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American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

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...

Henry Petroski's The Pencil

Petroski notes this absence of information in Thoreaus list to point out how common pencils were, how they are often taken for gra...

Asian Immigrants to the U.S. After World War II

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

The Embracing Defeat of John Dower

more familiar, suggesting that the people are not in control and the dictatorships is military style. In other words, force is use...

Consequences of the Conflict in Darfur

and Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ended the war between the Northern and Southern parts of Sudan that began in 1...

Strategy and Weapons in the American Civil War

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich

This book report tutorial on Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich consists of four pages. There are no other sources listed....

The Causes of Civil Wars and Solutions

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom

Civil War. Battle Cry for Freedom McPhersons work covers, as mentioned, a great deal of subjects that directly involved the Ci...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Bush Conservativism Dangers and What it Means to Be an American

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

Up Country by Nelson DeMille

may give information to the cause of the death and while Brenner has no idea why the military is so interested in the answer, he i...

Martin Rees' Our Cosmic Habitat

the question posed in his Prologue, "Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?" with a resounding, "Yes!" The author also ma...

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached" (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking resear...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...

Peacekeeping Operations of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...

War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Karl Marx's Predictions and America After the Civil War

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Responsibility for the First World War

a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

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...