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American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Failure of the American Family as a Sociological Model

In six pages this paper discusses the various issues that have undermined the American nuclear family as a failed sociological mod...

Complex Union of Marriage

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Workforce Participation Rates

riveter). But with the war, the demand for workers grew, and "everyone" agreed that women would work; they also agreed that the jo...

American Labor

put the machine in his place. But the machine has not always been kind to man. In fact, labor unions came into being almost as so...

African American Generals

anonymity and confidentiality. In any research that is expected to be effective, informative, and beneficial in any way it is impe...

American Ethnic Literature

do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...

Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

120 Years of American History

interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Hispanic Americans

not hard to please" (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). They are also generally Catholics (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). Bu...

What is a Real American?

of the good things the nation stands for and the good things that the nation does in the world. But, a good or real American is al...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Are Americans Selfish?

many people in the world, but they are working hard to get what they can and they are also very limited in the way they can live. ...

U.S. Workforce and the Role of African American Women

In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionists who saw race as the great American dilemma...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

Frances Anne Kemble's "Journal Of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation" - What Influence Does The Institution Of Slavery Have On The Slaves?

smallest nuance of kindness or understanding Kemble (1984) displayed was embellished into a lifesaving gesture speaks to the extra...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper examines Frederick Douglass's Narrative and its depiction of slavery issues. There are no other sources ...

18th Century Virginia and Slavery

convicts to be shipped to the Colonies and the influx of Negroes into the States (1944). It did seem that while laws which allowed...

Analysis of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery and Harriet Jacobs' The Perils of a Slave Woman's Life

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes the role gender played in these different accounts of slavery. There are no source...

Constitutional Convention Debates and the Notes of James Madison

This paper consists of five pages in an examination of James Madison's Constitutional Convention debate notes in a consideration o...

Race Relations According to W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

the post-Reconstruction era, it was Washingtons belief that the rural masses of African-Americans should apply themselves, not tow...

Nineteenth Century Social Movements and Christianity's Role

In five pages this paper discusses how Christianity and the Bible were used in 19th century women's suffrage and slavery movements...