SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :President Polk and the Mexican American War

Essays 31 - 60

America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Discovery Of Gold: Accelerated California's Drive For Statehoood

trail wherever it lead, however, California turned out to be such a plethora of mineral wealth that when the population concentrat...

Iraq War Justification

In four pages this paper discusses President George W. Bush's justification of the war with Iraq in a consideration of the hypothe...

Mexicans and Assimilation in the U.S.

141). In this one can readily understand how her accent, also the title of the novel, is one of her biggest concerns in relation...

Cancun

This 4 page paper is a narrative essay about a trip to Cancun, the Mexican resort....

Mexican Broadcast History

ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...

Mexican Culture and Chicana Feminism

This paper examines the gender inequality that has always characterized Mexican culture in a consideration of Chicana feminism con...

Vietnam War and the Policies of President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

For support, he look towards what he called the "silent majority" believing that they were really supporting his foreign policies,...

Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

In six pages this essay examines how the author utilizes Mexican pachuco in his work....

'The Mutilation' Known as the Mexican American War

Santa Anna had been dictator prior to the war, but was forced into exile with the Gadsden Purchase. The military was fairly perma...

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

Politics and Bananas

much on Del Monte or Dole. Still, where we can find it in the literature, well mention it in this paper. How Chiquita Built an Ind...

African American Military Regiments During the US Civil War

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...

Responsibility for the First World War

a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...

JFK's Vietnam Mistake

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Hiroshima Devastation

atomic bomb. Fearful of the world devastation that could result from their creation in the hands of such a tyrannical leader, man...

J.F.K. and Bill Clinton and the Defense of Liberty

The writer discusses how these two Presidents approached the problems of defending liberty, both at home and abroad. Their approac...

The Rhetoric of Addresses in Politics

In a paper containing six pages three separate speeches 'We're Losing the Drug War because Prohibition Never Works,' 'President's ...

U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...

'Hyphenated Americans' and Remarks by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

In five pages Schlesinger's 'hyphenated Americans' comment is examined by way of the argument Richard Rodriguez presented in his t...

The Entry of the United States into World War II

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...

Transcultural Nursing

such as communication, space, and time are relevant to these cultural issues. Communication and culture are interrelated, and many...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

Duality and War in Literature

won by any nation. Caputos work focuses on the primary character who remembers an innocence that will always live within him, bu...

Mexico and Corruption

changed. Mexicos history, again, is rather dismal in terms of corruption and much work is yet to be done. II. Police Corruption...

Considering the Week in the Life of an American President

House portrayed the work of the president as lackadaisical. Photo opportunities generally saw the president jogging or eating a Bi...

Drug War in Mexico

to internal corruption. Therefore, Calderon turned to the military and declared war on drug traffickers (Bonner 14). This policy...

Bailout Plan by President Bill Clinton and the Crisis of the Mexican Peso During the 1990s

In four pages this paper discusses the Mexican peso's devaluation during the Nineties and how President Bill Clinton planned to ad...