American Doctrine Essays and Term Papers

Confederate States Of America

, the name adopted by the federation of 11 slave holding Southern states of the United States that seceded from the Union and were arrayed against the national government during the American Civil War. Immediately after confirmation of the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, the legislature ...

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The Death And Dying Beliefs Of Australian Aborigines

Although the Aborigines are often classified as a primitive race whose religion is based upon animism and totemism like the American Indians, the Aboriginal funeral practices and beliefs about death have much in common with other cultures. This paper will discuss the death and dying beliefs of ...

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Using The Student Study Sheets In The Classroom

The study sheets exploring political, religious, social, intellectual, and personal freedom can be printed out and distributed to students. (Study sheets are provided on PBS ONLINE courtesy of General Motors.) When using the study sheets in conjunction with the series Thomas Jefferson (PBS ...

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The Nomination OfAndrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"

Like any hall of fame, its inductees are the best in whatever they do, from baseball or football to something like being President. If you are a member of any hall of fame (including the one for the Presidents), it means that you have done something special or have a certain quality about ...

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McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt

While the United States was fighting the Cold War to preserve its freedoms, the fears and anti-Communism the Cold War helped cause at home undermined some of those freedoms. One of the most notorious examples of this is Senator Joseph McCarthy. In his search for Communists in the U.S. ...

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A Fatal Mistake The Vietnam Wa

Robert S. McNamara, appointed by John F. Kennedy to the position of U.S. Secretary of Defense in 1961, said about the Vietnam War, “It is important to recognize it’s a South Vietnamese war. It will be won or lost depending upon what they do. We can advise and help, but they are ...

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Latin America And Slavery

Prior to its independence Latin America had been controlled by external forces for hundreds of years. To be freed of control from these outside interests did not in any way guarantee Latin America a return to the status quo. In fact, the inhabitants of Latin America had done very well in ...

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Theodore Roosevelt

by Eric the 26th president of the United States, was born at 33 East 20th Street in New York on October 27, 1858.His father was a man of some wealth and importance in civic affairs. A prosperous family like the Roosevelts had a better than most people in that era. At eight years of age he was ...

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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War?

? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable, and therefore no one's fault, due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only ...

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Foreign Policy

America's founding fathers have always earnestly urged the United States to keep to a of isolationism. Before leaving office, President Washington warned the budding nation of the dangers of entanglements and potentially implicating treaties with other nations. President Jefferson, taking a ...

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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War?

? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable, and therefore no one's fault, due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only ...

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Walter Whitman

Through the history of the United States there have been a countless numbers of poets. With them came an equal number of writing styles. Certainly one of the most unique poets to write life\'s story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was . Greatly criticized by many ...

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Braveheart Vs. Full Metal Jacket

Cinema Combat: War is an ever-present entity in the world of cinema. The films Braveheart and Full Metal Jacket show strikingly similar, yet different aspects of war. Braveheart is an epic tale of love lost and how the circumstances surrounding that loss contributed in sparking one man's ...

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"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

: Was The "Angel's" Intent For Him to be Profited From? Gabriel Garcia Marquez, born in 1928 in the town of Aracataca in the Magdalena province of Columbia, is a writer who does not use real events to create his stories, rather images and fantasy-like magical realistic notions. He received the ...

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Theodore Roosevelt's Impact On The Presidency

During the election of 1900, populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republican William McKinley faced each other again. The two had previously competed against each other in 1896. McKinley named as his running mate Theodore Roosevelt, a man thoroughly involved in expanionism. A lot of ...

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To what extend is the Arizona Immigration law racist?

To what extend is the Arizona Immigration law racist? Intro: As everyone knows the immigration is a national problem that has been going on for many years in the United States. The reason it has been going on for so long is because more and more immigrants want more opportunities, jobs, ...

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The Case Against Affirmative Action

The Case Against Affirmative Action Louis P. Pojman In this essay I set forth nine arguments against Strong Affirmative Action, which I define as preferential treatment, discriminating in favor of members of under-represented groups, which have been treated unjustly in the past, against ...

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Did Napoleon Regiment The Revolution Without Wholly Destroying It Or Not?

Further information: Napoleon and the Catholic Church Napoleon's baptism took place in Ajaccio on 21 July 1771; he was piously raised and received a Christian education; however, his teachers failed to give faith to the young boy.[163] As an adult, Napoleon was described as a "deist with ...

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The Barber Shop and Modern Racism

The Barber Shop and Modern Racism The Barber Shop * I accompanied a friend of mine, Phillip, to his barber shop in his neighborhood at 49[th] and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In this neighborhood, I was instructed by Phil to carry my legal weapon being the lone Caucasian in the ...

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Comparison Of Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, and Machiavelli

It is easy to think that Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi are right in their counsels to use power as justly and compassionately as possible and to dismiss the writings of Machiavelli as a power-hungry, dangerous fanatic. But to do so is to ignore an essential part of any analysis of ...

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