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Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

Are Americans Selfish?

part of a type of culture that invest heavily in thinking first about themselves and their own survival before thinking about thei...

The Evolution of the Americas

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

Japanese and American Comic Books

Another difference between the two is the character development found in the Japanese comics (2001). The worlds that are created f...

The Power of Persuasion: No Magic Bullet for the Continuing Problems in Darfur

that this earlier time in history bears little comparison to contemporary times in regard to what it takes to inspire individuals ...

The Boston Tea Party

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

Reflection on Counseling Ethics

is eventually taken. Afterward, I reflect on how my choice turned out and, if I could do it over again, the factors that I might c...

Death/Injury in Poetry

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Mental Issues, Mindset And Social Work

state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

Ecological World View as a Cultural Artifact: Native American Subcultures vs. Mainstream White Americans

cultural artifacts. Many have contended since the original "discovery" of this country that Native American spirituality is...

Comparative Analysis of Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era and Major Problems in American History Since 1945

This paper explores the concepts and themes featured in these texts in a comparative analysis consisting of four pages. Two sourc...

Thematic Similarities Between American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan and Myne Owne Ground by Breen and Innes

took off and many different African people started coming into the region. Many slowly began to leave for less hostile states, suc...

War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Frost and Longfellow

theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...

Emily Dickinson & Nature

"failed," not why she died (line 5). The conversation between these two deceased who died for their art continues "Until the Moss ...

Sylvia Plath, Mirror & Metaphors

topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...

2 Carpe Diem Poems

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

D.H. Lawrence/The Piano

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

Appearance of Place in The American Friend Film by Director Wim Wenders

An analysis of the city's role in The American Friend, a 1977 film by director Wim Wenders, is presented in seven pages. There is...

The American Dream in Advertising

includes urban culture, and a variety of lifestyles, money still is important in a culture that demands the consumer to "buy now" ...