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Spanish Explorers and How They Treated Native Americans

The views of 2 authors regarding how Spanish explorers treated Native Americans are contrasted and compared in four pages. Two so...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Transition and Change in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this novel by John Steinbeck is summarized and analyzed as it pertains to the Joad family changes and a Depression e...

Art of Slavery

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

Views on Affirmative Action

that this job was "whisked away and handed to an unqualified black" (i.e., Wilkins) (Wilkins 639). On checking out this story, Wil...

The Industrial Revolution in America

the world" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 550). Raw materials and finished goods could now be shipped all over the country. The Cumber...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Engines and the Development of a Superpower

The new mode of transportation and the new roads it needed meant that people no longer had to live close to work, and suburbs deve...

America's Slavery Legacy

were unable to teach their children good values and morality, or how to be men and women. The removal of parents made families wi...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

U.S. Culture and Society as Determined by Women's Economic Role

of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can s...

Essay Example on Walt Whitman and Changning American Society

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Analyzing the Kiss Between Ally and Ling in the Television Series Ally McBeal

The kiss between female characters Ally and Ling is analyzed psychologically and socially in this paper consisting of eight pages ...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Ethical Treatment

In eight pages the U.S. justice system's treatment of mentally ill individuals is discussed in terms of what should be proper ethi...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

American Foreign Policy in Haiti

In twenty pages this paper examines how American foreign policy has affected the society, economy, and politics of Haiti. Twelve ...

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; ...

How Workers Built America

In five pages this paper discusses how the American workers built the US society and industry. There is 1 source cited in the bib...

Film and American Culture

everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

Child Welfare, Religion, Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Parental Rights

MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient s...

History of Irish Immigration

the nationalist movement Sinn Fein was formed, in an attempt to establish once and for all a separate Irish parliament, with its o...

3 Perspectives on London

In five pages this paper examines three viewpoints of London as revealed in such literary works as Howard's End by E.M. Forster, S...

The Sexual Restrictiveness and Sexual Permissiveness of America

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which American society remains both restrictive and permissive in terms of sexuali...

Charles Ramsey and the Celebrity Phenomenon

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Charles Ramsey. The piece takes the form of a literary journalistic story. Paper us...