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Being American Essays and Term Papers
The Alcoholic Republic: An American TraditionThe author of The Alcoholic Republic began researching this book to find out what prompted so many to attack alcohol consumption in the early nineteenth-century. W.J Rorabaugh found statistics, in his research, to support his idea that the Temperance Movement was “launched as a response to a ...
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The Use And Abuse The American LanguageAn essay from Newsweek Magazine, “Can’t anyone here speak English?” explains how many human beings use and abuse the American language. The lack of language may be a result of slang and new words or expression, but slang is not the danger of language. The danger is television. According to the ...
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The Spanish American Warmarked the emergence of the United States of America as a world power. The war which lasted only 10 weeks between April and August of 1898 took place over the liberation of Cuba. In the course of the war the U.S. won Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands. A large aspect to the begining of ...
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The Spanish-American War: What It Meant For Cuba And AmericaOver 100 years ago, 1898, Cubans fought for independence from Spain and Americans sought to gain greater world power, wealth and to become a more prominent nation. Both Cuba and the Americas could gain from this war if they played it right, and that's exactly what they did.
It all started on the ...
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The American RevolutionThe colonists living in America had enjoyed relative freedom from England since they arrived. They came to the New World, after all, to escape England, for whatever reasons they may have had—religious, economic, or social. So when England decided in the eighteenth century that they were going to ...
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American And Nigerian Cultures are alike in some aspects of life,
while being dissimilar in other aspects. This idea is clearly exemplified
when one compares their own experience and knowledge of culture in America
to that description and portrayal of Nigerian culture as seen through Buchi
Emecheta's novel, The Wrestling ...
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Benjamin Franklin: A Man Of American IdealsIn his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin wittily expresses his full confidence in mankind and its ability to achieve perfection. His life is a classic tale of a man who realizes the American dream of prosperity, independence, and happiness through hardworking and virtue. His diligence, ...
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American Revolutionary WarWere the Colonists Justified in Their Rebellion against
England? Did They Have an Adequate Cause for Revolution?
Starting after the termination of the Seven-Year’s war,
by the Peace of Paris, England repeatedly violated the
American Colonists’ rights. A series of events, happening
between ...
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Cancer In AmericanIn modern society cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of
people throughout the world, supplanting the "white death," or tuberculosis,
of the last century; the "black death," or bubonic plague, of the Middle
Ages; and the leprosy of biblical times. Cancer has been known ...
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Summary Of Terkel's My American CenturyAfter I began reading the book My American Century by Studs Terkel,
I quickly became interested in reading further. At first, I thought it
would be a long boring book to have to read, but I soon was very anxious to
continue my reading. The reading that I personally enjoyed the most was
the one ...
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The AmericanA literary technique that authors often times employ is giving to the characters a name to enhance the reader’s understanding of that character. In , Henry James uses this style with most of his characters’ names. Often times, the names may translate into an English word, or it could even just ...
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African-American Literature, MMany comparisons can be drawn between the novels Meridian, by Alice Walker, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. The protagonists of both books are African-American females searching in a confused, bewildered world. Meridian is the story of the title character’s life from ...
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Being An African American MaleBeing an African American male in today's society has its challenges. Overcoming the statistic of African American males not attending college has been a pursuing goal I have had for many years. Graduating high school and entering the work force where I am consistently working full time is ...
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Being A Gymnast And My Future CareerA person's past strongly influences their present and also their future. My long-standing commitment to excellence in all aspects of my life has seen me through my tenure as a competitive gymnast in Romania, to my time teaching gymnastics, and on into my life as a student at GS University. All ...
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America's Policy On Iraq and the Paradox of American PowerExecutive Summary
Joseph Nye's Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone argues that the U.S. should not act unilaterally in foreign affairs despite its status as the world's only superpower. Instead, the U.S. should pursue a multilateral policy to preserve ...
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American Revolution 2A revolutionary is someone that is not eager or does not feel the need to be a revolutionary. That is what the colonists were when they established their lives in America. The British were proud to be English and not French or Dutch. They looked up to the king and used English things. They ...
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To Say This Is EnoughNovels present different views about life. They often consist of stories about events that may be totally imaginary, or fictionally realistic. Writers usually write novels to present their ideas and comments about human behavior. Three literary works that poignantly shows their authors’ ...
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The American Association Of Retired Persons (AARP)The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Founded in 1958 by Dr. Ethel Percy, the American Association of Retired
Persons (AARP) has been dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of older
Americans. Percy felt that older Americans could attain a sense of
satisfaction and ...
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Suicide Is Not ChoosenThe intentional killing of oneself or an act that is destructive to oneself (Oxford, 919). That statement hits home with many people in this world. It is this whispered word that one parent may tell another parent how their child attempted suicide. Suicide seems to be a hushed subject that ...
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Asian American StereotypesPertaining to Tracy Lai’s article titled, “Asian American Women”, Lai
discusses how stereotypes dehumanize people while turning them into objects to be
manipulated. Lai touches on the topic of how Asian people and cultures are
stereotyped as being inferior and exotic. The problem that Lai brings ...
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