By the end of the chapter 1, the writer includes role of organizations such as LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens and their work to integrate Mexicans to American society. The next part of the book, from chapters Five to Seven, traces the origins of the Bracero Program, in which Mexican workers would be allowed to work in the USA. ... These chapters present the program and its impacts on US Border control work. ... Moreover, from the United States, she used many oral histories, official documents, biographies, a variety of books about the US border Patrol, the Bracero Program, ...

• Word Count: 546
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The authors writing style was very easy to read and follow, this book is divided into seven chapters, Origins, American Resistance, Revolution, Constitution-making and War, Republicanism, Republican Society, The Federal Constitution. In every chapter the author gives very good facts about each segment covered in the chapter, the book doesn't keep on talking about certain events for too long it just gives you the most important facts. The book is more like a bibliography of the American Revolution, this period is very complicated and important and this book answers some questions not cov...

• Word Count: 700
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee I learned things that cannot and will not tell you in the history books. ... Chapter two tells us about the Navahos. ... Chapter six brings upon Red Cloud and his peace treaties. ... Chapter 8 is about Donehogawa. ... In chapter 18 we find out that ...

• Word Count: 1920
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• Grade Level: High School

Stephen Kinzer is an award winning foreign correspondent whose articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.... He has written books about Central America, Rwanda, Turkey, and Iran, as well as others that trace the history of American foreign policy. He contributes to the New York Review of Books and writes a world affairs column for the Guardian. ... Kinzer often turns, for example, to the minutia of letters and personal diaries, long forgotten books, and obscure journal articles to give even the broadest historical o...

• Word Count: 955
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I told practicly everyone that i know, well everyone that i know that read books and instead of waiting for the movie based on it, to pick up a copy today or at least borrow mine. ... I'm not saying that I dislike Clinton as much as I dislike Bush, if I had one bullet i'd defintlay shoot Bush instead of Clinton, heck if i had to i'd problaby shoot Bush again just to make sure, but the view that Moore gave the reader with that chapter was nice, it gave the readers a chance to weigh matters more by themselves. ... On a personal note I particularly liked that chapter, I've bee...

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I believe that with the book's ending of "the beginning", a new chapter of life is commencing. ... In the preceding chapter, the officer asked Frank, "Isn't this a great country altogether?" In the last chapter, Frank replied to this question with, "Tis". ... In conclusion, it is clear to me that both books ended comparatively. ...

• Word Count: 681
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• Grade Level: High School

Chapter Two, of "A Peoples History of the United States," by Howard Zinn, begins with the arrival of a slave ship in North America. ... Here we begin to consider the first inconsistency presented in chapter two. ... As explained in chapter 8, after Texas became part of the union, the border between Texas and Mexico became unclear. ... The information in newspapers and history books is inconsistent with what actually happened. ... In chapter six, Zinn contrasts the treatment of women in colonial America compared to the Native American women. ...

• Word Count: 993
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• Grade Level: High School

"Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress- by Howard Zinn The chapter "Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress- tells history from the point of view of history's victims. ... In the middle of the first chapter, Zinn uses the historical treatment of Columbus to explain his own view on teaching history. ... When we read history books given to the children in the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure -- there is no bloodshed -- and Columbus Day is a celebration- (7). ...

• Word Count: 517
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nothing but the truth should be taught in books and classrooms. ... History books always try to avoid talking about the horrors of slavery as well as discrimination. ... Loewen also indicates that in some history books, historians describe slaves as not wanting to be free. ... Loewen moves on to talk about America chooses not to talk about War so much, Specifically that Vietnam War in chapter 9, "See No Evil " of his book. ... History books also leave out the fact that Wilson had a bit of a race issue during his Presidency. ...

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Now the next few chapters were very well written due to the fact that as stated before knowing the exact consequences to war are impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the star wars project was being passed around American fiction novels and he incorporates this into his book as the United Nations only recourse to try and prevent war. ... This two chapter sy...

• Word Count: 1812
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• Grade Level: High School

The book is also written in a way that it could be split in half and both halves would be perfectly satisfactory books. ... In chapter six, Egan easily could have said a few small fires near Wallace occurred but rather says, "a string of fires not far from Wallace, a row of nasty flames, small but intense, whipped up by the big electrical storm of July 26.... The chapters that follow the flames contain such detail and emotion it is extremely evident how much Egan knows about his subject, and he sincerely wants this story to be told. ...

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In Dani Veracity's article Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965) she relates that subjecting live human beings to science experiments that are sometimes cruel, sometimes painful, sometimes deadly and always a risk-is a major part of U.S history that would not be found in most history or science books (Veracity,Dani). ... For example, In chapter 25 of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, John Moore, did not give his doctor David Golde consent to obtain anything from his body. ...

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Ellis pulls the reader into the middle of the action by including the debate on the controversial subject of slavery in the chapter. ... If the government was to end slavery, they would face the problem from one of Jefferson's books that "both races could not live together on equal terms because of deep rooted prejudices entertained by white," and since both races couldn't live in equal terms they must be removed to some other location (Ellis 99). ... Ellis ends the chapter by explaining that since slavery was off the Congress' agenda for the next 20 years, it would no...

• Word Count: 1593
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Below Title III, the next tier of privacy protection covers some of those matters, which the Supreme Court has described as beyond the reach of the Fourth Amendment protection - telephone records, e-mail held in third party storage, and the like, 18 U.S.C. 2701-2709 (Chapter 121). ... Least demanding and perhaps least intrusive of all is the procedure that governs court orders approving the government's use of trap and trace devices and pen registers, a kind of secret "caller id", which identify the source and destination of calls made to and from a particular telephone, 18 U.S.C. 3...

• Word Count: 4175
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• Grade Level: High School

December 9, 1958, Robert Welch and eleven other men gathered in a meeting hall. They came from Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Massachusetts. He called upon these self proclaimed patriots to help him found a society of pro-American's known as the John Birch S...

• Word Count: 2226
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(Kitano, Chapter 7 pg.98) Many things got in the way of Asian Americans. ... "The books are full of black curves, dots like the eggs the boll-weevil lays each monsoon in furniture-cracks in Ludhiana. ...

• Word Count: 1277
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The books he has written, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have helped to influence presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. ... The book is filled with intriguing chapters on history and a bold analysis of present-day America. ...

• Word Count: 1228
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joyce Riley, an American Legion chapter leader once said "I was visiting the Desert Strormers at the VA Hospital and after two weeks I had the same illness they did just from visiting them at the VA." ... Multiple books and cases of illness have been published and denied. ...

• Word Count: 869
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• Grade Level: High School

American History Module Two Chapter 2 Assessment and Activities Reviewing Key Terms - On a sheet of paper, use each of these terms in a sentence. 1. ... Las Casas also published several books describing the destruction of the Native Americans. His books were read throughout Europe, creating pressure on the Spanish to change their policies. ...

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Theory links up the research and the problem, which is examined in the research. Theory allows the researchers a streamline of action. It is a set of logical, coherent, interrelated concepts, which attempt to explain some observable phenomena or group of facts. Review of the literature provides awareness of the facts and researcher gets a guideline for the inquiry of the problem. Theory is a systematic explanation for the observed facts and laws that are related to particular aspects of life. ...

• Word Count: 2056
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many people consider Appalachia as a mysterious region. Defining the Appalachian region has continued to stump modern scholars year after year. Today, there are still questions to what areas Appalachia actually lies in. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, We...

• Word Count: 2912
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The Texas Revolution, what significance does it carry in shaping nowadays Lone Star state? Be it as it may, this historical subject in hand holds much controversy, can be seen in the opuses of many authors, and showcases many facets of a major bone of contention within the article. Within the lines ...

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Citizenship of the Freed Slaves during and After the Reconstruction Slavery and the citizenship seem to be in contradiction of each other from top to bottom. Slavery is the state one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household whereas citizenship is the state of the status of a...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

• Word Count: 2184
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to reach the public, Mattachine established a press and published many books and the Society's periodicals: Mattachine Review, Dorian Book Quarterly, and Interim. ... In March of 1961, the Society's San Francisco headquarters announced the ouster from the group of its various national chapters, which stunned the homophile world and caught most of the chapters unprepared.10 The policies of the various groups were less civil afterwards. 2.2 One, Inc.: The homosexual organization One, Incorporated, was founded in 1952 by persons who were working with or interested in the...

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