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  • American Pop Art

    American Pop Art

    Examine the mass media’s influence on both the formal and iconographic features of American Pop Art. Centre your discussion on one or two examples each of the work of the following artists: Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist. Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from mass culture such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Anna
  • Book Review - the Americans

    Book Review - the Americans

    AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK OVERVIEW: THE AMERICANS INSTRUCTIONS: The following questionnaire is designed to help you become familiar with your American History textbook. Any knowledge that you gain about your textbook will help you to use your textbook more effectively. 1. PARTS OF THE BOOK A. On what page will you find a list of the U. S. Presidents? B. What is the title of the Chapter that begins on page 460? C. Of what unit

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    Essay Length: 1,019 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Steve
  • A Dream Deferred

    A Dream Deferred

    A Dream Deferred The poetry of Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of Harlem, is an effective commentary on the condition of blacks in America during the 20th Century. Hughes places particular emphasis on Harlem, a black area in New York that became a destination of many hopeful blacks in the first half of the 1900нs. In much of Hughes' poetry, a theme that runs throughout is that of a "dream deferred." The recurrence of a"dream

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    Essay Length: 1,602 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jessica
  • American Tragedy: The Kennedy Assassination

    American Tragedy: The Kennedy Assassination

    "American Tragedy: The Kennedy Assassination" Where were you November 22, 1963? Any and every American old enough to mourn, to feel sorrow remember where they were and what they were doing when they received the news that President John F. Kennedy had been murdered. My mother was only three and she remembers the day. She was in the living room of her childhood home when a weeping neighbor called my Grandmother and broke the news.

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jack
  • Americanization in the Jazz Singer

    Americanization in the Jazz Singer

    In the film, The Jazz Singer, the protagonist, Jakie Rabinowitz, goes through a major character change in becoming Americanized. That is, in leaving his family's Jewish faith, he adopts the attitude and culture of the American way of life. However, there are many phases and steps he takes in doing this along the way. The first signs are the feud between Jakie and his father and goes as far as his name changing and meeting

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    Essay Length: 988 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Winter Dreams

    Winter Dreams

    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “Winter Dreams,” ambitious, “desirous” Dexter stands at the threshold between admiring “glittering things” and finding out that the “glittering things” he admires fade away sooner or later. Dexter‘s character throughout this short story, changes in many ways, from being unaware of what he really wanted in life to being aware of what he actually became. Dexter in the story started off as a very young boy who worked as

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Ben Franklin: The Ideal American

    Ben Franklin: The Ideal American

    As one of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin appears among the most interesting and intelligent men of colonial times. A true American pioneer, Franklin became a successful printer, talented inventor, important diplomat, and celebrated author after publishing his own Autobiography. Thriving in the difficult printmaking business, Benjamin Franklin was the ultimate entrepreneur. A very frugal man at the start, Franklin counted every single penny; this sort of self-control corresponds with the idea of self determination.

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    Essay Length: 477 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Max
  • American History X

    American History X

    American History X The setting takes place in Venice, a little beach town in the Southern California. Derek, the leader of the neighborhood skinhead gang gets arrested and put to jail for killing two members of a Crip gang that tried to steal his car. His little fourteen year old brother has seen everything and testified for Derek, for only that reason he did not get life sentence, and just three years in a prison.

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jon
  • Has the Amount of Information on African Americans Increased in Secondary School American History Books?

    Has the Amount of Information on African Americans Increased in Secondary School American History Books?

    With new discussions and debates about the changes needed to the curriculum of the United States Education System, especially in the area of history which scholars say that the curriculum leans toward an euro-centric model of teaching with information about European Countries and the Anglo-Saxon move to the United States. I wanted to look at American History and analyze it to see how much information is in books about African Americans and the details

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    Essay Length: 811 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Steve
  • American Literature

    American Literature

    Writing Assignment II Scholars have long pointed out Puritans in American literature for hundreds of years. They rest on ambition, hard work, and an intense striving for success. Although individual Puritans could not know, in strict theological terms, whether they were "saved" and among the elect who would go to heaven; Puritans tended to feel that earthly success was a sign of election. Wealth and status were sought not only for themselves, but as welcome

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Children in Native American Oral Tradition

    Children in Native American Oral Tradition

    Native Americans have long been interested in maintaining cultural traditions they inherited from their ancestors. For Native American tribes with strong oral traditions, the primary sense of history comes from the narratives, stories, and accounts told by tribal elders. Indigenous peoples’ stories are as varied as the clouds in the sky and yet have many common elements, whether told by the Cherokee in North Carolina, or the Chimariko in California. In the assortment of Native

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Method Acting and 1950’s American Politics and Culture

    Method Acting and 1950’s American Politics and Culture

    Method Acting and 1950’s American Politics and Culture Throughout the twentieth century, method acting had been experimented with and practiced in the United States. The method had derived from Stanislavski’s “system” at the Moscow Art Theatre and was then given its own identity by method pioneers in the Group Theatre, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Elia Kazan. Through the early 1900’s, the method had begun to gain recognition in American theatre, but swiftly attained considerable

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Yan
  • Analysis of the Famous Mitsubishi Case Under the Light of Men-Women and Japanese-American Intercultural Communication

    Analysis of the Famous Mitsubishi Case Under the Light of Men-Women and Japanese-American Intercultural Communication

    Introduction It was my first day in high school. Standing alone in the middle of the play ground looking for anyone I know or can talk to, my eyes was searching all over the place. A pretty blond girl standing alone was a scene that, for sure, attracted my attention then. The moment my eyes saw her, my mind started thinking of ways to talk to her. After some time wasted thinking, I saw a

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Bred
  • Lost Dreams

    Lost Dreams

    Michelleani Baker EN101S-1 Mrs. Slater March 21, 2005 Lost Dreams Remember as a little child, and all those dreams you had? You did anything to make those dreams come true, only to find out in two minutes everything could change. The dreams were gone, the struggle it took to get there seemed futile, and the life that was once organized was useless. Less than a year ago, I found out what exactly what that meant;

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Max
  • An American Executive in Columbia - Global Ethics

    An American Executive in Columbia - Global Ethics

    Ethics Paper An American Executive in Columbia pays off a drug lord so that his factory is not bombed and his workers killed. An American firm bribes officials in a small town in Mexico to let them dump their toxic waste in their local landfill. These are two clear cut examples of what is right and wrong in regards to ethical issues in the ever emerging global market. (Integrity, on a global scale) Nonetheless issues

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Max
  • Preparing and Presserving Food (american Indians)

    Preparing and Presserving Food (american Indians)

    PREPARING AND PRESERVING FOOD Indians used several ways to prepare their Buffalo meat such as: „h Roasting on a spit. „h Boiled in a skin bag. „h Cut into thin slices and hung to dry. „h Made into Pemmican (preserving). „h Liver, Kidneys, Marrow and nose were eaten fresh. Indians also made sausages out of strips of meat. They often made soups and Stews by boiling it in a sack with hot stones. Indians used

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Anna
  • A Midsummer Nights Dream

    A Midsummer Nights Dream

    Fairies and Their Purpose The fairies and the fairy realm have many responsibilities in this play. The most important of which is that they are the cause of much of the conflict and comedy within this story. They represent mischievousness and pleasantry which gives the play most of its emotion and feeling. They relate to humans because they make mistakes but differ in the fact that they do not understand the human world. Robin is

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Anna
  • Al Capone , a True American Hero

    Al Capone , a True American Hero

    Al Capone was one of the greatest American gangsters in history. “Even though he was unbelievable smart, he dropped out of school, he dropped out of school at age 14 in the 6 Th. grade. (Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone.) He got involved with crime at a very early age, and he never failed to stir up trouble. Between working 3 jobs and being in a gang, Capon had much

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Being an African American Woman

    Being an African American Woman

    As stated in Webster’s II Dictionary, a woman is defined to be an adult female human. In today’s society being an African American woman is a rigid task to live up to. It means to reside to what their ancestors have left behind, which means to be stronger than ever. Rosa Parks was strong, Harriet Tubman was also strong, and Jezebel was even stronger. So what exactly does it mean to be a woman? It

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Diversification Within American Organizations

    Diversification Within American Organizations

    Diversification within American Organizations The United States has the most diverse and multicultural population ever known to man. The symbolic metaphor “the melting pot,” strongly states that the major problem organizations face in American society is a diverse personnel with different economical status, beliefs, and cultural background; because of this, operating an organization in American society is a very complex task. For many years, researchers struggled with the concept of finding the perfect organizational structure

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Thematic Unit/ South and Central American Authors

    Thematic Unit/ South and Central American Authors

    Introduction (Two days) Major Concepts _________________________________________________________ Familiarizing ourselves with South American and Central American literature is a worthwhile endeavor because: a. It is a way to experience other cultures without traveling. b. Millions of South and Central Americans live in our country today. c. South and Central American literature often displays magical realism a device rarely used in traditional American literature. d. It will offer students an opportunity to learn history, geography and sociology from

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • American Religion

    American Religion

    In the mid 1700’s America was beginning to form its own identity. They were a new country starting on their own and only knew one form of government and one society. The country needed to decide on being ruled by one central government or being governed by the states, but the one thing that all American’s knew and agreed on was that they feared tyranny, tyranny in all forms. For over a thousand years church

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Victor
  • Americans Getting Tough

    Americans Getting Tough

    In a time that Americans are feeling very unsure about our safety, I fully agree with the Patriot act, which was passed only six weeks after September eleventh. It is time we start protecting America. The patriot act is crucial to national security. I do not feel that the war on terror has opened the doors to abuse of civil rights of the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay Naval base in Cuba. I feel

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream The film that I chose for this paper was “Requiem for a Dream”. I know that many people may say that this movie is just a drug movie, but really, it’s not at all. I think the director was trying to convey that anything can become a drug. It could be TV, coffee, dope, or even hope. Everything has the potential to become a drug. I chose this particular one because

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Janna
  • American History

    American History

    Earlier before America has its independence, colonies from Europe, such as Spain, British, and French, set foot on America for many reasons such as settlement, religion expansion, wealth, etc. Two famous British colonies that also found their way in America were Virginia and New England. Virginia, the famous colony of Jamestown was the first British colony that found its way in the New World, America. This first colony was soon followed by other colonies, and

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike