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The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

American Express Diversity Plan

jobs in his career, he was the director of federal contract compliance during the Carter Administration (Knowledge@Wharton, 2006)....

The Nineteenth Century Ghost Dance Era

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

Populism

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

The Rise of the AFL

we are slaves! (Journal of United Labor, May 1881)" (Hallgrimsdottir; Benoit, 2007; 1393). This was referred to as wage slavery be...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

Reflections on Five Hundred Years of American History

In five pages five centuries of American history are considered in an analysis of significant quotes with political movements, civ...

Slavery Perspectives

In five pages various perspectives on slavery are considered in a comparative analysis of African Americans in the Colonial Era by...

America and the Reality of Gender and Race

In six pages this paper discusses U.S. history in terms of gender issues and then considers the present African American reality. ...

12 Questions on Theater and Acting

In twelve pages twelve questions on acting and theater are answered with varying Hamlet interpretations between Kenneth Branagh an...

Essays on American History

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Brief History of American Civil Rights

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

Two Periods in American History

importance of political structures that could inherently support a self-governed people and this included efforts to reject the pr...

American History Website Evaluation

In seven pages this paper evaluates 3 U.S. history websites on the Federalist Papers, war, and the Executive Branch for student re...

Denial and Slaughter in Three Accounts of Early American History

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences in the historical interpretations of early America by Mary Rowlandson, Bernal D...

Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco and Rodolfo Rocha's Mexican Americans in Texas History

their respective fields of historical inquiry. The fact that each essay was written by academic experts is no coincidence. The a...

The History of COBOL in American Business

COBOL is a high-level programming language developed decades ago. Once the standard for dealing with masses of complex data, it is...

American History X and Deviance

In five pages the deviance of skinheads as they are cinematically depicted is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

History of American Women

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

American Popular Foods History

substances regarded as nutriments, its status as a foodstuff is somewhat ambiguous (2002). Water has actually been considered bo...

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...

American History and Railroad Construction

end-of-the-track towns called hell-on-wheels" (The Iron Road). Explosions and avalanches were commonplace for the Chinese crews, ...

American History

and helped many people make sense of what was going on, with a more clear understanding of the direction that should be taken. And...

American History

Britain and Britain had no right to anything that was produced or created in the new nation. The student could also look at Thomas...

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CAR

the 1960s, the "Big Three" had most of the automobile market share. Other factors helped the automobile. One of these was ...

American History X Film and Portrayal of Group Norms

commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...