?The famous singer Frank Zappa said "The United States is a nation of laws; badly written and randomly enforced." The short stories of early 20th century quite well describe contradictions between written laws and their real meaning to people. The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of R...

JUSTIFICATION PAPER Carl Sandburg was unique compare to many other poets. All of the poems that he wrote were short and straight to the point. You would not find any poems that he had written that are over a page, yet still; his poems are very easy to understand. Sandburg lived through a lo...

RACISM AND ITS EFFECTS ON LITERATURERacial segregation and discrimination is prevalent throughout literature and it is no accident. Racism in literature stems logically from the experiences of the authors and the treatment of minority's. Throughout Braided Lives, there were many short stories that d...

A basic high school diploma can only get one so far. Job titles such as a cashier, retail salesman, and others within that description only allow a person to reach a minimum amount of success. A college education is crucial in today\'s society for anyone choosing to improve their lives and live at a...

The American GoldfinchThe American Goldfinch is a typical member of the North American seed-eating birds that are members of the finch, or Fringillidae, family. This state bird has adapted to eating seeds with its short, heavy, and conical beak. American Goldfinches use their feet extensively. The...

America is known as the "land of the free" and the "home of the brave". However, some people who disagree, view America as the "land of the slave" and the "home of the weak". In Richard Wright's "A Separate Road" and Flannery O'Connor'...

Close you eyes and try to visualize a world where economic prosperity and civil rights was the one thing you dreamed about every night? Or, what is your place in a world when your whole race has to face racism? Richard Wright found his place in such a world just like this one. Wright became one of t...

When the narrator speaks of two halves of the same song the mother and daughter really want the same thing. What bests for complete success in American society for new comers. Jing-mei's constant howling and hassling of her daughter near the end of Tan's short story, ' 'Two Kind...

Enough conflict between two different parties causes a war. The civil war was no different. Brothers fighting each other in a nation they had once shared. People often question the significance of the war, and why one triumphed over the other. In viewing of the statistics in numbers of the popu...

The Civil War" On paper the North was far stronger than the South. It had two and a half times as many people, and it possessed far more ships, miles of railroad, and manufacturing enterprises. Southerners, however, had the advantage of fighting on home ground with better military leadership. But ...

America acquired a lot of land over a short period time starting from about 1783 to about 1848. America did so in a few different ways such as war, treaty, annexation and purchase. In this essay I will discuss some of the different states we gained and how we gain them. The original thirteen coloni...

There is no substitute for blood. Volunteer donors are the only source of blood for patients in need of lifesaving transfusions. Donating blood is a safe, simple way to make a difference for people in your community. In this way, each blood donation provided by a donor can help to save several ...

As the United States recovered from the Civil War and problems with segregation were being resolved the United States went through a major revolution in the industrial sector. Between 1860 and 1900 the United States went from being one of the slowest countries in industrial growth to one of the la...

Jazz's influence on America could be most aptly described as a positive for cultural diversion, for free thinking, and for new ideals. This new genre of sound was not only a new type of entertainment, but also a genuine American lifestyle. During the mid to late 1910's, the majority of the...

World War I: Total WarThe World War I is not the only name given to this tremendously long and forceful war. The other name is the Total War. It all began in the first days of August 1914. Emperor William II reassured the Germans that it would be a short war. But to his dismay, the "Total War", was ...

In all of history, there has yet to exist a group of people to feel the effects of genocide to the extent in which Native Americans have. There might be a valid argument concerning the injustices done to the people of African descent, however, slavery and 500 years of colonization marginally compar...

There are many different people who have commented and critiqued Robert Frost's work. Some of them are as long as ten pages and others are just short paragraphs, but all of the ones that I've read have pretty much the same thing to say.Tina Ferris commented on Frost's simple vocabulary. She said tha...

Marijuana, should it be legalized or remain a burning issue of controversy? \"Marijuana is a drug made from the dried leaves and flowering tops of the hemp plant\" (DuPont 189). Even though the cultivation, distribution, possession, and use of marijuana are illegal in many nations, including the Uni...

The setting of a piece of literature includes several different aspects. It includes what is going on politically, culturally, and also in the temporal environment (page 253). O'Brien's short story takes place in another country: Vietnam (page 80). The parts of Vietnam mentioned include both Than...

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Making the Difference What defines a country? It's land? It's Language? It's People? In her essays, Gertrude Stein attempts to decipher America by focusing only on the American language and the American landscape. She writes her works while traveling the country and notices the d...

Does an area of power shortages and rolling blackouts sound like a third world nation? Yes or it could be the golden state of California. It is hard for many people to believe that this problem would exist anywhere in the powerful United States. The overall problem of demand that is consistently ...

ELIAN A VICTIM OF CONSPIRACY On April 18, 1961 President John F. Kennedy wrote back to Premier Nikita Khruschev in response to his accusation that the Cuban exiles that had invaded Cuba were trained in the United States, and that the United States owned the planes th...

The bold and stirring short story, "Snow", was written with deceptive intensity and a sincere tenacity that grabs you immediately. It tells the story of ten year old Yolanda, a little immigrant New York girl, new to the city and to America in general. Author Julia Alvarez, captures with ...

"Civil Disobedience", a short story written by Henry David Thoreau, is a novel written about the early stages of the American government and policies Thoreau believed they should follow. Although this document was written in 1846 all of the points that Thoreau makes are still valid today. Thoreau ...