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American Red Cross Finances

but it still manages to use more than 90 percent of donated funds directly for the purposes for which they were donated (American ...

The US and AIDS

2005). At this time it was a very frightening disease or virus or condition because not enough was known about the disease: "It is...

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

1895 Farmer's View of Manifest Destiny

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

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...

Sweatshops as a Women's Issue

that occurred in New York, before laws were implemented to take care of these harsh conditions. What is not widely reported is the...

Women's Rights and the Impact of Technology

little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because ...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

Seneca Falls and the Women’s Movement

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

The Nineteenth Century Ghost Dance Era

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

African American Music

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

The Rise of the AFL

we are slaves! (Journal of United Labor, May 1881)" (Hallgrimsdottir; Benoit, 2007; 1393). This was referred to as wage slavery be...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

Sexual Harassment Case - Co-Workers

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

Writing Exercise: Autobiography

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

Barack Obama's Speech On March 18, 2008: Race

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Food in the American South in the 1930s

and barbecued, though Southern meals tend to emphasize a lot of vegetables and less meat than in other regions of the country (A S...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

American Express Diversity Plan

jobs in his career, he was the director of federal contract compliance during the Carter Administration (Knowledge@Wharton, 2006)....

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Do interest groups enhance democratic government or undermine it?

of each system. The American colonies under British rule was an example of a unitary system of government where all political pow...