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Defining a 'Frontier' American

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the definitions of the frontier and what an 'American' means according to Frederic...

Scientific American Article 'The Littlest Human'

through remains. This is something that is often associated with islands and the isolation islands offer. This finding was related...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Past and Present Multiethnic and Multicultural Politics

came at that time (called the Progressive Movement) that there may very well have been some sort of internal revolt by the working...

17th Century American Economic Thought

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

Stephen L. Carter's Essay 'Barbarians Running Late'

while asserting ones constitutional rights is up, along with a proliferation of negative advertising (4). Vulgar language has beco...

Leslie Marmon Silko

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

History of the U.S. City

economic need and this occurred during the early part of the twentieth century. The Industrial Revolution played a significant p...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Three Seasons Film by Tony Bui with My Year of Meats Novel by Ruth L. Ozeki

finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...