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Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

The Problems Leading Up to the American Revolution

The discontent that led up to the ultimate colonial rebellion...

Constitutional Amendments Affect on African Americans

No constitution is perfect, but the beauty of it is that it is always changing as the countrys needs change. Instead of scrapping ...

Families: Afro American and Caucasian

Introduction There are many different cultures in the United States and perhaps the two most obvious are African Americans and Ca...

Behind the Attack on Pearl Harbor

proposes that World War I and World War II were not separate conflicts but one long struggle with a cease-fire in the middle. This...

New Ruling to Allow GPS Surveillance

ruling is applicable to nine Western states, including California (Cohen, 2010). This is because a decision rendered by the U.S. C...

Americans and the Land

John Steinbecks essay Americans and the Land is an essay about how Americans have, since they first arrived in the new land, abuse...

The Uninsured in America: A Crisis in the Making

it affect a massive percentage of the American population and is, quite literally, often a matter of life and death. The latest st...

The Unjust American Healthcare System: The Problem and Proposed Solution

percent of its gross domestic produce on healthcare, which is the highest per person ratio in the world (Malhotra, 2009, p. 224). ...

Five Events That Speeded the U.S. on Her Way to Full World Involvement

U.S. interaction in world events has changed radically...

Creating Paranoia Post-September 11, 2001: The U.S.A. Patriot Act

Within 3 pages, the U.S.A. Patriot Act is analyzed for the reassurance it is supposed to provide to the American people and the su...

A Perfect Candidate/Film Review

directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...

Tamarisk the Invader

habitat or region, but moves in and takes over, crowding out indigenous plants and often changing the entire character of the habi...

Isolationism in US History

The Monroe Doctrine is a critical component of American history. Implemented during the administration of President James Monroe,...

Early American Dichotomy and the Conflict Between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

1997, p. 35). The conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson is apparent in their diametrically opposed views on popular rule, state...

AFRICAN AMERICAN COWBOYS IN EAST TEXAS

Introduces results of research about African American cowboys, past and present, who live in East Texas. There are 3 sources liste...

Identity and Puerto-Rican Americans

whole, as the US Census bureau indicates that 25 percent of all living on the mainland and 55 percent of Puerto Ricans living on t...

First World War to the Vietnam War: The Evolution of American Policy

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

Causes and Impacts of the American Dust Bowl

The American Dust Bowl was one of the earliest large scale illustrations of the ecological damage that this country incurred as a ...

AN ANALYSIS OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

Americans like history, they dislike their history classes with a passion. Too much of what is considered "fact" in histor...

9/11 and the Marginalization of Arab and Muslim Americans

matter simply, there are those individuals who hold some degree of power, and those who are divested of power. Those who hold powe...

Panic Attacks, Haitian American Immigrant

therapy (Scheinbaum, 2012). Despite the considerable numbers of Haitian immigrants living in the US, which increased following t...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

The Heart of Whiteness by Robert Jensen

Heart of Whiteness, Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege. San Francisco: City Lights, 2005. Jensens purpose in writing ...

American Beauty - A Character Analysis

derived from ancient thinkers, as well as the modern conjectures of psychologists and mental health specialists. It is this that m...

Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Doc Hata

endeavor to keep the comfort women debate controversial by providing arguments that call into question whether or not the comfort ...

The American Identity and the Writings of Fitzgerald, Walker, and Burgess

to look first at social treatises such as Anthony Burgess, "Is America Falling Apart?". This essay was written by Burgess after sp...

An Immigrant Kindergarten Student and Assessment

instruments selected to measure an individuals language proficiency should be "suitable for the characteristics and background of ...

Two Periods in American History

importance of political structures that could inherently support a self-governed people and this included efforts to reject the pr...