"Men fell on their knees to pray. Women hugged their babies and wept. Children danced. Strangers embraced and kissed like old friends. Old men and women had in their eyes a look of young people in love. Age-old visions sang themselves in me songs of freedom of an oppressed people. America! America!...
18 months. For a child waiting on something it is forever. For most adults it is just the blink of an eye, a measure of time that passes without much notice except on the calendar. I can rarely remember on any given day exactly what I was doing 18 months ago on that date. There are a few days in my ...
""Comrade, I did not want to kill you Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - "I will write your wife I will tell her everything I have told you....
Television brought the lives of the glamorous and beloved Kennedy family into the living rooms of millions of Americans, and it also allowed them to see the heartbreak on America's favorite news anchor, Walter Cronkite's, face as he delivered the news of Kennedy's death as he wiped tears from his face on live television. ...
When you think of Wilderness, would you define it as: an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region1 Depending on your background and what culture you were raised in, everyone's ideals of wilderness will vary. For majority of Americans raised in towns and cities, this is the image of wildern...
And the nightly TV lineup is chock-full of "News Updates, " "Special Reports, " and "Inside Exclusives " about the wild antics or good deeds, tragic downfalls or rising popularity, ongoing crackups or latest "recovery ", and newest loves or dying romances of our beloved stars. ...
Immigrants have always been the life blood of our beloved country. For hundreds of years, Americans have associated themselves with many different cultures. America is truly a melting pot; even today you can still see the influences of the many cultures practiced here. Immigrants, however, did no...
The decade of the 1930s can be defined in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the American economy. America was shaken by Stock Market Crash of 1929. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped in with his New Deal in hopes of bringing the US into more prosperous times. He promised to ...
Minorities from all over the globe wishes to immigrate to North America hoping to find a better living situation, enhance education and ironically to live in a country where individual's mind and self are valued with no oppression and power struggles. Despite these wishes, the movie The Joy Luck Clu...
"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Family Redefining the American Teenager The Rise of the Hot Rod Culture The Rise of the Excess Culture Baby Boomers and Redesign Converting from Chrome to Muscle The Automobile as Identity Downfall and Decline Conclusion Bibliography Introduction With the end of World War II, the United State...
Independence Day is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of the signing the US consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England's King George III. There was growing unrest in the colonies concerning the taxes that had to be paid to England. This was commonly referred to as "Taxation without Representation" as the colonists did not have any representation in the English Parliament and had no say in what went on. As the unr...
