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US Frontier Myth

In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...

Books on America's Racism Problems

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...

The War Against Boys How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers

In five pages this report considers Sommers' 2000 text and the assertion that in contemporary America boys are having a more diffi...

19th and 20th Century Asian-American Gangs

7 pages in length. The existing and ever-growing power of Asian-American gangs during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have...

Impact and Culture of the !Kung and Ju/'hoansi Tribal Peoples

constraints. These people have been put into a position of having to cooperate with their society in order to accomplish the som...

Essayist Richard Rodriguez

lives reflect his early struggles with cultural identity in America. II. ASSIMILATION Rodriguez, whose professional writing cred...

A Review of Finding Forrester

Finding Forrester Jamal is the primary character in this story. He is from a family that consists of his mother, who is single d...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

Great Depression and the American Labor Movement

unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...

Stakeholder Strategy by Ann Svendsen

In four paages this business text is reviewed in terms of the author's view that profits must be maximized while at the same time ...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Popularity of Adolf Hitler

of the matter was that the entire regime began as a result of the brainwashing of authoritarian leadership. Bessels collect...

Determinism, Free Will, and James Cagney

In five pages the determinism and free will philosophies of Richard Taylor, Walter T. Stace, and Baron D'Holbach are applied to th...

Times Reflected in the Writings of John Keats, Moliere, and Niccolo Machiavelli

and was able to study their political tactics, particularly those of the ecclesiastic and soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that t...

Significant Events in American History between the late 1950s and 2002

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

Healthcare Problems in America and the Proposed Solution of 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain

very different plans to prospective voters. Obamas healthcare plan focuses on expanding coverage to Americans that are presently ...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

Sigmund Freud And Jose Ortega y Gassett

prone to violence if left on its own. Freud began his essay by acknowledging that the existence of a war leads to confusion within...

Views of the Holocaust

the peaceful nature of the German revolution" (Bessel, 2001; 1). Clearly, in retrospect, we understand that a great deal of pr...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

How Money Woes Inflate Grades

operating at convenient hours. They want convenient parking, polite staff, and quality education at affordable prices for which th...

Moors and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a...

Past and Present Multiethnic and Multicultural Politics

came at that time (called the Progressive Movement) that there may very well have been some sort of internal revolt by the working...

Society and Politics of Italian Americans

For example, they like to focus on characters such as Al Capone instead of individuals who contributed a great deal to America and...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

American's Loss of Leisure Time

Those futurists dreams did indeed come to pass. In times past, the nuclear family consisted of a father who worked for money, a m...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

American Nationalism

Germany, historically, Turkish families who have lived in Germany for generations are not regarded as German (Ignatieff, 1995). ...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...