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Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

American Foreign Policy in Anders Stephanson's 'Manifest Destiny'

This is a paper of 10 pages that pertains to American foreign policy as it relates to American expansionism. There are 2 addition...

'Hyphenated Americans' and Remarks by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

In five pages Schlesinger's 'hyphenated Americans' comment is examined by way of the argument Richard Rodriguez presented in his t...

The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

Student Submitted American History Questions

In five pages this paper considers three questions supplied by a student that include the popular Native American savage concept i...

Film Adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

accusations, which effectively illustrates the films irony. Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe and Steven Waddington play th...

How American Beauty Serves as American Social Criticism

The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

West, Cherokees, and Andrew Jackson

In four pages this research paper examines what many consider the American version of the Holocaust, the 'Trail of Tears' imposed ...

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...

History of Blackface Minstrelsy

Black minstrelsy and its role throughouth the history of Black American culture is discussed within the context of Eileen Southern...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

Native American and European American Cultural Interaction

of the Native Americans, inasmuch as the settlers had no desire to include the indigenous people in their progressive plans. Rath...

History and Culture of Assyrian Americans

another reason why ?migr?s are so intent on passing it along (Horan, 2003). The Assyrians were apparently never numerous, and the...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

American Colonists, England, France, and Spain and Their Treatment of Native Americans

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

European American Values and Native American Values

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Fortune's 2 of the '100 Best Companies to Work For

diversity), and pride/camaraderie (philanthropy, celebrations)" (Levering and Moskowitz, 2005; p. 97). If news that could affect ...

3 Questions on International Tax Issues

magnet for US corporations as they do not have to physically move to the island to gain the advantages. Bermuda has much lower tax...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...