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Failed Mogadishu Mission of 1993

that cannot be found logically, Clinton replaced ALL of the mission commanders. Not only did this waste precious time but the rela...

Second World War Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

American Perspectives on Christmas

when the U.S. hostages were being held in Iran, and that year only the top ornament was lit (American Christmas Traditions, Facts ...

Americans of the Nineteenth Century and Western Conquest

Her life journey coupled her with a man who became her husband and took her with him on his expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. What...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

Early Childhood Development and Cultural Influence

developing child as the food he or she eats or the physical care s/he is given. Suizzo (2000) points out that in the past ten yea...

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

Mark Twain's Use of Satire in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

of the Knights of the Round Table and the legend of King Arthur is achieved by Twain in that he juxtaposes the times and belief sy...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

American Embassies and Terrorism

thoroughly, we can look at the book by Schmidt and Youngman entitled Political Terrorism, in which the authors listed "109 differe...

Prejudice and Crime

optimism, there exists an invisible boundary line that, even though race relations seem to be improving, keeps the races separated...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

Comparing the American and French Revolutions in Terms of Causative Factors

reforms to France, however, it did not make France a democracy. The socioeconomic structure of pre-Revolutionary France was at th...

The Portrayal of American Conflicts in the Media

is an open book. Throughout the world today, organizations that oppose the U.S. can find almost anything about what the military ...

Bill of Rights and Individualism

collapse into condemnation happens because the vocabulary of individualism sounds harsh to ears becoming accustomed to the competi...

Substance Abuse and Multicultural Counseling of Hispanics and African Americans

information. 2. Prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse within the group. 3. High risk, high need populations within the ...

Retrospective of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

In five pages this paper examines Garry Wills' consideration of the Gettysburg Address and discusses how it successfully invigorat...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

1865 to 1900 Reconstruction in the American South

In three pages this paper examines the U.S. South in terms of the effects of the Reconstruction period upon its sociopolitical ide...

Overview of the Whiskey Rebellion

the federal circuit court in Philadelphia. At this time in history, this distance was indeed enormous.5 The conservatives and mo...

History of the American Customs Service

In twenty three pages this paper presents a history of the US Customs Service from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in an ove...

Antebellum America and the Advantages of Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...

American Utopian Societies Including Oneida and New Lanark

Icarias and the New Harmony were some of the earlier Utopian groups founded in the United States to promote the ideal of these "pe...

Assimilation and Conflict in the Western Settlement

a progression of Indian emigration into the central plains and western regions of the country, based not only the movement of whit...

Early 20th Century Historical Contributions of the Average Female

significant impact from the colonial period forward, and which have actually altered the course of American history, particularly ...

Importance of the U.S. Presence in the First World War

of 1916, the progression of activity in World War I left many strategists wondering how the war would turn out. For most of that ...

America's Role in World Affairs After the First World War

In one page the isolationist stance that influenced American policy economically, diplomatically, and militarily is examined alon...

American Army and the 1918 Spanish Influenza Outbreak

In fifteen pages this paper discusses epidemiology, problematic prevention and treatment associated with the epidemic of Spanish I...