Major Music Types in America Through the past two decades in American history music has led the way in its influence of pop culture. The major types that have paved the way for other forms of music have been Rap or Hip-Hop, Rock, as well as Pop. These three have certainly left their mark on today...

" How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?" This popular song is the essence of the Roaring 20's. Times were beginning to change, and many different situations and events contributed to the change. Some of these contributors were The Prohibition, Th...

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...

I'm so tired of elected officials, politician wanna-be's, and media whores posturing and pretending that they know what's best for the entire country. Are we Americans so ignorant that we need fringe members of the government to tell us what is and what isn't acceptable entertainment for our kids??...

September 11th is the most tragic event and unforgettable day to Americans. Nineteen hijackers seized four commercial U.S. jets and crashed them into American symbols of the military and capitalism and shook the entire nation. As soon as it was evident that the massive destruction was an act of terr...

It's in our homes, our cars, our work and almost every other place we go. It invades our silence, manipulates our thoughts and plays on our emotions. It has been with us almost as long as mans very existence, has survived World Wars, famine, and disease and is constantly changing, while still ...

It would be a severe understatement to tritely say that the sixties and seventies in the United States were a time of social change. Rather, in all appropriateness, it would be far more relevant to state that these decades were the pivotal point of sociological, economical, and moral change in the d...

It seems that it may be mass media or pop culture that seems to portray talking "black" cool. Karla D. Scott from Saint Louis University makes the point that many people in main- stream America have the, "perception that black language use also indicates stupidity on the part of the user. (Gonzalez...

In the new two thousand Census, they show a increase of over sixty percent Hispanics in the United States. Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the U.S., over taking blacks which lead by nine million in the nineteen ninety records. The new figures are accounted for by large waves of new...

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...

The 1960s It may have been a decade of a myriad of effulgent paintings and intrepid space excursions, but for most people, resplendent canvases don't come near the mind when someone mentions the 1960s. So just what do we associate the decade with? The most intriguing part of our prior e...

America can mean something different to everyone. There is no one aspect that can wholy and truly define the vast, varied nation. To some it simply represents home. To others it stands for freedom, refuge, or the land of opportunity. Still to others it is a great antagonizing force - a country t...

The American IdentityAmerica does not currently have an established identity. Since it is a very young country relative to others, America does not have the time to establish an identity. America's past has involved many fights for freedom from other nations as well as from within our own nation. ...

In the turmoil of the 60's, America was at war with Vietnam. Butmore evident was the movement among the young people taking partin the protests and displays. Many people were against this was,especially the youth, an unfair was the was seeing many of our youthbeing killed and drafted in America. The...

"Terror in the Air"There are so many things that you can say about what happened in that day of Infamy September 11, 2001 but words can barely describe the things that changed all history books across America.September 11, 2001 a date that I will never forget and few will. This is that day that the ...

There are so many things that you can say about what happened in that day of Infamy September 11, 2001 but words can barely describe the things that changed all history books across America.September 11, 2001 a date that I will never forget and few will. This is that day that the world Trade centers...

Americans Must Give Up TV Violence For the Kids, Or ElseTo the unsuspecting eye, this nation's response and reaction to the rise in number of violent acts committed by teenagers could be described as appropriately overwhelming, but when examined more closely, does America really care? When examined...

Erin MolthenWHAT IS IT THAT MAKES AMERICA DESIRE YOUTH?What is it about those golden years that makes everyone older try and stay that desired age forever? In our society we can find countless examples of the older generations trying desperately to hang on to their youth. It has almost become too ...

Central to the success of McDonald's, as envisioned by Kroc, was thateverything would look and taste exactly the same at every location - he wasa great believer in uniformity and conformity. Now that has one effect whenyou're talking about what a restaurant's architecture looks like and whatt...