Being American Essays and Term Papers

Dizzy Gelespie

The people of today, raised by the sounds of The Beatles and Pearl Jam have forgotten all about the musicians that paved the way for these artists, and the musical styles that evolved into rock and roll, rhythm and blues and rap or hip hop. Unfortunately the music that once dominated the night ...

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh

Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974), American aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He attended the University of Wisconsin for two years but withdrew to attend ...

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Hate Crimes

" are acts of violence directed against people because of their racial, religious, ethnic, gender, or sexual identity. They are also acts of violence against the American ideal: that we can make one nation out of many different people." Hate crimes are motivated by bias against the ...

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Welcome To The Monkey House

Erin Lowe- also author of many \"outstanding\" American History essays.... of which two are published somewhere here..... one about Peter Noyes, and another about Mercantilism..... \"Books won\'t stay banned. They won\'t burn. Ideas won\'t go to jail… In the long run of history, the censor and the ...

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy Ellington, American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, is considered to be the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. He composed over 2000 works and performed numerous concerts during his musical ...

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Illegial Aliens

Here's a little story to imagine: you've planned everything to make your life perfect-a well-paid job, a loving wife, and two adorable children. As you retire early, and move to your new home, you can't help but feel a warm breeze of contentment as you're cruising along, on a summer ...

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The Missouri Compromise

A compromise is when two or more parties in disagreement reach an agreement that does not give all sides exactly what they want, but enough of what they want so that they can be happy. Compromise is the best possible solution to a conflict however it does not always work. One needs only to look at ...

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Civil War

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American . This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will speak mainly around ...

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Puerto Rican Cultural And Religion

I am a member of the Puerto Rican American Families research team. I myself grew up in a Puerto Rican American, or "New Yorican", family. The assignment is a field study. The study is on an observation of the religious community. We visited a Roman Catholic church in Buffalo on the west ...

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Diversity In Educational Insti

Diversity, the new buzzword in the professional world and universities across the country is definitely going to be a major issue as we step into the millennium. Before we get any further, what exactly is diversity? Diversity is a term covering all significant differences between people- not just ...

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Tobacco Advertising Makes Young People Their Chief Target

Everyday 3,000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adult smokers said that they first lit up as teenagers (Roberts). These statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target ...

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King William I

Americans these days are too spoiled. Freedom and crime are far too rampant. Whatever happened to the good old days of ruthless, bloodthirsty monarchs? Rulers who would send the citizens quivering with the mere mention of their names. Kings whose wanton cruelty and disregard for human life pleased ...

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U.S Auto Industry's Market Share And Fluctuations

The U. S. auto industry's share of the market has experienced fluctuations over the past 50 years. These fluctuations have been caused by many reasons, but some of the main reasons include quality, price, and foreign competition. The Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, and the Chrysler ...

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Nature

After reading the chapter encountering the question arises. What is and why have historical American figures such as poets and writers focused so much of their time on writing about . Well the answer is quit simple. is a part of us and history. It can’t be avoided. After reading this causes ...

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Breast Cancer Treatment

Only lung cancer kills more women each year in the United States than breast cancer does. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that over 184,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in women in 1996 (ACS Breast). Although these statistics are alarming, there are a number of treatment ...

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing

Fifty four years ago, the detonation of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima (and later on Nagasaki) ushered to the Nuclear Age. It was a moment full of horror, in which the eyes of the whole world were opened to the unimaginable possibility of nuclear holocaust. The ...

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Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Contributing To "Selling The Revolution"

Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams each contributed to “selling the revolution” to a complacent society through their pamphlets, and writing such as Common Sense, and The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, all of which concentrated on the emotions of the society during the ...

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Cancer

Right now, is one of the most feared diseases in the world. In the early 1990s almost 6 million new cases developed and more than 4 million deaths from s occurred. Also more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by and it has been predicted, by the American Society, that about 33% of ...

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Ebola Virus 4

Ebola virus, a member of the Filoviridae, burst from obscurity with spectacular outbreaks of severe, haemorrhagic fever. It was first associated with an outbreak of 318 cases and a case-fatality rate of 90% in Zaire and caused 150 deaths among 250 cases in Sudan. Smaller outbreaks continue to ...

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The Common Hemingway Protagoni

st: Soldier's Home Various authors, through years of discipline, develop their own style in creating characters. Ernest Hemingway varied his style by establishing an indestructible template for pressing characters into molded protagonists. This "template" protagonist follows a unique set of ...

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