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Essays 211 - 240

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Native Americans and Government Policies

they were always taken advantage of in one regard or another. The native inhabitants of this country at the time of...

Richard Orsi/Sunset Limited

been presented in dichotomous terms. On one side is the "selfish, greedy, corporate interests" and on the other, stand "the people...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Flowing Time in Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis, Tertius and The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges

part of the 1944 compilation entitled Ficciones, probed time flow and temporality in ways that deviated from literary tradition an...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Elaine T. May's Homeward Bound and Post World War II Society

history and the so-called cultural revolution of the 1960s that marked a return to normality, as it continued the liberal progress...

Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray

doctorate there in 1965 (Pauli Murray). Among other positions, Murray was a civil rights lawyer, "a professor, a college vice pres...

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 ...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

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...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Counselors' Codes of Ethics

that introduces concerns that differ somewhat from the client bases and environments found in other organizations....

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Comparison of Essays Written By Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mothers side was ...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

American Society

In a paper of three pages, the author considers the nature of the American society in relation to cultural diversity. Though the ...

Variations in European and Native American Interactions

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

“The American Indians”: A Critique of the Web Site

cell phone. There are numerous other hints, however, that "The American Indians" web site is more of a commercial site than a tru...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

How Old Can We Go? (Article Analysis)

the results. The author explains: " Remove those factors and researchers find that U.S. life expectancy continues to climb, but by...

Article Analysis: American Indian Societies

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

American Literature: Realism

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...