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The 1960s: My Lai, Lt. Calley, Draft Resistance and Change

supposed to simply believe the reasons given for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thi...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

George Washington: Heroic, Flawed, and Human

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

Performance of the Bank of America

decrease from 28.4% in 2007 down to 5.51% in 2008. However, it does appear that the bank is returning to a more profitable positi...

The Relevance of Whitney's Cotton Gin

made life easier. Prior to the invention, one person might spend an entire day picking the seeds out of a pound of cotton (Yanak &...

The Impact of Fidel Castro on the Politics of Latin America

inevitable that the Cuban revolution should become a communist one" ("Heroic Myth and Prosaic Failure"). The Mexican Revolution th...

Rayovac Corporation - The Rechargeable Battery Opportunity

also carried risks. Opportunities for Rayovac There was a broad and growing need and demand for batteries throughout Canada...

U.S. Church and State Relationship

2006). The statement is attributed to the father of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, who feared that if such a ...

Illiteracy in America

out before they learn to read and write are girls" (1). Finally, discrimination regarding race also enters the picture. The effec...

The Edge of Disaster

in the effort to make the nation more secure is the private sector, but it has not done so (2007). Instead, the government has tak...

Creating the American Character

p. v). Through Franklins writing, such as the homey advice of Poor Richards Almanac and also through his autobiography--through hi...

Culture and Religion in Conflict in Early America

2008). "Wherever the Dutch settled, as in the Hudson River Valley, the Dutch Reformed Church predominated ... German Reformed and ...

Slavery in Two Worlds

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

Virgin America Airlines

airline is not getting off the ground so to speak on its own. In fact, there have been allegations that the airline simply is not ...

Daily Life during the Seven Years War in North America

going in different directions. I suspect we brought much of the prejudice with us from England. But there is no denying that the "...

The Expansion of Tesco into the United States

they have adopted a more modest approach with the use of small neighbourhood stores called Fresh &Easy, focusing on California, th...

History of Weaponry in the United States

an increasingly common part of the archaeological record after 1600" (Of Stone and Stories: Pueblitos of Dinetah, 2009). They were...

Freedom From British Rule and the Contributions of Paine and Jefferson

by the American readership who was eager to see a new direction forged in the colonies (Baym, Franklin, Gura, 630). Paine saw the...

Obama's Dreams from my father

were tears running done the cheeks of many Americans, and even those who voted against him. They were touched by the fact that an ...

Writing Back to the World

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

Anzia Yezierska and Her Novel Bread Givers

no problem taking their wages to support himself, even as the rest of the family scrimps and saves and slips further into poverty....

Walmart Good or Bad?

better than a sweatshop with no benefits, low pay and conditions that lead to depression? It appears that there may be some truth ...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

The Trial of Tom Robinson: America in the 1930s

in Scottsboro, Alabama (Champion). In these proceedings, nine black men were accused of raping two white women; both groups had be...

Sexism in America Today

those of men. Moreover, the gender pay gap widens as educational attainment increases: women earn 81% of mens wages at compulsory ...

Divorce, Pro and Con

commentators have pointed out that research studies indicate that after a generation or so of experimentation with "all manner of...

Big Media and the End of Democracy

of indoctrination and brainwashing in place. Radio, newspapers, movies, and all other forms of media were carefully monitored by t...

The Mass Media and Democracy

notion that others are superior to them, and that politicians know what they are doing. Then, the general public does not care abo...