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Symbols in Gatsby, the Fading American Dream

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Creating the American Character

p. v). Through Franklins writing, such as the homey advice of Poor Richards Almanac and also through his autobiography--through hi...

Expanding the North American Treaty Organization

opportunities were presented when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 (NATO, April, 2009). The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and the USSR was...

American Poetry

array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

How Pygmies And Americans View Marriage

years, not the least of which includes an almost mandatory tradition to an outright rebellion against what some believed was nothi...

American Corporations: Rising Concerns Over Ethics

occurs, the domino effect that follows can be completely ruinous to those who are within the path of consequences, otherwise known...

The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

American Landscaping

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

Five Reasons for Traditional Native American Resistance to Acculturation

one ever identify with a people that took those lands and resources and essentially annihilated them? Past wrongs such as these h...

Americans Without Health Insurance

so as to reflect a more comprehensive and viable commodity for all Americans. Clinton even took a shot at it, however, one might ...

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...

Popular American Culture and Recent Trends

the tip of the iceberg. Aaron Gross (1996) asks: "Should the state be required to support as well as legally grant rights and priv...

Three Short Stories Set in the American South

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

A Comparative Analysis of American Airlines, United, Delta and Southwest Airlines Strategies

The reference librarian can be of assistance in this regard if the student is unfamiliar with how to locate material in their scho...

Life of Native American Activist Leonard Peltier

the government chose to push Native Americans off their reservations and into urban settings (Anonymous, 2001). The resulting prot...

Foreign Markets and the American Automobile Industry

meet the deadline (Jewett, 1998). The PNGV requires the Big 3 to work together in the research and development stages but then ap...

Young and Middle Aged African American Woman and Self Esteem

condition, physical well-being and illness, religious versus non-religious, even post-abortion self esteem. What is more valid and...

African American and the Sociological Aspects of Rock and Roll

the academics, he is attempting to communicate the truths to both sides of the issue. In addition, when we understand that, acc...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

American Family Changes and the Response of Schools' Changing Role

the child, and this comes through in an essay or a complaint by the student, the school is in immediate contact with social servic...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

Ethnophaulisms and African Americans

"Such terms are the language of prejudice - verbal pictures of negative stereotypes" (Pilgrim et al, 2001). Long considered derog...

Cuban Americans and Their Positive Contributions

Mexican-Americans; in Miami, mainly Cuban-Americans; in New York, mainly Puerto-Ricans, whose commonwealth has a unique status in ...

Overseas Jails and American Prisoners

United States, as is the case with Iran. Justice: The American View Justice is an ambiguous term that refers to a sense of equ...

American Economy and the Impact of Semiconductors

conduction band and the valence (1997). Semiconductors have become important largely due to the advent of the computer. O...