Benton spent much of his early career in New York City, where in 1912 he set up his first studio at 65th and Broadway. ... During the summer of 1917 Benton got his first respectable job as the director of the Peoples Gallery in New York City. ... His work at these was interrupted by a call to service in the United States Navy for World War Two . ... All this is pronounced by the only two full color paintings of the set. ... Benton's greatest theme of westward expansion frames the average American of the early twentieth century. ...

• Word Count: 2470
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although they are caught between two different cultures and expectations, Vietnamese refugees and immigrants successfully adapted and integrated into America with their infinite perseverance and diligence. ... The paper focuses on two specific aspects: how these developments create or recreate a sense of identity and how has it helped the Vietnamese immigrants integrate into American society. ... Preserving the culture not only consolidates their ethnic identity, but also integrates the Vietnamese Diaspora into the U.S popular culture, bridging the two cultures and nations. ... Little Saigon...

• Word Count: 2794
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... As exemplified in this poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (recited by an actor), Dickinson focused on themes relating to death, eternity, and love, usually in short four-line stanzas. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted little interest. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but cities such as Ife and Benin, among others, had been standing at their present sites for at least five hundred years before the European arrival. ... (Source 1) Ifa theology states that the creation of humankind arose in the sacred city of Ile Ife where Oduduwa created dry land from water. ... Ife was the first of all Yoruba cities. ... But though it remained a city-state it had paramount importance to Yoruba's as the original sacred city and the dispenser of basic religiou...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School