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Comparative Analysis of Voting Democracies in Europe and the US

the past is staging a comeback, and its presence is not comforting" (Jackson 50). This slow but steady fascist reawakening has be...

Ideas and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

In six pages the history of ideas is examined within the context of Democracy in America in an evaluation of de Tocqueville's argu...

One Hundred Years of Political Action in the United States Between 1900 and 2000

In five pages this report considers political action in America over a hundred year period in a consideration of political parties...

Three Leaders, Tecumseh, Jefferson and Columbus

was 14, leaving him 2,750 acres in land and numerous slaves. Between 1760-1762, Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary...

Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil in the Transportation Industry

of Georgia, a hazardous mission of which most Americans are totally ignorant; American sailors patrol the Persian Gulf, the South ...

American Women CEOs

This paper examines the disparity in the number of female Chief Executive Officers in America despite the fact that almost fifty p...

In Support of Gun Control Legislation

stress and arming robots with shotguns (Hanchette PG). And while these things did occur in Waco and Ruby Ridge, they prompted gun ...

New World Migration of the English Puritans

In nine pages the New World migration of the Puritans of England and the influence that they still exert in contemporary America a...

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...

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...

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...

A Fictitious Company Ships to the UK

The shipping of goods from the Far East is the subject of this report. Its fictitious company is considering five ports in America...

Victorian Age Hypocrisy and Advice

In five pages the hypocrisy of advice and attitudes in America during the Victorian era pertaining to women's sexuality is discuss...

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...

FDR's New Deal and 1935's National Labor Relations Act

In ten pages this paper presents an historical overview of the New Deal legislation enacted by the administration of President Fra...

Public Education and the Impact of School Vouchers

beneficial members of a civilized society. While this notion is easy enough to understand, reaching that objective through such p...

Politics and Latin America (Annotated Bibliography)

is a compelling subject addressed by the author in the context of various portions of the work. Also, the ideas are summed up nice...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Zimmerman: "Whose America?"

so, they failed to follow up on the result of following that doctrine, which was the extermination of Native Americans by whites a...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

The Dominican Republic and Asian Status

be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republ...

American Society and Racism

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...

Public Policy and the Conspiracist

of conspiracist ideas resulted in the "political constituency that supports official investigations such as those of special prose...

Wal Mart Case Study on Corporate America and Gender

workers. For example, the bags Kathie Gifford would oversee that would claim international notoriety due to the sweat shops utiliz...

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville and Objects

a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...

Attitudes About Ageism

with people looking upon the elderly as slow, incapable, broken down and virtually worthless individuals. The notion of ageism is...

Slavery in Colonial America and Racism

Europeans were conquerors. They wanted land and they needed slaves to build the country economically. It is also interesting to no...

Promoting Democracy Through Imperialist Power?

to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural persp...