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  • Making Asian American Space Recording

    Making Asian American Space Recording

    What motivates the musicians to play this music? The motivations that inspired the Mountain Brothers were at first just a desire to see if they could accomplish it, but soon turned into a way of life. A constant interest in hip-hop compelled them to enter into its arena and delve into its culture. The group formed during their years in college and first started as just a way to pass time but it soon turned

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    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Jack
  • American Criticism

    American Criticism

    "Under presidents like Wilson, Roosevelt and Kennedy, this country had admirers across the planet. It is now in danger of losing that resource." The United States of America has always been the most powerful nation in the world, but it gradually loses its respect and power all over the world. There are many different reasons why this happens and I want to consider this situation in the past and as well in the present. Then

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    Essay Length: 797 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Vika
  • American Dreams

    American Dreams

    The American Dream is different for everyone, though it is most commonly associated with success, freedom, and happiness. The concept of the American Dream seems to have dwindled from where it was in the past few generations. It has gone from success, freedom, and happiness to having lots of money and the nicest possessions. It has been said that Americans are no longer trying to keep up with the Joneses, and instead looking at celebrities

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    Essay Length: 2,370 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Jessica
  • American Literature

    American Literature

    American Literature This Boys Life In the beginning of the novel you find Toby and his mother on their way to Utah to start a new life mining uranium ore. On their way they have to stop while the car is overheated and they spot a large truck going over the guardrail and into a river gorge. They are on there way to Utah because Toby’s mother wants to return to the type of lifestyle

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    Essay Length: 675 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Top
  • Norman Rockwell’s World: An American Dream

    Norman Rockwell’s World: An American Dream

    Norman Rockwell’s World: An American Dream. A dreamer indeed, Norman Rockwell paintings portray American life at its best. Born in New York City in 1894 back when horse and buggy was the main transportation, along with the trolleys that filled the streets. Fun in those days was simple, a picnic in the park, play baseball in the street, or shoot marbles. His heroes when he was a kid were all illustrators. When Norman Rockwell

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Jon
  • North American Free Trade Agreement

    North American Free Trade Agreement

    Gregory Gonzalez Professor Montelongo University 1301 04-17-08 NAFTA On the 1st of January 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. It eliminated all the major tariffs amongst the countries , of the United States, Canada and Mexico. It has been considered positive by all the major outcomes, but nobody takes in consideration what is really happening. Mexico being our brother country is being negatively impacting its resources, land, and people .

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Jack
  • Pearl Harbor, the American Perspective

    Pearl Harbor, the American Perspective

    About, sixty three years ago on a large naval base in a small state named Hawaii the United States of America was secretly attacked by the Japanese. Today, this dramatic event is known as Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is credited for pushing the United States into World War Two. Usually, the American public lacks a detailed knowledge of Pearl Harbor. The Japanese way of life attributed to the way that they attacked the United States.

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Mtv - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Mtv - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    MTV: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly It would be hard for one to dispute the fact that MTV has influenced every pop culture trend since its birth in 1981. One could even say that MTV is pop culture. No other media network holds in the palm of its hand the power to control popular cultural evolution the way MTV does. What other media network has influenced and helped shape public opinion, filmmaking, newsgathering

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    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Contrasting Curing Processes of the Ju/'hoansi and American Doctors

    The Contrasting Curing Processes of the Ju/'hoansi and American Doctors

    Compare and Contrast: The Ju/’hoansi who live in the Northwestern Kalahari Desert make a by hunting and gathering, killing antelope, rabbits, squirrels and gathering mongango nuts and fruits. When originally studied by Richard Lee in the 1960’s, the Ju/’hoansi also traded, exchanging food and goods with the nearby villages. They had developed a sharing system where the food brought back to the village was distributed to all so no one would go hungry. But not

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    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Influence of Realism and Naturalism on 20th Century American Fiction

    The Influence of Realism and Naturalism on 20th Century American Fiction

    The Influence of Realism and Naturalism on 20th Century American Fiction After World War I, American people and the authors among them were left disillusioned by the effects that war had on their society. America needed a literature that would explain what had happened and what was happening to their society. American writers turned to what is now known as modernism. The influence of 19th Century realism and naturalism and their truthful representation of American

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    Essay Length: 2,173 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Janna
  • The American Dream

    The American Dream

    John Thiel Mrs. Oliver English III Period 7 March 6, 2006 “The American Dream” Jay Gatsby, the main character in the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is many things but he is mostly one thing; he is the American dream. The American Dream is defined as “the faith held by many in the United States of America that through hard work, courage, and determination one can achieve financial prosperity” (American). Gatsby believes that if

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    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: July
  • Was the American Civil War Inevitable?

    Was the American Civil War Inevitable?

    Was the American civil war inevitable? The civil war was inevitable, only however, after one key event; the cotton gin made the civil war inevitable. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 was the key element which enabled the south to have sufficient vested interest in their traditional lifestyle in order to feel the need to defend it at all costs even from their Northern countrymen. The core argument of this essay centres around

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    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Steve
  • American Fashion Returns to the Classics

    American Fashion Returns to the Classics

    American fashion returns to the classics 4th March 2005 Preppy, the classic American fashion that defined the 1980s, has become the look for spring 2005. Trend-right dressing will include turned-up collars, argyle socks, layered polos...and, of course, penny loafers. Bass introduced the first penny loafer in 1936, naming it the "Weejun" after its Norwegian origin. The style quickly became an American classic. Penny loafers evolved into a symbol of "cool" in the 1950's and 60's,

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    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • American Gothic

    American Gothic

    In this century, the progress of the camera has definitely changed our perception of the American Gothic’s horror facet. In fact, the directors and producers could optimize the lights and sounds of their movies with more ease so they could reflect the author’s main thoughts and ideas. However, it is much harder to interpret words into a movie, and the length of a movie can sadly affect the books little details, which makes it so

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    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Kevin
  • American Identity Before the Revolution

    American Identity Before the Revolution

    American Identity before the Revolution Before 1765 if someone had told Great Britain that the colonies would revolt they would probably have been labeled as crazy. The American colonies were well known for squabbling amongst each other about land, religion, representation, and ethnic issues. Britain, who was busy with the French and Indian war, treated the colonies with salutary neglect allowing them to thrive economically, a situation that the colonists found ideal. But after

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    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Edward
  • African American Identity

    African American Identity

    African American Identity It was a hot August day as sweat beat down on Thomas Jefferson Brown. He had been working in the field 2 hours before the hot sun had made its presence known. He looked back over the drying field, hoping that this crop would provide for his family better than last years crop had. Thomas watched his oldest son, Nathan, who worked down one row of the field while staring intently at

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    Submitted: April 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Change to Be American

    Change to Be American

    Erika Fletcher 4/28/05 Period 7 The Change to be American The Melting Pot is a short story written by Anna Quidlen. Seventh Grade is written by Gary Soto. The Melting Pot is about a neighborhood of people, all in different cultures fitting together as one culture. Seventh Grade is about Latino boys and girls fitting into American culture, and trying to forget their own culture. Although the Melting Pot and Seventh Grade are different scenarios

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    Submitted: April 3, 2010 By: David
  • American History X

    American History X

    J.R.R. Tolkien led an interesting life because he had many traumatizing experiences as a child. Did these experiences effect his writing or was he just an imaginative adult or was he a child in a grown mans body? That is what we are going to explore in this paper. By the time I am done you will believe that this man was a traumatized child. The many experiences that he had during long his life

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    Submitted: April 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Sexual Violence Against African-American Women: Beyond Slavery, Beyond the Physical

    Sexual Violence Against African-American Women: Beyond Slavery, Beyond the Physical

    The Civil War literally changed the “landscape” of America overnight. At least 600,000 men, both Union and Confederate, never returned to their families. Five years of separation forced the North and South to live as “one”. In theory, slaves became freedmen and equal to their white counterparts. Post-bellum America was difficult for everyone, but it was the South who endured the most hardship. Southern Democrats were now at the mercy of Northern Republicans, forced to

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War Introduction The beginning of the Civil War cannot be linked to only one reason; some causes were centuries in the making, while others were relatively new happenings, but put together, they all changed a country before considered "one component" and divided it into two opposing parties. The Southern states wanted to become an independent nation, divided from the North altogether since there were deep economic, social and political differences between both

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Native American’s in the Agricultural Core

    Native American’s in the Agricultural Core

    Introduction The Native Americans living in the North American Agricultural Core within the boundaries of the state of Michigan have helped to define much of the human geography we observe daily. These natives have influenced everything from state and animal names to jewelry and clothes. However, the original people of this state have changed greatly in a short time span due to contact with European settlers. These new people not only changed the way the

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    Submitted: April 5, 2010 By: Jon
  • American History X

    American History X

    American History X “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. These are the last words of a movie that illustrates why hate has no place in the world.” Danny Vinyard, American History X. In the movie

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    Submitted: April 5, 2010 By: Yan
  • Dark Side of the American Meal

    Dark Side of the American Meal

    Cark N. Karcher was one of the founding fathers of the fast food industry. In 1937 Carl moved to Anaheim, California because his uncle offered him a job out there. So from the farm boy life Carl moved to Anaheim, which was still a small farming community. Carl worked for his uncle, Ben, at his feed store for a few years, then he met his future wife, Margaret Heinz. Carl retured briefly to Ohio but

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    Submitted: April 5, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself," said American actor Harvey Fierstein. Thus, a person determines what his or her future may hold. In one of her best novels, a young woman author writes about a character that resembles this demeanor. The character in this novel finds her purpose in life through three different situations she encounters. In Hurston's

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    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Jessica
  • American Workers: Fighting for Their Lives

    American Workers: Fighting for Their Lives

    American Workers: Fighting for Their Lives What if you went into work one morning to find out your plant was being closed and the work was being sent overseas to a foreign country? What if you were then told for the next 30 days you would train the person who would be taking your job? Outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries is something most of us have heard about but are now starting to see

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    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Janna

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