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Fourth Of July Born On The Fourth War
781 words
American intervention in Vietnam began with a
generation of boys born to the veterans of the
second World War. Boys who lived in the afterglow
and dreamed of the glory. Patriotism was thick in
a country who came out of the second great war
stronger than it had entered. We were unbeatable.
America had survived to continue its fight against
injustice and for liberty. The new fight was
against communism. The war might never have taken
place had the United States aided Ho Chi Minh in
the fight to li...
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Federal Troops Labor Force
1,042 words
Everything seemed so perfect. Pullman, Illinois
was a company town on the outskirts of Chicago,
founded in 1880 by George Pullman, president of
the railroad sleeping car company. Pullman
advertised his town as a model community that
included everything from parks to libraries and
was filled with satisfied, well paid workers. Each
resident worked for the Pullman company, which
manufactured railroad cars, and by 1894 it
operated "first class" sleeping cars on almost
every one of the nation's major...
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Revolution In Morals Perils Of Prosperity Book
650 words
Book Report The Perils of Prosperity by William
Leuchtenburg presents readers a picture of
American life during 1914 - 1932. This work is
interesting because of its artistic multi pronged
narration. Documental narration, which creates
element of reliability in combination with
unlimited fantasies, publicist ic and
philosophical reflections, deep psychoanalysis,
social conditionality of heroes, realistic
retrospective narration, irony of different kinds,
sarcasm and tragedy all this creates compo...
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Ku Klux Klan Klux Klan Kkk
254 words
The History Kkk KKK The History of the Ku Klux
Klan The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of Americas
oldest and most feared groups. Driven by the dream
of a world with only one master race, the KKK
often uses violence and moves above the law to
promote their cause. They didnt start of violent,
or to promote white supremacy. They have been in
the shadows for over 130 years and continue to
thrive in Americas society today. The Ku Klux Klan
began almost accidentally during the
reconstruction period after ...
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Family Team Families Americas
257 words
A family is a group of loved ones, bound by time
and common experience, and sometimes, it is a
legal and biological construct, meant to draw the
line between our official and unofficial
relationships. Most of have our own definition of
what a family is, even though it is usually based
on the same principles. In some ways, however,
these definitions are changing. Families are like
a team. Each individual family member brings
skill, personality, and role to the family team,
just as each sports pla...
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Notre Dame Football Notre Dame Team
720 words
Sperber, Murray, Shake Down the Thunder: The
Creation of Notre Dame Football. Henry Holt and
Company. New York, 1993, pp 634. This book is
excellent. The author not only cheers the team on
but also shows that the Fighting Irish can be a
team that many want to lose. He is very partisan
in the fact that he wishes for the reader to get
the whole story of the creation of a team that
would be a major factor in the history of
football. It is all about Americas ability to love
the team but also to hate...
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Hero Odysseus Ill Fated
286 words
The Odyssey is an epic adventure that involves a
great hero, mythical beasts, traitors and lovers
and above all, a journey of discovery. In this
lofty poem written by Homer, the Trojan war hero
Odysseus travels back to his home island of
Ithaca. During his 10 -year journey, he encounters
incredible adventures, including challenging the
one-eyed beast, the cyclops. This documentary
relates the story and links it to todays world of
heroes and far-flung journeys. Learn about a
modern interpretation...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Hip Hop Music
1,125 words
Hip-Hop Getting a Bad Rap Among many problems in
society today, rap music is being blamed for the
confusion of Americas youths. One key problem is
the way a child is raised. Not having a positive
role model can have a powerful effect on a child.
The other dilemma is the type of rap music.
Gangster rappers lyrics seem to corrupt and have a
negative image on a youths mind. Two possible
steps to taking the blame away from rap music is
by placing the spotlight on other influences such
as friends and...
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Laissez Faire Social Darwinism
1,485 words
Social Darwinism and Social Welfare in the United
States The interplay and relationship between
Social Darwinism and Social Welfare in the United
States typify the nations struggle to make the
best of a capitalist society, while at the same
time correcting pitfalls. Social Darwinism in our
capitalist society compares wealth with fitness,
but historically, unregulated markets given the
false sanction of natural law have proven out that
Darwinist economic competition has a destructive
side for soc...
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Guns Germs And Steel Germs And Steel Food
1,035 words
Why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so
much of the world? Or as Yale puts it in the far
beginning of the book, ? Why is it that you white
people developed so much cargo and brought it to
New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo
of our own? ? Despite all the contrary evidence
from anthropology and human biology, many persist
in attributing the differing political and
economic successes of the world? s peoples to
historical contingency. On the other hand though,
the author sees th...
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Herman Melville Moby Dick
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Herman Melville, An American Novelist Herman
Melville is widely regarded as one of Americas
greatest and most influential novelists; known
primarily as the author of Moby Dick. He belonged
to a group of eminent pre-Civil War
writers-American Romantics or members of the
American Renaissance-who created a new and
vigorous national literature. He is one of the
notable examples of an American author whose work
went largely unrecognized in his own time and died
in obscurity. He believed himself to be...
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Chinese Exclusion Act Anti Semitism
1,150 words
The Immigration Experience- Books related to The
Immigration Experience- The Immigration
Experience- They are our grandparents, our
relatives, our friends. They are the immigrants.
They came from all over the world for many
reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial
tension, but the largest reason for coming to
America was for freedom. The freedom to live where
we want, to own property, to take part in the
government and most importantly, the freedom to be
treated like a human being. Com...
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Late Nineteenth Century American Workers
553 words
America is thought of as an enormous pot where
many races and nationalities were blended into one
new nationality. This concept is known as the
melting pot. During Industrialization many new
immigrants were on their way out of Southern and
Eastern Europe due to over population and religous
persecution. Factors that made immigrants leave
their home countries were known as push factors.
Pull factors, or factors that lure immigrants into
a new country, were also at work. The prospect of
political a...
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Chinese Exclusion Act Anti Semitism
1,197 words
Immigrants came from all over the world for many
reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial
tension, but the largest reason for coming to
America was for freedom. The freedom to live where
we want, to own property, to take part in the
government and most importantly, the freedom to be
treated like a human being. (Groliers Online
Encyclopedia) Coming over was extremely difficult.
For some, there were good, seaworthy boats, but
most boats were overcrowded, dirty, and
disgusting. For Jews, ...
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Freedom And Equality Checks And Balances
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John Wise Sturgeon Honors World History: G 28
October 1995 Inferring Freedom and Equality Many
of Earths organisms and processes depend on each
other to survive the natural world. Jean Jacques
Rousseau employed this aspect of natural
dependency to connect the ideas of freedom and
equality together. Rousseau theorized many
ingenious ideas for an upcoming legitimate
government. The American Constitution and the
basis of this nations bureaucracy adopted many of
his opinions, along with John Locke a...
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Communications Decency Act Form Of Government
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Internet Censorship Young Jonathan was surfing the
Internet on his mom and dads personal computer
when he accidentally stumbled onto a website with
pornographic pictures. It just so happened that
his mother decided to walk in and call him for
dinner at this very moment. She is horrified at
what her eight year old son has found. The ease of
which a young person using the Internet can find
pornography has sparked serious debates over
censorship. On one side people see it as the
governments job to ...
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Billion Dollar Dollar Tax
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Jesus and the Anorexic Suicidal Supermodels The
family unit is one of the most cherished
institutions of American society. Its function is
one of philanthropy, to raise Americas children in
accordance with our accepted norms and various
proscriptions and prescriptions. However, rising
teenage pregnancy and juvenile crime seem to
indicate that the American family is not doing
this. Many Americans insist that a family is
capable of producing a productive citizen in every
instance and believe that ...
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John Muir Forest Lands
1,557 words
John Muir's Trail in History John Muir was a man
of great importance in the history of the United
States and in the preservation of its beauty. His
tireless efforts to protect natural wonders such
as Yosemite Valley demonstrated his undying love
for the outdoors. Muir took a stand against the
destructive side of civilization in a dauntless
battle to save Americas forest lands. The trail of
preservation that Muir left behind has given
countless numbers of people the opportunity to
experience natu...
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World War Ii President Roosevelt
783 words
In 1932, Americans realized that they had an
increasingly great financial problem on their
hands, and tried to correct it by centralizing
power. The President acquired so much power that
the nation almost became a communism, especially
with Roosevelt's introduction of the New Deal.
When Franklin Roosevelt became President of the
United States in 1933, the nation was in the
depths of the worst depression it had ever
experienced. President Roosevelt, a very energetic
and enthusiastic person, inspi...
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Form Of Punishment Deter Crime
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Americas prisons have been called " graduate
schools for crime. " It stands to reason:
Take a group of people, strip them of possessions
and privacy, expose them to constant threats of
violence, overcrowd their cell- block, deprive
them of meaningful work, and the result is an
embittered underclass more intent on getting even
with society than contributing to it. Prisons take
the nonviolent offender and make him live by
violence. They take the nonviolent offender and
make him a hardene...
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