American Values Essays and Term Papers

Moby Dick

Symbolism dominates literature. Without it, the author is handcuffed and is left without a highly effective tool to convey his or her message. By using symbolism, an author can still maintain an objective appearance by letting the literary device do its work in expressing views, relaying opinions ...

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Monks And Today's Society

The strict ideals taken by Christian Monasticism (Monks, etc.) are quite different from those views or values that are taken in the modern day United States. A majority of the United States citizens, today, are more likely to have values that are opposite of those seen through the three monastic ...

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Family, Marriage, And Gender Roles

At the core of American identities and American dreams lies a family. Throughout time, families serve as a connection between the individual and the outside world. The individual's identity, his or her dreams, in large part depend on the family of origin or a family of choice. The individual is ...

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Gangs

Introduction I. -A Los Angeles family takes a wrong turn into gang territory and is fired upon. A 3-year-old is killed and her 2-year-old brother wounded. -A Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn is kidnapped by a Chinatown gang which demands ransom payments from her family. She is murdered when the ...

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Harry Potter And Censorship

Literature that children are exposed to often gives them ideas and provokes them to think and draw their own conclusions about things, it also provides a necessary escape from reality for them. This is why censoring children's books can be rather destructive to their developing minds. If the ...

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Chinese Americans

The Lost Ones – Young Due to harsh immigration laws, in American history, Chinese have often relied on illegal means of entering the United States. For example, in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act (Chinese Exclusion Act, Documents on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy.) was passed, the first and only ...

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Great Gatsby 10

In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells of the death of the "American Dream." Nick Carraway, a young, seemingly pure man from the west, decides to journey to New York to make his money on the stocks and bonds market. In New York, he is met with a story of love, lust, adultery ...

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The Great Gatsby And The Pursu

Gatsby’s Pursuit of the American Dream The American Dream means that by persistently working hard, one can achieve success; this is in contrast to other countries where the immigrants came from, in which one was either born into money and privilege or not, and if you weren’t, there was ...

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In Search Of Excellence

was the 1982 best-selling look at excellent companies and an attempt to identify the attributes they had in common that helped to make them successful. Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman studied dozens of American companies and deemed these companies to be excellent: Bechtel, Boeing, Caterpillar, ...

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Global Warming

The relationship between humans and the state of the ecosystem is not only dependent upon how many people there are, but also upon what they do. When there were few people, the dominant factors controlling ecosystem state were the natural ones that have operated for millions of years. The human ...

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The Transcendental Movement Of 1830s

In 1830, a movement known as Transcendentalism began to gain popularity in America. Representing an idealistic system of thought, "strength, courage, self-confidence, and independence of mind"1 were some basic values admired by the followers of the Transcendental movement. Transcendentalists ...

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Tortilla Flat

by John Steinbeck Henry James wrote that the novel is to be experienced--therefore the reader must completely understand what happens in it. You should appropriate comparisons, contrasts, draw analogies of what is in the novel and one's own experience. While the elements of fiction are important ...

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Ben Franklin

: Early Life In his many careers as a printer, moralist, essayist, civic leader, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and philosopher, for later generations of Americans he became both a spokesman and a model for the national character. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 17, 1706, ...

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Eutahania And Suicide In America

by Brent Pergram, Masters of Arts in Sociology The specific sociological problem that is the topic of this research paper is euthanasia. The purpose of this research is to identify the variables associated with euthanasia. It also discusses the variables associated with various types of ...

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing

Maya Angelou has become a national celebrity since she read her poem, "On the Pulse of the Morning," at the inauguration of President Clinton. Before that, she was probably best known for her autobiographical s. What is it about Angelou's writing that is attractive to so many people? In large ...

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Impact Of Television Violence In Relation To Juvenile Delinquency

When children are taught how to tie their shoes, it is because of how their parents showed them. When children are taught how to do math problems it is because how their teachers show them. With all of the role models how does television effect our children? Many adults feel that ...

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Onward Westward

In important respects, the regional context of the Western Hemisphere has changed dramatically in the past decade. Authoritarian rule has given way to democracy in almost every Latin American country; societies wrenched by years of violent and costly civil wars, driven by Cold War ideological ...

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Stock Market Crash of 1929

Not only did the crash ruin the lives of people economically but they were also affected mentally because the crash destroyed the American Dream forever. The American Dream originated in the early days of the American settlement with immigrants searching for opportunities. During this time period ...

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Native Americans

Native Americans Through out the history when humans walked the earth there always has been a dominant group trying to convert people different from them into sharing their beliefs and cultures. There has been many different process that these dominant groups have tried to convert their sub ...

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Moral Basis for Affirmative Action

Running head: THE MORALE BASIS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS The Morale Basis for Affirmative Actions Ethics and Social Responsibility Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................... 4 Ethical Arguments in favor of affirmative ...

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