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Joseph Nye/Paradox of American Power

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

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

Americans Should be Thankful for What They Have

have to lose their home over medical bills. Of course, a representative from the insurance industry was there and did explain that...

Nan Goldin Exhibit At The Matthew Marks Gallery: General Review

the subjects soul in order answer the call of meaning so critical to the postmodern movement. The photography unarguably becomes ...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Fleming's View on America's Rise to Power

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

Federal Bureaucracy

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

Visual Imagery in 2 German Films

red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...

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...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Historical Tour to Vladivostok, Russia

drills and their equipment. The ecotour organizer states that "East Russia is also the last place on earth, where we have a...

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

Beowulf & Aeneas

past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

1763 and 'the American Spirit'

countries as well as with Native Americans. The blend would see a change in the people and the offspring were certainly American. ...

Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, and War Leadership, Perceptions, Judgments

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

Journalistic Perspectives on World War II

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

The Bombing Campaign in World War II

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

Imperialism and The New World Order

replaced by an increasing number of autonomous self-determining states, whereas others were more precipitate: the collapse of the ...

Second World War and Mexican Americans

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

World Community and Poverty's Effects

our own sense of security has somewhat eroded. This is true not only from a security threat standpoint that the discontent people...

The Ethics of the Phillip Morris Company

of nicotine and also that cigarettes not a drug and not addictive. Other tobacco company CEOs also testified cigarette smoking not...

Globalization and Pop Culture

has with the spread and popularity of American movies. Hollywoods influence and reach has long extended beyond its own shores and...

The Transformational American Literature Between the Years 1865 to 1914

shows how the Huck was socialized by his culture to look on slavery as an economic and moral necessity, not as an evil. In so doin...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

Popular Culture and its Effects

effort to the point where one can hardly find a flag in a store anywhere. George Lipsitz states that "For all of their triviality ...

Second World War and Japanese Internment in the US

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

1865 to 1945 American Economy

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

Educational Leadership and American Literature

of referrals to these types of programs have resulted in the need to seek out better methods for enhancing educational leadership ...