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Earlier Civilizations
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,010 words, approx. 3 pages)
Changes that occured from earlier civilizations intell now! A brief essay on technology.
Early Africa and Early South Asia
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,070 words, approx. 4 pages)
Early Africa and Early South Asia societies were alike and different in many ways. Both societies relied on bodies of water, were polytheistic, and had distinct social classes. They were different in the manner of government organization and things that they traded.
Early America: a Time of Instability and Change
Essay Grade: 75%   (1,062 words, approx. 4 pages)
To what extend were the late 1600s and early 1700s a period of great instability and change in American history?
Early American History
Essay Grade: 86%   (864 words, approx. 3 pages)
Researches early American History Pre-Columbus to the Mexican War. Describes the founding of Bay Colony, the writing of the U.S. Constitution and the War of 1812. Reviews the Louisiana Purchase.
Early Australian Convict History
Essay Grade: 92%   (733 words, approx. 2 pages)
An essay disagreeing with the notion: "Convicts in Australia were treated harshly because they were mostly murderers and thieves and very lazy."

Early Changes in the US government
Essay Grade: 93%   (709 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes the failure of the articles of confederation and the need for the writing of the constitution
Early Christianity in Rome through Opposition of the Majority
Essay Grade: 91%   (2,560 words, approx. 9 pages)
Early Christianity and it's relations with the Roman people at around the beginning of Common Era.
Early Foreign Policies
Essay Grade: 86%   (769 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses George Washington, John Adams, Thomsas Jefferson, James Madison, and their foreign policies.
Early Puritan History in North America
Essay Grade: 86%   (925 words, approx. 3 pages)
The Puritans came over on the Mayflower in 1620 to escape religious persecution in England. Facts about the Puritans governmental structure in early American history.
Early Puritan Society
Essay Grade: 86%   (397 words, approx. 1 pages)
Discusses the life of William Bradford and his role as one of the first Puritan colonists to America. Explores the Puritan belief in divine providence, that someone or something else other than themselves was in control.
Eastern Absolutism to 1740
Essay Grade: 95%   (1,050 words, approx. 4 pages)
This essay describes how absolutism began in Eastern Europe and developed throughout the rest of Europe as well as other parts of the world.
Eastern Front
Essay Grade: 86%   (237 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides a brief discussion about the Eastern front.

Eastern Orthodox Vs. Roman Catholicism
Essay Grade: 88%   (537 words, approx. 2 pages)
A comparison of the historical experience of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
Ebenezer MacIntosh and the Stamp Act
Essay Grade: 86%   (507 words, approx. 2 pages)
The story of Ebenezer MacIntosh, a colonial Boston shoemaker who led a series of protests against the British Parliament's passage of the Stamp Act in 1765. One of the first colonists to speak out against unfair taxation by the British, MacIntosh should be considered a hero who helped to spur the movement toward American independence.
Ebony Ads:now and Then
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,067 words, approx. 4 pages)
Overall it is evident that the ideas that existed to help bring about equality and a Black American identity have taken awhile to come together to make a difference after years of discrimination.
Economic Analysis of the Roaring 1920's
Essay Grade: 92%   (649 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay provides an economic analysis of the roaring 1920's.
Economic and Ideological Forces in Foreign Policy During the Age of Imperialism
Essay Grade: 95%   (495 words, approx. 2 pages)
The motives of expansion provided the foundation of the foreign policy during the Age of Imperialism. Over the next few decades, our nation would spread its ideas and beliefs to other nations while strengthening economic ties with them.
Economic Causes of the Civil War
Essay Grade: 92%   (484 words, approx. 2 pages)
Brief essay discussing the economic causes of the Civil War.
Economic Freedom Post 1953 in China
Essay Grade: 83%   (566 words, approx. 2 pages)
Explores China's economic status from 1953-1966. Explains the major industrialization plan called the Five Year Plan. Describes the effect of the plan on the Chinese people, including price controls, rationing, and the end of black markets.
Economic Success and Political Influence of the Fuggers and Medicis
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,225 words, approx. 4 pages)
During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, considered the first economic Golden Age, both the Fugger family of Augsburg and the Medici family of Florence developed tremendous wealth and power. Both families conducted the practice of usury with regard to ecclesiastical affairs, drawing the ire of Martin Luther, and both easily influenced affairs of governance. Both also made positive contributions to European society, the Fuggers through their advances in accounting practices, and the Medicis for their part in the development of Humanism in Florence.
Economic Views of 20th Century
Essay Grade: 87%   (576 words, approx. 2 pages)
Different views regarding economic policy in the 20th century.
Economic, Political and Social Effects of Stalin's Purges
Essay Grade: 88%   (3,145 words, approx. 11 pages)
Examines to what extent, politically, economically and socially, the USSR was strengthened or weakened by the Great Terror of the 1930s? Argues that Stalin's totalitarianism strengthened the state. Debates if his leadership had a unifying effect on the nation.
Economical Drain on Merthyr - the Merthyr Rising
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,700 words, approx. 6 pages)
This paper is written to help explain the reasons for Wales and Merthyr in particular being transformed from a society into an economy during the 1800s. By 1820 the most contributing factors that would cause the rising were in place, by 1831 these factors had created an intolerable lifestyle for the people in Wales.
Economics as Cause of the American Revolution
Essay Grade: 86%   (917 words, approx. 3 pages)
Discusses how the main cause of the American Revolution was not slavery or a social issue - the underlying cause lay in the faults of the economy.
Economics of War
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,918 words, approx. 6 pages)
Essay analyzes the economic history of the U.S. It compares the costs of World War II, the Vietnam War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom (the 2003-2004 war).
Edward Trent and His Pursuit of Freedom: America at War With Britain
Essay Grade: 84%   (3,375 words, approx. 11 pages)
This is a creative piece written to help students understand the impact of the American Revolution on American society.
Effect of Agrippina's Death on Nero and the People of Rome
Essay Grade: 88%   (997 words, approx. 3 pages)
Evaluates the effect of Agrippina's death on Nero and the people of ancient Rome. Explores Agrippina's strengths and weaknesses and discusses the impact of her life and death on the society in which she lived.
Effect of Colonialism on South Asia, Africa, and the Americas
Essay Grade: 90%   (797 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay discusses the effects of colonialism on South Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Effect of Constitutional and Social Developments in Civil War and Reconstruction Era America
Essay Grade: 95%   (886 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay shows the ways and to what extent the constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amounted to a revolution.
Effect of Religion on the New World
Essay Grade: 86%   (896 words, approx. 3 pages)
Examines how the Puritan religion played a significant part in the lives of the early settlers in the New World. Discusses why he Puritans left England. Analyzes literature written during that time period for its emphasis on religion.
Effect of World War II on Australian Society
Essay Grade: 95%   (711 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses the effect of World War II on the society of Australia.
Effects of Religion During the Colonial Period
Essay Grade: 85%   (1,356 words, approx. 5 pages)
How religion effected the early colonization of America
Effects of Slavery
Essay Grade: 95%   (728 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay describes how slavery affected colonial American life.
Effects of the Articles of Confederation on the Nation
Essay Grade: 87%   (561 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay explains the effects of the Articles of Confederation on the nation.
Effects of the French and Indian War on Britain and the American Colonies
Essay Grade: 88%   (343 words, approx. 1 pages)
An overview of the French and Indian War's impact on relations between Britain and the American colonies. The victory in this war provided opportunities for both entities, but it also spawned the the political, economic, and ideological differences between the two that would eventually result in the American Revolution.
Effects of the Thirty Year's War
Essay Grade: 86%   (604 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the effect of the Thirty Year's War on Eupore, through political, economic, religious, and social aspects.
Effects of the Vietnam War
Essay Grade: 96%   (743 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay describes the effects of the Vietnam War on Vietnam.
Egypt and Greece: A Comparison of Two Ancient Civilizations
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,186 words, approx. 4 pages)
Compares and contrasts ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations. Discusses their cultures, political systems and mythologies. Analyzes how the trading of resources led to the trading of stories and customs.
Egypt and its Effect on the United States
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,917 words, approx. 6 pages)
It discusses the economic, governmental, social, and the Muslim brotherhood, and how these things will affect the Middle East and the United States.
Egypt Vs. Sumer
Essay Grade: 81%   (629 words, approx. 2 pages)
Two of the greatest civilizations were Egypt and Sumer, which strongly resembled each other. Both civilizations had similar hierarchy. In both civilizations, gods and goddesses were on top. One of several notable differences was in communications, wherein Sumer used cuneiform, and Egypt used hieroglyphics.
Egyptian Funeral Rites
Essay Grade: 96%   (6,109 words, approx. 20 pages)
The essay contains all funeral rites practised in ancient Egypt. The essay follows the process of a death of a pharaoh, it's embalming process, the coffin, the tomb, the procession to the tomb etc.
Egyptian Funeral Rites
Essay Grade: 92%   (6,109 words, approx. 20 pages)
Describes the funeral rites practiced by the ancient Egyptians. This includes the process of mummification as well as a funeral processions including coffin, tomb. etc
Eight Common Medieval Weapons
Essay Grade: 83%   (381 words, approx. 1 pages)
Descriptions of eightly commonly used weapons during Medieval times: sword, two-handed sword, battle ax, dagger, lance, mace, long bow, and crossbow.
Eisenhower and the Cold War
Essay Grade: 86%   (639 words, approx. 2 pages)
Questions the success of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's fighting of the Cold War. Considers how Eisenhower failed.
El Draque
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,048 words, approx. 4 pages)
"El Draque" was the name given to the most feared and respected pirate of the Elizabethan age, Sir Francis Drake. A servant to her majesty and his mother nation, England, Sir Francis Drake's achievements changed the course of history, and established the true persona of a pirate for centuries to come.
El Porfiriato Y El Maximato
Essay Grade: 80%   (638 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay is a comparison between the Porfiriato and the Maximato and is written in Spanish.
Eleanor Roosevelt- a First Lady Like No Other
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,012 words, approx. 3 pages)
An examination of the acts of Eleanor Roosevelt as first lady.
Election of 1896
Essay Grade: 86%   (533 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes the Election of 1896 between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan. Concludes that it is a pivotal election because it helped urbanize the United States and it was the first election after the Depression of 1893.
Electoral College
Essay Grade: 86%   (908 words, approx. 3 pages)
Provides a short overview of the disadvantages of the American Electoral College. Explores the history of the system. considers how it reflects upon the American concept of democracy.
Electoral College
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,623 words, approx. 5 pages)
The Electoral College is archaic and inequitable way of deciding the president and it should be modified or eradicated to fit the times of today. The Electoral College is an inefficient procedure because of the "winner take all" system. The Bush versus Gore election is a clear example of how and why it does not work. Also the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth Amendments show how the Electoral College does not represent the population in its entirety.
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