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Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Louisiana Purchase

New Orleans, an important port city and mouth of the river" (Stief, 2009). Another author further supports this in noting that, "[...

Ansel Adams

As a child he was shy, did not really fit in and later would claim he was likely a boy who suffered from hyperactivity (Turnage). ...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Federalism, Elitism & Pluralism

a result of such exclusion was meant to maintain complete control over all the respective districts political and economic decisio...

Bill of Rights and its Necessity

not specify what government could not do (A Brief History of The Bill of Rights, 2003). Also, another interesting fact was that t...

U.S. and Terrorism Causes

the aftermath of the actual attacks. The men, women, and children on the planes who had to die with such knowing horror of their ...

Monetary Policies and the US Federal Reserve System's Role

these goals and to perform its duties, the Federal Reserve Bank has a number of specific strategies it uses, such as discount rate...

Black Intellectuals by Banks

on the wisdom from medicine men from their native lands to the intellectuals who existed within slave territory. Of course, one po...

Declaration of Independence Authors and Slaveholding

the text of the U.S. Constitution (DSouza, 1995). Perhaps the founding fathers did not regard African Americans as men or slaves....

A History of Law Enforcement in the US

complaints. A sort of checks and balances was also put in place with the development of the tything unit(Monkkonen 2003). The t...

America's Longest War Critiqued

and instead of taking the lead, Presidents were being relegated to the role of follower. Policymakers envisioned themselves as th...

George Washington and Brookhiser's Account in Founding Founder

a militia. The brilliance of this man is exemplified in such simple matters as this, but his activity is based on character as wel...

Month of January 1945

have we seen openly honest pictures of Americans killing men in such a manner as we did during the times surrounding WWII. It was,...

The McKinney Act and its Effect on the Homeless

by the county. One of the unintended and undesirable occurrences associated with the administration of this countys homeless prog...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

Slavery Compromises and the Constitution of the United States

present, the convention achieved a consensus by avoiding certain controversial issues by reaching a compromise. There were differe...

U.S. Welfare Policy and the Department of Agriculture's Food Stamps Program

Republicans when it comes to voting and election time (Enda, 2002). Just as interesting, however, was that Bushs predecessor, Pres...

Alexander Hamilton v. Thomas Jefferson and Differing Future Visions

an agrarian society in America but Hamilton had high hopes for an American role in commerce and industry (Sarracino 226). Still, H...

Making a Reparations Case

things are different. Africans were seized from their homes in Africa and brought to the United States for profit. The motive was ...

Hypnotic Therapy of Milton H. Erickson

Even in this early phase of the development of the hypnosis theory there was a critical relationship between therapist and patient...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

North America's Ignimbrite Formations

the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic, at least two Phanerozoic orogenies (Antler, Sonoma), and the development of a subduction zone alo...

Gonzalez's and Flores' Studies of U.S. Latinos on Cultural Hybridity, Free Trade Zones, Immigrant Myths, and Political Participation

compared to only 31 percent of non-Hispanics. Previous to this many Hispanics were not allowed to vote because they could not beco...

A Century of U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia From 1850 Until 1950

that would be followed by Chinas self-strengthening movement and ultimately by another Opium War with Britain in which China would...

Humans' Routes to the Americas, Theories and Controversies

as walking, so the theory is that he entered North America using the shortest and easiest route which would have been the land mas...

1980s' Real Estate

In six pages this research paper examines the tumultuous 1980s in terms of the impact upon America's real estate market. Nine sou...