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American Essays and Term Papers
Edgar Allen PoeShort Story Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As ...
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Atomic BombThe ended a war of massive death and destruction, but began an age exercising the same principles: the Atomic Age. At the time of the disasters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bomb appeared as a promise of peace to the entire world. It had ended a costly and gruesome war, beginning a time of ...
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The John Scopes TrialJuly of 1925 saw the most celebrated American battle between creation and evolution: the Scopes “Monkey” Trial. The defendant, John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Although the penalty was small (a $100 fine paid by ...
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Francis Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important
American writers of his time. He wrote about the troubling time period in which
he lived known as the Jazz Age. During this era people were either rich or
dreamt of great wealth. Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be ...
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Legislating SexualityOn September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of
Marriage Act, a bill proposed by Republican Bob Barr of Georgia in order to
prohibit the marriage of gay and lesbian couples.(CWA) Although this bill
cannot be called "unconstitutional", by forbidding the marriage of ...
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Andy WarholThe American artist and filmmaker was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has been quite a bit of confusion as to where and when was born, but according to Andy's two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh. ...
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Popular Music RevolutionMusic has undergone many changes throughout and history and prehistory. These changes were always somehow connected to sociological movements at the time. Rock music evolved mostly out of a need by young people of the fifties to break away from so-cietal norms. America had just come out of the ...
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Violence And PornographyPornography -- Sex or Subordination?
In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged
by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young,
beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted
Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his
detention in various ...
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Capital Punishment And The Death Penaltyare very controversial issues
concerning modern times. Many people have different opinions about how a
criminal should be disciplined in the court of law, but there is no one right or
correct answer. Although, 80% of Americans are for the death penalty.
Presently, thirty-eight states have the ...
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Political Process Of Early 1800’sIn The early 1800’s, the political process took drastic changes. Before, it was only “the wealthy and aristocratic white males who had say in the election of our president” (D boals) but that soon changed. In this essay, I will address three major issues. The voting bracket, the process of ...
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The Importance Of Learning Your HeritageAmy Tan the author of " A Pair of Tickets " uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing on mother-daughter relationships, where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thorough American. In this story, the mother tries to convey their rich history and legacy to her ...
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Henry FordTo say that dilly-dallied around before finally establishing a serious car company would be invalid. The 40 year old man had been acquiring valuable knowledge regarding business, engines, management, and most importantly cars. Now it was time to take a leap of faith.
In 1903 the Ford Motor ...
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Should Marijuana Be Legalized For Medical Purposes??
Marijuana has been used extensively as a medical remedy for more than
five thousand years. In the early 1900s, medical usage of marijuana began to
decline with the advent of alternative drugs. Injectable opiates and synthetic
drugs such as aspirin and barbiturates began to replace marijuana as ...
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Do What You Want, Just As Long As They Say SoLiberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness – American society has prided itself on these norms since its establishment. Yet, time and again there arise movements that will insist that what we call “freedom” is simply a plot to suppress true intuition and beliefs. But what people all too often ...
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Thornton WilderDespite the three Pulitzer prizes awarded him, may
very well [have turned] out to be one of the few enduring writers of our
time...There have been countless other authors who in his day have been far
more "discussed." That was inevitable for a man who has neither hastened to
follow nor troubled ...
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CyberspaceThe Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming more popular among those who are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. The problem with this much information being accessible to this many people is that some of it is deemed ...
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Biography Of Robert FrostRobert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29,
1963, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time
winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often
associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical
dimensions ...
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Racism"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin but by the content of their character"
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
Ku Klux Klan. Neo Nazis. The Aryan Nations. The American Nazi Party. What are these groups? ...
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Abraham Lincolnwas a man who was best known for bolding standing against the difficult problems of his day. Issues such as slavery, negro social and political rights, and saving the Union in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln had many strength as well as flaws. He considered himself a ...
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