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…I would have to disagree that American liberalism broke down and could not solve the problems of the country effectively. "Before the New Deal gave the term liberalism its modern American meaning, it was a little-used word that referred to a belief…

…Television and Americans When television began great hopes and great fears arose concerning what its effects might be. With the flip of a switch, Americans could bring the world into their homes. Americans wondered if it would corrupt children with too…

…The American Romantic period of literature was simply an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature in America over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Like the writers who embodied it, it was a time…

…in opinion. Thoughout this essay I will talk briefly about how the civil war started then mainly what led to the end of this terrible event. The American civil war was a military conflict between the United States of America (the Union) and the Confederate…

…people brutally slaughtered, but their hopes and dreams of being free once again were also killed. Another unjust slaughter of Native Americans was the Trail of Tears. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which provided funds for the forced…

…Usually you will not realize that something went wrong until it hits you in the face. In other words, confidence may sometimes lead to disappointment. This does not mean you should not have any dreams or be confident that you are not a failure; I did…

…trying to buy happiness. Buying the American Dream is something that almost everyone does, yet it never works, it is never enough. LBJ believed in personal happiness. He believed that only oneself, no outside influence such as money, could make oneself happy…

…. In much of Latin American modern art, indigenism, social realism, and the stylistic aspects of the mural movement joined with an interest in surrealism. Surrealism, a movement in literature and the arts, emphasized the role of dreams and the unconscious…

…rate. They were also used to a representative government. Many of these immigrants came to America to farm. Basically these immigrants were easily able to adapt to American life. The immigration of this time, known as old immigration, was very different…

…Amy Goldich In his Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, James Weldon Johnson explores the meaning of "passing" in an American society. The reader never learns the name of the narrator in the novel, but you learn that it’s of little importance…