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1790 American Politics and the Factors That Shaped It

control. When they did so, however, they were left in a tenuous state. Although much of the old system of...

Voting Behavior and Religion

In ten pages this paper summarizes sixteen articles that consider how American voting patterns of behavior are influenced by relig...

Germany, the U.S., and Pressure Groups

(Pressure Groups in America, 2003). For instance, it has become customary for pressure groups to endorse candidates, as well as r...

France and American Art During the Revolution, Romantic Era and Nineteenth Century

PG), yet they yearned for something much more intimate, something that just did not exist in their homeland. What they found, how...

US History and the West's Role

"Americans" from European backgrounds would have been unable to imagine that one nation could be as vast as the United States even...

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 ...

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...

AComparison of Religions Taoism, Native American, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism

however, which is present in all Native American Religions. That element is the integral tie between Native American spirituality...

Native Americans as Perceived by English Colonists

followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...

Gifted Hands by Ben Carson

predominantly white fifth-grade class, causing young Carson to almost subscribe to the idea that only whites could make good grade...

Media and the Function of Profit

possibly ignore more pertinent issues. For example, prior to 911, the media was obsessed with the disappearance of Chandra Levy, p...

Revolution Justification Argued by John Locke

what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...

1895 Farmer's View of Manifest Destiny

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

Europeans, Native Americans, and Greed

"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...

Film and American Culture

everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

The Life and Career of Union Pioneer A. Phillip Randolph

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...

An Oral History of One Woman Presented as an Historical Interview

goin to be trouble from the start. But back then women just didnt speak their minds." Thelma told the story of the mans hiring, ...

The American Market for Cable Based Telephone Service

penetration rate for television services (The Net Economy, 2002). This indicates the level of importance that has been attached to...

U.S. Political Fragmentation

No words could ring truer. The divisions which exist are, in fact, of significant concern. These divisions, however, cannot be a...

US Political Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry

18.5 percent profit margin, more than four times that of all other industries" (Barry, 2002, May). With that money the drug indust...

Artistic Endeavors and American Romanticism

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

Economics and Lasting Influences of U.S. Presidents

the second of what would become fairly regular Fireside Chats, FDR (1933) went directly to the American people via radio to outlin...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

Design of American Automobiles from 1930 until 1939

African Americans who had been restricted from purchasing these cars. When GM opened their doors to the minorities, they were able...

Chinese Americans, A Cultural Assessment

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

Hispanics and American Culture

This essay discusses the innumerable ways in which Hispanics have influenced American culture. Three pages in length, two sources ...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

Food in the American South in the 1930s

and barbecued, though Southern meals tend to emphasize a lot of vegetables and less meat than in other regions of the country (A S...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...