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…computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. >From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer…

…The American Talk Show As I sat down and began to think about American Culture, I realized that there is one thing that binds us as a nation: Television. Television has been a part of American society since its prevalent emergence in the 1950's…

…The Spanish-American War was a relatively short war, it lasted less than four months. Aggressions took place between April 25 and August 12, 1898. The United States fought Spain in and around the Spanish colonial possessions of Cuba and the Philippines…

…Fast Food in American Culture What has the fast food industry done to our nation? Fast food has been around for a long time but in the past few years’ people have been eating out at these fast food franchises quite. The average American probably…

…Frederick Jackson Turner with these exact words, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." laid the basis for modern historical study of the American…

…Misrepresentations of African Americans in the Movies It seems that the entertainment industry has helped to shape the way that African Americans are viewed by modern day America. As a white male who has little or no experience within an actual black…

…The war between the United States and Mexico had two basic causes. First, the desire of the U.S. to expand across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean caused conflict with all of its neighbors; from the British in Canada and Oregon…

…American literature beginning with Puritans and going through the modern day, contains an array of different writers, styles, viewpoints, and inspiration. With a history like that of the United States, what else could you expect? American literature has…

…The Great Gatsby: The American Dream "Their love is founded upon feelings from the past, these give it, notwithstanding Gatsby's insistence on being able to repeat the past, an inviolability. It exists in the world of money…

…My Antonia - The American Dream- In the novel, My Antonia, by Willa Cather, everyone seems to be trying to pursue the American Dream. While they all have different ideas of just exactly what the American Dream is, they all know precisely what…