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World War I Journal

This essay takes the form of journal entries that an African American soldiers might have written during World War I. Other issue...

Windows on the 70s, MASH and All the President's Men

This essay describes and analyzes "All he President's Men" (1976, directed by Alan Pakula) and "MASH" (1970, directed by Robert Al...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Patriot Act Evaluation

This essay asserts that the Patriot Act is detrimental to American constitutional rights. Two pages in length, one source is cited...

Human Research and Ethics Codes

This essay compares the similarities and differences between the Nuremberg Code, the Belmont Report and Standard 8 of the Ethics C...

Health Care Reform by Paul Starr

This essay offers a review and analysis of Paul Starr's Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Refor...

Critical Pedagogy, African Americans

This essay discusses oppression directed toward African Americans using the perspective of critical pedagogy. Five pages in length...

Mexican American Experience and Ethnocentrism

the Western Hemisphere is generally perceived. These Native Americans journeyed to Europe and found there populations that did not...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Becoming an American and Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

from the traditional customs of her village and adopt more modern, urban ideas. For example, in her village, wives addressed their...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

A Review of the Korean American Experience in Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung

around her hatred for anything Japanese. As was the case for many Korean Americans that left Korea prior to World War II to...

An Alpha Phi Alpha Admissions Essay Sample

a student, as an African American male and as a scholar of the world requires an understanding of the events in history that have ...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

George A. Rawlyk's 'The American Revolution and Nova Scotia Reconsidered'

settlements, the refusal of Washington to mount an offensive against Nova Scotia, and perhaps the religious revival, all combined ...

'The Color Line' as Perceived by W.E.B. Du Bois

purely social we can be separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted ...

Evaluating the American Dreams Website

the details of the "American Dream," and what this term has come to mean in our culture. This page asks "What is the American Drea...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

Critical Analysis: "I am Half-Canadian"

those of other races entirely. Nor do these forms truly explain why anybody needs to know this stuff in the first place. And there...

The U.S. Should Withdraw from Iraq Immediately

the people have "done nothing to liberate themselves" (Moore). We might reasonably object that Hussein would have had insurgents a...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Yellow Wallpaper & Female Marginalization

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Federalist #51

of the new United States, the theory went, was far too large to be governed by a central federal authority; it should be left to t...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Conservation And The Environment

natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...

Thomas Paine/Birth of a Nation

this debate and "will be more or less affected to the end of time by the proceedings" that are now being decided (Paine 456). Pa...

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...