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American Dream 2

The American dream. It consists of a family, house, cars, and other luxury items. How did it become the American dream? Why do we feel so compelled to pursue it? The reason is because we, the American public, have been convinced through advertising to acquire it. It is a very powerful way of ...

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Atomic Bomb

“The world will note that the first was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack is only a warning of things to come. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped ...

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Death Of A Salesman - American Dream

What is the American dream? I decided to ask a few people as to what they thought it was. One person told me that the American dream was to be rich. Another person told me it was having a perfect family situation. The last person believed the American dream was to be able to do absolutely ...

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Everyone Has Dreams, But To Carry Them Out Is The American Dream

The American Dream is something that makes America great. It allows those with aspirations to make them come true. In America all one needs is a dream and the motivation to carry out that dream. Ambition is the driving force behind the American Dream. It allows anyone that has an aspiration, ...

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The American Classroom: Making It Work For The Native American

Today America is filled with cultural, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. There isn't a better reflection of this diversity then in the classroom. A classroom needs to provide a multicultural education in order to meet the needs of students to survive in the 21st Century. It is ...

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Why The North Won The Civil War

"In all history, no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. . . .You are bound to fail" -Union officer William Tecumseh Sherman to a Southern friend. The American antebellum South, though steeped in pride and raised in military tradition, was to be ...

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The Great Gatsby: The American Dream

The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald embodies may themes, however the most salient one relates to the corruption of the American Dream. The American Dream is that each person no matter who he or she is can become successful in life by his or her own hard work. The dream also embodies the idea ...

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An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome

Imagine a soldier that is willing to die for his country in the Persian Gulf region, so that Americans could pay less for petroleum products in the Gulf, the soldier serves his country, with honor, loyalty, and dignity. In an attempt to win the war, Saddam Hussein launches a chemical attack on ...

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A Very American Revolution

The American Revolution, the conflict by which the American colonists won their independence from Great Britain and created the United States of America, was an upheaval of profound significance in world history. It occurred in the second half of the 18th century, in an "Age of Democratic ...

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Why The North Won The Civil Wa

The American antebellum South, though steeped in pride and raised in military tradition, was to be no match for the burgeoning superiority of the rapidly developing North in the coming Civil War. The lack of emphasis on manufacturing and commercial interest, stemming from the Southern desire to ...

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American Impressionism

by Chris Nicholson In the years following the Civil War, American art underwent a fundamental shift. The traditional Romantic style of painting, which focused on portraying majestic scenes in stark, vivid lines and shapes, gave way to a new concern for light and atmosphere. It was the age of ...

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The Great Gatsby And The American Dream

The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The attempt to capture the American Dream is central to many novels. This dream is different for different people, but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, ...

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Initiation Into American Cultu

re: As a foreigner looking inward through a glass window, the foundation of the American culture appears to be based on the idealism of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Each year thousands migrate into the United States in search of freedom, democracy and the distinguished American ...

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McDonald’s Americanizing Europe

At one of several concerts in Europe by the American rock sensation Bruce Springsteen, 30,000 enraptured youths wear jeans and T-shirts bearing the names of American universities, states, and products. At their feet are thousands of empty Coca-Cola bottles. Springsteen addresses the crowd in ...

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Fast Food

Why do Americans like fast food so much? We know that fast food is a major part of American society now but it wasn’t always that way. “J. Walter Anderson started fast food by opening up the first White Castle in 1916 in Wichita, Kansas” (Files 1). It took until the post World War II era for fast ...

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The American Dream: A Bittersweet Evolution

Bo Starke Mr. Richburg AP 11 7 February 2011 The American Dream: A Bittersweet Evolution On July 4, 1776, Congress declared that every American citizen has the unalienable right to discover and fulfill what makes them happy in life. America’s offering of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

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The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order Part 1

1964 was the year of Lyndon B Johnson. This election was a victory that the Democratic Party has never recovered from, even to this day. It would not become evident for a long time that Barry Goldwater’s loss to Johnson was the most consequential election loss in American history, or that 1964 ...

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The American Dream

What is the "American Dream"? Well, I used to think it was working hard so you could get a large house, be the boss, and not work to death. Although after reading different views of the American Dream I think I have a better understanding of it than most Americans have. I think the American ...

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Ida B. Wells (Barnett)

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett Ida Bell Wells was born a slave in Holy Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862 to James Wells and Elizabeth Warrenton Wells six months before the Emancipation Proclamation. Both her mother and father were owned by the same man and worked for him after being freed. Ida was ...

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Of Mice And Men: The American Dream

"Of Mice And Men" - By: John Steinbeck "The American Dream" The American Dream is the social idea that if a person works hard and drives a straight path, they will be rewarded with equality, democracy, and material prosperity. I agree with the statement "Curley and his wife are victims of ...

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