Monroe Doctrine Analysis Position Paper In 1820, there were many successful revolts of most of Spain's Latin American colonies, which caused a great diplomatic challenge for the newly elected President Monroe. With the growing spirit of nationalism in America, and many of the European c...

Jazz at Home in America Jazz is a mixture of culture, rhythm, and blues. It is a melting of many different people and there heritage. This American musical form often-improvisational development by African Americans, and influence by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms. Du...

What Were the Prime Motivations in the Conduct of US Foreign Policy From 1898-1941? Primarily the United States entered the world political spectrum following its comprehensive victory over Spain in the Spanish-American War (1895-1898) and it was to prove the forbearer of American foreign polic...

The causes and signs of America's sudden turn toward international involvement at the end of the nineteenth century were new markets, which were needed because of an increase in population, wealth, and production. The imperialistic tendencies of other nations, particularly Africa and China, caused c...

It is very surprising to find that our most patriotic symbol, the American flag, is often made in countries besides our own. At the beginning of the war on terror, Wal-mart was forced to take certain flags off their shelves because, ironically, they were made in Afghanistan. Even today, many of our ...

Diversity! According to Encarta's online dictionary, the definition identifies diversity as a variety of something such as opinion, color, or style. Perhaps this explanation best suited this high powered drama as diversity observed, explained, and adversely affected the lives of people along...

History has an important and major subject that is responsible for what we now coin as modern America. This historical subject is that of the Spanish conquests that took place in the early 1500's and there was a significant factor that they implemented in their conquests. Evangelization or oth...

Child Labor Has slavery really ended? If that question was only directed to the United States, then that question is a definite yes. If one thinks about slavery on a global level, then the answer is no. If slavery can be eradicated in America, can't leaders in the third world countries put ...

Causes of the Great Crash In 1929 there had been a bull market for some time, and it seemed like it would never stop. However, such prosperity would not last forever. In October of that year, the market came to an abrupt halt. It was not a simple matter however. There was no single reason wh...

Americana: Product of Renaissance and Reformation Americana, what I call American Culture, is a very hot item on the market right now. It's sold all over the world. Countries buy it buy the dozen: Coke, McDonalds, democracy, and freedom. Those who cant afford it wish to have it. At the sam...

Powerful America American historians agree that for many decades, there has been a tendency among Americans to find new places and resources so that American individuals can be able to progress in life. Since the beginning of America as a nation, Americans have explored new lands and terri...

America has come to be known as a land of golden opportunity where anyone can come and work to become whatever they dream. No matter where a person starts out, they have the ability to make their own dreams come true through hard work. All people have the opportunity to strive to be the best they ...

After the First World War America was a completely different country. The twenties were a very unusual time period in American History. There are many reasons why it was called the Roaring Twenties. Most of the American people were living a great life and were able to afford luxury items; even t...

One's social location is a key element to really understand who a person is. Nearly every aspect of one's life is preordained by the choices that one will or will not have, depending upon one's environment and being. I feel that my life is no different, and who I have become is dire...

The Disuniting of America Reflections on a Multicultural Society By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. After reading the book than Shlesinger realizes, I have to say that it was interesting and admit that I agree with most of the views about multicultural society and mult...

In 1892, farmers fed up with the laissez faire attitude of the Federal Government,the falling prices of the goods they worked so hard to produce, and the hole ofdebt they were digging themselves into, farmers in the Midwest formed thePopulist Party. Their main goals consisted of reducing tariffs, a...

The Evolution of Rap Music All one has to do is simply observe their surroundings to realize the huge impact of rap music on today\'s society. The way people dress, talk, and act have all been influenced by the cultural phenomenon known as rap music. Almost every aspect of American culture has b...

OpennessThe United States is a country that was created by many different races of people. These very different people brought their language, beliefs, and values with them. In this new country these ideas were all combined to make what we know as today's America.This could not have happened in an e...

Banning Prayer in Schools When schools first opened hundreds of years ago prayer was always enforced, and the Bible was the only book most schools had to read. Our first constitutional right states that we have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and as our right the go...

Many American students have the misconception that bilingual education is just another "blow-off" or "easy-A" class; yet "more world languages are spoken in the United States today than ever before" (Crawford, par. 1). What many blind teenagers and some adults fail to realize is that bilingualism h...

The United States of America are considered a nation of immigrants, most of them having traditionally come from Europe.Therefore, the Whites form the ethnic majority, but African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans all having their own way of life have influenced the American culture, which was...

Evolution of Container Shipping This report will provide information about containers and the shipment of containers in the past and present. It will tell how the idea of shipping goods in containers came about and how those ideas have progressed into what is now known as the container fleet of t...

America prides itself on the fact that every child in this nation is entitled to a free and well rounded education. This was not always the case. The establishment of schooling systems within America, was an evolutionary process. Each region in the country began with a system which suited them, w...

The Nation Takes Shapeby Marcus Cunliffepublished by the University of Chicago Press1789-1800Bobby EarlMs. C. LoveFebruary 12, 1998The period of time from 1789 to 1839 was an age of growth for the United States of America; the United States grew bigger and better in general, it expanded into the Wes...

Jake ThomasModeling HateIn the ideal America, our celebrated, ethnically diverse populous would overlookand not even recognize such socially developed stigmas such as race, sex, color, andreligion. The ideal American would not even look at another and classify that person asblack, white, Asian, Indi...