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Puritanism and the English Civil War

be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

Overview of the Death Penalty in the U.S.

The Death Penalty, 2002; p. 22). They offer up the following questions which plague the country in regards to capital punishment: ...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

Contemporary American City Development

and the turn of the nineteenth century, there would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that t...

Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

Lifton and Mitchell's Hiroshima in America

it honorably. This is, as mentioned, a very common perspective from generations of Americans who lived the war. But, there are al...

Trade Structures and Economic Markets in Cuba and the U.S.

represents over 6 million people. The GDP (gross domestic product) of Caricom is approximately $28.6 million and the Dominican Rep...

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...

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...

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...

Individual and Societal Effects of Organized Crime

corruption is seen as nothing more than the standard way of operating various government agencies. Most of the former Eastern Blo...

Killing by Adolescents and Children in America

This paper examines the reasons for increases in child and adolescent killings in America in six pages. Four sources are cited in...

Societal Impacts and Influences of American Warfare

In nine pages the ways in which war influenced and impacted the society of early America are considered in a discussion of the Ame...

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...

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...

Latin America and the Impact of the 911 Terrorist Attacks

Latin America is THE place for small arms trafficking, and the United States has been one of the chief instigators as far as crack...

How the U.S. Views the Middle East

with an abundance of natural resources and a large domestic market, had yet to develop an "export" mentality (Long 74). Oil has ...

Elderly and Cultural Behavior

bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...

Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

Duluth Lynching of 1920

Jackson and McGhie were not performers in the circus, however. They were cooks and simple laborers Clayton, Jackson and McGhie. ...

American Cultural Icon McDonald's

Quito, Ecuador, antiwar protestors burned the statue of Ronald McDonald; in Paris, protestors smashed in the windows (Walker 2003)...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Past and Present

into food. Meat packers typically used borax and glycerin to hide the smell of spoiled beef and candy manufacturers mixed shredded...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...