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  • 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
  • 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
  • Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature Should Always Remain True to the Details of the Original Novel.

    Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature Should Always Remain True to the Details of the Original Novel.

    There are many issues involved with adapting a classic novel for the small screen, but probably the most important of these is the degree of loyalty the adaptation should make with the original novel. For a director it is almost impossible to remain perfectly loyal to the novel. For instance,around the time of the first director, David Lean, filmmaking had not advanced to such a stage for it to be possible to, as shown in

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: July
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Love for American Football

    The Love for American Football

    Someone who is from another country like yourself, may believe that life in the United States is very diverse from life anywhere else. Countless people from other countries have a completely distorted image of how we may live here in America and the mentalities that we all possess. Not all of us are spoiled, overweight, or are obsessed with football. All of us are completely different for the most part, and are actually concerned about

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Yan
  • Eminem: An American Icon, Is He? or Is He Not?

    Eminem: An American Icon, Is He? or Is He Not?

    WRITTEN BY BRADIS MCGRIFF!!!DO NOT COPY MY PAPER JUST USE IT 4 RESEARCH!!!! April 3, 2007 History 196m Prof Gus Lease Eminem: an American Icon, is he? Or is he not? Eminem is one of the most if not the most talented rap artist to ever step up to the microphone. Although he may be one of the most talented rappers to ever perform, he is also one of the most controversial. Teenagers and young

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Vika
  • What Is an American Citizen?

    What Is an American Citizen?

    "What is an American Citizen?" By definition, an American Citizen is a person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization the protection of the United States. American Citizens are entitled to vote and enjoy many rights and privileges of the United States (1-p.263). When I think of what it means to be an American Citizen, I think of freedom. America is known as the land of opportunity for its freedom. Freedom is

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Controversy on Eugenics in the American Culture

    The Controversy on Eugenics in the American Culture

    Heredity improvement by genetic control. Why would people want to control heredity? What exactly is genetic control? These are some things that people have been questioning for decades. Eugenics can not be ignored because it is suddenly coming up everywhere. People are experimenting and taking huge risks not to their knowledge. At one point in time it was said that eugenics could change the world for the better. That is how some people could look

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Artur
  • American History X

    American History X

    July 11, 2008 Movie Review –American History X United States, 1998 Running Length: 1:57 Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo, Avery Brooks, Stacy Keach, Fariuza Balk, Jennifer Lien, Elliot Gould, Guy Torry, Ethan Suplee and William Russ Director: Tony Kaye Rated: R (Profanity, violence, sex) American History X directed by Tony Kaye is a well known phenomenon and considered to be a movie that everyone is bound to see. The most important feature when

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: regina
  • American Revoultuion

    American Revoultuion

    The American Revolution occurred because of Great Britain's failure to adjust to conditions brought on by the growth and development of the colonies, and by the aggravation of a breakdown in the political and economic harmony that existed between the colonies and their mother country. America was a revolution force from the day of its discovery. The American Revolution was not the same thing as the American War of Independence. The war itself lasted only

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Anna
  • American Imperialism

    American Imperialism

    American Imperialism 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 has been many instances where the Americans have taken over other people countries, almost every time we go into we have taken over a new piece of land. The Americas first taste

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: July
  • Literature Review of Graphic Organizers

    Literature Review of Graphic Organizers

    Literature Review Numerous studies confirm the benefits of using graphic organizers in the classroom in terms of helping students develop and process information. The mere fact this is a method that has been backed by such a strong body of evidence has imbued me with confidence that this intervention will yield positive results. Graphic organizers are a way to help students "grapple with core ideas of the content and develop sophisticated relational understandings of it"

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Vika
  • Native Americans

    Native Americans

    LONG BEFORE the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living on this land. When the Europeans came here, there were probably 10 million Indians north of present-day Mexico and they had been living here for quite some time. It is believed by many anthropologists and archaeologists that the first people arrived during the last ice-age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago, crossing the land-bridge

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Victor

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