American Culture

In Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, there is one episode, “Waiting Between the Trees,” illustrating major concerns facing Chinese-American women. Living with their traditional culture in American society, Chinese-American women suffer the problems of culture conflicts. While their American spouses are active and assertive, they are passive and place their happiness entirely on…

The Native American Culture In The Red Convertible The Native American Culture in The Red Convertible In the short story The Red Convertible, by Louise Erdrich, the author, contrasts the old way of life versus the new. Erdrich does this through metaphorical symbols: the color red, convertible, summer trip, and the fancy dance Henry performs…

Leonard Bernstein is widely known not only as one of the greatest American conductors, but also as a composer whose creativity and passion was spread over a wide range. His social and cultural influences helped shape his career into a musical icon and his music rekindled the American spirit. Above all, he will be remembered…

Superlative is the grammatical term used when comparing three or more things. For example, looking at melons you can compare their size, determining which is big, which is bigger, and which is biggest. The comparative ending (suffix) common adjectives is generally “-er”; the superlative suffix is generally “-est.” For most longer adjectives, the comparative is…

The subject of “Man Takes First Steps on the Moon”, written by The Times of London is the first moon landing in 1969. The purpose is to announce and inform readers of the newspaper about the moon landing. This article appeals to ethos by quoting two of the astronauts on the mission, Neil Armstrong and…

Written by Alice Walker and published in 1982, The Color Purple is the story of two sisters living separate lives in the early 1900s: one a 14-year-old child wife living in the South and one a missionary in Africa. Although the book is set in the early 1900s during racial discrimination, the Great Depression, and…

How The Computer Has Changed American Culture How the Computer Has Changed American Culture When trying to envision the world of today without computers, I imagine that our lifestyles would be extremely different. “As exciting as technological developments may be .. it is important to remember that people who lack the skills or the machines…

.. oon became the guidebooks for passage through a successful trip. (Westhues 40-41) Through his writing, he spread the hippie motto of Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out. Ken Keseys acid tests and his adventures with the Pranksters drew further attention to the acid movement, as it came to be known. In The Electric Kool…

Simply stated, American pop culture is the popular culture of the American people. Pop culture comprises the tastes, preferences, customs, and behaviors embraced by the broad mass of the American public at any given point in time. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. Therefore, popular…

Yes, I intend to be the greatest architect of all time.” – Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959 It appears that from the very beginning, Frank Lloyd Wright was destined by fate or determination to be one of the most celebrated architects of the twentieth century. Not only did Wright possess genius skills in the spatial cognition,…