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This book is about the Japanese internment camps that were set up in America during World War II, and how it affected this particular family. It tells the story of the separation of the family members, hardships, and hatred that they had to live with during this time period. It also helps to open our…

Marion Barry, good mayor but bad man. Most known in America for his “Bitch set me up”, video taped, Ramada Inn arrest. Charged with possession of a controlled substance, he was still reelected in 1994. This proving Mayor Barry was respected by many Washington citizens and a good Mayor. Marion Barry was possibly a great…

Argument Paper Over the last twenty years, a large amount of effort and money has been spent over legislation regarding gun control. Gun control advocates maintained that increased gun control could reduce the soaring crime rates of the early 70s. However, most of the arguments used for gun control are the result of careful manipulation…

The Greatest Showman has been extremely successful. It has been highly anticipated and been promoted excessively. It’s been one of the biggest hits on Box Office with an impressive 434, 5 million US dollars made. Based on the true story of Phineas Taylor Barnum or more commonly known as PT. Barnum. Having grown up in…

If the answer is yes, then you know exactly how the Native Americans felt when the US government assimilated them. To assimilate means to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or like; adapt or adjust, states dictionary.com. The US government assimilated the Native Americans because they were worried about…

Charles Ives pursued what is perhaps one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. Businessman by day and composer by night, Ives’s vast output has gradually brought him recognition as the most original and significant American composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, Ives sought…

The First Reconstruction, emerging out of the chaos of the Civil War had as its goals equality for Blacks in voting, politics, and use of public facilities. The Second Reconstruction emerging out of the booming economy of the 1950’s, had as its goals, integration, the end of Jim Crow and the more amorphous goal of…

The New View of Reconstruction”, Eric Foner reviews the constantly changing view on the subject of the Reconstruction. The postwar Reconstruction period has been viewed in many different lights throughout history but one fact remains true, that it was one of the most “violent, dramatic and controversial” times in US’s history (224). In the beginning…

During the 1920s, sometimes referred to as the Progressive Era, political and social changes surfaced in society in efforts to progressively improve the nation. However, the 1920s can accurately be described as a decade of selfishness. Society was material oriented and, as a result, there was a decrease in religious practices. This is vividly displayed…

For centuries, men and women from all over the world have seen in America a place where they could realize their dreams. We each dream our own American Dream. For some it is a vision of material prosperity, for others it can be a feeling of secure and safe. It can be the dream of…