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society as a whole had become better educated by the mid-19th century, a new market presented itself for stories, regional sketche...

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

other reason may be that they were too expensive for the average household to buy. Documents from that time indicate that the maga...

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

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

or success is associated with fame and fortune, or achievement in terms of the arts or sciences. Some individuals have not earned ...

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

the second of what would become fairly regular Fireside Chats, FDR (1933) went directly to the American people via radio to outlin...

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

It is a beneficial article for it illustrates how Asimov was far more than an author, but rather a man with intelligent and very s...

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

of racial struggles. In one of her most well known pieces - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Angelou addresses the concept of op...

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

stay away from drugs while they are young. In essence, we worry for our children and think that our present society is no longer o...

group, as expected, there are quite a bit of pregnancies for the teenagers. This is true despite the fact that there is a decline ...

observers of Indian culture more, the implications of homosexuality inherent in the berdache tradition or the idea that individual...