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America's Revolutionary War and Women

in 1620. Between 1628 and 1640, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established. By the time of the revolution strong communal valu...

New Jersey's History

In five pages the seventeenth through nineteenth century history of the state of New Jersey is discussed with the Lenni Lenape tri...

American Literature and the Impact of Benjamin Franklin

of subjects. Franklin had an insatiable need to know, and at an early age, he recognized that through words, he could positively ...

Doomed Native America

In five pages this paper examines how the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans was doomed from the beginning in a c...

Early American Women

the revolutionary era helped shape a new consciousness of women s political worth and capacities; this made their official exclusi...

Christianity and Obstacles Confronting Women

held positions in various states.She also taught at a different seminary and later began her own .In Philadelphia, Bonney and a fr...

Increasing Significance of Long Distance Migration

In four pages this paper examines the increases in migrating long distances since the sixteenth century in a consideration of Amer...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

Native American Oral Tradition: Parallels in the Literature

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

Outsourcing by Major American Companies (A Literature Review)

provide and that they also think that research and development would move them closer to growth markets as they began to be cogniz...

American Literature and the Issue of Class

leaned left. While it is true that the early part of the twentieth century provided an impetus on which authors could expound th...

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...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Women and Men in American Literature

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

An American Literature Study

There is no question that Bradford was a Puritan, and as such, offers his religious views and interpretations throughout his writi...

Women's and Men's Roles in American Literature

to a particular position. Now, interestingly enough, the position of women was not as oppressive as it may sound. In fact, wome...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

A Consideration of 'Three Negro Classics' in African American Literature

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

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 ...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

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...

Comparing DuBois and Baldwin in Early African American Literature

of history. The text is certainly auto-biographical in nature, but it frequently delves into historical and sociological topics su...

The American College of Surgeons

create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...