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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...

20th Century Answer from Latin America

ensuing struggles resulted from a clash of the elitists with the poor, but rather was a collision of belief systems(Burns, 1984). ...

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...

U.S. Civil War and Reasons for the South's Loss

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

Merger of AOL and Time Warner and Reorganizational Effects

out of the creative fold of AOL Time Warner, the industry critics by the whole felt that this reorganization would not only be to ...

Overuse of Psychotropic Drugs in the United States

An overview of why psychotropic drugs are overprescribed and overused in America is presented in a report consisting of ten pages....

Variations in U.S. State Taxes

consideration for those deciding to spend their latter years in warmer climates. People flock to Florida in droves, but is it re...

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century America Expansion and Migration

The best intentions often brought about an entirely different outcome; while explorers made sure to draw up at least an idea of wh...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History of American Public Education

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

European Rule in the Western Hemisphere

New World empire. Even so, until the colonial reforms of 1764 by the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, the military garrisons were small a...

Seventeenth Century Puritan Colonization and Nineteenth Century Reconstruction Explored

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

1845 to 1865 History of U.S. Railroads

state. While Stevens failed to raise enough money to build his proposed railroad, he still desired to apply steam locomotion to ra...

Corporate America and Ethics

that these legal requirements have ethical and moral implications. For example, the tobacco industry is being sued not because it ...

Post Fifties' Equality and Women

to bring in sources that address the womens movement (a social phenomenon of the 1970s), as well as other sources that more accur...

Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

Rereading America by S.B. Heath and Gary Columbo

Trackton, that power has become constrained due to the atmosphere in which the residents find themselves. Their way of assimilatin...

North America Cultural Identity

of these norms. Although individual identity is also defined along subcultural lines in urban society, researchers must also be aw...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

United States, United Kingdom, and Private Policing

criminal activity far surpasses law enforcements ability to keep it in check is indicative of how vital private policing - "a comp...

Latin America and Progress

lowly culture is not perpetuated? However, one could submit that given the nature evolution of time, their culture would have evol...

Modern Day American Life and The Application of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

Nineteenth Century America and Being White

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

American Perspectives on Christmas

when the U.S. hostages were being held in Iran, and that year only the top ornament was lit (American Christmas Traditions, Facts ...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Homeopathy and Latin American Folk Healers

the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. In many countries where modern medicine is trying to gain a foothold...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Influence

her husbands death, Mama assumed her role as head of the family, dedicated to her fervent dream that one day, she will own a nice ...

Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...