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Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

"one of the largest commercial successes of Steinbecks career" and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature the following yea...

William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

Planning an Attack on Organized Crime

more importantly, there is a great bond between the men who run these "families." Once a male is born into one, the chances are gr...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Poverty and Education Relationship

human needs. If they do not know where their next meal is coming from, or where they will sleep that night, they are not likely to...

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

Late 1940s and 1950s in America

upon closer examination, flaws barely perceptible by the naked eye could be seen which suggests that looks really are deceiving. ...

The Turn of the Century Expansionism of America

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

20th Century U.S. Welfare Capitalism and Personnel Management

some argue that they were really not necessary as corporate welfare was a reality. Companies had always taken care of the American...

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Texts on Women's Issues

Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...

Corporate America and Manipulation of Revenue

evident that much fraud can be discovered before it is too late. While this was not true in the case of Enron, the evidence has s...

Branch Davidians, FBI, and ATF Standoff

groups have long been at the forefront of controversy with their indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. These ordi...

Port Privatization

Rationale In business, management theories come and go and organizations collectively spend billions chasing after the late...

Comparing The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain and The Sketch Book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impres...

Minority-Owned Business in the UK and USA

produce twice as many product innovations and significant innovations as large firms, and obtain more patents per sales dollar tha...

Puritanism and the English Civil War

be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

Overview of the Death Penalty in the U.S.

The Death Penalty, 2002; p. 22). They offer up the following questions which plague the country in regards to capital punishment: ...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

Contemporary American City Development

and the turn of the nineteenth century, there would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that t...

Character Building and the Boy Scouts

exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...

Gelsey Kirkland, Ballet Dance Artist

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

1955 to 1975 Feminist Movement Rebirth

participant within the workplace was but one aspect of feminism between 1955 and 1975; however, along with it also came undesirabl...

Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in the United States

It is always important, essential even, to keep in mind the fact that American society is a pluralistic society in which diversity...

Process of Electing American Presidents

the Electoral Vote (which is formally ratified upon completion of the election). The problem is, however, that based on this syste...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

Relations Between the Soviet Union and the United States and the Truman Doctrine

nations of World War II as destinations for possible conquest. In response, that leader, Josef Stalin, grew to hate and mistrust t...

Religion and Muhammad Ali

in a very "somber mood" due to his internal and external feud concerning "his mentor, Malcolm, and his spiritual leader, the Natio...