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  • Desecration of the American Dream in Glengarry Glen Ross

    Desecration of the American Dream in Glengarry Glen Ross

    Desecration of the American Dream in Glengarry Glen Ross Glengarry Glen Ross portrays a harsh view of American business that not only contradicts, but also befouls the values of the "American Dream." The idealistic importance of fairness, equality, and the idea that hard work brings success included in this "dream" of American society is clearly not reality in this play. The values of work ethic, and equal opportunity are betrayed, and there is a

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Artur
  • Are African Americans Still Oppressed?

    Are African Americans Still Oppressed?

    Are African Americans Still Oppressed? African Americans in society today like the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave are hostage to their own mentality. The two characteristics commonly shared between both is ignorance to reality and a reluctance to change. Thus in the essay the prisoners are locked and chained down in darkness with only a glow of light that allows for little sight. In turn objects placed in front of the glow cast

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: regina
  • American Similarties to Rome

    American Similarties to Rome

    American civilization could possible end up like the Roman Empire. The Romans did many of the same things that we are doing today right before they fell. We are probably not going to fall but we are not the best we could be. We should change our habits before they become worse. The Romans did many things that led to their destruction. They ruined their morals by focusing on the moment and not worrying about

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    Essay Length: 370 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Victor
  • Hispanic American Diversity

    Hispanic American Diversity

    Hispanic American Diversity Mexican Americans are the largest group of Hispanics living in the United States today. A majority of Mexican American people living in the States are illegal, immigrants. Many Mexican Americans suffer economically and linguistically because they are predominately blue-collar workers that speak Spanish in their homes. American business owner enjoy employing Mexican Americans because many will work for a lower pay scale. Mexican American people who are U.S. citizens make a more

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    Essay Length: 1,474 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Wendy
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    A revolution is a sudden, radical, or complete change, by the Merriam- Webster Dictionary definition. Did the American Revolution bring about this change? Many historians would say that it did, however, there is much evidence supporting the opposing view. There are a few revolutionary moments during this time Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolution overall was not very revolutionary including the reasons for Independence, the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, The Constitution, and

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Stenly
  • American Airlines

    American Airlines

    American airlines is a corporation that exhibits all of the characteristics of a firm in an industry where good tactical management is the key to success. This company and its regional airline partner American eagle serve almost 250 cities around the world and operate more than 3600 daily flights. Its goal is to provide safe, dependable and friendly air transportation along with related services, making a great effort to transform any experience into a positive

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The American Cowboy

    The American Cowboy

    The American Cowboy The cowboys of the frontier have long captured the imagination of the American public. Americans, faced with the reality of an increasingly industrialized society, love the image of a man living out in the wilderness fending for himself against the dangers of the unknown. By the year 1900 there were few renegade Indians left in the country and the vast expanse of open land to the west of the Mississippi was rapidly

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Jack
  • In the American Society

    In the American Society

    Gish Jen’s In the American Society is, on the surface, an entertaining look into the workings of a Chinese American family making their way in America. The reader is introduced to the life of a Chinese American restaurant owner and his family through the eyes of his American-born daughter. When we examine the work in depth, however, we discover that Jen is addressing how traditional Chinese values work in American culture. She touches on the

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    Essay Length: 1,318 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Max
  • American Foreign Relations During Washington’s Presidency

    American Foreign Relations During Washington’s Presidency

    From it inception, despite the intentions of Washington had subsequently elaborated upon in his Farewell Address, the new republic became entangled in European affairs. It had a profound effect on both foreign and domestic policy. British resentment tied with renewed antagonism with France, produced crisis both abroad and on the Western Frontier. The British were angered by the treaty of friendship signed between France and the American Republic. They interpreted the treaty as an alliance

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Japanese and Navtive American Liturature

    Japanese and Navtive American Liturature

    Americans have been raciest against Japanese Americans and Native Americans; we have pointed fingers and mimicked them. They ought to have the respect and attention because Americans truly don’t understand them. A Japanese American named Janice Mirikitani wrote Breaking Silence. Breaking Silence is about a daughter talking about her mother and Japanese interment camps. A Native American named Gail Tremblay wrote Indian Singing in 20th Century America. It’s about Native Americans being torn apart from

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Simpsons, an American Popular Culture Phenomenon?

    The Simpsons, an American Popular Culture Phenomenon?

    ‘The Simpson’s’ an American Popular Culture phenomenon? American popular culture has a tremendous effect on the everyday people. The fields of television film and pop music are dominated by media representations produced in the USA. The invasion of the American popular culture has been so powerful that many people get most of their information about the world through American films and television shows. “Popular culture enthusiasts are thus absorbed into a situation where American-made popular

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    Essay Length: 2,415 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Policy Paper: Outsourcing of American Jobs

    Policy Paper: Outsourcing of American Jobs

    Policy Paper 11/4/04 The exporting of American jobs is an issue that is important and will become increasingly so as more and more white collar jobs are shipped over seas. American companies in the past few decades have been sending American jobs overseas paying residents of other countries pennies on the dollar what they had paid American workers to do. This saves the companies millions of dollars on labor costs but costs Americans precious jobs.

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Economics of Poverty in American Society

    The Economics of Poverty in American Society

    The Economics of Poverty in American Society Living in the United States, many of us do not think about poverty too much. Most people in the United States are above poverty level. They do not think about the less fortunate of America. Economics is the main factor of poverty in American Society, and more specifically, macroeconomics since it deals with the aggregate economy. To understand poverty and the poverty level, we need to see how

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Top
  • Immigration in American

    Immigration in American

    What is an American? An American is someone who loves thier country and the people in it, and believes in bettering thier own lives as well as the lives of those around them. Does it really matter that these individuals may be of German or Chinese desent? No, not at all; thier ethnic background has nothing to do with being American. To say that the majority of people in the United States have some sort

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Subjugation of the American West

    The Subjugation of the American West

    Manifest Destiny! This simple phrase enraptured the United States during the late 1800’s, and came to symbolize an era of westward expansion through numerous powerful entities. The expansion can be inspected though many different contextual lenses, but if examined among the larger histories of the United States, this movement can be classified as one of the most influential developments of the post-Civil War period. While very influential to the larger part of American history, the

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Kevin
  • African American Theatre

    African American Theatre

    Over the course of approximately one-hundred years there has been a discernible metamorphosis within the realm of African-American cinema. African-Americans have overcome the heavy weight of oppression in forms such as of politics, citizenship and most importantly equal human rights. One of the most evident forms that were withheld from African-Americans came in the structure of the performing arts; specifically film. The common population did not allow blacks to drink from the same water fountain

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Quiet American

    The Quiet American

    Fowler constructs Pyle as a naпve young man who is an innocent victim of dogmatic and simplistic ideologies. Fowler sees American culture and Democracy as a corrupting influence on an innocent Pyle. This is exhibited th relational processes, where Pyle, as the carrier, is given attributes such as “innocent”, “young and ignorant and silly”. This innocence is highlight by contrasting it with the attribute of “the whole pack of them”, Fowlers serotypes of Americans. Pyle’s

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: July
  • African American Self Sabotage - John McWhorters Losing the Race

    African American Self Sabotage - John McWhorters Losing the Race

    In Losing the Race, John McWhorter speaks about the “disease of defeatism that has infected black America.” In the novel he explores in detail three aspects of modern day black American cultural mentality, or "cults," that hold African Americans back. First, is the Cult of Victimology. In it, victimhood has been transformed “from a problem to be solved into an identity in itself.” Then there is the Cult of Separatism, in this cult, the uniqueness

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Immigrants: Becoming American and Defining What It Means to Be an American

    Immigrants: Becoming American and Defining What It Means to Be an American

    From the time Christopher Columbus first landed in America precedence was set; the people migrating to this land would be the driving force in keeping this county dynamic in many aspects. Immigrants arriving in America in the last fifty years certainly are not an exception to this precedence. The large influx of immigrants to America has had a great number of diverse effects that have shaped our country into what it is today. In light

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • African-American Church

    African-American Church

    Introduction There is great difficulty in defining the field of Cultural Studies, as it takes an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to studying the art, beliefs, politics, and institutions of ethnic cultures and pop culture. For the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham, one of the central goals of Cultural Studies was “to enable people to understand what (was) going on, and especially to provide ways of thinking, strategies for survival, and resources for resistance

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Monika
  • Americans Versus Buddhism; the Idea of Food

    Americans Versus Buddhism; the Idea of Food

    Food is an important aspect in many people’s life. It is what nourishes you and keeps your body maintained and fueled during the day. For normal Americans the daily food consumption usually ranges from about the normal 2,000 calories to 3,000 calories. But Buddhists usually consume half of that amount. For Buddhists food is also an important factor in their daily routine lives. Unlike Americans who’s daily diet consists of junk food like burgers, fries,

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Victor
  • American Folk

    American Folk

    The dancer is a man wearing leather boots, loose fitting red silk pants, and a white shirt with colored embroidering down the middle. His hair is shaved to the scalp except for a small circle on the top of his head, where the hair is about half a foot long. He squats down low, and kicks his feet out with his body upright and his arms folded. The dance has a historic meaning behind it,

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: July
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    AMERICAN REVOLUTION Was the American revolution revolutionary? That was the question given to us by you to discuss and decide on a position, hence position paper. Well to fully answer this you have to know what is a revolution. The dictionary states that a revolution is an attempt to overthrow of one government and its replacement with another#. There have been many revolutions in history like the Russian Revolution and Chinese. Was the American Revolution

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Dbq 2: American Revolution

    Dbq 2: American Revolution

    To what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution? Use documents and your knowledge of the period 10 to 1776 to answerthe question. By the eve of the revolution, particularly the period between 10 to 1776, the colonists had united to fight wars in defense of each other, called inter-colonial meetings in regard to "national" threats, and introduced a new race to

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    Essay Length: 768 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Tasha
  • American Idiot

    American Idiot

    The Song “American Idiot” by Green Day uses techniques to engage the audience to interoperate the issues. Green day through their style of music convey issues such as the medias over powering effect on society, greed and the division of the United States of American over political issues. Green Day’s negative stance on the issues through these techniques conveys the audience to agree with the main issues being focused. The media’s influence on society is

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Jon

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