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  • 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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    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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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Steve
  • Comparing & Contrasting American & Japanese Marketing

    Comparing & Contrasting American & Japanese Marketing

    Competition in the business world is fierce and in order to survive companies must expand. “With the increasing globalization of markets, companies find they are unavoidably enmeshed with foreign customers, competitors, and suppliers, even within their own borders,” (Cateora-Graham, 2007). One way in which many companies have done this is by going global. International marketing, although more prominent than ever before, is still a difficult arena for marketers to master. Although religion and culture are

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Old Bailey and Comparative British and American Constitutional Law

    The Old Bailey and Comparative British and American Constitutional Law

    The Old Bailey and Comparative British and American Constitutional Law The Old Bailey, also known as the Central Criminal Court, houses London's high criminal courts. Within the walls of this court located near St. Paul's cathedral many cases including murder charges, drug charges, grand theft charges, and other high criminal offences are heard. Juries of twelve sit and listen along with at least one presiding judge to the cases argued by barristers. The public galleries,

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Japanese School Systems Vs. American

    Japanese School Systems Vs. American

    Japanese School Systems vs. American For years, people have always felt that the Japanese school system was superior or more effective than that of the United States. Although some feel this way, others feel that the Japanese system is too strict and not flexible enough for those who may need extra help along the way. Through researching two different case studies, and also reading other materials, I have found many similarities along with many differences

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Andrew
  • American Foreign Policy 1945-2005

    American Foreign Policy 1945-2005

    Once the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, it was clear that the U.S. was a major force in international affairs. Since that time, the U.S. has had some successes and some failures in its international affairs. Following World War II, the U.S. was in constant struggles against the communist nation of the USSR. Our first major success against the Soviet Union was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Had

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Why Should Americans Exercise Their Right to Vote?

    Why Should Americans Exercise Their Right to Vote?

    “Why should Americans exercise their right to vote?” Why should we vote? Is it really worth our time? The answer is “YES”. People say that one vote won’t change the outcome, but take a look at Florida! Right now, the election of our president is in the people of Florida’s hands. [Your] one vote is very important. Many people take voting for granted. You see? By voting, here in Oklahoma, we are really choosing eight

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Monika
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    This paper will prove that the American Dream can best be explained as a city upon a hill, meaning being above and superior over those below. The Civil War, the imperialistic race of the 19th century, the Korean War, the KKK, and the Gulf War are all examples of the American Dream of superiority playing a part in American History. Americans all have a different idea of this superiority, but nonetheless strive to achieve it,

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Secular, Conservative, American Jew

    Secular, Conservative, American Jew

    My Religion My definition of religion is likely different than that of most of the students at _________ _______. This is not only because I grew up with different experiences but because I am a secular, conservative, American Jew. The difference between a conservative Jew and other Jews is that we believe in the binding nature of Jewish law but believe that the law can change, while others believe that Jewish law comes from G-d

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    Essay Length: 860 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • American Pop Art

    American Pop Art

    Examine the mass media’s influence on both the formal and iconographic features of American Pop Art. Centre your discussion on one or two examples each of the work of the following artists: Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist. Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from mass culture such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Anna
  • A Note on the Cuban Cigar Industry

    A Note on the Cuban Cigar Industry

    Even for the uneducated cigar smoker, Cuban cigars are known as the upper echelon of style and class. They have a distinct taste and feel and are considered by some as containing the world’s best tobacco. Cuba’s land is possibly the ideal place to grow the most tempting cigar tobacco in the world. Though other countries are making very similar cigars, Cuba’s mystique still has a strong hold over cigar aficionados worldwide. Given the current

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • Book Review - the Americans

    Book Review - the Americans

    AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK OVERVIEW: THE AMERICANS INSTRUCTIONS: The following questionnaire is designed to help you become familiar with your American History textbook. Any knowledge that you gain about your textbook will help you to use your textbook more effectively. 1. PARTS OF THE BOOK A. On what page will you find a list of the U. S. Presidents? B. What is the title of the Chapter that begins on page 460? C. Of what unit

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Steve
  • American Tragedy: The Kennedy Assassination

    American Tragedy: The Kennedy Assassination

    "American Tragedy: The Kennedy Assassination" Where were you November 22, 1963? Any and every American old enough to mourn, to feel sorrow remember where they were and what they were doing when they received the news that President John F. Kennedy had been murdered. My mother was only three and she remembers the day. She was in the living room of her childhood home when a weeping neighbor called my Grandmother and broke the news.

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jack
  • Americanization in the Jazz Singer

    Americanization in the Jazz Singer

    In the film, The Jazz Singer, the protagonist, Jakie Rabinowitz, goes through a major character change in becoming Americanized. That is, in leaving his family's Jewish faith, he adopts the attitude and culture of the American way of life. However, there are many phases and steps he takes in doing this along the way. The first signs are the feud between Jakie and his father and goes as far as his name changing and meeting

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Kevin
  • American Dream in the Great Gatsby

    American Dream in the Great Gatsby

    th of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The American Dream embodies the belief that each person can succeed in life on the basis of his own skills and effort. This idea awakes and develops during the 18th and 19th centuries - a period of fast development in the United States. The issues of growth, progress and money become a major theme in American society, which is why Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Yan

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