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Lena, the American Dream, and Willa Cather's My Antonia

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

2 Narratives on the Latina Experience

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin and Social Class

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

U.S. Policy and Children

as adults have an irrefutable obligation to create." Annan "has accused adults worldwide of failing children, forcing far too many...

Depiction of Women in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

realities that Celie is born into and must grow up with. She is poor and must essentially raise children that are not hers, give u...

American Democracy Legitimacy and Global Perceptions

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...

Supreme Court Judicial Nominations and Traditional Values

law and serve as final interpreters of that law. Our concept of the United States, of course, is inextractibly tied with th...

Essay Themes and Background Effects

of the Moth," and George Orwells "Such, Such Were the Joys," and in American essays like Henry David Thoreaus "Walking," William Z...

American Dream Represented in Literature by Homes and Houses

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

Comparing U.S. and Jewish Law

distinct discrepancies where application is concerned. Ethical behavior - which is defined as exhibiting "the character and...

Cuban Missile Crisis and Conflict Between Canada and the United States

course, had definitely heard of us. Unfortunately, a significant portion of their actions during this crisis was structured aroun...

Issues and Compromises During the American Civil War

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Reasons for Changing American Foreign Policy

mean a foreign policy must be one way or another. Should the U.S. have waged war on Iraq? The debate continues while troops are st...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...

5 Questions on the Revolutionary War Answered

country in regards to what direction the nation should take. "[C]onstitutional issues lay at the bottom of the dispute. Andrews, f...

1865 to 1896 Native American Policy of the United States

The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...

Corporate American and Class Struggle

wealthy people who give no thought to dropping thousands of dollars at a charity dinner or going on vacations month after month. I...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

American Foreign Policy and Justifying Intervention on Humanitarian Grounds

worth the favorable outcome. Others disagree and say that more loss of life is prevented by taking on nations that violate fundame...

American Privacy and its Post 911 Erosion

drugs, there are other reasons that this is occurring. Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many citizens have willi...

Communications Analysis of a Conversation About American Idol

In three pages a hypothetical conversation about the popular television series is developed with an evaluation provided by the Int...

Baseball Being Ruined by Steroids

national pastime" (Small, 2005, 6). National pastime or not, however, baseball is no less susceptible...

American Foreign Policy with China

improve conditions relative to human rights and to divert attention away from nuclear proliferation to other, more constructive pu...

A Review of The American Civil War The Last Capitalist Revolution

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

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...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway on the American Dream

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

Black Hills' Land Claim of the Oglala Sioux

of its treaties with Native Americans. According to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, a treaty the United States entered into with the ...