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poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

truly present itself as a state that truly marginalized such people. While California had always been a state, not unlike any othe...

years before, a clause in a bill brought into Parliament by the ministry had proposd to make the kings instructions laws in the co...

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

them that perhaps his words are not to be taken seriously, but could be regarded as jocular or parodying. Unlike the more straigh...

with little respect for or understanding of any other generation that did not share in the same advancements. Harv just thinks Ma...

to promote his ideas being a printer and prospering in his business, his actions also promoted his ideal for constant improvement ...

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

a positive political atmosphere for Gore to succeed him (Wattenberg 164). Clinton saw Gores defeat as being intrinsically tied to ...

period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...

of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...

The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...

During the Depression, people simply made do with what they had. There was little if any excess income in most families, and peop...

and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....

are occasionally updated, which means the activist is still under secret surveillance. Considering the culture of fear in which Am...

area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...

the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...

Civil War. It was originally planned that Lincoln would be kidnapped and used for ransom to set Confederate soldiers free so that ...