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Essays 1801 - 1830

Jones & Moody/Known World

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

Wrongful Conviction

- if not utterly unsettling - accounts with that of the Salem witch trials where personal agenda was the sole motivation that fuel...

Coordination for National Security

America was attacked on September 11, 2001. The many American agencies that gather and analyze intelligence had missed the cues. W...

Leadership at the Battle of Ia Drang

from Georgia (Kingseed, 2002). From this painstaking experience, Moore says he learned that a person must first learn to lead them...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Comparing 2 Essays on Global Warming

offenders later in his article, Gelbspan does so immediately by stating that "Americans...are in denial" concerning the issue of c...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

Sexual Imagery/Depression in 3 Poems By Robert Frost

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

Monster Networking Case Study

been heavily involved in the marketing aspects of Monster.com (Eisenmann and Vivero, 2006; Wasserman, 1999). TMP spent over a bil...

Cheikh Hamidou Kane/Ambiguous Adventure

the structural framework of the novel, as it demonstrates the authors reliance on dialogue, both between characters and also the i...

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...

Paulo Freire/Banking Concept of Education

students "with the contents of his narration-contents which are detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that engende...

Federico Garcia Lorca/Play Trilogy

intended and his mother, she bites her hand in frustration in "inexpressible rage and desire" (Jones and Jones, nd, p. 13). During...

Surveillance Panopticon Issues

The essay discussed three distinct topics. The first topic discussed Foucault’s report on the Panopticon, a surveillance machine u...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

Mistakes Build Character

There are many statistics about failure or inadequate success experienced by executives in new leadership positions. The estimates...

American Domestic Interests and the North American Free Trade Agreement

CREATION OF NAFTA NAFTA was created as a means by which North American trade and investment could be energized past the levels th...

North American Colonial Period, Native Americans and African Slaves

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

U.S. History and American Racism AMERICAN RACISM AND HISTORY

subconscious, if a man has intercourse with a women, he claims ownership of her. Likewise, in a larger world view, if the white ma...

American's Government Distrust and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

acted on his own to kill the President (Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne, nd). They believe there is a very strong cover-up in this...

War on Terrorism and the African American's Loyalty Paradox Response

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

American's Loss of Leisure Time

Those futurists dreams did indeed come to pass. In times past, the nuclear family consisted of a father who worked for money, a m...

Mississippi and Native Americans' Removal

into contact with. The Choctaw Indian Nation has a history which predates the earliest Spanish explorers to America. Many of the...

American Colonists, England, France, and Spain and Their Treatment of Native Americans

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

European American Values and Native American Values

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

The Mass Media and the African American CultureAfrican American Culture in the Media: Ebonics and Advertising

People identify, after all, with people that are similar to them. Ebonics has the potential, therefore, to serve as a common link...

The Contribution to American History and Jewish American History by Henry Kissinger

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...