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…Lucretia Mott, a founder of and delegate for the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. At the beginning of the Convention, male delegates argued whether women should take part. When the British excluded the American women delegates, Mott and Stanton…

…Oswald's Tale An American Mystery By: Norman Mailer Oswald was born on October 8, 1939, into a lower-middle -class family in a downtrodden New Orleans neighborhood. Oswald's father had died just two months before he was born. Lee was born…

…period pieces or the films of big directors, repeated viewings of American Beauty will suggest that they really got this one right…

…of Cecilia’s life but it was in fact a good example of some of the social issues that posed a problem in society during the nineteenth century. Bibliography The African American Odyssey, Hine D., HIne W., Stanley, H…

…things I value anymore, as all the material objects in the world have not made me a better person. Thinking back to my youth, I can remember having no real ambition, jut hoping to accomplish what most everyone with any influence on me thought was “The American…

…war was the fire the fire that fueled realism into a burning fury, since it was one of the bloodiest American wars to date. Walt Whitman wrote a piece on the war entitled Specimen days and within the piece it brutally describes the war. “…Is this indeed…

…One of my favorite trumpet players is Miles Davis. Miles Davis, "American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s." Miles Davis was, and still is one…

…The Hopi Native Americans "The Peaceful Ones" By: Sarah Mallory <Tab/>The Hopi tribes live in small desert villages near phoenix Arizona. The Hopi's have six towns on three high mesas, and a seventh village shared with the Tewa Indians…

…Dick Hunter does in the novel Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. Written in 1868, Ragged Dick educates its readers about the American morals and principles of the mid-1800s. This novel illustrates the transition between the romantic-style literature of the pre…

…the expression “as American as apple pie” they could just as well say as American as a Norman Rockwell painting. Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City. His father worked for the textile firm, starting as office boy and eventually moving up…