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Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

major transportation route of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In the years preceding the Louisiana Purchase the Spanish ...

Speaking Out: The Bonus Seekers, Textile Worker Strikes and Resistance to the Native American Reorganization Act

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

Is the Supreme Court Protecting the Rights of Americans to Equality?

This 3 page paper argues that the Supreme Court’s decisions in Loving and Brown v. Board of Education demonstrate its ability to p...

Twenty First Century High Tech Markets and Low Skills

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has predicted that by the year 2006 computer-related jobs in this country will have reached a total...

1887's Dawes Act

In three pages this paper discusses the 1887 to 1934 U.S. General Allotment or Dawes Act and its impact upon Native Americans and ...

The 1965 Immigration Act and Asian Americans

In five pages the effects of this law's passage in terms of the skyrocketing number of Asian immigrants that moved to the United S...

Life on the Frontier and the Impact of the Homestead Act

passed the Homestead Act in May 1862. The act provided that any person who was either the head of a family, 21 years old, or a ve...

American Colonies and Mercantilism

general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

Actress Julia Roberts

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

Nineteenth Century Chinese Exclusion Act

interest yet that Act was just one more reflection of the prejudice that shaped our immigration policy as a whole. Our...

Analyzing Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal of Indians in an 1930 Message to Congress

away to make room for the whites" If this were the case then why was...

Theatrical Impact of Tadashi Suzuki

is an equal balance of physical discipline and mental/spiritual discipline. In Suzukis theories and methodology, the act of portra...

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act and the American Government

request, but may not require, the patient to notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request. A patient can rescind a request...

Kennewick Man Controversy and the NAGPRA

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)

sure they retain market share by using their market power to get the supplier of a material they sell to sign an exclusive agreeme...

1919's House and Town Planning Act, Also Known as the Addison Act

beginning of the twentieth century that many of the building socialites were formed, which unlike today, had the task of helping t...

1935's Wagner Act, Also Known as the National Labor Relations Act

In five pages this paper discusses the circumstances which led to this Act's passage and also considers its enforcement. Three so...

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

Act: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages...

Act I and Act II Analysis of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...

1996's Communications Decency Act and Telecommunications Act

In seven pages these legislative reforms are assessed in terms of their intentions and how they fell short. Five sources are cite...

1924's National Origins Act and 1965's Immigration Act

to immediately become accustomed to the American way of life; the National Origins Act of 1924 served as the culmination of such u...

Reactions to the Patriot Act's Primary Points

tax. Patriot II is slated to replace the Patriot Act, but it is not yet fully refined and defined in its scope (Drake, 2003). Li...

Comparative Analysis of 1935's Wagner Act and 1959's Landrum-Griffin Act

party members from holding office any longer than five years. Other member protections inherent to the Act include secret electio...

Methodology and Literature Review on Improved Testing and a South Tech Charter High School's Social Studies' Educator Evaluation

The call for accountability on a state and national level has been reflected in the increasing concentration on standardized testi...

Domestic Abuse: Federal and Illinois Law

This paper describes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is a federal law, and also the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (I...