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…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…

…An Indignant Generation." With all its disruptions and rage, the idea of black revolution was something many white Americans could at least comprehend, if not agree with. When rebellion seized their own children, however they were almost completely…

…American Women During World War II. America's entry into World War II posed opportunities for American women domestically, yet paradoxically heightened fears in the polity about the exact role…

…A Revolution can often be described as the overthrow of one government and its replacement with another. It happens when people aren't satisfied with their government and they want their government to change. But is it always necessary to take extreme…

…, has pointed out that the frontier-conditions prevalent in the colonies are important factors in the explanation of the American Revolution, where individual liberty was sometimes confused with absence of all effective government. The same conditions aid…

…Nicolaus Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavily Spheres. In this book, a new theory was proposed that all planets, including Earth, revolved around the sun. This was called the heliocentric theory. This theory went against religious beliefs…

…. And help to change it for the better." Over the many years since the publishing of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist in 1838, many have come to know it as not only art but also as an account of the social and economic problems of the industrial revolution. Along…

…ending of a famous millionaire. A song by Toshihiko Takamizawa captures the generalized immigrant realization, “Chasing after the dream/ Pride goes before the fall/ In the end will I find/ It’s a mirage after all?” (American Dream, Takamizawa) Takamizawa’s…

…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…

…Discuss the social and political causes made fertile ground for the French revolution King Louis XVI of France married Marie Antoinette, and together they lived in luxury, at the palace of Versailles while his people suffered. King Louis ruled…