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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Influence

her husbands death, Mama assumed her role as head of the family, dedicated to her fervent dream that one day, she will own a nice ...

Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

Seventeenth Century Puritan Colonization and Nineteenth Century Reconstruction Explored

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

European Rule in the Western Hemisphere

New World empire. Even so, until the colonial reforms of 1764 by the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, the military garrisons were small a...

Latin America and Colonial Rule Resistance by Indigenous Peoples

the Natives of the new land were essentially at their disposal. The colonized what was then considered the most desirable lands, ...

U.S. Civil War and Reasons for the South's Loss

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

Corporate American and Class Struggle

wealthy people who give no thought to dropping thousands of dollars at a charity dinner or going on vacations month after month. I...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

Merger of AOL and Time Warner and Reorganizational Effects

out of the creative fold of AOL Time Warner, the industry critics by the whole felt that this reorganization would not only be to ...

Overuse of Psychotropic Drugs in the United States

An overview of why psychotropic drugs are overprescribed and overused in America is presented in a report consisting of ten pages....

Progress in America from 1837 until 1867

Social conditions were determined by tradition by history and tradition. For example: Women and children were considered the "ch...

Corporate America and Ethics

that these legal requirements have ethical and moral implications. For example, the tobacco industry is being sued not because it ...

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...

Post Fifties' Equality and Women

to bring in sources that address the womens movement (a social phenomenon of the 1970s), as well as other sources that more accur...

American Perspectives on Christmas

when the U.S. hostages were being held in Iran, and that year only the top ornament was lit (American Christmas Traditions, Facts ...

Making America by Carol Berkin

The writer analyzes Carol Berkin's book Making America: Changes at the Turn of the Century, and relates such events, eras and peop...

Evolution of Black Music Hybrids

combine that indifference, with separatism or racism, no wonder the African American share of performances or broadcasts is consid...

Latin America, Capitalism, and Class

In five pages Latin American capitalism is examined in terms of history and its social relation to class. Seven sources are cited...

Business World and Changing Technology

In five pages corporate America is examined in view of the impact of technology changes with retail, banking, and entertainment in...

U.S. Years of Progress Between 1837 and 1867

In seven pages this paper examines this period of profound change and progress in America as covered in American Passages A Histo...

Slave Culture Euro American and African Style

This paper consisting of five pages discusses by way of Nathan Irvin Huggins' 'Black Odyssey' how the combination of African and E...

Latin America and Caudillo

In a paper that consists of five pages Latin America is discussed within the context of the caudillo age. Three sources are cited...

Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

Rereading America by S.B. Heath and Gary Columbo

Trackton, that power has become constrained due to the atmosphere in which the residents find themselves. Their way of assimilatin...

North America Cultural Identity

of these norms. Although individual identity is also defined along subcultural lines in urban society, researchers must also be aw...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...