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Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

Life and Work of John Adams

to love scholarship and excelled. Though John did love the church as well, he found there was far too much controversy taking p...

Ideas and Continuity That Are Puritan and Revolutionary

"We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, Fr...

Kempo Style of Martial Arts

technique, its origins and finally, its application. Kempo was not originally called, Kempo, but rather Shorinji Toraken Ry...

Overview of the The Silk Industry : Brief History, Modern Day Markets, Trade and Production

time, there was a shortage of raw silk because of the growing competition of silk cloth production within the major centers in Eng...

Overview of the History of the Bahamas

southern colonies of British North America" (Ambrose, 1997, p. 229) - for aiding Charles II re-establish his place on the throne. ...

Frederick Douglass

how even liberals of the North were surprised, if not appalled, at such a union. In essence, what this film presents us with is a ...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

Successes and Failures of the ADA

Unfortunately, the greatest hurdle we have to face in regard to overcoming barriers in the workplace is the hurdle of peoples atti...

The importance of coffee in social culture in the US

This paper looks at the relationship between coffee consumption and American cultural ideology. The writer explores coffee's histo...

Rock 'N Roll's History

In five pages this rock 'n roll history dates back to the 1950s and considers important contributions by Elvis Presley, Berry Gord...

1898 to 1948 Spanish History

In five pages this paper will examine 5 decades of Spanish history from the conclusion of the Spanish American War until the Secon...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

The North American Union

the development of programs" (Sanchez, 2007) and they also gave more instructions to their committees (Sanchez, 2007). At that ti...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Campaigns and the Media

their newspaper competed with each other to see which could produce the most sensationalized news (OConnor and Sabato, 2008). How...

The Influence of Stax Records

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

US Influence on the History of the Panama Canal

sentiment was expansionist tendencies on the part of Congress. Drew and Snow point out that at this point in history the acquisiti...

History of U.S. Common Law

"a system based on common law, but it has codified the law in the manner of the civil law jurisdictions" (2004). Also, in general,...

History of the U.S. City

economic need and this occurred during the early part of the twentieth century. The Industrial Revolution played a significant p...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

major transportation route of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the years preceding the Louisiana Purchase the Spanish ...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

Barack Obama's Speech On March 18, 2008: Race

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

Society and American Pop Art

In five pages this paper examines pop art as featured at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in terms of history and th...

1820s and 1840s Age of the Common Man

to make their own destinies -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear they would never be able...

A History of Racial Discrimination in Portland, Oregon

This paper provides a brief history of legislation and other issues pertinent to race relations in this American city, dating back...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...