At each allowed stop, the dead were buried. ... (Ellis, walking the trial: one man's journey along the Cherokee trail of tears.) ... And then all American children know that The only good Indian is a dead Indian. ... Manifest destiny had to be a real strong belief of Jackson because he said What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and ...

• Word Count: 2915
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? Shouldn't man seek out the sunshine, instead? ... Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... Hale arrives, it is quickly determined that "Tituba knows how to speak to the dead,"40 and that more went on than simply dancing. ... This novel does not deal so much with witche...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The event, recorded by two eyewitnesses, shows that the man was unarmed and defenseless during the arrest, and yet the border agents continued their attack by beating him and using Tasers, even while he was begging them to stop. He was eventually taken to the hospital, where he was announced dead. ... These people have several things in common: they hold a negative perception of law enforcement; their established routines, such as walking or driving, are conducted with anxiety; and they have developed strategies of avoidance to mitigate the discovery of their unauthorized status. ...

• Word Count: 2803
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Diem labored under certain disadvantages: he had left Vietnam in August 1950 and had thus played no part in the glorious struggle against the French, living in America for most of that period; he had few political allies and was hesitant to trust anyone except members of his own powerful family; he was aloof and distant, a man with no popular following and neither inclined nor equipped to acquire one; and he was a devout Catholic in a Vietnam that was less than 15 percent Catholic. ...

• Word Count: 4657
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School