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…a hundred miles between them and the next individual. These farmers lived in primitive one-room dirt cabins carved out of an embankment, were faced with constant Indian threats, and survived on their own. These families valor represented the American dream…

…Voting defines democracy. Voting is the fundamental right of almost all American citizens over the age of eighteen. In insures that the will of the people is preserved. The essential difference between America and a dictatorial nation such as Iraq…

…The Great Gatsby and the American Dream Everyone wants to be successful in life, but most often people take the wrong ways to get there. In the 1920’s the American Dream was something that everyone struggled to have. A spouse, children, money, a big…

…Analysis of American Buffalo When looking at any play one must clearly evaluate the functional values which the work holds. These functional values are Entertainment, Exaltation, Economics, and Edification. In American Buffalo I believe a reader can…

…Perhaps one of the most romanticized images in America at the turn of the century is that of the Wild West. One of the most celebrated images of the Wild West was that of the cowboy, America's defender of the frontier. The American cowboy became…

…A History of African American Heritage in Chicago The massive exodus to the north began in 1915; a population of people weary of pervasive hostility and constraint in their former lives, fleeing a social system comprised of miserable…

…start not just the discrimination of Chinese immigrants in the labor movement, but also the right they would have to naturalize and become citizens. For more than a century and a half, Asian Americans, including Chinese, were barred from naturalization…

…The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens…

…Censorship of American Media and Music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press…

…F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, the Great Gatsby, contains a strong theme involving the American Dream. It reveals in the end, the downfall of those who try to achieve this dream, largely at the hands of those who have already obtained it. For James…