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American Immigration Theories

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Silence

who were in service to the aristocratic families came to define themselves through their identification with those families, to th...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

US Economy and the Role of Women

there simply werent enough men to keep the economy progressing at the rate necessary to keep supply consistent with demand. Becau...

US Public Education

in their efforts to educate all Americans without fear of financial loss or discrimination. History of Public Education Since the...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

American Ambivalence Regarding the Death Penalty

overpopulation. For a prisoner over the age of fifty-five years old, the upkeep can be as high as sixty thousand dollars per year...

Second U.S. President John Adams

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

American and Apache Wars

lived by hunting and fishing; they diversified into many different climatic regions and separated into a number of discrete societ...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

21st Century Transformation of the United States Army

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how technology has transformed the American army of the 21st century into a 'fighting machi...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

19th Century Latin America Involvement of Russia

The Latin American trading colonies established by Czarist Russia during the 19th century are examined in 10 pages with the impact...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

John Dower's Embracing Defeat

Postwar Japan's development as presented by John Dower in Embracing Defeat is examined in a paper consisting of five pages....

Worker of the Twenty First Century

On June 20, 2001 Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao asserted that "America needs a wake-up call about its workforce." Chao went on...

Cultural Anthropology and the Theories of Clifford Geertz

In a paper consisting of 9 pages this paper examines cultural development in an overview of the theories of Clifford Geertz....

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Development of Buddhism

in order to trade, with the understanding that China had many things that other parts of the world did not possess. It was also an...

Native American v Puritan Mindset

This paper reviews the seventeenth century accounts by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. Rowlandson was held captive by Native...

Engines and the Development of a Superpower

The new mode of transportation and the new roads it needed meant that people no longer had to live close to work, and suburbs deve...

Income Inequality and the American Dream: A Loss of Opportunities

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Howard Brick's critique of the American Dream and its inaccessibility in the 21st centur...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...