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Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

William J. Bennett: “The Death of Outrage”

about sex, even under oath, dont really matter" (Bennett, 1999, p. 8). Bennett argues that if we accept these attitudes, which he...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

"The Zimmerman Telegram"

Allied side. America had the men, material and production capacity to turn out the equipment needed to overpower the Germans and e...

American Workers, Colonial Power

of 3,450 Filipina/os, roughly 3,200 were men (Fujita-Rony, 2003, p. 134). This is not surprising, as it was a pattern for Asian m...

The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin

and lapse of time meant that Britain had trouble controlling the colonies; this is in part the "vagueness" of which Boorstin speak...

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Randall Balmer

are both liberated and trapped" by the piety of evangelical religious practice (Mudder). As someone who was raised in this subcu...

From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

The Origin of the First Americans

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

A Book Review of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

under surveillance. The government does all they can to frustrate the story, sending them erroneous leads which go nowhere. In fac...

American Cultural Contributions of Elvis Presley

latter, which was written by singer/songwriter James Taylor, became a staple of Elviss extensive musical ensemble, performed at vi...

Book Report on Bint Arab by Shakir

Arab women and Arab American women. Shakir claims that she hates the stereotypes and that they just are not true for Arab America...

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...

Joy Luck Club Themes

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the themes within the book The Joy Luck Club. This paper includes a discussion of strong wo...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

The Long Shadow by Thomas Berger

native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the ...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Maya Angelou and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The writer presents a biographical sketch of this noted African American writer. An analysis of her 1970 book completes this seve...

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...

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 ...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

How Did You Get to be Mexican?

students and he is sometimes amazed by the amounts of money they spend on things; hes equally amazed at high tight-fisted wealthy ...

Stop Fearing, Start Thinking

and try to block all attempts at reform, whether its health care, keeping the Internet free of corporate gatekeepers, improving ed...

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...