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U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

'Hyphenated Americans' and Remarks by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

In five pages Schlesinger's 'hyphenated Americans' comment is examined by way of the argument Richard Rodriguez presented in his t...

American Foreign Policy in Anders Stephanson's 'Manifest Destiny'

This is a paper of 10 pages that pertains to American foreign policy as it relates to American expansionism. There are 2 addition...

Contemporary American Culture and Films

In a paper consisting of 7 pages American cinema and how it satirizes or reflects American culture is considered with student tuto...

“Keeping Promises: What Is Sovereignty and Other Questions About Indian Country”

the United States, the problems facing Native Americans remained essentially be the same but instead of dealing with a European ba...

The American Dream

and then sued the "bad" trusts that essentially took advantage of small businesses and the people (Jensen, 2007). One of these "ba...

Du Bois & Washington on Education

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

Early American Architecture: Colonial and Georgian

the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...

Overview of American Community Colleges

In five pages this paper examines Arthur Cohen and Florence Brawer's 'The American Community College' and Marlene Griffith and Ann...

19th and 20th Century Asian-American Gangs

7 pages in length. The existing and ever-growing power of Asian-American gangs during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have...

Large Social Processes and the 'Private' Sphere of Asian American Families

In a paper consisting of eight pages the problems that Asian Americans face in the United States are considered in terms of confor...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

Literary Transcendentalism by Lawrence Buell

In six pages this paper discusses the American Transcendental movement in a summary and analysis of Lawrence Buell's Literary Tran...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

Student Submitted American History Questions

In five pages this paper considers three questions supplied by a student that include the popular Native American savage concept i...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

The Contribution to American History and Jewish American History by Henry Kissinger

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...