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Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Universal Health Care

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

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 ...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Frederick Douglass, Successful Despite Slavery

been a slave and not due to his celebrity status among abolitionists for having endured slavery. In order to fully appreciate th...

In Praise of American Empire by D’Souza

Iraq today under a misleading premise that it is being done for peace and democratic purposes. The truth is that there is an ulter...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

Retail Automotive Industry

in sales over July 2006 (Merx, 2007) and Ford experienced a 19 percent drop (Collier, 2007). In fact, Fords overall car sales drop...

Controlling Congress/The Electoral System

a fact that "Their very jobs depend on it" (Arnold 43). Considering this, political analysts have studied and analyzed the behavio...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Federalist #51

of the new United States, the theory went, was far too large to be governed by a central federal authority; it should be left to t...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

Mexican American Experience and Ethnocentrism

the Western Hemisphere is generally perceived. These Native Americans journeyed to Europe and found there populations that did not...

Thomas Paine/Birth of a Nation

this debate and "will be more or less affected to the end of time by the proceedings" that are now being decided (Paine 456). Pa...

Conservation And The Environment

natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...

The U.S. Should Withdraw from Iraq Immediately

the people have "done nothing to liberate themselves" (Moore). We might reasonably object that Hussein would have had insurgents a...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Critical Analysis: "I am Half-Canadian"

those of other races entirely. Nor do these forms truly explain why anybody needs to know this stuff in the first place. And there...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Politics and Government of Argentina

rather appointed by the President or Governors and have to be confirmed by the Senate or the respective provincial legislature. Th...

Overview of North Africa

In five pages North Africa is examined in a consideration of politics, socioeconomics, and global positioning. Three sources are ...

The Good Society by Robert Bellah, et al

negative" (p. 10). They explain that an "institution" can be as simple as the social custom of shaking hands as a...

A Review of A Bronx Tale

A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...

West Africa, West Central Africa, and Slavery's Consequences

names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...