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Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

American History X the Film

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

The Boston Tea Party

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

Gambling Interventions for Chinese-American Men

as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...

Analysis of Contemporary Chinese American Families

In eight pages this research paper briefly covers the history of Chinese American families U.S. relocation, current prejudices, cu...

Migration of Native Americans Causes and Consequences

In five pages Native American causes and consequences of Native Americans in preColumbian history are examined in this overview. ...

U.S. History, Native Americans, and Immigrants

In eight pages this paper examines American history with an emphasis upon the significant role of immigrants, struggles of the Nat...

History and Culture of the Cherokee

was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

Americanism's Essence Through Advancement, Adaptability, and Adventure

the phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" is, in short, the essence of the spirit of adventure, adaptability, and advancement that d...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

Early American Architecture: Colonial and Georgian

the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...

B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism/South Africa

"nationalism and racism have dominated South Africas history" (Foster, 2003, p. 657. The emergence and dominance of white South Af...

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Muslim and Christian moral principles and beliefs. In and of itself, that information is fascinating and, considering the state of...

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

Saharan Africa's History and Women

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the history of the African Sahara in terms of women's roles. Fourteen sources are cited in ...

Biography of Gail Kelly

this school and during her final year became a school prefect (The Age, 2005). Gail then went to study Latin and modern history ...

South African History/The Gold Industry

"poor sanitation and hygiene," the homes of Africans, who had been confined to slums by segregationist law, were perceived as a "...

Southern and South African: Power of Christian Music

is "actually the confidence in the inner, hidden Holy Spirit inside of themselves as divine creations" (Ungureanu-Pamfi, 2011). Th...

Emily L. Osborn, Our New Husbands Are Here

themes, and arguments Emily Lynn Osborns Our New Husbands Are Here investigates the sociology of households in the Milo River Val...

17th Century World History

Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...

Jazz History, African Influences

This research paper offers a discussion of literature pertaining to the early history of jazz and the African influences that play...

TheAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church, History and Ordination

This essay pertains to the history and ordinary processes of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Three pages in length, ...

West African Families and Female Circumcision

regions, the "lips" of the vagina, the labia minora and labia major, are also cut. The most severe form of female circumcision is ...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

A World Societies History

been treated little better than animals. Islam at least accorded that women may be redeemed and attain a heavenly reward, although...

Africa and the Disciplines and the Need for African Research

anthropology and Moore states that "for at least the last two of these decades, the fieldwork done in Africa was central to the fo...

Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

African American Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Styles of Parenting

about the effect of such statistics on their parenting style, especially in the presence of poverty as a contributing factor. The ...