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…contribution to the history of film, and re-invented the "gangster" film. The movie won many awards for its great actors and director. The film was also the highest grossing film of its time and contributed to the recovery of the American film industry. Gangster…

…and improved' was the name of the game during the time of the Industrial Revolution. New inventions like Alexander Graham Bell's telephone in 1876 or Thomas Edison's more practical light bulb in 1879, improved the lifestyles of many Americans. Other inventions…

…Fitzgerald condemns his readers to the knowledge that the American dream is not the key to eudemonia but rather the stair way which once started upon leads inescapably to destruction. When we refuse to accept reality, we lose it completely. The notion…

…a better sense of being to the American and truly unifies the country by the telling of the courageous stories of those who have come before and have risen from their upbringing to significantly change the United States of America. One such person who deserves…

…it should be, which is an institution devoted to the development of the intellect. American education should however, be more than rote instruction of mandated materials. Our children should be taught more life skills along with science and math. Children…

…"Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?" This is the question that William Lloyd Garrison asked in his introduction to the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. To a colored human…

…the seeds of abolition. From the early days of the Puritans to the time of the American Revolutionary War, men and women of great conscience gathered to express their outrage at a morally and ethically corrupt institution. Samuel Sewall, a wealthy merchant…

…Jessie James: Murdering Outlaw or American Hero There are two sides to everything. Coins have both heads and tales, the moon has a dark side and a face that we are so familiar with, and yes, the Lochness Monster has both a head and a tail…

…"The sculptor and the King" 1888 by George de forest Brush is the painting out of the four I that I connected with. Having Native-American roots made this piece of art more interesting and personal in a way that only certain cultures can relate…

…The Native Family Versus the Dominant Culture in "American Horse" by Louise Erdrich The current interest in what has come to be called "multicultural" literature has focused critical attention on defining its most salient characteristic: authoring…