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Native American Algonquin Tribe

variety of dialects (1999). Algonquian-speaking peoples have dominated most of the northeastern North America (1999). Also confus...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and the American Dream

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

Cultural Diversity and a Mexican American Teacher

"Classroom instruction can be designed to connect the content of a course with students backgrounds" (Cultural Diversity in the Cl...

Analyzing Blowback The Costs and Conseqences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson

of our imperial stance may be for the rest of the world and for ourselves" (Johnson, 2001, p.16). Johnson explains that America th...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

Homeopathy and Latin American Folk Healers

the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. In many countries where modern medicine is trying to gain a foothold...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Lifestyle Choices, American vs. Australian

education by American society." This indicates that the educational institutions of Australia are different, and that the life aft...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History of American Public Education

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

American Government and 3 Branches

Democracy unleashed a joining together of the people so that new economic and political ideas could be shared in a way they had no...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal in Slavery by Nat Huggins

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

History, Literature, Knowledge, and Native Americans

always well-received by those who consider the humorous aspect out of place. Welchs (2003) approach when he crafted his account w...

'Ethnic Scarring of American Whiteness' by Patricia J. Williams

the next. While this may be true, it does not necessarily indicate that the salesman is the product of a maligned group. Periodi...

American Attitude Foundations

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

Design of American Automobiles from 1930 until 1939

African Americans who had been restricted from purchasing these cars. When GM opened their doors to the minorities, they were able...

Coontz and the American Family

increasing number of marriages that survive for forty years, and as such longer lives are changing the patterns and not less commi...

Lena, the American Dream, and Willa Cather's My Antonia

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

Corporate American and Class Struggle

wealthy people who give no thought to dropping thousands of dollars at a charity dinner or going on vacations month after month. I...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

1865 to 1896 Native American Policy of the United States

The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...

American Revolution and How the Colonists Achieved Victory

of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...

American Corporate Sphere and Sexual Harassment

which base an employment benefit upon an exchange of sexual favors" (Mallery, 1997, p. 7). There are two distinct types of sexual...

American West and Frontier Perceptions

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

The Godfather and The Sopranos Italian American Stereotypes

that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...