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Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

Media and the Function of Profit

possibly ignore more pertinent issues. For example, prior to 911, the media was obsessed with the disappearance of Chandra Levy, p...

Overview of the Life and Times of F. Scott Fitzgerald

recognized and encouraged Fitzs literary talents, anything outside that parameter was not worth his time, attention or study, unle...

Link Between Death Theme in His Poems and the Personal History of John Keats

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Gifted Hands by Ben Carson

predominantly white fifth-grade class, causing young Carson to almost subscribe to the idea that only whites could make good grade...

Gender Roles and the Impacts of Cultural and Social Inflences

doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...

Poetry and Style of Emily Dickinson

and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...

Alexander the Great and His Importance

culture that achieved global dominance, due to the efforts of Alexander the Great. He is still revered as one of the greatest mil...

U.S. Migration by Mexican Immigrants Seeking the American Dream

money and even littler time to "enjoy" U.S. culture. Often times, however, these immigrants can turn their heritage into an asset...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Mary Shelley

the year of 1816 that Mary began to write her infamous novel Frankenstein. "She took a challenge, set by Lord Byron, to write a gh...

Analyzing the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

Michelangelo: His Life and Works

wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, ...

Racism from an Asian American Perspective

of racism, of course, are not limited to the U.S. History has proven, in fact, that multiethnic and multiracial societies in gener...

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

A Brief Description of Booker T. Washington

he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...

Addressing Family Topics

to make it clear that they are not attempting to replace the biological parent, and, furthermore, that they should be accepting of...

Rockets and Scientist Robert Goddard

In six pages this paper discusses the life of Robert Goddard and the impact of his scientific contributions upon the American spac...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

Carrie Allen McCray's Freedom's Child

mans baby. So, in this there is no unique condition. But, the unique element comes into play when we note that the household posse...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

The Roosevelt Administration and the Black Cabinet

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

W.E.B. DuBois

that time Great Barrington had perhaps 25, but not more than 50, Black people out of a population of about 5,000" (Hynes, 2007). T...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Christo: Life and Works

Galerie Schmela, D?sseldorf" (The-Artists.org., 2007). Then in 1964 he moved to New York where he began what was called his "store...

American Ethnic Literature

do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...

Immigration Issues/Teaching Social Studies

the era who states that it appeared that the U.S. government intentionally sent an expeditionary force into Mexico with the expres...

Article Analysis: American Indian Societies

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...