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Essays 961 - 990

The Morality of a Materialistic Society

While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...

Defining a Healthcare System in the U.S.

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

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...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

Josiah Royce's California A Study of American Character

than favorable. Royces work set out to discover all aspects of California and its history, to discover "the dark side of Californi...

President George W. Bush and the American Economy

the job market and 1.3 million jobs have been created in 2004, thus far.4 The drawback is that a great many of these new jobs are ...

Annie Oakley and Jane Addams

level of education and their directions in life would be different as well. At an early age, the age of nine it seems, Annie disco...

American Colonies and the Impact of Imperial Authority

of enhancing British wealth(Johnson 2001). Therefore, the British Crown had issued an ultimatum, based on this document, that raw ...

People's Political Needs as Met by the U.S. Constitution

that national character is essential (1989). While the authors of the Federalist Papers did support states rights to an extent, th...

Various Interpretations of the American West's Settlement

who had received the original land grants (Geyer 37). The interpretation of that intent, however, was considerably different in t...

Ohio's Oberlin College and Its History

one of Americas most influential ministers. One year prior to 1833, when its doors opened, Shipherd found it in his heart to found...

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...

US Influence on the History of the Panama Canal

sentiment was expansionist tendencies on the part of Congress. Drew and Snow point out that at this point in history the acquisiti...

History of U.S. Common Law

"a system based on common law, but it has codified the law in the manner of the civil law jurisdictions" (2004). Also, in general,...

American Contributions of Edgar Allan Poe

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

Advantages and Disadvantages of NAFTA

The fallacy of NAFTA however, is that it is not strictly a free trade agreement, but rather, is a managed trade...

German and American Women Filmmakers Compared

This research report compares and contrasts German and American women filmmakers. Genre, topic, style and other elements are inclu...

Society and Sociolinguistics

of distinguishing cultures within the larger diaspora through linguistic boundaries. What is Language? Language in...

US Political Process and the Mechanisms of Rational Choice

that we see unfolding before us in the opening decade of the twenty-first century. The rational choice theory is perhaps be...

American Dream and Hochschild

In some cases, Hochschild is absolutely right - gaining the American Dream requires a great deal of reality check, and not moving...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and August Wilson's Fences and their Portrayal of America

what he believes to be truth. He tells her, "Maybe I come into the world backwards, I dont know. But you born with two strikes on ...

Native Americans as Perceived by Walt Whitman

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

U.S. Voting Behavior

2005).Another factor is income. Those who are better off financially than others are more likely to vote, in essence the more mone...

Melting Pot Theory and the United States

facto segregation. There were no people melting into one another as the theory would claim. Of course, there is no literal transla...

September 11, 2001 and Speculation on Prior Knowledge by the U.S.

only were imaginable, they also were foreshadowed" (Ahmed). Then- Secretary of State Colin Powell stated after the fact that ther...

Commentary Summary of The Quiet American by Graham Greene

and realities of the Vietnam struggle prior to the United States involvement. In this particular commentary he is clearly indicati...

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 ...

A Society of 'Post Work'

Lopez outlines the political situations that have led to the economic and cultural conditions of the present day in Puerto Rico. S...