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American Presidential Scandals

In four pages this overview of American President scandals includes the 'Teapot Dome' scandal of Warren G. Harding, James S. Clark...

American Historian Richard Hofstadter

In nine pages this paper examines Anti Intellectualism in the United States and Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter in a considera...

American Warfare

In four pages this paper examines the period from the American Revolution to the Cold War to examine how America's style of warfar...

Public Space Function of the American Street

In five pages this paper discusses the evolving function of the American street as a public space and considers how it may not aga...

1865 to 1940 American Life and Government's Role

In four pages this paper considers American government's role in terms of action and transitioning. Two sources are cited in the ...

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Colonization and Effects on Native Americans

In four pages this paper contrasts sixteenth and seventeenth colonization of Portugal and Spain as opposed to Holland, England, an...

The Founding of Virginia, Captain John Smith, and the American Genesis

In four pages this paper focuses upon Alden T. Vaughn's text and analyzes the depiction of Native Americans, Captain John Smith, a...

Myth of the American Dream

In three pages this paper discusses how consumerism is propelled by the American Dream myth. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...

Souring of 'the American Dream'

In two pages this paper examines the souring of the American Dream in a consideration of wages, educational access, and financial ...

The American Dream and Its Contemporary Meaning

In four pages the past and present meanings of the American Dream are examined. There is no bibliography included....

Los Angeles and the American Dream

In a paper that consists of five pages the growth of the suburbs that has become so representative of the American Dream of home, ...

Carlos Bulosan and the American Dream

xenophobic and violent, rank with discrimination and hatred for those who were different; Bulosan endured "several years of racist...

Maggie’s American Dream by James Comer

the story talks of how Maggie was a determined young woman and how she actually became financially stable enough, even during the ...

American Culture in the 1920s

won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...

Early Accounts of American Colonial Life

have long been "possessed" by adventurers, as this act would eternalize "the memory of those that effected it" (Smith). As this su...

B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

Death of a Salesman and the American Dream

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

Historical Development Of The American Higher Education

for a serviceman - or woman - who spent the last several years entrenched in blood and battle, however, were dead-end, blue-collar...

President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Cause & Effect/Sexism

children (Briffault, 1927, p. 1415). This was the rule across Europe until the coming of Christianity and patriarchy. Patriarcha...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

Schlesinger's "The American As Reformer"

the American Dilemma was Jeffersons vacillating indecisiveness when it came time to act upon his previous condemnation; as such, t...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

The American Influence on Saudi Arabia

very different than what American women are used to experiencing. Hence, there had been a fear of Americans because of their liber...

Have American Eating Habits Improved Since the 1950s?

In a paper consisting of six pages the ways in which America's habits of eating from the 1950s until more healthier present day ch...

Health Issues of African Americans in Modern Times

In this paper consisting of 5 pages, belief systems, specific health-care issues/problems and work hazards are discussed. There i...

American Religious Freedom and the Puritans

In five pages this paper examines the Puritans in America and how the concept of religious freedom as a double standard. Four sou...

Christopher Columbus's Views of Native Americans

In three pages this paper examines Columbus's perspectives of Native Americans and the indigenous genocide that resulted from his ...