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Essays 211 - 240

Katherine Lumpkin's The Making of a Southerner

student in the 1920s she became a civil rights activist on the University of Georgias campus. Lumpkin shows in her book that p...

GE CEO Jack Welch and Lessons Learned from His Autobiography

This paper examines the corporate leadership climb of Jack Welch and the management techniques his autobiography provides with com...

Capitalism and How It was Saved by FDR

as many of his critics argued (Schlesinger, 1998). Before Roosevelt took office, the country had suffered a depression about eve...

'Shame' from Dick Gregory's Autobiography

his own money, earned from doing odd jobs. With trepidation, Gregory describes waiting for his change to give, but the teacher doe...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

The Prodigal Son in Augustine's Confessions

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

Wartime US Presidents

authority in this area. While they are technically supposed to get Congressional approval to declare war, the facts show that over...

Nineteenth Century Social Relationships

century - this from a man who actually lived it. In fact, his account puts to rest any romantic notions one might harbor about su...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Types of Discovery

plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...

Progressivism and Liberalism

fact that the need exists for an even more determinant of limitations when it comes to the intersection of society and the individ...

20th Century United States and Social Welfare

those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

them from the depths of depression, it also "deadens" the maniac side Of course, Jamison balances her account of the exhilaration ...

Belfast Address of John Tyndall

into something of a "naturphilosophisch romantic pantheist" (Biography of John Tyndall, 2002). Basically he focused his studies o...

Free Will and Fate

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

Autobiography and Educational Concentration

basic career goal is broad, I have a desire to implement new systems and new organizational tools as an element of business develo...

Education and Citizens in the Postindustrial American Society

"workers with world-class skills in information technology and digital literacy" (Strauss, 2004, p. 120). This is what corporate ...

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

The Depression in the United States and Roosevelt's Efforts at Relief

their customers lost their life savings because there was nothing protecting their money in the event of a defunct financial insti...

Malcolm X and Richard Wright

of his entire life was dedicated to helping the race. Wright was a man simply seeking his own identity and he seemed to have no re...

Antwone Fisher's 'Finding Fish'

to protest against a society that had not provided them with the same privileges as their white counterparts. While Antwone was yo...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

America and Changes Brought About by FDR's New Deal

place to sleep and food to eat. While the stereotypical liberal democrat may appear to be kinder, the Republican side defends its ...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

I Came a Stranger by Hilda Satt Polacheck

House. What may have poisoned the well for Polachecks initial impression is the fact that she unfairly compared the United States...

Conservative Overtones of the New Deal Social Policies

brinks of despair and back onto its feet. Conditions in the U.S. were so bad it was estimated that over 100,000 American citizens...

New Deal of FDR and its Importance

done created a stellar U.S. economy and a great deal of productivity. Of course, many of the measures were meant as temporary fixe...

Politics and the Influence of Radio During the Years 1920 to 1940

the airwaves these days. But for the times (and in examining the history), the radio rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s was quite str...