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Early American Urbanization and the Impact of Energy and Transportation

improvement of the place is best measurd by the advance of Value upon every mans Lot. I will venture to say that the worst Lot in...

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force by Mary Beth Mills

In five pages this paper summarizes and analyzes M.B. Mills' text on rural Bangkok women that examines similarities between them a...

Comparing and Contrasting Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor

The writer compares and contrasts the early American poets Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet. The paper is five pages long and the...

Themes of the Letters Abigail Adams Wrote to Her Husband John

a view of the conflicts that drove men to see out separation from British rule, that influenced the creation of the American Const...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Early American History Tales

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these early tales of American history The Unredeemed Captive by Demos and Black Ha...

Physical and Emotional 'Baggage'

By carrying food items with her all of the time she was exercising complete control over her body, the one thing that she had powe...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

1900 to 1921 Foreign Policy of the US

came to be the inciter of "a series of huge blows" (1995, PG) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism as it existed in...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

A History of the Magazine in America

other reason may be that they were too expensive for the average household to buy. Documents from that time indicate that the maga...

American Immigration Theories

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

Early 20th Century African and American Dual Identity

In six pages this paper considers the dual consciousness that plagued African Americans in terms of identity during the early 20th...

Great Britain During the Early 20th Century and Housing of the Working Class

strife; as such, a solution had to be found before the working class would rebel any further. Working class housing at the turn-o...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

Collective Bargaining and its History

the World (IWW) or the "Wobblies," but their revolutionary rhetoric almost assured that they would fail and alienate far too many...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

Book Review of Warpaths by Steele

group. Generally, American history books portray the white man as invading the Indians territory and that the Indians were meek. B...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Benedicte Marie Wrensted’s Photographs of Native Americans

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

Homeless Youth in Vancouver, B.C.

ages of 25-44; they live alone; most are Caucasian; "38% had been homeless for less than one month" but 32% "had been homeless for...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Erie Canal’s Impact Upon Early America

War, American colonists including George Washington, pondered how to access the lush soil of the West (Albion and Pope 83). In 17...

Observation of a Mall

to the music, as well as some people who are actually shopping, offer a cross-section of Durhams population. For example, there ar...

The Great Depression

hit" (Rothbard xiv). The money possessed by cities, by schools, and by higher educational institutions dwindled and bankruptcy was...

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...

Early Twentieth Century Gender Perceptions

observers of Indian culture more, the implications of homosexuality inherent in the berdache tradition or the idea that individual...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Housekeeper

a kind of moral idealism to the productive realism reflected in authors ranging from Mark Twain to Stowe herself (The Rise of Real...