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US Imperialism: The Transition Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...

George Washington: Heroic, Flawed, and Human

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

Hollywood and the Law

get away with it because at the time, the studios also owned the theater chains where the films were shown. The court held that t...

“Generation Rx”

do, in fact, demonstrate an phenomenal increase over time in the number of prescriptions that the typical American uses. This num...

Preventing Infection In Health Care Settings

2008). This should be a good incentive for all health care institutions to do a better job of controlling and preventing infection...

The Individual and Societal Impacts of the Civil War

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

Intercultural Communication

the interview, the American interviewers decide the German interviewee is rather rigid. They think he has no sense of humor and wh...

Philip Guston

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

Southern Literature and Communication

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

Answers to 5 Student Question on the French Revolution

It is important to remember that the American and French Revolutions occurred within a relatively short period of time. As the Uni...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

Colonial Latin America and Manifest Destiny

In five pages this paper examines colonial Latin American and the impact of manifest destiny related to the Spanish conquest and t...

Bloomies

The writer discusses the American retail icon, Bloomingdale's, in detail. The paper is five pages long and there are four sources ...

'The Looking Glass' Article by Lawrence Weschler

In five pages this report examines the article that appeared in a January 2000 issue of The New Yorker in which American artist Da...

NAFTA AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

national check collection system (Libby, 1994). Foreign banks entering the United States to do business are subject to rules of th...

America and Buddhism

In ten pages the ways in which Buddhism has been practiced in the United States are examined in terms of various sects, its social...

Funding Universal Health Care

to keep in mind is the United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have some sort of national unive...

Cinematic Comparison of Like Water for Chocolate and Mi Familia

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

Coexisting Disorders and Recommended Treatment

well, and is defined as a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing a life-threatening event such...

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...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

Citizenship Concept

for certain jobs. Many very well educated immigrants (doctors, teachers) found themselves working as general laborers because they...

Self Esteem and Disabled Individuals

awareness of the problems encountered by people with disabilities (Freedman and Fesko, 1996). The ADA represented a considerable b...

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...

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...

Douglas Porpora's How Holocausts Happen, The United States in Central America

there to the Jewish Holocaust of World War II is an overt distortion of the facts and circumstances. Even given his misguid...

Post Second World War Relations Between the United States and Thailand

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...