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1820s and 1840s Age of the Common Man

to make their own destinies -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear they would never be able...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that this first romance novel of the American frontier reflects in its characterizat...

Eckert - Twilight of Empire

This 5 page paper analyzes Allan Eckert's book Twilight of Empire and its significance in describing an important period in Americ...

A Book Review of Milton Meltzer's 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime'

In 5 pages, this paper focuses on a popular middle school textbook's exploration of the Great Depression's economic crisis and the...

Comparative Analysis of 'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

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...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

1865 to 1945 American Economy

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

U.S. Economy During the 1970s

utilization of monetary policy as implicit (1999). Authors suggest that monetary policy is in fact most responsible for what has ...

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 in Three Literary Views

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

US Socioeconomic Conditions Associated with the Great Depression

the brokers jumping off of building ledges in the films, but the reality is not far removed from this, it was only a few weeks bef...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

History of American Education, 1950-1980

that is largely what the period was about. The episode first discusses Brown v. Board of Education and then moves on to talk about...

The Great Depression

causes people to sell off more stock than they ordinarily would have. It also seems to be true that "the negative effect of stock ...

Progress in America from 1837 until 1867

Social conditions were determined by tradition by history and tradition. For example: Women and children were considered the "ch...

U.S. Years of Progress Between 1837 and 1867

In seven pages this paper examines this period of profound change and progress in America as covered in American Passages A Histo...

Reconstruction to the Populist Party in U.S. History

Lincoln developed a reasonable Reconstruction plan to stitch the nation back together again. But again, remember we are talking a...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

Sixties and Eighties Are Decades Apart

1960s had their beginnings in the 1950s; the Civil Rights struggle, for instance, goes back to the early 1950s and such events as ...

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...

The U.S. in Asia, 1945-1980

stocking bomb shelters. School children were participating in disaster drills. The focus of this paper will be the invo...

DMAIC or MBO?

statistical control. Deming (2000) extended this to SoPK, saying it is necessary to have an understanding of both common cause va...

Industrialism: Impact Upon The United States Population

who effectively directed the masses. According to Perry M. Rogers, author of Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Source...

U.S. - Native American Relations from 1850-1890

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

History of Latin Literature

long possessed in the oral tradition. It was during the 19th century that it seems literature actually emerged in written form and...

The 20s and 30s and Literature

out at this particular time were truly offering up new visions, realistic visions, and modern visions of life. In looking at some...

Nature of Siva in Hindu Myth

This paper is in outline form and pertains to literature promoting understanding of the nature of the god Siva in Hinduism. ...