Dorothy Lange and Documentary Photography Life is documented daily, whether in newspaper photographs of world events, in feature magazines of faraway places and in photo albums of family snapshots. Essentially, all photography is a documentary of wh Continue Reading...
The Panama Canal Treaty along with the Treaty on the Permanent Neutrality of the canal, both affirmed that the United States would transfer control of the canal to Panama by the year 2000. After this Panama would keep the canal neutral, and both co Continue Reading...
He seems to draw easy causal connections between policy and personality that deny the exterior circumstances of history. For example, he suggests that Hoover's rigid personality made him unable to accept changes in classical economic theory during t Continue Reading...
Consequences of World War II on the United States The events of Second World War played a crucial role in the rise of the United States and in shaping its post-war foreign policy. It was this war, which determined the exact nature of power and infl Continue Reading...
Public Sector Unions Public-Sector Unions in United States HISTORY OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS COSTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS OVER THEIR BENEFITS DEMOGRAPHICS OF LABOR IN AMERICA EDGE OF PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS OVER PRIVATE ONES THE HIDDEN COSTS OF PUB Continue Reading...
We learn that our way of life can change practically overnight. We learn that suffering on a massive scale can happen from just a few high-level missteps. But perhaps most importantly, we learn that the American spirit has an amazing capacity for re Continue Reading...
Instead of pretending that racism and its effects no longer exist, we need to strengthen affirmative action and devise a new set of policies that directly tackle the racial gap in wealth." (Derrity, 1). That, in a nutshell, is the position of this Continue Reading...
Football A recent poll by Harris Poll showed that professional football -- the NFL -- is the most popular sport in the United States. The sport was cited as the favorite by 36% of respondents (SBD 2012). This is up from 24% in 1985. The same poll no Continue Reading...
Great Depression of the 1930s and the current status of the United States. Great depression of the 1930's and current economic status of the U.S. The research paper compares and contrasts the great depression of the 1930's and the current economic Continue Reading...
Embedded into the express rights and freedoms of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights is the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment states explicitly the purpose for its existence: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the secu Continue Reading...
U.S. History 1877-Present America has changed so vastly since the U.S. Civil War that it is hard to single out three events that have had the most beneficial impact from the later nineteenth century to the present day. However, in terms of selecting Continue Reading...
African-American loyalty to the Democratic Party has rarely been called into question since the early 20th century. As of 2008, "voting demographics for African-Americans suggest an overwhelming propensity to cast ballots in favor of Democratic cand Continue Reading...
In terms of unemployment, a new program was introduced which aimed at reducing the number of people without jobs. The Civilian Conservation Corps represented an initiative with two aims. On the one hand, it offered young people in particular new jo Continue Reading...
Both of them also realized the necessity of fighting poverty and economic want and did not believe that the mythical 'invisible hand' of the free market economy would do so on its own. They were also common critics of at least some of the aspects of Continue Reading...
Yellow Dogs Allan Shivers served as the governor of Texas from 1949 until 1957. Not only did his tenure represent a transformational time in Texan politics and culture; Shivers practically catalyzed the changes himself, according to Dobbs in Yellow Continue Reading...
Between 1907 and 1926, the unions made four separate attempts to secure uniform working rules, with great progress made during the period of federal control and operation from 1918 to 1920, during World War I. Over that time, wages and rules were es Continue Reading...
In fact, far from saving he lives of millions from hopeless desperation, a closer look reveals that it took away the livelihood of at least that many. Foley's work reveals that the government through paying off Texas landowner farmers to plow under Continue Reading...
The session erupted in brawl, and in the end, the vote favored impeachment . This became known as "Bloody Monday." This time, Long's bullying tactics did not work. Long took his case to the people, claiming that his impeachment was a raucous attem Continue Reading...
In short, the United States became more aggressive in attaining foreign resources and access to trade. This was a result of the expansive nature of empires, and the fact that America, as characterized by Boot, was gradually becoming a "great power." Continue Reading...
Twentieth Century The Gilded Age witnessed industrial progress and accumulated wealth that boosted the growth of the middle class, yet at the same time there was the spread of "appalling" conditions in the slum areas of the cities, the farmers were Continue Reading...
American history as a radical and revolutionary society. Specifically, it will discuss the works of "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair, and "Coming of Age in Mississippi," by Anne Moody. Radical reform and revolutionary ideas are at the very foundation Continue Reading...
Huffington Post Attn: Adrian Johnson 770 Broadway Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, In response to the recent article, Review of Abstract Expressionism, about the failures of Abstract Expressionism, it is important to remember the how American Continue Reading...
American history [...] changes that have occurred in African-American history over time between 1865 to the present. African-Americans initially came to this country against their will. They were imported to work as slaves primarily in the Southern Continue Reading...
S. interests in that part of the world. Then, on January 17, 1991, the U.S. launched the first attack, with more than 4,000 bombing runs. After 100 hours, Bush called off the offensive, saying he wanted to minimize U.S. casualties. Though Bush was c Continue Reading...
S. government uses are the tax rolls. To further define this further, any analysis should consider present tax rolls as compared to their classical 1930's Great Depression era equivalents. What gives the issue an even more ominous pessimism is that w Continue Reading...
Governmental PoliciesIn a laissez-faire economic system, the role of the government in influencing the marketplace is basically minimal, as in the government keeps itself out of the market. The idea behind this is that the market is self-regulating a Continue Reading...
Black Women: Diversity and Inclusion Programs - Are they really assisting? In the last few decades, researchers, policymakers, economic development experts, and analysts of public policy are increasingly concentrating on the aspect of entrepreneursh Continue Reading...
TANF? The Congress was exasperated with the AFDC's (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) cost, nature and scope, and thus decided to put an end to it. In 1994, a record number of families (5 million, with over 1/8th of American children) were e Continue Reading...
Women were also a significant part of the civilian staff, committing their abilities as typists, phone switchboard operators and facility administrators. Likewise, on the home front, women would commit their services in place of their husbands, figh Continue Reading...
This remained true until the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which symbolizes a shift in American political life. After Kennedy's assassination, party politics once again raised its head and, due to the cultural effect of the Vietnam War Continue Reading...
Equal Rights The one group of people in American society that has been systematically denied equal rights has been women. Women comprise half the population, but only received the right to vote in 1920. Two specific actions that have been taken to Continue Reading...
Grapes of Wrath When John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published on March 14, 1939, it created a national sensation by focusing on the devastating effects of the Great Depression. Beyond the setting, though, which is important in and of itse Continue Reading...
The North, however, was more nationalistic in its ideas, and believed that the entire peninsula should be united based on a common language and culture. At the time, primarily because of the tremendous loss of resources from World War II, the South Continue Reading...
She attempts to take a balanced, historical view and place both the hysteria and the views of the movement in an appropriate historical context. Then, no one knew that the Soviet Union would eventually be defeated, as we do today -- but nor did lef Continue Reading...
Black Women: Diversity and Inclusion Programs - Are they really assisting? In the last few decades, researchers, policymakers, economic development experts, and analysts of public policy are increasingly concentrating on the aspect of entrepreneursh Continue Reading...
However, it was changes in technology that originally made the cultivation of the land possible, and marked a shift from earlier methods of production, as practiced by Native Americans. While small Okie farmers might have hated the larger agricultur Continue Reading...
President Eisenhower and his diplomats also chose to stop talking about the defeat of communism and instead focus on peaceful measures aimed at ending the "Cold War." And as the years passed, any attack on liberal thought which echoed "McCarthyism" Continue Reading...
Political Science The Republican Party triumphed a majority in both houses of the Congress in the fall of 1994. This was the first time since the 1952 landslide of Eisenhower. It was believed by many that the Republicans had achieved the partisan re Continue Reading...
American Studies Preface and Conclusion Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and most of the other Founders of the country did not intend for it to be a democracy with equal rights for all citizens, although some like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine d Continue Reading...
Labor-capital confrontations had been long brewing since the dawn of the industrial age and the start of urbanization. As the owners of the means of production amassed capital, wealth became concentrated into the hands of the few. Labor movements eme Continue Reading...
