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  • Equal Civil Rights in American History

    Equal Civil Rights in American History

    The citizens of the United States of America have continually suffered for their persisting conflict of equal civil rights. Over time, as the result over the fight for civil rights, we have discriminated, abused, persecuted and killed fellow American’s over such issues as equal civil rights. As American citizens had primarily intended to form a country in which it denied American’s equal rights, ultimately it became the principal factor as to why the empowerment

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: David
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    It is clear after interviewing my little cousin of 13 years and my mother of 48 years that there is a distinct difference in opinion as to what characterizes “The American Dream.” Often, it is generally portrayed as a materialistic pride and having power and fame; however, an older generation will claim it as a more personal issue. The majority of the youth are concerned with money, fame, and power, whereas the elder look towards

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Tasha
  • American Pop Culture

    American Pop Culture

    I would describe popular American culture as things we do for entertainment as a society. Something you can safely assume that your neighbor does too. Over the course of three days I compiled a list of what I assume is popular American culture. They are going to eat at Carl’s Jr., McDonald’s, Panda Express and Taco Bell. We also watched a few movies like Awake, Rendition and Just Friends. I also watched a show on

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Why Americans Should Not Possess Guns

    Why Americans Should Not Possess Guns

    Picture sitting in school while people next to you possess guns. Though this may sound a bit farfetched, it can happen. Due to the second amendment of the Constitution, one has the right to bear arms. It is reasonable that people would want access to guns for the sport of hunting though. But allowing people to “carry” guns is reckless. Firearms should be outlawed because they have granted children access to kill easily, inflated the

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Fatih
  • American Imperialism

    American Imperialism

    American Imperialism has been a part of United States history ever since the American Revolution. Imperialism is the practice by which large, powerful nations seek to expand and maintain control or influence on a weaker nation. Throughout the years, America has had a tendency to take over other people's land. America had its first taste of Imperialistic nature back when Columbus came to America almost five hundred years ago. He fought the inhabitants with no

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • By the President of the United States

    By the President of the United States

    BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES           A PROCLAMATION           Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other; and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Jack
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    Revolutionary War The revolutionary war was also know as the American revolution. The revolutionary war began in in 17 and ended in its cessation in 1783. British soldiers and American patriots fought at Lexington, Massachusetts and nearby Concord. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris ended the war. Great Britain was forced to recognize the independence of the 13 colonies of the United States. The Revolutionary War in America led to the birth of a new

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Europeans Vs. the Native Americans

    The Europeans Vs. the Native Americans

    How can 168 Spanish soldiers defeat an army of 80,000 Native Americans? Well in the year 1532, a Spanish conquistador known as Francisco Pizarro invaded the New World. He quickly got into a conflict with the largest state of the New World and managed to capture the absolute monarch, Atahuallpa. Francisco charged a ransom for his release and even after the ransom was given, he killed Atahuallpa. They were defeated and this cycle was continued

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Greed Is Good -- Selling the American Dream

    Greed Is Good -- Selling the American Dream

    Advertising is such an integral part of our lives that being deluged with ads almost appears to be our natural state. We open a newspaper or magazine and expect to find pages that proclaim the virtues of products and firms. We turn on the television and are assailed with commercials for ten minutes of every half hour. Some social annalysts even claim that the purpose of television is to round up an audience to watch

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Ernest Hemingway - a Legacy for American Literature

    Ernest Hemingway - a Legacy for American Literature

    Ernest Hemingway, A legacy for American Literature Some say that Hemingway’s personal life should disqualify him from the literature canon. They state that his torrent affairs, his alcoholism, and his mental state should preclude him from entry into the canon. These are the very things that help to make Hemingway a unique writer. Although his genre is fiction, he relies on his real life experiences with the people and places that he visited. The very

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Why Americans Smell Funny – the Pandemic of Billions

    Why Americans Smell Funny – the Pandemic of Billions

    The reason why Americans smell funny is because they have large amounts of flab. This flab can be prone to trapping cats and other small animals in their midst and makes it hard to go to the toilet resulting in a foul aroma. Over 90% of Americans have this problem causing many other countries to reject American food. Evidence is shown that countries dislike the smell, which has built up over time slowly spreading around

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Mary Oliver and North American Indians

    Mary Oliver and North American Indians

    QUESTION: Mary Oliver's representation of the culture of the North American Indian is one of celebration and lament. She celebrates a humane ecological consciousness that informs their cultural identity while also lamenting the terrible cultural dispossession that they have suffered at the hands of Western Imperialism. ANSWER: Mary Oliver's poetry is a critique of many different aspects of society, primarily the way in which nature is often devolved. She also examines the North American Indians

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Marxist Analysis of the American Dream

    Marxist Analysis of the American Dream

    Marxist Capitalism and its values revolve around material possessions and their acquisition. In this society, the poor man strives to be rich, and a powerless man to gain power. Many of these people however don’t have access to these privileges, and so to be one of the few taking the limited seats of wealth and power they compete, most often times against each other. Such environments are not only often times promote conflict but confrontation

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: July
  • French and American Revolutions Compare and Contrast

    French and American Revolutions Compare and Contrast

    Every one says history repeats itself over and over in different situations. The French and American revolutions were very similar in their demands and end results however were in two different situations. In both the commoners wanted fair representation in the government and fair taxation however the French were revolting from a tyrannical government and the Americans were revolting from a tyrannical mother country. There were many causes that brought on the American Revolution. A

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Funeral Customs of African Americans and American Jews

    Funeral Customs of African Americans and American Jews

    Ў§The chaos of death disturbs the peace of the living. This unsettling fact of life has proven to be a rich source of inspiration for human efforts to find order in disorder, meaning in suffering, eternity in finitude. Religion, culture, social structures, the vitality of these rudimentary elements of communal life depends upon ritually putting the dead body in its place, managing the relations between the living and the dead and providing explanations for the

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Native Americans

    Native Americans

    Historias que no son todavнa historia The histories of the native peoples of Mexico are inappropriately termed "histories": they are not yet complete, though Europeans have thought them so since the eve of colonization. When Europeans first came to the Americas they saw the landscape, opportunities and inhabitants through their own presuppositions, derived from the Middle Ages and, for the Spaniards, the recent unification of all Spain into one nation. The Spaniards wanted to

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Max
  • Postmodernism in American Literature

    Postmodernism in American Literature

    Postmodernism in American literature The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison often makes us question the credibility of what is being told, and uses many striking, sudden shifts between the past and present, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction. This blurring of the truth is a common element of postmodern fiction. In fact, many scholars would say that Beloved is a great example of postmodernism. (Ebrahimi 2005) Morrison uses this technique to bring

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Great Gatsby American Dream

    The Great Gatsby American Dream

    Jay Gatsby, the central character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby symbolizes the American dream. The American dream offers faith in the possibility of a better life. Its attendant illusion is the belief that material wealth alone can bring that dream to fruition. Through Gatsby, Fitzgerald brings together both these ideas. Jay Gatsby thinks money is the answer to anything he encounters. He has the best of everything. The fanciest car, the largest house,

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Jack
  • President Qualities

    President Qualities

    The following three qualities determine who deserves my vote: (1) honesty, (2) communication, and (3) someone who is ambitious. The first quality that determines who deserves my vote is honesty. The president should commit to what he or she says that they are going to do. For example, if they say they are going to abolish the IRS system, then they should stick to it and make sure that it happens. They should also accept

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Stenly
  • American Federalism

    American Federalism

    American Federalism American federalism was created as a response to the unsatisfying effects of the Articles of Confederation. Delegates were sent to the constitutional convention in Philadelphia, and decided at this union that in order to create a satisfactory establishment, they must protect the safety of the citizen’s, keep civil disruption at a minimum, provide for every citizen’s well-being as well as protect their rights and freedom. A federal system checks the growth of tyranny,

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution

    The American Revolution The American Revolution consists of many causes. Following these causes, there followed many aftermaths. The people of the American revolution consisted of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, and Benedict Arnold. In the years following the American Revolution, the causes were quite sensible. Post revolution included the Treaty of Paris, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. One cause of the revolution was the acts put in place to restrict

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Fonta
  • An American Requiem by James Carroll

    An American Requiem by James Carroll

    In An American Requiem, by James Carroll, Carroll describes his struggle for knowledge, individuality and separation from his father’s beliefs. The relationship between them slowly degenerates with age, and as James becomes more aware of the life happening outside of his family. Throughout the novel, Carroll focuses on many of the prominent world issues of the time, giving light to both extreme sides through his father and himself, as his father eventually comes to represent

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Edward
  • Manifest Destiny -- the Intangible of American History

    Manifest Destiny -- the Intangible of American History

    American history was built on a chronological record of significant events, each event having a cause and subsequent effect on another event. Historical events are presented in history as being tangible, being tied to a date, or an exact happening. Manifest Destiny on the other hand, is a phenomenon. It can not be tied to a date, event or even a specific period of time. Manifest Destiny existed and still exists as the philosophy that

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Transcontinental Railroad: Blood, Sweat, Tears and an American Dream

    The Transcontinental Railroad: Blood, Sweat, Tears and an American Dream

    The late 19th Century was a revolutionizing period in American History evident by the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War. However, it was the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad which profoundly changed the United States. The discovery of gold, the acquisition of Mexican territories and the continued settlement of the West increased the need for a primary railway system connecting the East and the West Coasts. The Transcontinental Continental Railroad aided the settling of

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • President Clinton

    President Clinton

    Assuming that it is true that a United States President may conduct his personal affairs in a way which does not jeopardize his capacity or duties as a political leader, should a United States President be accountable for his personal affairs by the American people whom he represents? This is the question to be discussed. Keep in mind, however, that this question does not deal with whether or not it is acceptable for a president

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Jon