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Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

US Public Education

in their efforts to educate all Americans without fear of financial loss or discrimination. History of Public Education Since the...

US Economy and the Role of Women

there simply werent enough men to keep the economy progressing at the rate necessary to keep supply consistent with demand. Becau...

American Ambivalence Regarding the Death Penalty

overpopulation. For a prisoner over the age of fifty-five years old, the upkeep can be as high as sixty thousand dollars per year...

Second U.S. President John Adams

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

Analysis of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

Global Property Rights and Power Shifts

be seen as a bundle of rights which may be separable, for example the sub soil rights may be the property of the state, but others...

Comparison of David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, James Goodman's Stories of Scottsboro, and Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace

that strongly influenced human perceptions, judicial justice and dictated socioeconomic status. As the texts of Thomas Bells Out ...

Americans of the Nineteenth Century and Western Conquest

Her life journey coupled her with a man who became her husband and took her with him on his expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. What...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History of American Public Education

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

America and Ameican Concepts During the Eighteenth Century

people believed that America, and being American, were incredible realities that spoke of freedom and a bright future. In unders...

US Government's Failure of the Late Nineteenth Century Assimilation of Native Americans

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

First Century of American Foreign Policy

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

Isaac Asimov and an Annotated Bibliography

It is a beneficial article for it illustrates how Asimov was far more than an author, but rather a man with intelligent and very s...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Overview of Teen Pregnancies and Impact Upon Families

group, as expected, there are quite a bit of pregnancies for the teenagers. This is true despite the fact that there is a decline ...

Early Twentieth Century Gender Perceptions

observers of Indian culture more, the implications of homosexuality inherent in the berdache tradition or the idea that individual...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

Cook and Cook's Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance and Family Relationships

children that only they can produce. Though mothers were important in the family structure, unmarried daughters or older widows w...

The Best War Ever by Adams

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Early 20th Century American Immigration

Sometimes, however, they were simply viewed as a criminal element or as a political radical (Hay, 2001). Consequently, American i...