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How American Beauty Serves as American Social Criticism

The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...

'Hyphenated Americans' and Remarks by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

In five pages Schlesinger's 'hyphenated Americans' comment is examined by way of the argument Richard Rodriguez presented in his t...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

Healthy Living Changes

In two pages ways in which to improve Americans' healthy living are discussed with public health screenings recommended in terms o...

Migration of Native Americans Causes and Consequences

In five pages Native American causes and consequences of Native Americans in preColumbian history are examined in this overview. ...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

U.S. History, Native Americans, and Immigrants

In eight pages this paper examines American history with an emphasis upon the significant role of immigrants, struggles of the Nat...

American Values, J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin

In six pages this paper examines how de Crevecoeur's Letters From an American Farmer and Franklin's Autobiography reveal the true ...

Impact of the American Revolution on the Subsequent French Revolution

In fourteen pages these revolutions are contrasted and compared in order to demonstrate the differences between the American and F...

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

Civil War and Role of Irish Americans

In ten pages this paper examines the Irish Americans' role during the Civil War. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Vietnam and American Politics During the Turning Point of 1968

achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

In five pages this book is considered in terms of the slave trade and the African Americans' factual and historical accounts conta...

The American Dream, Willy Loman, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

The Individual and Society in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which American society orchestrates Willy Loman's downfall are considered in terms...

Examining Three Plays by Arthur Miller

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

Music and Song in Latin American Literature

The ideas insights and images created and represented by these three influential authors play a crucial role (Hoeg p. 95). Go...

Mississippi Burning Film and Deviance

In five pages Alan Parker's film is considered within the context of the three types of deviance it portrays such as the townspeop...