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Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

Successes and Failures of the ADA

Unfortunately, the greatest hurdle we have to face in regard to overcoming barriers in the workplace is the hurdle of peoples atti...

New World Colonization by England

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

The Kennedy Conspiracies

alone. We remember Kennedy in two very different lights, first as a great man, a great politician who had the interest of t...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

American West and its Diversity

massive immigration in the early days when people came over from Europe. It began in the colonial times of course, but there was a...

Perspective on Slavery

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

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 ...

Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

Boston Massacre and the Massacre at Kent State University

113 guardsmen to fire tear-gas in order to disperse the crowd (1996). By that time, the crowd was equivalent to about one thousan...

The Evolution of Federal Native-American Policy

the tribes in Illinois had already signed treated which essentially given their land to the state. In light of this he pushed and ...

Hitler's Germany and the Jim Crow South/Similarities in Regards to Racism

some instances, for example, it refers to the social changes which when a lesser developed country (a preindustrial society in som...

Anti Semitism Throughout U.S. History

likely that the Holocaust would have been even more horrendous than it was. Many, however, have the tendency to point to America ...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

US Influence on the History of the Panama Canal

sentiment was expansionist tendencies on the part of Congress. Drew and Snow point out that at this point in history the acquisiti...

History of U.S. Common Law

"a system based on common law, but it has codified the law in the manner of the civil law jurisdictions" (2004). Also, in general,...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

US Society and the Impact of Operation Desert Storm

the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

History of the U.S. City

economic need and this occurred during the early part of the twentieth century. The Industrial Revolution played a significant p...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

American Ethnic Literature

do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...