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Common Ground, A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas

of a city and the vastly different social universes of its neighborhoods. Eventually the turmoil surrounding the desegregation eff...

21st Century Urban American Housing

and 1970s that saw record numbers of city dwellers move to the suburbs and has brought a new influx of citizens back into the city...

Politics, Labor, and American Citizens

In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...

Defining a Contemporary American

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how to define an American to a resident of a remote village in Africa. Five sources are ci...

Native American Past and Present Historical Issues

diseases such as smallpox, malaria, measles, cholera, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, whooping cough, mumps, influenza and typhoid fe...

Native American Identity Struggles in Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In seven pages these novels are compared in terms of how each features the Native American identity struggle with similarities and...

Janet Wilson James' Women in American Religion

This text is reviewed in five pags. There are no other sources listed....

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the American Patriarchy

In five pages this paper discusses how gender slavery is the byproduct of the American patriarchy with references made to this 186...

A Woman's Dilemma Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution by Rosemarie Zagarri

In five pages Rosemarie Zagarri's text is examined. There are no other sources listed....

Colonial and Post Colonial American Democracy

In five pages this paper examines the US independence from Great Britain in a consideration of liberty's meaning and the cost of a...

Native Land Mistreatment of Native Americans

In 5 pages racism as it pertains to Native Americans on their home soil is discussed. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliograp...

Early American Urbanization and the Impact of Energy and Transportation

improvement of the place is best measurd by the advance of Value upon every mans Lot. I will venture to say that the worst Lot in...

Cultural Considerations of Native American Reservations' Casino Gambling

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages this issue is first presented in an overview and then a thesis that the Native American re...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Native American Responses to Whites

In five pages this paper considers the Native American responses to Anglos as depicted in the 1884 text in a discussion of whether...

American Society and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

which seemed only willing to accept White Anglo-Saxon Protestants into its exclusive membership. The narrator of "Sonnys Blues" r...

Native Americans and Suicide

In five pages this paper discusses Native American suicide rates and the reasons for their high incidences. Nine sources are cite...

American Experience in the Poems of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

Examining the Critiques of The Quiet American by Greene

The Viking Critical Library version of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, edited by John Clark Pratt, contains a wide variety of ...

Overview of Portuguese Americans

achieve its dream of liberation. While there were a number of "complex factors that persistently" (Safford, 1992, p. 83) worked i...

Defining a 'Frontier' American

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the definitions of the frontier and what an 'American' means according to Frederic...

Americans and Mental Retardation

In five pages this paper discusses mental retardation in terms of definition, etiology, and incidence as it affects the American p...

Past and Future of the North American Free Trade Agreement

In ten pages this paper examines NAFTA's past, the discord that occasionally resulted from its implementation and considers what t...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Character of Jay Gatsby

and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...

Great Depression Entertainment

The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...

Student Ethics and Nursing

for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Asian Immigrants to the U.S. After World War II

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

US Influence on the History of the Panama Canal

sentiment was expansionist tendencies on the part of Congress. Drew and Snow point out that at this point in history the acquisiti...

History of U.S. Common Law

"a system based on common law, but it has codified the law in the manner of the civil law jurisdictions" (2004). Also, in general,...

Annie Oakley and Jane Addams

level of education and their directions in life would be different as well. At an early age, the age of nine it seems, Annie disco...