Amistad Directed by Steven SpielbergAmistad, Steven Spielberg's drama about an 1839 slave ship uprising and its tough legal aftermath, begins with a dark, tight shot of a man who is struggling. This man is named Cinque and he is struggling for his freedom. ...

Ehrich Weisz was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary to his religious father Mayer Samuel Weisz. Two years after his birth, Ehrich's family moved to Wisconsin seeking the freedom that the United States was known for. Their life did not consist of the fabled perfection of the land. They ...

Patriot Cultural Assignment"The Patriot" is an excellent movie. It may very well be one of the most exciting and moving war-drama movies of all time. There are very few films today that even come close to touching upon the American Revolution, which is why "The Patriot" is of such importance. Non...

The Pact, written by Jody Picoult, was published in 1998 by William Monrow & Co., in the United States of America. The six-hundred-page novel can be characterized as a drama, as well as a love story. The narrator of the story is a '' god-like'' narrator, which means that he knows all the thoughts of...

Today I am doing my oral presentation on the Drama movie Forest Gump rated M15. (pause)This movie traces a fictitious life to portray and comment on significant social events in the united states of America, in the 1960's, 70's and 80's.The movie is about a man named Forest Gump who is seen by other...

Thirteen Days is a semi-bibliography movie of the Cuban Missile Crisis and what the American government was doing about it. Thirteen Days is a dramatic, historical thriller in which the movie is showing what was going on during those nervous thirteen day, in which the United States came real close...

Today I am doing my oral presentation on the Drama movie Forest Gump rated M15. (pause) This movie traces a fictitious life to portray and comment on significant social events in the united states of America, in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. The movie is about a man named Forest Gump who is seen ...

In 1900, many people still thought of Canada as a British dependency, not as an independent nation. As the twentieth century unfolded, however, there was a gradual shift from British to American influence. Throughout the century, Canada had something of a "love-hate relationship" with the ...

Multiculturalism, is very back bone of the country that we live in. The united States from its very earliest existence has been a melting pot of different cultures. Immigrants have always gone to life threating extents to immigrate to this country to find a better life. In the film El Norte and,...

The old west and the days of prohibition perhaps were dramatized back when we were kids when we would play Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers. But, today the drama is much more serious and the issues about handguns can be debated until both political parties declare war on each other. In what h...

No one ever thinks about what it actually takes to become free. There is one man that would do anything to become free and he was Joseph Cinque. Cinque would risk his life to help others and himself become free. He was a heroic, African slave leader that led a rebellion to become freed from slavery....

Although the percentage of elderly people in the United States has tripled since 1900, the population of elderly is expected to double between now and the year 2030. Not only is the number greater, but they are also living much longer. Even though there is a large population of elderly people i...

The following is an analysis of a speech given by the President of the United States, President George W. Bush on October 7, 2002. The speech was entitled "President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat "and was presented at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio...

A close examination of the buried pottery discovered in land excavations has revealed a lot of about the inhabitants of various regions from thousands of years ago, same is true about the current trash being discarded by the residents in the United States. A careful investigation of trash reveals a...

The following critical interpretation of popular culture is based on the song "Where is the Love" by the Black Eyed Peas, which was written in 2003. An interpretation of the message that the author is trying to convey in the song is the idea that there is massive discrimination and hatred ...

"Media is the new evil of the world. It is the reason people are provoked to perform violent crimes." This is a statement said by many American adults, most of the time without adequate knowledge about the subject. If they knew the facts, would they still say the same thing? Althoug...

It is truly amazing to see how far things have come for women over the last century. So many freedoms are so easily taken for granted everyday. The stories I read opened my eyes and even shocked me a little to situations I never considered or was aware of. Thanks to the convictions and courage of...

In the United States, sports teams and athletes are revered as some of the most influential and idolized people in the country. Some fifty years ago, the biggest celebrities around were Albert Einstein, Clark Gable, and Frank Lloyd Wright. These aforementioned people were all from backgrounds outsid...

The Ugly American explained in graphic detail the reasons why American diplomacy was failing in Southeast Asia in the 1950's and the reasons why communism was succeeding. As a list of events for the struggle for influence in Asia, it caused quite a diplomatic rage. Its lessons seem urgent today...

THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930‘S In the 1930's, the United States lived a terrible economic period. But, before the Stock Market Crash, of 1929 the USA lived the best economic period. This was a prosperous period with many economics? advances. But, everyone feltBlack Friday?, during Oct...

War of Deception Newspapers are a major influence on the way people perceive the world. It is a source which connects readers to many different topics of interest. Newspapers have also become a competitive business. With a desire to increase circulation and obtain more advertising re...

The ¡°Era of Good Feelings¡± was the period in U.S. history when people were stimulated by two events of 1816, during the presidency of James Madison: the enactment of the first U.S. protective tariff and the establishment of the second National Bank. With the decline of the Federalists t...

Lord, Walter. Day of Infamy. 243pp. New York: Wordsworth Editions, 1998 Day of Infamy examines what is possibly the most remembered day in American history. Author Walter Lord recounts the days and weeks leading up to the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor though the eyes of the people clos...

At the turn of the century, American readers were interested only in stories with happy endings, where goodness was praised and evil was punished. They did not particularly care if that was a false interpretation of the way life really was. When men such as Frank Norris, the author of The Octopus, w...

INTRODUCTION War has a great impact on popular culture within a society and in fact, infiltrates every aspect of pop culture including music, television, film, and even video games that children play. This has been highly evidenced during the present ongoing war in Iraq which culminated followin...