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Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

Critique of "Does Race Exist?"

groups on the basis of at least 60 Alu polymorphisms, but only narrowly enough to identify their continent of origin. They report...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

The Evolution of Laws Protecting Archaeological Resources and Native American Graves

the varied cultures of the Native American that has developed over time symbolizes "oppression and the pervasiveness of racist pra...

Native Americans and Government Policies

they were always taken advantage of in one regard or another. The native inhabitants of this country at the time of...

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...

Terrorism/Comparing Countries

the threat of bio-terrorism (Dammer and Fairchild 304). France : France, also, has long had to cope with terrorism, as the Frenc...

President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Questions and Answers in Social Science

be changed by the individual who takes on a role and this is a positive aspect of roles. There are effects or consequences attache...

Strom Thurmond

"to presidential maverick... His penchant for bucking established norms first surfaced when he decided to enter the political aren...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Are Americans Selfish?

many people in the world, but they are working hard to get what they can and they are also very limited in the way they can live. ...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

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...

What is a Real American?

of the good things the nation stands for and the good things that the nation does in the world. But, a good or real American is al...

Deciphering Gertrude Stein

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

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...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

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...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

The American College of Surgeons

create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Global Consequences of the Spanish American War

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

Cochran and Miller's 1941 Text The Age of Enterprise

In five pages this paper discusses the still accurate premise for American business articulated by a text originally published bac...