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Music of Mississippi John Hurt

December 21, 1928, was by far the most productive, as Hurt cut three spirituals and five blues works during this session (Obrecht)...

USA PATRIOT ACT, PRIVACY RIGHTS AND AMERICA’S STATUTORY AUTHORITY

really doing anything about it. Certainly, Sales notes, information sharing means intelligence members can do a better job of conn...

Police and Society During the Sixties and Seventies

or another. As people began to question the integrity of their own government during this time period the propensity for possessi...

1960s' Television and the Star Trek Series

was signed by some of the greatest names in science fiction, such as Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon (1966: St...

Policy Implications of the Film Cool Hand Luke

for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

London's 'Swingin' Sixties'

womens opportunities were quite limited. Secondly, the miniskirt also made the suggestion that the newer generation were not goi...

America's Involvement in the First World War

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

Transformation Decade of 'The Sixties'

In four pages this paper examines the major changes the United States underwent during the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. There ...

1960s and 1970s' Women's Rights Movement

a kind of focus for the Feminist Movement that rejected the concept of femininity and the separation of men and women in the famil...

Solving America's Prison Problems

deterrent because the electronic monitoring devices place the criminals at crime scenes that practically guarantee a conviction (Y...

A Review of Walker's "Hollywood UK"

steps back. Critics have largely agreed on the substandard quality of British cinema in the years immediately following World War ...

The Rights of Women Seen in the Decisions of the Supreme Court

Second World War, the ongoing reluctance was seen, in the case of Tileston v Ullman 318 US 44 (1943) a doctor brought a case on be...

Effects of 1960s Women's Movement

today for young women, which includes access to any public format and choice of profession, is because of the success of the Women...

America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani

it seemed that civilization was merely an illusion, one man stood up to lead a terrified city and frightened nation back to some s...

America's Clash with the Rest of the World

For much of our history the US has regarded itself as being exceptional to one extent or another...

America's Top Ice Cream Shop

in 1967, Baskin-Robbins went through some other owners. It was finally purchased by Allied Domecq that included Dunkin Donuts, Tog...

THE BLACK HISTORY OF AMERICA’S WHITE HOUSE

white house, to the slaves that actually built it, through generations of servants, aids, activists who worked there, all the way...

THE 1960S AND INFLUENCE ON TODAY

consequences, especially in my family. In my parents generation, the woman became "of age," married, and had a family. The man, on...

Aging and Death/America's Fear

consequently death was much more familiar, as it occurred regularly within the scope of daily life. Just a century ago, the averag...

1960s Candidates for Presdent, an Overview

disease, prejudice and ignorance. He asked for a sacrifice in helping him stop the Communist system from taking over the world wit...

A Tall Tale by a Member of the 1960s' Counterrevolution

might inspire Ginsberg to write a sequel to "Howl" and dedicate it to me, but he never did. In 1961, when I was 15, I got a handw...

1960s' Memphis: Labor, Race, and Gender

mentality" that characterized the American South from its earliest days through the Civil War and beyond (Green 467). As the arti...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

Canada's English and French Media Coverage of America's "Secure Flight" Program

with certain distinctive trends developing. In his article entitled "Privacy vs. Security: U.S. Wants Names of Canadian Air Pa...

Nervous Condition by Tsitsi Dangarembga

aunt, the younger sister of her mother, Mainini, is the only woman of her generation who is portrayed as having her own voice, as ...

America's Move to the West

This paper explores our country's westward expansion, the factors that inspired it, and the positive and negative impacts related ...

America's 'Lost Generation' in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Ernest Hemingway portrayed the group of US expatriates author Gertrude Stein described ...

McCaffrey and Female Self-Actualization

This paper examines how Anne McCaffrey's 1968 literary work, Dragonfight, deals with female empowerment and self-actualization dur...

Polyester Fabric

the longevity of any article, be it clothing or cars. According to Callahan (1993) it was not until the flamboyant Sixties when f...