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  • American Dream

    American Dream

    Subsidies are payments, economic concessions, or privileges given by the government to favor businesses or consumers. In the 1930s, subsidies were designed to favor agriculture. John Steinbeck expressed his dislike of the farm subsidy system of the United States in his book, The Grapes of Wrath. In that book, the government gave money to farms so that they would grow and sell a certain amount of crops. As a result, Steinbeck argued, many people starved

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Literature

    Literature

    Wordsworth's preface to the 1800 Lyrical Ballads argues that poetry "contains a natural delineation of human passions, human characters, and human incidents." It ought not be judged by the presence of artificial, poetic diction. Rather, "the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society" can be its medium. "The Solitary Reaper" exemplifies these beliefs. Written seven years after Lyrical Ballads, it describes a nameless listener's delight in a young woman's melancholy song

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: regina
  • Evaluate American’s 1992 Announcement of a New Rate Structure

    Evaluate American’s 1992 Announcement of a New Rate Structure

    Evaluate American’s 1992 announcement of a new rate structure: a. What changes did American make? American Airlines (American) made four fundamental changes to its rates. First, it moved to a four-tier rate structure; American offered first-class rates and three tiers of coach: full-fare, 21-day advance purchase and 7-day advance purchase. Overall, it expected to reduce coach fares by 38% and first-class fares by 20% to 50%. Though full fare coach prices dropped by about 38%,

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    Essay Length: 846 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Steve
  • The American Dream

    The American Dream

    Midterm Essay: The American Dream The American Dream is so many different things to so many different people, especially American’s. While other countries around the World would like to argue that Americans’ only aspiration is to become infinitely wealthy, Dinesh D’Souza claims that it is not wealth that Americans want. He believes that it is simply a better life. Michael Moore too acknowledges Americans’ ambition, especially his own, to create a better life for

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Toyota Tops in N.American Plant Efficiency: Study

    Toyota Tops in N.American Plant Efficiency: Study

    Toyota tops in N.American plant efficiency: study May 31, 2007 DETROIT (Reuters) - Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. had the most efficient North American manufacturing plants in 2006, an annual benchmark survey released on Thursday showed. Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail to a friend Business RSS feed Available RSS feeds Most e-mailed Share on Digg Share on Facebook Save this article powered by Del.icio.us More: Business section | Latest business news | Globe front page |

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    Essay Length: 621 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • American Invovment in Vietnam

    American Invovment in Vietnam

    In American History, the nineteen sixties and the nineteen seventies were extremely turbulent and controversial times. Protest rights were being tested and occasionally suppressed, new moral and political values began to develop, and the Vietnam War dominated the twenty-year period. Vietnam invited many young activist people to begin a huge movement of anti-war protesting denouncing the war, the government, and even the soldiers who were picked against their will to fight. Reasons for American entry

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • American History to 1887

    American History to 1887

    Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum's Salem Possessed explores the pre-existing social and economic divisions within the Salem Village community, as an entry point to understand the accusations of witchcraft in 1692. According to Boyer and Nissenbaum, the village split into two factions: one interested in gaining more autonomy for Salem Village and led by the Putnam family, and the other, interested in the mercantile and political life of Salem Town and led by the Porter

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    Essay Length: 1,127 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • American Identities

    American Identities

    American Identities The way one interprets the term American can differ for every individual. One’s appearance impact greatly on how society views one’s identity. The American identity has always been somewhat undefined because America does not have any specific definitions of what one must look like in order to proclaim his or her American self. Because the American culture is seemingly developing over time, people are confronted with the opportunity to change their physical and

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    Essay Length: 1,354 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Access the Success of American Imperialism at the End of the 19th Century

    Access the Success of American Imperialism at the End of the 19th Century

    Question: Access the success of American Imperialism at the end of the 19th century. American Imperialism has been a part of United States history ever since the American Revolution. Imperialism is practice by which powerful nations or people seek to expand and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples. Throughout the years there have been many instances where the Americans have taken over other countries. The Americas first taste of imperialism came about

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    Essay Length: 625 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • What Was the American War of Independence's Impact on Europe?

    What Was the American War of Independence's Impact on Europe?

    What was the American War of Independence’s impact on Europe? Use the example of 3 countries. The impact of the American War of independence was as diverse as it was complex. It’s ideology rendered the masses in Paris aflame and ultimately some historians suggest it caused the French revolution. However, outside France it’s ideological effect was more subdued and it’s main impact was economic as a result of the war. There were some advantageous long

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Japanese Work Ethics Vs American Ethics

    Japanese Work Ethics Vs American Ethics

    "For an American to consider the Japanese from any viewpoint for any reason, it is important for us to remember that they are products of a unique civilization, that their standards and values are the results of several thousand years of powerful religious and metaphysical conditioning that were entirely different from those that molded the character, personality and habits of Westerners" ( De Mente, p.19). To understand the Japanese, it is necessary to have

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Americanism

    Americanism

    There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • American Sports History

    American Sports History

    Negro League Owner: My name is DeHart Hubbard, founder of the Negro League, Cincinnati Tigers. Just recently Jackie Robinson-a black man- racially integrated the major leagues of baseball by signing a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. This is both a bitter and sweet victory for Negroes in America on countless levels. Segregation forces Negroes to create our own educational, social and business institutions. These same black owned and operated institutions help foster pride within the

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • What Makes You American?

    What Makes You American?

    What makes an American an American? Is it the accent, the clothing, the fact that you can speak the English language, or is it the fact that you were born on American soil? I believe it’s certain characteristics that set us apart from other countries. The fact we are self-reliant, and competitive, and the compassion we bring to others are some, of many, American characteristics that help set us apart. These are the three

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Jon
  • Effect of Colonists on Native Americans

    Effect of Colonists on Native Americans

    Native Americans had lived on the land now called American long before any European sailor came to make the discovery of finding the “West Indies” in 1492. Eventually, their lives were destroyed due to British and French colonization, for when the Europeans arrived and settled, they changed the Native American way of life for the worst. These changes were caused by a number of factors, including disease and loss of land. Ultimately, the British

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    Essay Length: 567 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Top
  • How Is Being an American Related to Young Goodman Brown?

    How Is Being an American Related to Young Goodman Brown?

    Young Goodman Brown and Endicott and the Red Cross and two short stories that, I believe, have many subliminal messages. The author of both, Nathanial Hawthorne, uses symbolism many a time to bring across these messages along with his personal beliefs of life, and the people of the 17th century. Religion is the basis of both stories. Both men go against religion. So what is an American? Not necessarily someone that goes against religion, but

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    Essay Length: 506 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Steve
  • American Indian Stories

    American Indian Stories

    In American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. “Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition” (back cover) is a great way to show that

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    Essay Length: 1,255 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Bred
  • Dbq on American Reform

    Dbq on American Reform

    Reform movements including religion, temperance, abolition, and womenпїЅs rights sought to expand democratic ideals in the years 1825 to 1850. However, certain movements, such as nativism and utopias, failed to show the American emphasis on a democratic society. The reform movements were spurred by the Second Great Awakening, which began in New England in the late 1790's, and would eventually spread throughout the country. The Second Great Awakening differed from the First in that people

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    Essay Length: 325 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Love and Marriage in Renaissance Literature

    Love and Marriage in Renaissance Literature

    In medieval Europe, the troubadours (poets of the southern part of France), like Guilhem IX, or Cercamon, first began to write poems about humble men falling in love with women who were admirer and adored by their lovers. Furthermore, intense love between men and women became a central subject in European literature, like between Tristan and Iseult, Lancelot and Guinevere, or Aeneas and Dido. But it was not question of marriage. Actually, marriage and love

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Vika
  • Isaac Asimov: Contemporary American Mythmaker

    Isaac Asimov: Contemporary American Mythmaker

    Isaac Asimov: Contemporary American Mythmaker Isaac Asimov was the twentieth century's most popular and prolific science fiction writer. He was predominantly praised for the variety of his writing. Asimov produced hundreds of books on every conceivable aspect of sci-fi, from short stories about robots to longer novels about planetary settlements, from introductory guides to genetics to scholarly tracts on biochemistry. He also published an autobiography, a short history of biology, historical studies of Roman and

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Famous Americans - Jim Morrison

    Famous Americans - Jim Morrison

    The Famous Americans Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison, better known as Jim Morrison was best known for being the singer of the famous rock band “The Doors”. He was also a poet, writer and film maker. He was born 1943 in Florida, USA. He grew up in Irish American family. Ever since he was young, he was interested in poetry and literature. When he got older, he moved to California to begin studies at University

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Compare and Contrast Genisis Vs. Native American Myths

    Compare and Contrast Genisis Vs. Native American Myths

    How did we get here? What higher being created us? There are many sides to this question; there are many answers. How do we know which one is true, we don't, we just know that we have to believe in what we think is true and have faith that, that is what really happened. The purpose of this essay is to distinguish the similarities and differences between two of the most common creations here in

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: July
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    american rev 2 American Revolution By: Jaime Feal E-mail: bball44@hotmail.com Jaime Feal American History Essay Among the many complex factors that contributed to instigating the American Revolution, two stand out most clearly: England's imposition of taxation on the colonies and the failure of the British to gain consent of those being governed, along with the military measures England took on the colonists. Adding to these aforementioned factors were the religious and political legacy of the

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Andrew Carnegie and the American Dream

    Andrew Carnegie and the American Dream

    Andrew Carnegie and The American Dream Many have tried; few have achieved - The American Dream. What is the American Dream? According to Webster the American Dream is the ideal according to which equality of opportunity permits any American to aspire to high attainment and material success. Andrew Carnegie is the epitome of the American Dream because he is a classic example of rags to riches success story. He seemed to be touched by an

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Janna
  • Contemporary Literature and the Events That Influenced It

    Contemporary Literature and the Events That Influenced It

    Contemporary Literature and the Events That Influenced It In the last forty years there have been some key people and events that have shaped history and in turn have influenced the works of some of literature’s most prolific writers. During this time period some of the most powerful speeches, poems, and literary protests were written. These works of literature were sometimes written out of necessity for the times and spoke out to all that read

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    Essay Length: 362 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Steve

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