SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Origin of the First Americans

Essays 361 - 390

Analyzing Blowback The Costs and Conseqences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson

of our imperial stance may be for the rest of the world and for ourselves" (Johnson, 2001, p.16). Johnson explains that America th...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

George Washington: Heroic, Flawed, and Human

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Twenty First Century US Army

In eight pages this essay examines the application of computer technology to the twenty first century American Army. Five sources...

A Personal View of The End of Victory Culture

In this five page paper the writer explores the book by Tom Engelhardt from a personal perspective. Insight is provided as to how...

Importance of the U.S. Presence in the First World War

of 1916, the progression of activity in World War I left many strategists wondering how the war would turn out. For most of that ...

Strategic Dominance and Japanese Americans During the Second World War

In nine pages this research paper examines the reasons behind and the conditions of California's Japanese American internment camp...

The Self Made Man in America

In a paper consisting of five pages a discussion of the American Dream and how it affects the concept of the self made man is exam...

Analysis of Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages the success story that was Benjamin Franklin and his American Dream of a life from his 1706 birth until 1757 is dis...

Black Middle Class and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

to such an extent that?in retrospect?these witnesses now see the African-Americans who suffered as people, and not as "other." The...

War Attitudes Expressed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

A Review of Timebends, the Autobiography of Playright Arthur Miller

In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...

The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitgerald

based on alcohol. And yet, the story is both hilarious and heartbreaking. After all that modern readers have heard about Fitzgeral...

Comparing and Contrasting Jazz by Toni Morrison with Quicksand by Nella Larsen

This 5 page paper discusses the struggles African-Americans face as they move from a rural setting to an urban one, as portrayed i...

U.S. Contributions of Charles Wilson Peale and Noah Webster

In four pages this paper examines the American public contributions of Charles Wilson Peale and Noah Webster. One source is cited...

American Romanticism and the Writings of Washington Irving

This paper discusses how American Romanticism is represented in 'Rip Van Winkle,' a short story by Washington Irving in three page...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that this first romance novel of the American frontier reflects in its characterizat...

America and Democracy

restless even though prosperous is bold. His work is again just as relevant today as it was at the time it was written. In fact, R...

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Foreign Firms

(Anonymous, 1992). The NYSE has been and still remains one of the most respected and certainly among the most recognizable of the...

A Comparison of Three Psychological Journals

to disordered emotional behavior or pathology; * ? sociocultural effects on pathological processes, including the influence of gen...

US Politics and the Decrease in Participation by Voters

in the presidential election. The 1924 turnout was the result of the sudden enfranchisement of tens of millions of women who hadn...

Suburbia and the Community Survey

This research report focuses on American suburbia and local politics. One municipality is the focus of attention. Various issues a...

Samuel Huntington and Conservative Ideology

The work of Samuel P. Huntington on world conflict breaks all problems down to seven different groups of civilizations. This paper...

American Romanticism and Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In three pages this paper discusses how this essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson represents the glorification of nature that characterize...

America Changes 'Her' Mind in the Year 1991

sponsored by the National Cable Television Association. Of course there were many other studies done, but these made headlines bec...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Progress in America from 1837 until 1867

Social conditions were determined by tradition by history and tradition. For example: Women and children were considered the "ch...