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Puritanism, Witchcraft, and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...

Puritanism and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

also the Salem of his ancestors" (Hawthorne.htm). When we understand something of the history of Salem, as well as the history of ...

The English Civil War and Puritanism and the American Colonies

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

Puritanism of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

Dr. Claud Anderson on Discrimination Considered

to live in substandard housing. Dr. Anderson observes that discrimination is perpetuated because Whites have controlling ownershi...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

The Slavery Journey of Africans in America

In this paper consisting of five pages a book review of Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith's Africans in America America's Journe...

6 Decades of the United States' Latin American Foreign Policy

Although President George W. Bush has a good relationship with Mexicos President Vicente Fox, indeed even leaned on that relations...

American Character and Habits of the Heart by Robert N. Bellah

In six pages this paper relates Bellah's text to Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville in terms of charting the evolutiona...

Lindbergh Falls From Grace After Many Years Aloft

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...

Three Essays on a High School Education

In this research paper consisting of five pages an examination of three essays taken from the multicultural text Rereading America...

Langston Hughes, Identification with America

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

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...

Article Analysis: Two Ways to Belong to America

Security to legal resident aliens. It was, thankfully, defeated, but it opened up an angry dialogue between the sisters on their d...

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...

American Landscaping

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

Waterways in Early America

can see that clearly the rivers were used to transport goods and products across or through a great portion of early America. As t...

Administration of Ronald Reagan and Its Latin American Foreign Policy

In four pages this paper discusses Reagan's foreign policy on Latin America as depicted in an article by Carothers....

Southern Baptist Church Burnings and Racism

In four pages this essay examines the KKK's role in burning Southern baptist churches in a consideration of how racism still exist...

Great Men of Industry Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Duke, and John D. Rockefeller

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....

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...

Historical Connections Between Puritanism and Calvinism

world over. Emphasizing the omnipotence and strength of God and contrasting it with the weakness of men, Calvin set out t...

The Unredeemed Captive and Puritanism

In four pages this paper discusses Reverend Williams' conduct and how it is representative of his Puritan beliefs. Two sources ar...

Anthropological and Sociological Effects of Puritanism and the 1692 Salem Witch Trials

In twenty pages this paper examines the far reaching impacts of the 1692 Salem witch trials with the emphasis being the trials aga...

Puritanism after Emigration

to escape persecution and established colonies in North America. This paper considers a different aspect of the story: what happen...

"The Scarlet Letter" and the Subversion of Puritanism

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

Immigration In The US Colonial Era

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

Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...