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The Influence of Media on Democracy

This paper consists of two articles addressing the ways that communication technology and the media influences American citizens. ...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

AComparison of Religions Taoism, Native American, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism

however, which is present in all Native American Religions. That element is the integral tie between Native American spirituality...

American and British Screenplays and Their Sociocultural Text

the constraints which the box-office places upon both screenwriters and directors is a major influence on American film, whereas t...

Latin American Independence Contributions of Ponciano Arriaga and Simon Bolivar

the necessity for political action as a means of supporting personal rights within a society commonly shaped by Spanish control an...

America and Religion

systems. Durkheim, for example, considered that religion was grounded in the nature of things and that any belief system which doe...

Early Childhood Development and Cultural Influence

developing child as the food he or she eats or the physical care s/he is given. Suizzo (2000) points out that in the past ten yea...

Voting Behavior and Religion

In ten pages this paper summarizes sixteen articles that consider how American voting patterns of behavior are influenced by relig...

Media and the Function of Profit

possibly ignore more pertinent issues. For example, prior to 911, the media was obsessed with the disappearance of Chandra Levy, p...

Native Americans as Perceived by English Colonists

followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Transcendentalism in 19th Century America

Transcendentalism was a means by which individuals could concentrate on the divinity of man and of nature. The movement was not o...

Music of Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger

that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

Economics and Lasting Influences of U.S. Presidents

the second of what would become fairly regular Fireside Chats, FDR (1933) went directly to the American people via radio to outlin...

Design of American Automobiles from 1930 until 1939

African Americans who had been restricted from purchasing these cars. When GM opened their doors to the minorities, they were able...

US Political Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry

18.5 percent profit margin, more than four times that of all other industries" (Barry, 2002, May). With that money the drug indust...

Artistic Endeavors and American Romanticism

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

Germany, the U.S., and Pressure Groups

(Pressure Groups in America, 2003). For instance, it has become customary for pressure groups to endorse candidates, as well as r...

US History and the West's Role

"Americans" from European backgrounds would have been unable to imagine that one nation could be as vast as the United States even...

France and American Art During the Revolution, Romantic Era and Nineteenth Century

PG), yet they yearned for something much more intimate, something that just did not exist in their homeland. What they found, how...

Populism

formed a political party, the "Peoples Party or Populists" (Agricultural discontent, 2007). While the Populists goals were basical...

Creating the American Character

p. v). Through Franklins writing, such as the homey advice of Poor Richards Almanac and also through his autobiography--through hi...

US Constitution and Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke's Influence

In six pages this paper discusses how the American Constitution was influenced by Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean Ja...

American Culture and the Media

for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.) Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that ...

American History

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

Policing In America

for example, the fact that constitutional amendments four, five and six have lost their inherent meaning through severe judicial m...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

Food in the American South in the 1930s

and barbecued, though Southern meals tend to emphasize a lot of vegetables and less meat than in other regions of the country (A S...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...