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  • The American Dream Is Dead

    The American Dream Is Dead

    The American Dream is dead. This is the main theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. In the novel Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the high class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. It is through the narrator's dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: July
  • Patriotism and the American Flag

    Patriotism and the American Flag

    There is much controversy surrounding the idea of patriotism and the iconography of the American flag in today's society. Some believe patriotism is simply the act of supporting the decisions of the leaders of the country. Others say, to be patriotic, people should be outspoken and voice their oppositions to what is going on in the government. Opinions also differ on the idea of what the American flag represents. One opinion of the flags representation

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: regina
  • Jackson as a President: Yesterday and Today

    Jackson as a President: Yesterday and Today

    Jackson as a President: Yesterday and Today The Andrew Jackson Administration, from 1829 to 1837, was very important in American history. A self-made man, Jackson exemplified republican virtues by restraining a centralized government and promoting the powers of the people. His administration left a lasting impact on American politics. With his extreme usage of the presidential veto, Jackson strengthened the executive branch and rendered it equal in power to the legislative branch. These Jacksonian ideals

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: David
  • American Gothic

    American Gothic

    “I had done some fashion work in St. Paul and I had principally gone to Chicago to shoot fashion, but I found myself doing more and more work on the south side, the poverty stricken areas where the blacks lived. That is what got me a Rosenwald Fellowship, the first one ever given in photography. At the time, Jack Delano was in Chicago and he encouraged me to come to the Farm Security Administration. I

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    Essay Length: 1,036 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Monika
  • What Is an American?

    What Is an American?

    What is an American? What does it mean to be "American?" What makes it "American?" And how does it make us "American?" American stands for the beliefs, the music, as well as the people that come from this great nation. The beliefs of this great nation speak every language. These beliefs stretch from the furthest reaches of Africa to the city life of New York. These beliefs are pride, freedom, and equality. American means to

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Bred
  • Americans and Guns

    Americans and Guns

    Americans and Guns Guns played an important role in American history. Part of the reason our country was founded, was because Americans had gun ownership, America would not exist the way it does without having that. Guns were a vital part of the American Revolution. The British had a professional army to fight the Americans. However, the large portion of America’s army was made up of volunteers who fought with their own personal weapons. It

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Religion & Spirituality in the Native American Culture

    Religion & Spirituality in the Native American Culture

    Religion & Spirituality in the Native American Culture When the topic of the beliefs of the Native American culture arises, most people have generally the same ideas about the culture’s beliefs: they are very strong. Being part Native American myself, from the Cherokee tribe, I was raised to know my culture pretty well and follow the same beliefs that they teach and follow. One thing f that my grandma, who is the great-granddaughter of

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    Essay Length: 1,623 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Yan
  • Indian Americans & Assimilation into American Culture

    Indian Americans & Assimilation into American Culture

    This paper will focus on Indian Americans and their assimilation in to the United States and its culture. Being a second-generation Indian American, I believe that I can relate to this subject well. I and other second-generation Indians Americans face a unique set of entirely different social issues. I will focus on the main social institutions of family, education, religion, politics, and compare and contrast the experiences of first generation Indian Americans and second generation

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    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Bred
  • Recent Historiography on Religion and the American Civil War

    Recent Historiography on Religion and the American Civil War

    Religion and the American Civil War is a field of study which has received much attention in recent years. Previously considered a peripheral issue by most Civil War historians (erroneously so), religion reemerged as a significant interpretive element of the Civil War experience with the publication of Religion and the American Civil War (1998), a collection of essays edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout and George Reagan Wilson. Well-known historians such as Eugene

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    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Illegal's and the American Dream

    Illegal's and the American Dream

    Many Hispanics from poor Latin countries migrate to the United States in search of better life for themselves and the families they may have left behind. However, unlike many of the immigrants before them that are now embraced and celebrated for there entrance into Ellis Island we keep immigrants as slaves. They are everywhere from Park Avenue homes and West Palm Beach gardens to Beverly Hills mansions building structures, sewing and harvesting orchards, and

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    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Artur
  • American Literature in the 19th Century

    American Literature in the 19th Century

    Much has been said about America being the “Land of Opportunity” throughout history. From Columbus, to Walt Whitman, to present times, American society and its values differed quite a bit from American society and its values today. As these values have changed, so have the opportunities that present themselves within society, such as the ability to write about certain issues or topics. This means that the topics of literature have changed drastically along with the

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    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    The weeks that have elapsed since that fatal event of February 15th have been making history in a manner highly creditable to the American government and to our citizenship. Captain Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, had promptly telegraphed his desire that judgment should be suspended until investigation had been made. The investigation was started at once, and million Americans have accordingly suspended judgment in the face of a great provocation. For it

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    Essay Length: 2,913 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Mikki
  • How the Three Branches of American Government

    How the Three Branches of American Government

    How the Three Branches of American Government Worked Together to End Segregation The three branches of the American Government often to not cooperate enough with one another to make laws or amend the constitution. Often, the system of checks and balances keeps one branch from moving forward with the law-making process. However, on the long road to desegregation, all three branches of the government were involved to make segregation in public schools against the law.

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Monika
  • Bruce Dawe - Americanized

    Bruce Dawe - Americanized

    Bruce Dawe is strongly opposed to consumerism, as shown through his poem, Americanized. The poem is written in a predominantly bitter and ironic tone. The title itself is ironic. Bruce Dawe is Australian and has spelled the title using American spelling rather than Australian spelling, with the ‘s’ being replaced by a ‘z’. Stanza one is set in the morning at breakfast time. It involves the mother and her child. Instead of the usual loving

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Edward
  • American Society and Abortion

    American Society and Abortion

    How American society would change if abortion were restricted or eliminated is a very interesting question. On the surface we all would think that as a society there would be an influx of back alley abortions or mothers murdering their newborns or maybe even an increase in self abortion attempts. This issue goes deeper than that. In 1973, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law making abortions illegal was an

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Anna
  • The American Dream in American Literature

    The American Dream in American Literature

    The American Dream in American Literature Working hard is the key to success. This struggle for success is most commonly called the “American Dream.” The aspect of the American Dream has been around forever and is often the underlying theme in many pieces of American literature. The theme of the American is especially presented in Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Two Kinds writer by Amy

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Tommy
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    Everyone at one point in their life has been pressured into doing something they know is wrong, but its up to you to make the right or wrong choice. If you let other people influence and pressure you, you will end up somewhere and someone you don’t want to be. A good example of this is the girls from the witch trials in Salem from the Crucible. They were influenced greatly by Abigail to

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Yan
  • What Is the American Dream?

    What Is the American Dream?

    What is the American Dream? Since the start of the twentieth century America has attracted people all over the world to relocate and start a new life. For many coming to America was a chance for a better life and new things. They all had something in common, they all had a dream, that dream was the “American Dream”. In the present day the desire to achieve the dream hasn’t changed. However, the idea of

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Janna
  • All the Presidents Men

    All the Presidents Men

    June 17, 1972. This was the day that the biggest political scandal of the century was about to start being uncovered. This was the day that the Democratic National Committee headquarters, which were located in the Watergate complex, had been robbed. In a story of this magnitude, one would come to expect that there would be certain journalistic issues. In mid December 1971, The New York Times ran a story on the front page of

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community

    Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community

    The book, Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community, and the film, Salt of the Earth, both relay to their audience, the pursuit of happiness within the Chicano community in which they live. These works aim to show how Mexican-American immigrants fight to keep both their honor and value systems alive in the United States of America, a country which is foreign to their traditions. The Mexican-Americans encountered in these

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Yan
  • Megan’s Law: Protecting American Families Everywhere

    Megan’s Law: Protecting American Families Everywhere

    Megan’s Law: Protecting American Families Everywhere In the summer of 1994 in Hamilton, New Jersey, a small girl by the name of Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a convicted pedophile, Jesse Timmendequas. The shocking crime rocked not only the small town, but the entire country. A desperate mother told reporters “Please, please help us find our daughter, she’s a wonderful girl ... she’s only seven. Let her come back.” (www.crimelibrary.com) No mother should

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Bred
  • Causes of the American Civil War

    Causes of the American Civil War

    Four years of American bloodshed on American soil. Why? The reasons are varied. From the formation of America to 1860, the people in this country were divided. This division was a result of location and personal sentiments. Peace could not continue in a country filled with quarrels that affected the common American. There is a common misconception that the American Civil War was fought only over slavery, when in fact there were several other reasons

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    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Vika
  • The American Revolution: A Middle Class Movement

    The American Revolution: A Middle Class Movement

    The American Revolution: A Middle Class Movement Revolutions are generally defined by certain causes and results stemming from discontent in the governed people. Among these outcomes are change in the political, social and economic order of society. In the American Revolution, however, not all of these areas of the nation were altered in a way conducive with a true Revolution. The government was overthrown and a democracy was formed. Nevertheless, no large variance was apparent

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    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Today’s American Dream

    Today’s American Dream

    In today's world I believe the American dream has drastically changed from before. It used to be about finding prosperity and having a family but now it's only about enjoying life's guilty pleasures and slanders. The American dream contains the elements family, owning your own home, having a car, having a good job, freedom, respect, and money. I will now rank each element of the American dream to today's everyday life. Out of the list

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    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Jack
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    Creation versus evolution is probably one of the most highly debated and argued topics all over the world. This subject alone has divided families, churches, and nations asking this one question: is there an intelligent creator that made everything and everyone, or did everything come to be out of random chance? So the question comes to be, is there a God? First we need to establish what creation and evolution are. Creationism is the theory

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Jon

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