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A Book Review of Milton Meltzer's 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime'

In 5 pages, this paper focuses on a popular middle school textbook's exploration of the Great Depression's economic crisis and the...

Concept of Community in Richard Wright's Native Son and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath

In a paper consisting of 15 pages the concept of community is examined within the context of these novels from the perspective of ...

The UK and American Multinationals

part of the European Economic Community. It s seen as an inevitability that the single market will go ahead and it is a matter of ...

American Dream and Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

Great Britain and the Incidences of Suicide by Hanging

method of suicide was increasing. The main increase in this group can be determined by age. Those under 45 showing the biggest inc...

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses Grant

In twelve pages the lives and experiences of these great American generals are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in ...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

Amerian Society and Economy as Presented in John Ford's Stagecoach and Ann Banks' First Person America

of such changes that occurred during the 1930s. A number of the First Person America interviews focus upon the sharp class consci...

The Exposition Speech of Booker T. Washington

The writer discusses the speech that Booker T. Washington made in 1895 at the Atlanta Exposition. The writer reveals that the spee...

1920' American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

Success Secrets According to Ben Franklin

In five pages the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is used to explore how the great American diplomat, businessman, and inventor...

A Saga of the Great Depression in 'Riding the Rails'

This is a 7 page paper that analyzes Errol L. Uys' text that considers how the Great Depression influenced American culture during...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Macroenvironment and the Impact of Family

During the Depression, people simply made do with what they had. There was little if any excess income in most families, and peop...

Early American Attempts at Self Governing and Relations with Great Britain

won freedom from religious oppression. Christie suggests that the bottom line and that which caused many of the compoundin...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the American Dream

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

Terrorism/Comparing Countries

the threat of bio-terrorism (Dammer and Fairchild 304). France : France, also, has long had to cope with terrorism, as the Frenc...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Society and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

American Media and National Stereotypes of Germany and Great Britain

You Being Served, all serve up their own dose of British humor and stereotypes. Each show depicts the typical frouncy old woman wh...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

1900 to 1980 American Social Progress

in the century? What can be done about it? Poverty may be understood and defined as either a concept that comes from low income o...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

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...

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...