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Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

Success Secrets According to Ben Franklin

In five pages the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is used to explore how the great American diplomat, businessman, and inventor...

Franklin and Crockett

man who could not be respected in some manner. In the case of Franklin one sees him, at a relatively early age, beginning to teach...

Money Compare Franklin and Bible

Some of Ben Franklin's wise words about money and specifically about lending it to friends is compared/contrasted with what the Bi...

W.W. Brown/Clotel

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser

review, said that he felt like a candle "beside the sun at noonday" when comparing his career to that of Hamilton (11). It is fr...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

US Exploration and the Influence of Thomas Jefferson

In five pages this paper discusses how US exploration was influenced by Thomas Jefferson's 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the subsequ...

Changes in the U.S. before and after Thomas Jefferson

This 8 page paper discusses the changes in the U.S. before, during and after the Jefferson presidency. Thomas Jefferson is arguabl...

Lewis and Clark Expedition and an Evaluation of Thomas Jefferson's Instructions

In eight pages this paper discusses the famous Lewis and Clark Pacific expedition in an evaluation of President Thomas Jefferson's...

Presidency of Thomas Jefferson and American History

This paper examines the impact of Thomas Jefferson's presidency upon the history of America in five pages . Six sources are cited...

Jeffersonian Democracy's Legacy and the U.S. Bill of Rights

In twenty pages this paper examines Thomas Jefferson's approach to democracy in a discussion of the intent and purpose of the Bill...

The Life and Political Career of Thomas Jefferson

This 8 page paper gives an overview of Thomas Jefferson's life, focusing on his political career. It also includes information abo...

Critical Measures Undertaken by US Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson

"The Senate concurred with this decision and voted ratification on Oct. 20, 1803. The Spanish, who had never given up physical po...

E. Pluribus Unum and Thomas Jefferson

In ten pages Thomas Jefferson's life and achievements are chronologically considered as is his E. Pluribus Unum role. There are 3...

The Presidency and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

and 1776, and there he would write the Declaration of Independence ("Thomas Jefferson," 2007). In 1786, he helped to author a bill...

Walter Benjamin, Historical Materialism and "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"

because of his insistence on seeing everything from the Marxist perspective. But perhaps most important in a discussion of the fi...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Thomas Jefferson's Virginia

(Jordan, 1988, PG). Jeffersons Virginia was one that saw the utility of party divisions. While differences in opinion in politi...

Slavery and Thomas Jefferson

a slave owner. Regardless of his commitment to democracy, such commitment did not extend to include slaves in that process. Vali...

'Just' Revolutionary War According to Thomas Jefferson

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...

Church and State Views of Thomas Jefferson

believe in freeing slaves, and he was "stuck" with their decision. The student may consider the fact that President Jeffer...

The Sometimes Contradictory Ideology of Thomas Jefferson

This paper assesses Jefferson's contributions and how they corresponded with his views on slavery and indigenous rights. There ar...

Problems of Government, Thomas Jefferson

their independence from the greatest military power in the world at that time, the idea of a democracy that considered sovereignty...

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

American Values, J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin

In six pages this paper examines how de Crevecoeur's Letters From an American Farmer and Franklin's Autobiography reveal the true ...

Jonathan Edwards' Narrative and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

In three pages Rev. Edwards' ecclesiastical focus is compared and contrasted with Franklin's individual focuses in their autobiogr...

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

In five pages the autobiography of this simple yet very complex man is discussed. One source is cited in the bibliography....