Rachel Vail brings to life the sometimes exciting, sometimes scary, but always perplexing passage from childhood to the world of adults. In novels like Do-Over and Daring to Be Abigail, Vail su...

Rachilde had a major role in the first Symbolist theaters in Europe, where she was instrumental in getting Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi produced as well as serving as a voice of encouragement for directors, playwrights, and actors. She herself w...

Segregation. When people hear this word, they think back to the 60s and the civil rights movement. Segregation is still very alive today. People believe that segregation died when the civil rights movement was over. However, as many f...

Can we stop the unjust practice of racial profiling? Is it correct for Police Officers to stop a black driver for an alleged traffic offense to question and sometimes search the black driver? These questions provoke the need to understand...

Racial Template "The American conquest against those scummy, evil Japs"; that is the idea that the media portrays in the `American mind' in 1942. The representation of the Japanese in `God is my Copilot' shows them as evil, godless beings....

In 1848 the whole of Europe was plagued by revolution. Fueled by nationalist and ethnic individual interests, these revolutions were a symptom of change in how men viewed the concept of race. Drawing upon biological theories of the day, t...

SOURCE: “Hare's Breadth,” in New York, December 4, 1995, pp. 134, 136. In the following review, Simon praises the direction, writing, and acting in Racing Demon. Lincoln Center Theater finally has a winner in Racing Demon. If the late, ...

There are several causes and disparities of external traits or appearances that divide us into several groupings or categories which are called "races" (Hannaford 1996: 154; Bernier, A New Division of the Earth Extract, 1-4). In other words...

The German theologian Gerhard von Rad (1901-1971) developed the "tradition history" approach to the Old Testament that has dominated the study of the Bible for nearly 40 years. Gerhard von Rad was born to a patrician medical family in N&uu...

Although they rely on two fundamentally different types of wave transmission, Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR) and Sound Navigation and Ranging (SONAR) both are remote sensing systems with important military, scientific and commercial a...

In modern Lithuanian poetry Henrikas Radauskas stands alone. His significance cannot be measured by his contribution to, or leadership of, any school or movement; nor can it be assessed in terms of his relationship to some general scheme i...

In the preface to his autobiography In My Time (1976), Thomas Raddall clearly and honestly describes his own writing: "In my novels and short stories I never sought to teach or to preach. My aim was intelligent entertainment, and if the re...

Radial keratotomy (RK) is a surgical procedure in which precisely placed micro incisions are made in a patient's cornea--the clear matter which covers the eyeball--to permanently correct near-sightedness, or myopia. In myopia, the curvatur...

Aboriginal history and family values have been an integral part of Australian history. Radiance is a fresh influence to sensitive Aboriginal political issues that were overdue for addressing. For someone to state this movie has a strong cu...

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In addition to burns to integumentary (skin) and organ systems, certain types of radiation exposure may cause mutations (DNA damage and genetic alterations) or accelerate the types of mutations that occur spontaneously at a very low rate. ...

Radiation-resistant bacteria encompass eight species of bacteria in a genus known as Deinococcus. The prototype species is Deinococcus radiodurans. This and the other species are capable of not only survival but of growth in the presence o...

How radical was the American Revolution? Historians are divided over this important question, taking varying positions on the extent and nature of change during the Revolutionary era. But most historians agree that the American Revolution ...

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The radio's role as a source of popularizing music to mass groups of people is a quite large role. Between different types of programming and different recording industries, there are many different ways radio and recording industries infl...