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  • An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls

    An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls

    While being born in the modern times, no woman knows what it was like to have a status less than a man's. It is hard to envision what struggles many women had to go through in order to get the rights to be considered equal. In the essay The Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998, Gerda Lerner recalls the events surrounding the great women's movement. Among the several women that stand out in the movement, Elizabeth

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    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998

    An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998

    While being born in the modern times, no woman knows what it was like to have a status less than a man’s. It is hard to envision what struggles many women had to go through in order to get the rights to be considered equal. In the essay The Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998, Gerda Lerner recalls the events surrounding the great women’s movement. Among the several women that stand out in the movement, Elizabeth

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Tasha
  • An Analysis of the Presidential Election of 1820

    An Analysis of the Presidential Election of 1820

    Presidential Election of 1820 Seth Wieder Introduction The Presidential Election of 1820 was during a time of sincere peace and harmony within America. Previous to the election, the Federalists disappeared during the war of 1812 because they were labeled as traitors. Because of this, political rivalries and conflicts were at an all time low, and only one political party with one candidate would run for office. This period was called the “Era of Good Feelings”

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Edward
  • An Analysis of “the Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'klallam Woman

    An Analysis of “the Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'klallam Woman

    Walking next to his father through the woods on a cool winter day, young Mason hears the sound of a bullet entering his father’s body. As he looks ahead, he sees his mother, Xwelas, lower a shotgun. In the essay The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S’Klallam Woman, Coll-Peter Thrush and Robert H. Keller, Jr. recall the events before, during, and after the murder of George Phillips, a Welsh immigrant killed by his

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    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Top
  • An Avoidable Civil War

    An Avoidable Civil War

    An Avoidable Civil War The explosion of the American Civil War was caused by a vast number of conflicting principles and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences, and set afire by a very unfortunate set of political events. Undoubtedly, the central theme of almost all of the events that led up to the Civil War was one way or another, related to the dispute of slavery. Throughout the nineteenth century, slavery-related tensions brewed to such an

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Top
  • An Economic Revolution

    An Economic Revolution

    It has often been debated as to the true logic of the American Revolution. Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolution was not the result of on sole desire to be free from Britain. Instead, there were many schools of thought that contributed to the Revolution. It has often been debated as to which view of the revolution was the most influential. The Revolution was fought by those who not only wanted to be free

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Kevin
  • An Essay on Aludous Huxley

    An Essay on Aludous Huxley

    An essay on Alduous Huxley The subject of Alduous Huxley is a controversial issue. At one stage or another, every man woman or child will be faced with the issue of Alduous Huxley. While it has been acknowledged that it has an important part to play in the development of man, there are just not enough blues songs written about Alduous Huxley. Inevitably Alduous Huxley is often misunderstood by the upper echelons of progressive service

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Jessica
  • An Essay on Telephone Marketing

    An Essay on Telephone Marketing

    An essay on telephone marketing Issues surrounding telephone marketing can never be over analysed. There are many factors which influenced the development of telephone marketing. Cited by many as the single most important influence on post modern micro eco compartmentalism, telephone marketing is featuring more and more in the ideals of the young and upwardly mobile. Inevitably feelings run deep amongst the aristocracy, trapped by their infamous history. Relax, sit back and gasp as I

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Fatih
  • An Experience Unlike Any Before

    An Experience Unlike Any Before

    An Experience Unlike Any Before During the mass immigration era of America, an abundant number of people traveled to the urban industrial society of the United States in aspiration to seek job opportunities and better lives than the ones they left behind. These groups included the Poles, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans, Japanese, East European Jews, and the African- Americans. However, one of these groups mentioned was distinctly different from the rest: the African-Americans. They were already

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Monika
  • An Inconvenient Truth?

    An Inconvenient Truth?

    An Inconvenient Truth? Believable or not? Many people throughout out the U.S. are changing their minds on the subject and are actually believing that global warming is a possibility and that all the events that have been recently happening world wide are effects from global warming. The movie was touching and does help people reduce their usage of things simply because they feel they need to do something as soon as possible. But like most

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: David
  • An Introduction to the Spanish American War of 1898

    An Introduction to the Spanish American War of 1898

    An Introduction to the Spanish American War of 1898 The sparking of warfare between two or more parties that tend to clash with each other upon the pretext of a particular contention in possible concern to racial, political or national ideological is something that the world has experienced frequently over the course of written history. More often than not, moreover, these wars have come to a grudging end as a result of the signing of

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Jessica
  • An Overview of Women in Business

    An Overview of Women in Business

    Even though women constitute 40% of all executives and administrative posts (up from 24% in 1976), they are still restricted mostly to the middle and lower positions, and the senior levels of management are almost entirely male domains. A 1990 study of the top Fortune 500 companies by Mary Ann Von Glinow of the University of Southern California, showed that "women were only 2.6% of corporate officers (the vice presidential level up)." Of the Fortune

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • An Overview: What Uncle Sam Really Wants

    An Overview: What Uncle Sam Really Wants

    In What Uncle Sam Really Wants written by Noam Chomsky, he uses his prolific knowledge in the field of linguistics to vividly describe American foreign policy throughout the post World War II years. Renowned for research and dedication, “a brilliant distillation of the real motivations behind US foreign policy, compiled from talks, interviews … declassified government files, public policy, and geopolitical events.”(McChesney, 1985) Chomsky has written over forty political books and is the eighth most

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • An Unnatural War -1812

    An Unnatural War -1812

    The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and England. It ended in 1815 and did not accomplish anything it was being fought over. For the United States, the War of 1812 seemed to just be one failure after another. The United States did not present a united front leading to multiple failures such as military defeats to states and citizens being divided over the causes of the war. Because of these failures,

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Yan
  • Analyse How the Concept of Freedom Has Changed over Time or Across Populations in American Literature

    Analyse How the Concept of Freedom Has Changed over Time or Across Populations in American Literature

    Analyse how the concept of freedom has changed over time or across populations in American literature. (Scarlet Letter and Meridian) Gender inequality has existed in the United States since the Puritan times depicted in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850), through the first, second and third waves of feminism and during the fraught civil right era depicted in Alice Walker’s Meridian (1973). Women are oppressed and suppressed through the society due to the fact of

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    Submitted: June 25, 2016 By: marinamarina
  • Analyse the Differences Between Congressional and Parliamentary Representation

    Analyse the Differences Between Congressional and Parliamentary Representation

    The most significant difference between parliament and the constitution are the separate elections for congress and the executive, which provides the most significant contribution to high levels of congressional representation, allowing the electorate to have separate votes for the legislature and the executive- maximising voter choice. This contrasts hugely to the parliamentary system which only allows the voter to choose which party during a general election every 4 years and the leader of the

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    Submitted: November 28, 2018 By: Oscar Ayton
  • Analysing the Historical Content of the Crucible

    Analysing the Historical Content of the Crucible

    In this essay, I intend to analyse the historical content of The Crucible and its relevance in today’s society. I believe that Arthur Miller’s life and his experience of McCarthyism strongly influenced the writing of The Crucible. McCarthyism, named after Joseph McCarthy was a period of intense anti-communism, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956. During this time the government of the United States persecuted the Communist party USA, its leadership,

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: July
  • Analysis & Critique of J.S. Mill's on Liberty

    Analysis & Critique of J.S. Mill's on Liberty

    Analysis & Critique of J.S. Mill's On Liberty The perception of liberty has been an issue that has bewildered the human race for a long time. It seems with every aspiring leader comes a new definition of liberty, some more realistic than others. We have seen, though, that some tend to have a grasp of what true liberty is. One of these scholars was the English philosopher and economist J.S. Mill. Mill's On Liberty provided

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Victor
  • Analysis - of Mice and Men

    Analysis - of Mice and Men

    Happiness Is…Companionship In John Steinbeck’s, Of Mice and Men, companionship is portrayed as necessary for happiness. Steinbeck asserts through his vivid and realistic characters that to survive, people need others to talk to. First, consider the book’s lonely characters: Curley, the Tart, Candy, and Crooks. These characters are clearly not happy. Curley is the boss’s evil son. He is a small and cruel bully who picks on those smaller than himself. He also tries to

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Edward
  • Analysis About Why Americans Could Not Compromise on Political Disputes by 1860

    Analysis About Why Americans Could Not Compromise on Political Disputes by 1860

    In the early nineteenth century, Americans sought to resolve their political disputes through compromise, yet by 1860 this no longer seemed possible. Analyze the reason for this change. Even before the nineteenth century, slavery was a controversial issue. It was so controversial in fact that politicians sought to suppressed the subject altogether hoping that it would just fade away, but as suppressed subjects tend to do, slavery became an even more of an impertinence, increasing

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    Submitted: April 19, 2011 By: Sarahbear93
  • Analysis of "i Have a Dream"

    Analysis of "i Have a Dream"

    I Have a Dream Analysis Everybody has a dream, but not every one of them will come true.One of the most famous quotes in modern time, and also one of the most influential speeches ever given on the earth was given on a potiumat the Lincoln Momorial in Washington D.C on Augest 28th 1963. The great speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. who deciatied his time on earth to prove that all people

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    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • Analysis of "i Have a Dream"

    Analysis of "i Have a Dream"

    I Have a Dream Analysis Everybody has a dream, but not every one of them will come true.One of the most famous quotes in modern time, and also one of the most influential speeches ever given on the earth was given on a potiumat the Lincoln Momorial in Washington D.C on Augest 28th 1963. The great speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. who deciatied his time on earth to prove that all people

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Analysis of a Letter by Martin Luther King Junior

    Analysis of a Letter by Martin Luther King Junior

    Martin Luther King Jr.: A Question Of Ethics A Letter from Birmingham Jail" was penned as a response to a letter that criticized Martin Luther King Jr. written by eight high ranking clergymen. Although King's letter was addressed as a reply to these clergymen, the real audience was the "white moderate" - otherwise known as middle class America (King et al 106). By gaining the support of this majority group, King knew that the civil

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    Submitted: December 1, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Analysis of African American Culture

    Analysis of African American Culture

    Running Head: Analysis of African American Culture Analysis of African American Culture Abstract The African American society is filled with many negative attributes which make it unsuitable for one to desire to be a part of it. These negative attributes are as follows: decades of unwed mothers, poor educational background, violence, gang activity, drug abuse, poor work ethic, high numbers of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, lower morals and standards, and poverty-stricken. Many research

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Analysis of American Reconstruction and the 14th Amendment

    Analysis of American Reconstruction and the 14th Amendment

    Analysis of American Reconstruction and the 14th Amendment Legal scholar Gene Healy has made a powerful argument in favor of abolishing the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. When a fair vote was taken on it in 1865, in the aftermath of the War for Southern Independence, it was rejected by the Southern states and all the border states. Failing to secure the necessary three-fourths of the states, the Republican party, which controlled Congress, passed

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Bred
  • Analysis of Coleridge Jackson

    Analysis of Coleridge Jackson

    Coleridge Jackson Coleridge Jackson is a narrative poem written by a black American woman named Maya Angelou, she was born on April 4th, 1928 and lived throughout the struggle for black equality, the poem outlines the struggle of a black man who is belittled by his white boss, I think the poem was written to gain support and sympathy for black Americans in their steps for equality. The first line is very powerful, it uses

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Analysis of Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Analysis of Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Analysis of Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail First Martin Luther King effectively makes use of logos throughout his letter. He clarifies all of the reasons for his arguments and supports them well. His arguments are also logical in their appeal. For example, in the beginning of his letter he gives a response to the clergymen's claim that the demonstrations were unwise and untimely. He states that the Negro community had no alternative except

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    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Tasha
  • Analysis of Newborn Mortality Rates in Ghana and the United States Today

    Analysis of Newborn Mortality Rates in Ghana and the United States Today

    n Analysis of Newborn Mortality Rates in Ghana and the United States Today Introduction It is frequently been suggested that the infant mortality rate (IMR) is a reliable indicator of a country's civilization and focus on the welfare of its citizens (Berger 2001). Although global infant mortality rates has shown steady improvement over the past century, many developing countries continue to experience inordinately high rates compared to the world levels; surprisingly, though, even the United

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    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Analysis of the Constitution

    Analysis of the Constitution

    Section 1 - The Legislature All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2 - The House The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the

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    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Analysis of the First World War

    Analysis of the First World War

    World War I was a military conflict from 1914 to 1918. It began as a local European war between Austria - Hungary and Serbia on July 28, 1914. It was transformed into a general European struggle by declaration of war against Russia on August 1, 1914 and eventually became a global war involving 32 nations. Twenty - eight of these nations, known as the Allies and the Associated Powers, and including Great Britain, France, Russia,

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Mike
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