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  • 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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    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
  • 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
  • Americanism

    Americanism

    Our country, The United States of America, bases its self, on our eclectic mix of races. These variations are what makes us American. Although, we are very patriotic, many other country's view our impurities as handicaps. As metals can be mixed and combined to create new metallic substances that are entirely unique,similarly, we are manufactured using multiple races,that, when combined, produce a new "alloy" of human; the American. Not only do we retain our own

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Jon
  • Christianity and the American Revolutionary War

    Christianity and the American Revolutionary War

    Christianity and the American Revolutionary War Harry Stout points out in the lead article, How Preachers Incited Revolution, "it was Protestant clergy who propelled colonists toward independence and who theologically justified war with Britain" (n.pag). According to Cassandra Niemczyk in her article in this issue of Christian History "(the Protestant Clergy) were known as "the Black Regiment" (n.pag). Furthermore, as the article Holy Passion for Liberty shows, "Americans were quick to discern the hand

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Differences in American Colonies

    Differences in American Colonies

    The Thirteen Colonies of America were all founded by England in the 17th century. However, the origins, beliefs, economies and governments of these colonies are as varied and diverse as America itself. The Northern Colonies of New England and the Southern Colonies were the most prolific of the New World and were very different in most cases. The New England colonies to the north and the southern colonies were vastly different in their economies. The

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Bred
  • Robin Williams: Living the American Dream

    Robin Williams: Living the American Dream

    Robin Williams: Living the American Dream Americans are blessed with the freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Each person is entitled to pursue the true dreams and desires of his or her heart. These individualized opportunities are often referred to as the American Dream. Difficulties frequently arise on the journey to one’s dream. One must find a way to conquer these struggles to make his or her dream a reality. Through comedy

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • African-American Vs Caucasian Views on Physical Image

    African-American Vs Caucasian Views on Physical Image

    Kim Jalm African-American vs Caucasian Views on Physical Image The days of male domination are over; women are now becoming a strong majority in the United States of America. Women of all ethnicities are becoming active members of the political, the business, the medical, and the architectural world. Women are claiming the executive positions in companies, but there is still a demon that haunts a majority of women: self and physical image. This essay is

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • An Introduction to the Spanish American War of 1898

    An Introduction to the Spanish American War of 1898

    An Introduction to the Spanish American War of 1898 The sparking of warfare between two or more parties that tend to clash with each other upon the pretext of a particular contention in possible concern to racial, political or national ideological is something that the world has experienced frequently over the course of written history. More often than not, moreover, these wars have come to a grudging end as a result of the signing of

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Leading North-American Telecommunications Solution Provider

    Leading North-American Telecommunications Solution Provider

    Case Study 1 The customer A leading North-American Telecommunications Solution Provider. The challenge The customer has to provide an ISUP - Loop Around based wireless pre-paid solution to a large cellular service provider in North America. This wireless pre-paid solution is a suite of services that enable a mobile subscriber to pay in advance for a class of cellular service. This service, provides the flexibility to service providers to tap different types of user markets

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • American Republican Ideology

    American Republican Ideology

    The republican ideology is a facet of the social fabric of the colonial citizens of America that may, arguably, have had the greatest affect on the struggle for independence and the formation of a constitutional form of government in the United States. The birth of the republican ideology, while impossible to place an exact date on, or even month, can be traced back more than a decade before the Revolutionary War. It can also be

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Wendy

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