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Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

European Colonization of North America 1600-1640

University of Houston" (Mintz, 2007. This indicates that a professional historian is writing the content; in addition, a number of...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

American Public Policies

The rate with which healthcare technology has evolved has coupled with demographic changes to result in an extremely taxed system....

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

Uninsurance & Economic Impact

the aggregate value of offering health coverage to all citizens is likely to be greater than the estimated costs of providing this...

The American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

The Evolution of the Rifle

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

The Christian Ideal of Love in "Dead Man Walking"

down, and shot them in the head. I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?" (Prejean, 1994). That i...

Variations in European and Native American Interactions

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

Fleming's View on America's Rise to Power

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

Can Cultural Values Have A Significant Impact On Business Structure, Strategy And Economic Performance At A National Level?

in the following way; " if the market is the fundamental means of allocating resources then, in order to work properly, it must be...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Cold War History/Role of Geo-Political Motives

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...

Richard Lester: "Petulia"

counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

Nursing & ED Overcrowding

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

Why Farm Subsidies Hurt Everyone

this is good for the U.S. economy, but it is argued that farm stipends from the U.S. government hurt global farmers. How is this t...

The Plight of African Americans in the United States

people..." (p.88). It is an idea that makes sense. There are differences of opinion between people and a hatred festers. Similar t...

The National Rifle Association (NRA)

fact that guns are no longer popular, NRA continues to support shooting as a youth sport in America ("A Brief History of the NRA,"...

French and American Involvement in Vietnam

of Vietnam was born ("Earliest known history of Vietnam," 2007). In 1946, it was all agreed that Vietnam would be independent ("E...

Nan Goldin Exhibit At The Matthew Marks Gallery: General Review

the subjects soul in order answer the call of meaning so critical to the postmodern movement. The photography unarguably becomes ...

Controlling Congress/The Electoral System

a fact that "Their very jobs depend on it" (Arnold 43). Considering this, political analysts have studied and analyzed the behavio...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

American Provincialism

opportunity and they also, in many ways, dismissed the pomp of the British aristocratic (Sandefur, 2007). It is perhaps th...

Millman: "The Other Americans"

that it has grown from a small concern to a huge business that now makes over 400,000 tortillas a year (Millman). Fernando Sanchez...

Youth Gangs in American Society

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

American and Indian Youth and Drugs

as "early onset" was 20.76 years; those classified as "late onset" was 26.53 years (De et al, 2003, p. 339). Even though this is c...