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Early Accounts of American Colonial Life

have long been "possessed" by adventurers, as this act would eternalize "the memory of those that effected it" (Smith). As this su...

Lincoln And Sumner: Equality

the fundamental purpose for doing so. While Sumner places governmental involvement with the quest for equality at the bottom of t...

The Appeal Of Howard Stern

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

Dalai Lama/The Universe in a Single Atom

spiritual enlightenment. The central message of Buddhism is that all creatures, one of great intelligence, and even those that w...

Banking In China

banks, i.e., those owned by the country (Wright, 2008). And, the private banking industry is growing fast in China, according to C...

Five Reasons for Traditional Native American Resistance to Acculturation

one ever identify with a people that took those lands and resources and essentially annihilated them? Past wrongs such as these h...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

Peter Jennings: An American Immigrant

a well-respected and world-famous journalist who was trusted by the American people to bring them the news objectively. From hosti...

Is America Diverse?

nature for us to section off into different groups. We might have a slight rise in the rise of middle-class and upper-middle class...

U.S. Criminal Justice System Law Enforcement, Judicial And Corrections

Watch in 1636, New York Citys Shout and Rattle Watch was implemented in 1651 and Philadelphia created ten separate patrol areas th...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

Louisiana Purchase

New Orleans, an important port city and mouth of the river" (Stief, 2009). Another author further supports this in noting that, "[...

Ansel Adams

As a child he was shy, did not really fit in and later would claim he was likely a boy who suffered from hyperactivity (Turnage). ...

Significant Events After World War II

1960S One of the most significant reasons why the United States became involved in the politics of Southeast Asia is becaus...

Illegal Immigration as Seen Through the Eyes of Ted Author Conover

of the total U.S. population (Larsen, 2003). While many of these immigrants unquestionably play a positive role in U.S. society a...

AUTO MANUFACTURING AND DATABAASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

and projects. Even more importantly, this system helped align shipments with production schedules. This was important, as it allow...

America's Role in Regime Changes Throughout the World

from a military perspective as well as because of many other natural resources it contained. The Hawaiian Islands had...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

New Nation of America and its Founding Documents

official title of the document was unanimously passed on July 2, 1776, signed on July 4, 1776 with an official proclamation made i...

Security Concerns of Central and South American Airline Employees

in some American cities that scare me more than Latin America"(Travelcom 2003). However, the data and the statistics do not share ...

U.S. Open Borders and Immigration Policy

5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...

Social Welfare, Capitalism, and Social Darwinism

and order and to a very limited degree, certain property rights (Boland, 1995). While there are a number of definitions and persp...

New World Colonization by England

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

Ethics and Leadership

played on only a few decades ago. More automation, faster communications and a global outlook have increased the need for leaders ...