The attacks made on America symbolize the vulnerability of life itself and the never-ending battle between war and peace. The primary targets of Tuesday's terrorist plane attacks were two of the world's largest office buildings and nerve centers for national defense, commerce, and communication. ...

"A symbol is something that stands for or suggests something else because of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance." (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1194). These emblematic masterpieces have been both created and destroyed by war. These wars have...

While the civil war ended one form of slavery in America, another system of oppression was ready to take its place. In Ralph Ellison's acclaimed novel Invisible Man, a young black, nameless narrator struggles through a series of hard-won lessons as he makes his journey from the Deep South to...

"The flapper is a misleading symbol of American women in the 1920's." Discuss The 1920's are often seen as the birth of modernism and industrialization, often referred to as the Jazz Age. It was a time of change in many respects. The image of the American culture was being rede...

The American Flag Freedom, courage and honor are just a few symbolizations of the American flag. Every flag stands for something, but for Americans, the flag symbolizes much more that the country it flies in. The American flag symbolizes the people in the country and what many individuals have...

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930'...

When reading short stories of nineteenth-century America, we can see that many teach a moral and illustrate a point about American society. They take the characters, objects, and the plot of the story and create a theme within them. This is what American Romanticism is about, taking the objects in t...

OutlineI. IntroductionA.The American Flag... It's a symbol worthy of or deepest respect because it stands for a nation and community that is strong, a community strong enough to tolerate diversity and the rights of those expressing unpopular views, even if they are expressing them in an offensive bu...

Chinese Lion DancingMany who see a Chinese Lion Dance performed, and even many of the performers, do not stop to reflect on the symbolism's being presented. However, by understanding them, a greater appreciation for this ancient ritual can be gained. Insights obtained from studying the meanings of t...

Chinese Lion DancingMany who see a Chinese Lion Dance performed, and even many of the performers, do not stop to reflect on the symbolism's being presented. However, by understanding them, a greater appreciation for this ancient ritual can be gained. Insights obtained from studying the meanings of t...

Introduction The Metric system is the most used system of measurement in the world. Americans are not fairly up to date about. Some people believe that the whole world deals with miles, feet, and pounds. Yet, they are mistaken. The whole world deals with meters, grams, and liters. The...

"Huckleberry Finn"The way in which a young boy loses his innocence by realizing the truth in life symbolizes how the evolution of Transcendentalism to Realism destroys a nation, as the United States moves towards the Civil War. American transcendentalism began with the formation of the Transcendenta...

"Huckleberry Finn" The way in which a young boy loses his innocence by realizing the truth in life symbolizes how the evolution of Transcendentalism to Realism destroys a nation, as the United States moves towards the Civil War. American transcendentalism began with the formation of the...

Following the First World War, American writing blossomed into a more enlightened and fulfilling read. With the focus of many novels turning to the homeland and the issues currently ailing Americans, novels suddenly became a political outlet. While critiquing society, writers still managed to follow...

Flag desecration is not American. People who burn the American flag lack respect for themselves, America, and the many people who have died to preserve American freedom. The people who desecrate the American flag have no right to call themselves Americans. They are unpatriotic, two-faced, cowards, a...

The Hopi Indians lived in the western part of America (Arizona). Their civilization is about 3000 years old and they usually farmed for a living. The Hopi reservation is a remote area, comprising approximately 650,000 acres, and is surrounded on all sides by the Navajo Reservation. The Hopi people h...

We Americans come from an incredible array of backgrounds, and have much in common with each other among other things. We see ourselves bound by common hopes and values that are certainly true in the area of politics and government. For example, most of us share a belief in the values of our liber...

America's constitution, as epic and infallible as it may seem, now seems to give too much freedom to some people. As absurd as it sounds, I believe people can have too much freedom. What is the constitution anyway but a system of laws used to control the people? I think that by stating that peo...

The Daughter of Invention, a short story by Julia Alvarrez, chronicles a daughter's struggles to adapt to mainstream America in New York as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. Her family is fleeing from the dictatorial regime of Trujillo. Julia's father, who apparently is an important figure i...

What comes to mind when we think of America? Is it the statue of liberty, the bald eagle, or September the eleventh? Some of these items or events have shaped our country to be the great nation it is today. When I think of America I think of the great wars and many hardships that our nation has gone...

Violence: An American Tradition A father walks into his son's room with something wrapped around his hand. Unwinding the whip, he swings it at his son ripping the flesh off the boys back. A mother covers her baby's face with a fluffy pillow, while putting her baby to bed, cutting th...

These Colors Don't Run, But They Do Burn The famous phrase, "...give me liberty, or give me death," was articulated by the revolutionary thinker Patrick Henry and has since become a mantra for the people of the United States of America. However, many may never think about the myriad...

Tennessee Williams uses several techniques to express social criticism in his play ‚The Glass Menagerie'. The genre of epic drama gives an appropriate foundation for the author to apply other and different techniques, which will be demonstrated with some examples in the following sections...

" A man's country is not a certain area of land, mountains, rivers, and woods but it is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." I believe this quote from George William Curtis couldn't define patriotism any better. It gives me a great sense of pride know...

Landmarks Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty was designed by French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and completed in July 1884. The statue commemorates the alliance between the United States and France during the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783, and was funded thro...