Essay Question Why does Melville give readers such a broad range of races, creeds, and personalities on the Pequod? Discuss the imaginative constitution of "community" in an essay.The Unified Community on the PequodOn the Pequod, Captain Ahab created a unified community among the men of various races and religions. The ... Read More
Asian StereotypesBefore I even delve into the deep and complex world that is stereotypes, Id like to make one thing clear No. I dont eat dogs, I dont play a musical instrument, I dont go to an Ivy League, Im not a third-degree black belt, and Im not insanely good ... Read More
Lincoln A Dark Horse disguised as a Patriot King?When the Framers wrote Article II, they had a specific person in mind who they felt epitomized The Patriot King character they idolized (Ceaser 1979). They wanted an executive who would rise above the fray of politics, able to unify factions while ... Read More
FDR and The Modern LiberalDuring the Enlightenment period of the late 1700s, new ideas were being discussed and old ones reinvented. This time was also called the Age of Reason since thinkers and philosophers were turning their focus away from religion and toward the individual. They focused on the universal ... Read More
United States President Barack Obama certainly has some policies any glorified World War veteran would squint his eyes at. Since the insipience of the New Deal, American Liberalism has both challenged and adhered to our core values. In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, it's doubtful that any American ... Read More
A specter is haunting American Liberalism, the specter of conservative revival. Newspaper Editor M. Staunton Evans, 1960To begin his infamous study on the relationships between crowds and power, Elias Canetti writes, There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. Canetti is speaking here of a ... Read More
Factions Within the DemocratsWithin the democratic party are multiple factions that represent different degrees of American liberalism and differing party loyalty. First, the staunch liberals are the most left wing, and are most loyal to the democratic party. Against economic inequality, staunch liberals support issues such as abortion, the environment, ... Read More
K. A. Cuordileones Politics in an Age of Anxiety Cold War Political Culture and the Crisis in American Masculinity, which appeared in The Journal of American History, examines how concerns about gender, sexuality, and manhood transformed the language of American politics, and re-formed American liberalism. Focusing on the years from ... Read More
An ideology can be defined as a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs and interests of a nation, political system, etc. and underlies political action. Ideologies can reflect beliefs and interests of a large group or even just a few people. Political Ideologies, though, are about organizing and directing ... Read More
1954s Brown vs. Board of Education court ruling marked the dawn of desegregation in America. South Carolina raised the Confederate flag above their state house a short time after the sentence the brief time period between the two events led many to believe the gesture was the states reaction to ... Read More
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies ofour time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened,streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded asthe definitive account of ... Read More
Lyndon B. Johnson and American LiberalismBruce J. SchulmanThis brief biography of Lyndon Johnson outlined his life beginning in rural Texas and followed the ups and downs of his political career. It discusses his liberal, active government mentality and its implications on both domestic and foreign issues. Johnson was obviously a ... Read More
American Revolution One of the central myths that many Americans entertain about the Revolutionary War is that victory over the British redcoats was quick and easy. A united, freedom-loving country rose up in righteous anger at the King's tyrannical actions, grabbed their trusty flintlocks, hid behind trees and walls, defeated ... Read More
Franklin Delano RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States. Roosevelt served longer than any other president. His unprecedented election to four terms in office will probably never be repeated the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed after his death, denies the right ... Read More
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States. Roosevelt served longer than any other president. His unprecedented election to four terms in office will probably never be repeated the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed after his death, denies the ... Read More
American RevolutionOne of the central myths that many Americans entertain about the Revolutionary War is that victory over the British redcoats was quick and easy. A united, freedom-loving country rose up in righteous anger at the King's tyrannical actions, grabbed their trusty flintlocks, hid behind trees and walls, defeated the ... Read More
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDYThe mystery of Robert F. Kennedys life and tragic death, may never besolved. However, it can be said that Kennedy always tried to help the poor, and theprejudged. He helped to boost the morale of the inner city poor, and the AfricanAmericans, who had to fight just to ... Read More
Law never made men a whit more just and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. Thoreau Abstract Although anarchism had long been publicly reviled in the United States and particularly since the assassination of President McKinley in 1901 by ... Read More
Blood chilling screams, families torn apart, horrifying murders are all parts of the Holocaust. David Faber, a courageous, young man tortured in a Nazi concentration camp shares the horrors he was exposed to, including his brother Romeks murder, in the book Because of Romek, by himself David Faber. When Nazis ... Read More
The benighted state of AmericaThe World We're InWill HuttonLittle, Brown 17.99, pp320Where is America's Star Wars missile defence shield when we need it? Will Hutton is on a rant, and his target is the United States.Hutton's America is not the America of conventional wisdom. Hutton's America is a failed society, ... Read More
FDRI. IntroductionRoosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945), 32nd president of the United States (1933-1945). Roosevelt served longer than any other president a total of four terms. No other president will ever have a chance be in office that long ever again the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed ... Read More
Schaller, writing of Martin Luther King s expression of civil disobedience, claims it was in the language and spirit of Christian forbearance, and later notes Black frustration at the limited successes of nonviolent tactics. Sitkoff likewise notes the frustration of Blacks in SNCC and CORE over the limited pace of ... Read More
Roosevelt served longer than any other president. His unprecedented election to four terms in office will probably never be repeated the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed after his death, denies the right of any person to be elected president more than twice.Roosevelt held office during ... Read More
American LiberalismHow has the lack of a feudal tradition in the United States affected American life?The lack of feudalism in America has affected the way American people understand and view life in many ways. Louis Hartz argued that the lack of feudalism--and the lack of a revolution against feudalism--has made ... Read More
I. Introduction Liberation theology is a movement within Roman Catholic religion in Latin America that began around 1973 with the publication of "A Theology of Liberation" by Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez. Thus, Gutierrez is considered the father of Latin American liberation theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in ... Read More
Annotated BibliographyANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Alan Brinkley. Liberty,Community and The National IdeaAlan Brinkley is a professor of American history at Columbia University and the authorof the The End of the Reform. This article is from The American Prospect Online which is a liberal newspaper. As long as it is a daily newspaper ... Read More
Martin Luther King was a prominent American activist and a forefront leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. King played a noteworthy part in the Civil Rights movement in the US and around the globe through nonviolent methods that based on Mahatma Gandhis teachings (Tavernise n.pag.). As a result, Martin ... Read More
Several economists proposed a method to eliminate all the criteria after what the subsidy is decided and centralize everything into one single theory based on which they can give out a universal employment subsidy regardless the employment conditions. This theory has its roots in continental Europe and it brings somehow ... Read More
Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929 and died April 4, 1968. He was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and ... Read More
RooselveltFranklin Delano RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States. Roosevelt served longer than any other president. His unprecedented election to four terms in office will probably never be repeated the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed after his death, denies the right ... Read More