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Transcendentalism in 19th Century America

Transcendentalism was a means by which individuals could concentrate on the divinity of man and of nature. The movement was not o...

1868 to 1938 Civil Rights in America

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...

America and Changing Freedom

these new people to found a land where they would have such freedoms from Europe. However, at the same time, "The problem with thi...

America in the Gilded Age by Cashman Reviewed

Cashman (1994) describes the unfolding of the industrial landscape in the years following the end of the Civil War. There were se...

Crime in America

nearly 13.2 million offenses, a decline of 2 percent from the 1996 level and 7 percent from the 1993 figures" (FBI National Press ...

Capitalism in Out of This Furnace A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America by Thomas Bell

enough leftover for a few luxuries. What they received instead could hardly be construed as luxurious, as one steelworker lamente...

The Political Functions of Mass Media in America

our place in that world. In many ways it could be said that we are being lulled into a sense of complacency by the glowing light ...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

Colonization and its Impact on the Caribbean and Latin America

Spanish would greatly control most of Latin America along with the Portuguese. Huge tracts of land were granted to the wealthy in ...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

Hating Allen Ginsberg's Poem 'America'

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

Post September 11th Foreign Policy in America

to either acquire or maintain political superiority. After the September 11 attacks upon the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Ame...

Why Was America Targeted on 9-11-01?

Gaza; --the US has been openly hostile toward the very concept of Islamic government replacing secular ones. --the US is perceive...

Imperial Power of America

the battleship U.S.S. Maine on February 15, 1898 in Havana harbor (The Spanish/American War). But tensions were high betwee...

Life in America and the Works of William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Early Urban America and the Impact of Railroads

The absolute neglect with which this matter was handled is most unpleasant and an excellent example of the animosity and resentmen...

Analyzing Once Upon a Time in America and Its Use of Violence

in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...

Haunted America by Patricia Limerick

people who eventually fought each other had prior history together. "Before whites and Indians would feel inclined to fight each o...

Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Involvement of Participants

areas originate on several fronts. Common to all clubs is the homework help, tutoring and after-school care offered to the childr...

America and IKEA

only would flat packages be easier for customers to handle, but they could get more items on a truck if they were flat (Moon, 2004...

America and Justice

justice has been entrenched in three areas which are offender accountability, victim restoration, and the reintegration of the of...

America Three Decades from Now

it would be: an educated guess. Economic trends have an unfortunate history of never continuing long enough to base a true predic...

'Over There, World War II,' and 'I Sing, Too, America' by Langston Hughes

at Columbia University in 1920, but left after one year to travel. He drifted for several years, finding employment as a merchant ...

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...

Latin America and Colonial Rule Resistance by Indigenous Peoples

the Natives of the new land were essentially at their disposal. The colonized what was then considered the most desirable lands, ...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

Legal Issues facing the Boy Scouts of America

that there was no requirement to write down ones sexual orientation in an application for the Scouts and they do not encourage or ...

The Boy Scouts of America

have ended their programs with the Scouts: the "Los Angeles City Council asked all city departments to review their relationships ...