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Civic Participation According to Schudson

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

Contemporary America and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

London societys most important government agency was Hatcheries and Conditioning, and its Director seemed to wield more power than...

Models of Benchmarking

which stated the practice was one where there was a continuous process of measuring and comparing the processes as well as the pro...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Fathers and Sons - The Relationship Explored in Three Literary Works

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

All Men Created Equal - the Dream Denied

century, then, DuBois committed himself to encouraging blacks to understand that in order to survive the "inordinate stress and cr...

U.S. Corporate Sector and Sexual Harassment Issues

made such conduct a crime of "discrimination for which the employer might be held responsible (Stein, 1999, p. 3). Despite a few ...

Overview of the U.S. Presidency

the nation was in crisis--he came through. His famous words which were something to the effect that the people who knocked down th...

Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

Chaucer, St. Luke, Aristophanes and Their View of Social Issues

even screenwriters who disguise them as interesting stories. The original Star Trek was great at teaching these moral lessons whil...

Reasons Why the US Suffered a Loss in Vietnam

against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...

American Colonists, England, France, and Spain and Their Treatment of Native Americans

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

How American Beauty Serves as American Social Criticism

The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...

Three Literary Protagonists Improving Their Lives

An analysis consisting of five pages compares the ways in which three protagonists attempt to improve their lives. The works exam...

US Society and Television's Impact

television," 2006). He had already been given a patent for "the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and ra...

Literary Devices in Three Novels

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

Elaine T. May's Homeward Bound and Post World War II Society

history and the so-called cultural revolution of the 1960s that marked a return to normality, as it continued the liberal progress...

Social Expression in Art

conditions of poverty during their particular reconstruction. Clearly such a time would evoke many forms of creative artistic expr...

Chinese Americans and Discrimination

that time, Chinese workers were brought in to help with the U.S. war effort (OConnor, 2004). Those that werent hired for plants or...

Struggles for Equality in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

being Thomas Jefferson) gathered to write their objections down on paper. Among the objections were what were termed "self eviden...

American Society and Collectivism v. Individualism

In five pages the ongoing debate between these two opposing philosophies are considered in a discussion of the high value on indiv...

American Playwright Mercy Otis Warren

In five pages this paper discusses early American playwright Mercy Otis Warren in an overview of how she shook up the social statu...

Comparing Three Literary Works

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

Native American Society, Racism's Roots, and America's 'Discovery'

In three pages this paper traces the roots of racism in a consideration of Native American society and the 'discovery' of America ...

The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

the numerically fine groups that compose the American elite (p. 363). The very "top of modern society" is frequently inaccessible,...

America's Continuing Struggles with Hate Crimes

In seven pages this paper examines why hate crimes are still an unfortunate problem plaguing American society as a result of conti...