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DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Low Class Workers in America and Elsewhere

level, even working very long hours. They may have benefits, depending on the company, but they may depend on public transportatio...

American Experience of the Orthodox Jews and the Amish

is similar in many ways to the Amish. This is particularly true in regard to the role their women have played in their culture. ...

Roger Daniels' 'Rise of Anti Immigrant Sentiment' Reviewed

laws for Congress to pass including barring immigrants from holding major office, forbidding paupers, criminals and mentally distu...

Immigration In The US Colonial Era

French Huguenots, African slaves, Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese.v South Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and M...

The Appeal Of Howard Stern

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

Lincoln And Sumner: Equality

the fundamental purpose for doing so. While Sumner places governmental involvement with the quest for equality at the bottom of t...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Leonard Bernstein

West Side Story, which is also a well-known film. Bernstein believed whole heartedly in the "universal language of music and in mu...

Multiculturalism and the Curriculum

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

Globalization as Americanization

that the export of American culture is not always appreciated, or desired, but America is so powerful that it cannot be resisted. ...

Federalism, Elitism & Pluralism

a result of such exclusion was meant to maintain complete control over all the respective districts political and economic decisio...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Five Reasons for Traditional Native American Resistance to Acculturation

one ever identify with a people that took those lands and resources and essentially annihilated them? Past wrongs such as these h...

Ansel Adams

As a child he was shy, did not really fit in and later would claim he was likely a boy who suffered from hyperactivity (Turnage). ...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Banking In China

banks, i.e., those owned by the country (Wright, 2008). And, the private banking industry is growing fast in China, according to C...

Black Intellectuals by Banks

on the wisdom from medicine men from their native lands to the intellectuals who existed within slave territory. Of course, one po...

Declaration of Independence Authors and Slaveholding

the text of the U.S. Constitution (DSouza, 1995). Perhaps the founding fathers did not regard African Americans as men or slaves....

Monetary Policies and the US Federal Reserve System's Role

these goals and to perform its duties, the Federal Reserve Bank has a number of specific strategies it uses, such as discount rate...

U.S. and Terrorism Causes

the aftermath of the actual attacks. The men, women, and children on the planes who had to die with such knowing horror of their ...

A History of Law Enforcement in the US

complaints. A sort of checks and balances was also put in place with the development of the tything unit(Monkkonen 2003). The t...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

Bill of Rights and its Necessity

not specify what government could not do (A Brief History of The Bill of Rights, 2003). Also, another interesting fact was that t...

America's Longest War Critiqued

and instead of taking the lead, Presidents were being relegated to the role of follower. Policymakers envisioned themselves as th...

Month of January 1945

have we seen openly honest pictures of Americans killing men in such a manner as we did during the times surrounding WWII. It was,...

The McKinney Act and its Effect on the Homeless

by the county. One of the unintended and undesirable occurrences associated with the administration of this countys homeless prog...