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Religion According to Alexis de Tocqueville

replete with meaning, should be required (Smidt 176). That statement is rather strong but Tocqueville did not mean that the govern...

American Individualism According to Emerson, Bellah and de'Tocqueville

This 5 page paper examines various types of American individualism by analyzing literary works. The pitfalls of individualism were...

Early American Slavery

In 5 pages this paper discusses how indentured servitude was replaced by slavery in early America. There are 4 sources cited in t...

Rites of Male Passage in the Americas

In five pages this paper discusses how masculinity is conceptualized by the Americas in terms of gender interaction and in contras...

U.S. Social Fabric Up to 1840

the country (Abrahamson, 1990). This sharp upsurge in the number of immigrants put a great fear into those who were born on...

Old Values in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson and A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop

In ten pages this paper examines old beliefs and values and how they impacted upon behavior as revealed in these two texts from ea...

Ghana's Astante Group and Healing Practices

In eight pages the Asante of Ghana are examined in terms of their religious and medical practices with a comparison between those ...

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and the History it Reflects

In five pages this paper considers America following the Civil War and how this time period is reflected in Mark Twain's The Gilde...

American Explorer John Ledyard

In five pages the eighteenth century Pacific explorations of John Ledyard are considered as are his expulsion from Russia after at...

US Family Myth

In five pages this research paper considers the American family ideal in an analysis of 3 essays from the Rereading America multic...

Education in China

In eight pages this research paper compares the Chinese system of education with that of America and investigates its modernizatio...

Gen. Colin Powell's 2000 Republican National Convention Speech

In ten pages this paper analyzes the rousing speech delivered by Gen. Colin Powell during the Republican National Convention of 20...

The Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

lives as they struggle to hold together the fabric of society and their authenticity. It is the sacred, discovering that it has a...

Peruvian Racial Prejudice and an Application of Martin Luther King's Theories of Nonviolence

In a paper consisting of five pages the similarities between modern Peru and 1960s America are noted in a consideration of how Kin...

Analyzing Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May

This 1988 text is analyzed in six pages and include the factors that fueled the enforcement of traditional and gender roles that r...

RU486 and its American Societal Impact

In nine pages this paper examines the abortion pill's socioeconomic effects upon America. Six sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Puritan And Victorian America and Gender

Puritan America is examined as well as the Victorian era. Gender is discussed in this context and the eras are compared and cont...

Fundamentalist Religious Sects in Iran and Egypt

This paper addresses fundamentalist ideologies of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in Iran and Egypt. The author also comments on...

The People's Banker A.P. Giannini

A discussion of U.S. modern banking pioneer Amadeo Peter Giannini is presented in this report consisting of five pages and include...

American Poverty and Philosophy

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

Society and the Influence of Gangsters

In six pages America during the 1920s and 1930s is examined in terms of the social perceptions of real life and fictional gangster...

Modern Theater and the Director's Role

In eight pages this paper examines the contemporary theatrical director's role in an analysis of productions of Angels in America ...

Sturino's Book on Italian Migration

Sturinos Forging the Chain, Italian Migration to North America, 1880-1930, which was published by the Multicultural History Societ...

Unauthorized Migration to America

be tolerated and even welecomed. They also argue that their presence contributes morfe than it takes away and disagree that this i...

American Humor of the Early 20th Century

In five pages this research paper examines the social changes that occurred in America during the early portion of the 20th centur...

1930s' 'Dust Bowl' in America

In five pages this paper examines 1930s' America in a consideration of what is meant by 'the Dust Bowl,' its causes and its effect...

American Life During the Second World War

alike as the U.S. sought to avenge the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Most Americans who waited out the war at home detested th...

The Cold War Years of 1945 to 1963 on the American Homefront

In a paper consisting of five pages the effects of the Cold War in America are considered and include the atomic bombing of Hirosh...

William Levitt's Long Island Housing Project, Levittown

they began to buy land, and design and build homes on a modest scale. By trial and error, Alfred learned how to be an architect wh...

Langston Hughes, An Overview

this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...