997 Search Results for Early American History
Immigration and the Muslim Population
9/11 changed the world -- especially in the U.S. in terms of Muslim-American relations and the way the word "terror" and "terrorist" is used to identify or refer to a group of people.[footnot Continue Reading...
Higher Ed Course
Course Design: 20th Century History and Popular Music
Course Description:
For many students, popular music is scene as being disposable and readily replaceable. The nature of the modern media cycle means that much of what dominate Continue Reading...
This also shows how women became more active in the national political process, no matter their stance or beliefs. While the more traditional facts about communist China under Mao Zedong are explicated, there are some less horrific details about com Continue Reading...
South Africa
Throughout its history, South Africa has had a tumultuous relationship with ethnic and racial identity and discrimination, and is still grappling with the reverberating effects of colonialism and apartheid. Furthermore, while colonialis Continue Reading...
The nation was built on the notion of freedom of religion. Yet, even this concept soon was tested and exposed for the fallacy that it was. Early in American history, a religious dominance was set, and then subsequently maintained even into today's w Continue Reading...
Political Science
Inequality, Voting and American Democracy. The American political system has always prevented electoral participation by certain social groups, especially those with the fewest resources. The obstacles to participation have changed Continue Reading...
Racism and Police ViolenceCant you just shoot them? Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in response to Black Lives Matter racial justice protesters exercising their lawful First Amendment rights, Summer 2020The epigraph above reflects one prominen Continue Reading...
Georgia (428 U.S. 153). In that case, the Supreme Court finally ruled specifically that capital punishment was not inherently necessarily cruel or unusual, and therefore, was not a violation of the Eighth Amendment in and of itself (Schmalleger, 200 Continue Reading...
His suggestions include two components: (1) creating more effective labor market intermediaries to make it easier for inner-city residents to find good jobs and for metropolitan employers to find good inner city workers; (2) enhancing the inner city Continue Reading...
Economic and Professional Performance
This is a paper that explores the economic and professional performance of Mexican-American and Chinese-Americans.
There are six references used for this paper.
The United States is a country rich in diversity Continue Reading...
Presidential power is thus a matter of persuasion of the public and the other branches and actors within the government. Today in particular, because of the ability of the President to invoke the information of the intelligence agencies, informatio Continue Reading...
Mentoring
Human history is replete with stories and myths of relationships between mentors and their proteges
The term "mentor" has its origin in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" in which Odysseus, while going to fight in the Trojan War, entrusts th Continue Reading...
Analysis and Discussion of Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? OutlineIntroductionReview and DiscussionOverview of the plotDiscussion of carelessness as part of immaturityConclusionAnalysis and Discussion of Joyce Carol Oates Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. Pioneering Spirits: The Overlooked Role of Women in Homesteading
Explore how historiography has either neglected or emphasized the role of women as pioneers in the American West. Analyze primary source Continue Reading...
philosophy of education through a historical and then through an explicitly Christian lens, with a focus on the political role of education, and the Christian philosophy of John Milton. Milton's 1644 works Areopagitica and Of Education are invoked t Continue Reading...
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1. The Role of Women in Homesteading and Settling the American West:
Explore the contribution of women homesteaders in shaping the frontier communities of the American West. This essay could delve into t Continue Reading...
Prohibition
One of the most conflicted points of United States history is associated with the temperance movement, which culminated into a federal constitutional amendment prohibiting the production, transportation, and sale of all alcoholic beverag Continue Reading...
The broken cycle of make up for people of color
Technology has played a significant role in the broken cycle of make up for people of color. The broken cycle of make up is a term reflective of the fact that when the technology for make up was first c Continue Reading...
Much like African-American leaders and reformers that brought about the end of racial discrimination and segregation via the Civil Rights Movement, in 1866, Stanton created the American Equal Rights Association, aimed at organizing women in the lon Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. Pioneering Women of the American West:
Explore the lives of women who ventured into the unknown territories of the West, detailing their contributions to settlement, survival, and community building.
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Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of Women in Shaping Frontier Communities:
This topic explores how women influenced the development of social structures, education, and community life in the American West, challenging the tr Continue Reading...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an Eighteenth Century American author who through his works explored the subject of human sin, punishment and guilt. In fact, themes of pride, guilt, sin, punishment and evil is evident in all of his works, and the wrongs comm Continue Reading...
music that we have in our list nowadays are quite more diverse than what we had few decades ago. Truly, in comparison to the past and present times, how music is defined have completely changed. Music is no longer just about the rhyming melodies and Continue Reading...
Comparing and Contrasting Racial Conflict in the South and the West
Racial conflict in the South and the West was similar in that the dominant race sought to put pressure on the minority races (whether they were blacks in the South or Hispanics or As Continue Reading...
Quaker Oats as a Symbol and Icon of American Colonialism
Identity is important to everyone and everything; it is how we connect with an element in our mind. It is the identity that inspires the first impression of any object or even a person. For th Continue Reading...
The state parent locator service lessens the delay of collection of child support. The child support enforcement agencies in most states have the authority to order genetic testing in order to establish the parentage in cases of paternity. Child sup Continue Reading...
As Mitchell points out however, this criterion can overlook the major differences between the cultures that form the Hispanic group, and the multicultural curriculum should ensure the recognition of these basic differences. (Mitchell, 102)
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Benjamin Franklin termed himself a pragmatic deist. He believes "there is one Supreme must perfect being," however that this being is distant, and that it is not necessary to build a personal relationship with such a supreme God. He concluded that Continue Reading...
The effect of all of this is to drive away those who actually worked the land because they loved it, replacing them with hired hands running machinery, neither of which is likely to be kind to the land.
Monopoly
Perhaps the most familiar form of b Continue Reading...
Daniel, Cletus E. Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farm workers, 1870-1941. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
The United Farm Workers of America Website praised Cletus E. Daniel's book Bitter Harvest: A History of California Far Continue Reading...
James Morone's By the People: Debating American Government addresses the meaty topics of federalism and nationalism. These trends in American political discourse have shaped much of American history, and it is crucial to engage in intelligent debate Continue Reading...
American Immigration
Globally, the United States has been known as "a nation of immigrants" almost from its inception. Beginning in the 1600s with English Puritans and continuing today, America is a melting pot of culture and ethnicity. In fact, in Continue Reading...
American Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century by Edgar AJ. Johnson. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1961). 202 p., (HB119.A2J6).
This book is a global look at what motivated colonization economically in the New World, and how American thou Continue Reading...
American Revolution
Major Issues Leading to the American Revolution
The early 1700s brought an influx of immigrants into the New World. The majority of inhabitants were English, but there were also large numbers of German, Irish, Scots, and Spanis Continue Reading...
Abolitionist Movement
Black Africans helped the Portuguese and the Spanish when they were on their exploration of the America. During the 16th century, some of the explorers who were of black origin went ahead to settle within the Valley of Mississi Continue Reading...
U.S. History
The History of the United States
Discuss America's place in the world just before and then a change after WWII. Explain how and why America got into WWII? What shaped American foreign policy after that and what were the effects of the Continue Reading...
1. Explain why the Vietnam conflict was an episode of the cold war.
The United States became involved in the Vietnam conflict due to fears that communism was going to spread throughout Asia, potentially upsetting the global balance of power. When Ho Continue Reading...