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The Ethics of the Phillip Morris Company

of nicotine and also that cigarettes not a drug and not addictive. Other tobacco company CEOs also testified cigarette smoking not...

Interactions Between Native Americans and Early Europeans from Columbus to Cortez

came to yearn to sail to that land. He dubbed his plan to accomplish that goal the Enterprise of the Indies. He sought financial...

Battle of Little Bighorn

This essay looks at the battle of the Little Bighorn, which is famous as the location of Custer's defeat by Native Americans, and ...

Health Care Reform by Paul Starr

This essay offers a review and analysis of Paul Starr's Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Refor...

Spiritual Perspectives of Native American Author N. Scott Momaday

the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild animals or by agriculture. Nat...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

Weber and Marx Perspectives on U.S. Social Stratification

of the day where the lives of the commoners were ruled by the elite. If one examines Marxs original theory on...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

Overview of the U.S. Presidency

the nation was in crisis--he came through. His famous words which were something to the effect that the people who knocked down th...

911 and Hostile Behavior from Sociological Perspectives

sad truth may suggest just the opposite. It is also valuable to consider the perspective offered by Oliver Cromwell Cox who note...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Politics and Youth

This paper examines American Generation X's political views in eight pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

Reasons Why the US Suffered a Loss in Vietnam

against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...

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...

Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson's Vies of 'the American Dream'

In five pages this paper examines how the American Dream is viewed by Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson in a comparative analysis...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

The Future of Capitalism by Thurow

most--actually all, as few dispute its dominance-- there are critics of capitalism. There are flaws, such as the fact that America...

Arguments Surrounding the Issue of Prayer in Schools

place for religion in the schools. The debate is heated. First, it should be noted that there are many good reasons for inclusion....

The Application of NAFTA and the Canadian-United States Free Trade Agreement

Five pages and five sources used. This paper presents a view of the application of the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the...

Culture, Ethics, and the Issues of Divorce and Adultery

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Caucasian and Mexican American cultural views regarding adultery and divorce and t...

The Sociological Phenomenon That Was Andy Kaufman

In six pages the conflicting views on this late comic's career are noted while the writer applauds his uncompromising slice of Ame...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois on Reconstruction

In five pages this paper contrasts these differing views on Reconstruction by these important African American icons. Six sources...

Property Rights of Native Americans

In seven pages this paper discusses the Native American views on land ownership in a consideration of culture, sovereignty, and th...

Anthropology and Leisure

In five pages this paper takes an anthropological view of leisure within the context of Phillip R. DeVita and James D'Armstrong's ...

Ideology and Law

In eleven pages European and American societies are considered regarding how their laws were developed in a discussion of the Comm...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

Internet Perspectives

In eight pages this essay discusses a Chinese immigrant student's American experiences in an overview of the impact of the Interne...

The Relationship Between African Americans and Jews in Baltimore

This 10 page paper considers the views of a number of theorists, including Ernest Burgess, Homer Hoyt, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth a...