In John Cotton's Preface to The Bay Psalm Reader, he brings up the idea that while the people need to have access to the psalms, the scriptures should not be written in such flowery language as to detract from the meaning and religious truths behind them. He says "Conscience rather than E...

A People's History of the United States concentrates on the personal experiences and struggles of people who lived in the United States from 1492-present. It is a view of history from the common man's perspective, rather than the view of the leaders and upper class of this cou...

Robert Lowell presents his depiction of the future of America in his poem "For the Union Dead". In this poem, Lowell uses imagery as his basis for description and foretells of the oncoming decay of our American ideals. The imagery Lowell uses makes this poem more vivid and tangible, ill...

The City in Which I Love You By Li-Young Lee For a New Citizen of These United States Asian American Poetry Poetry is an author's tool to produce written work in order to express themselves and evoke emotions and feelings they have. Poetry comes in many different forms and from mu...

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two poets who contributed great works of art to American society. Although they were poets from the same time period, they were extremely different from each other. They had a few similarities, but they were vastly different people. Emily Dickinson was more of a...

The oil spill which rapidly swept the nation with damaging effects for several months was an enormously controversial issue that appeared in media sources from coast to coast. In late April when the catastrophe occurred, the world was not at all ready for what was soon to come. Initially to stop the...

It is predicted that by the year 2050, Caucasian Americans will become a minority in the United States. Is this rapid increase of minorities creating an alarming situation deserving concern? In today's American society, we have become particularly apprehensive with the issue of diversity and but ar...

Pierre De Couberton's ideas of revitalizing the Olympic games was for "sport", he visioned sports without the infliction of politics. Through the years the reality of his vision has died out and inevitably political issues and ideas began surfacing in the Olympic games just as much a...

Differing world-views are made apparent with the controversial use of Native American names and symbols in both schools and sports. Each of these opposing views is a result of separate cultural realities created by both tradition and history. Many Americans fail to comprehend that the exploitation...