This new writing influence can be found in the works of William Bradford, who wrote OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, and Anne Bradstreet, author of HERE FOLLOW SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE, JULY 10, 1666. ... This piece of history was written at the time of a religious revival, the "Great Awakening", which was marked by waves of conversions that spread from congregation to congregation- conversions so intensely emotional as to amount at times to mass hysteria. ... From this mixtures of outlooks came a very triumphant time in American life, encouraging writers such as Benjamin Frankli...

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However, the author fails to provide any statistics to back up her claims. ... The rate of obesity in America has increased greatly, and while there are plenty of people in our country with weight loss problems, there are also a great number of people without them. ... The author also spends too much time discussing the history of weight regulation. ... Statistics are necessary for a paper of this sort, and the author provides no numbers to back up her claims of weight loss being a problem. ... In conclusion, the author does a fine job of achieving her goals of showing how weight loss is ...

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I agree with the author believing that a woman should have the same rights as men, such as voting, earning a salary according to the quality of the service, not the gender. ... However, I disagree with the author when she says that, "A woman cannot find her identity through her husband, her children" that, "She cannot find it in the dull routine of housework." ... Education and work are not a woman's greatest needs as the author states. ... I actually believe that it was a good thing at that time to give such great importance to the family and be united as a family. ...

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The author succeeds in creating a dreary, morbid tone. ... Kazuo Ishiguro, the author, highlights the terseness between father and son. ... The author then shows the father has come to terms with the son moving away. ... The author goes out of his way to describe the stark walls and empty rooms. ... This betrayal is a bit more poignant because the story ends with the father's great hopefulness that Kikuko will come home after her studies are done. ...

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To name a few, there is the authors like Poe, Twain, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Frost. ... The students who have knowledge of there ancestors can prevent another Great Depression from occurring in America or they could learn a way to come to a solution instead of going to war. Not only does classical education have history added into the literature it also has a wider range of language used, a more developed writing style, and the authors of the material are more educated and able to promote their feelings through words. ... Because of America's great diversity of people from the start o...

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There were four points that authors during romanticism focused on libertarianism, nature, and the supernatural. ... Authors began to bring nature and natural surroundings into their writing. ... Besides his many notable inventions and discoveries, Franklin contributed a great deal to American philosophy. ... Thomas Paine incited a great deal of Americans against the British in his incendiary and rhetoric-filled essays. ...

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This book is based on a true story, told from the author's perspective. Frank McCourt was originally born in America, but his father moved them to Limerick, Ireland when the family fell on tough times; his father unable to find work. Frank and his family were poverty stricken due to his father's a...

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Article fifty tells the tale of how two political scientists at Stanford gathered the most perfect sample of Americans in the history of polling and persuaded Americans to answer survey after survey each week for many years in order to get a true idea of American opinions. The author follows an...

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The original author Washington Irving wrote the story in 1819, and the story was part of the book, The Sketchbook. ... The setting of the story is somewhere in New England while the country was yet the province of Great Britain. ... The comparison that is made using Rip Van Winkle between the pre and post war situation in a typical village is crucial to understanding one of the main aims of the author. ... s colonial past, how it was enslaved by Great Britain. ... This corresponds to how America won its freedom from Great Britain's oppression while Rip was in his long sleep. ...

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Tana Sanderson, author of "The Great Debate- Education vs. Experience" and Jan Eberly and Carmel Martin, authors of "The Economic Case for Higher Education" share the same sentiment regarding education. ...

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In the early eighteen-century authors like Emerson and Whitman used Romanticism and intuition to build up the idea of the American dream. ... Thomas Paine s Common Sense stressed the need for independence from the British with sentences like The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind (693:4). ... Authors like Bartolome De Las Casas claims [All] the people that could do so fled the mountains to escape these inhuman, ruthless and ferocious acts (17:5). ...

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Author Ann McClintock explains this in her essay called "Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising" when she illustrates with "A childhood rhyme claims that "names can never hurt me," but name calling is an effective way to damage the opposition, whether it is another car maker or a congressional candidate." ... But language has been a great thing for motivating people, and helping people out in need. ... Both authors of the essays make good points about how language has influenced us negatively, but I don't think it is that bad. ...

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The author emphasized the opposing views of many white males used to discredit Affirmative Action. ... I believe no matter how great our society has advanced towards equality we are not yet where we need to be. ...

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The greatest strike ever recorded or remembered in our history was the great strike of 1877. ... The Pullman Strike, as one author puts it; " was especially important in American perceptions of "the labor problem" of the time." The author tells us how the Pullman Strike is important because it was one of the first strikes to gain what it's objective had been and brought awareness to the people all over. ... The workers were finally able to achieve their goals in a more harmonious fashion than that of the great strike of 1877 and other previous bloody events. ...

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This excerpt shows how de Crevecoeur tries to sell America by describing it as being a new land to be free and that, "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world-. ... He felt that America labeled him as being a "Negro writer-, and did not accredit him for being special because of his great abilities as a writer. ... Baldwin was one author who looked through this disguise to try to find out what America really is to him. ... - is a great perspective in the eyes of a man who has looked at America fr...

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In the beginning the author explains how was it that the idea of fighting against the English, was mostly encouraged by the people of high power, the rich and the people who owned great part of the land at that time. ...

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Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator in the mid twentieth century, whose great fear of the rising communist party in both the Soviet Union and in America was reflected by a great deal of the country. ... Arthur Miller, author of the play "The Crucible," was one of the many Hollywood writers who faced public scrutiny because of alleged ties to the communist movement in America. ...

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The author of this quote was correct in presuming that music is a source for inspiration, expression, and finding cures. ... At least as important as the music, however, was the associated culture, which at the time caused great furor amongst the establishment. ... John Riatt, the author of this bold statement, accurately described the strength of music. ...

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Localized symptoms of edema, erythema, and pruritis can occur, and may be severe enough to require removal of the tattoo"(Education Digest). ): CATALONIA (Spain); BODY piercing -- Health aspects; TATTOOING -- Health aspects; VIRUS diseases -- Transmission -- Prevention Source: Lancet, 10/31/98, Vol. 352 Issue 9138, p1454, 1/2p, 1c Author(s): Bosch, Xavier The effects of society on teenagers are pretty great. ... Subject(s): TATTOOING -- Health aspects -- United States; HEPATITIS C -- Transmission -- United States; COMMUNICABLE diseases -- Transmission -- United States Source: USA...

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In the book The Business of Crime the author, Humbert Nelli, explains the impact Italian immigrants had on the entire country proving the fact that Chicago was not the only city in American were Italian Crime syndicates had great influence on American culture. ... Crime organizations had great influence on America's economy. ... The Italian crime syndicates were powerful because their influence was great all over the country. ... Across the country from rural towns to big cities alcohol was in great demand. ...

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One author commented that his ink had a tendency to freeze while still in the vial. ... Also during this time the standards of living were becoming increasingly high and as a result reading and writing could be given more priority. 26 newspapers sprouted up during this time along with many influential essays by writers like Alexander Pope and John Dryden .The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a reaction against Deism and Newtonian science that served to strengthen the Puritans. ... The lasting legacy of the Great Awakening was its denunciation of traditional authority that paved th...

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It also gives great detail of life in these camps. ... During the final chapters of this book, the author does a great job on describing the tough times the Japanese had returning into society. ... Jeanne does a great job describing how hard it was for her to return back into society, and how the people she had known growing up looked at her. ... This was a great book, and a very informational, historical reference to a particular Japanese girl struggles during this time. ...

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Author Laurence Yep argues in his piece, "The Hong Wah Kues Discover America," that the Chinese basketball team was used unfairly for the purpose of entertainment because they were treated as minorities and barely earned any money. ... Since the Kues were formed in 1939 and played throughout the 1940's, this meant that the economy still had to coincide with the repercussions of the Great Depression. ... The Chinese fortunately did not experience any conflicts amongst themselves because they had great respect for each other. ... The Kues took this leadership role with great respe...

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There is a great deal of evidence to show this problem. ... According to Philip Schlechty, author of Schools for the twenty-first century, "Public schools are the ties that bind this pluralistic society into a nation. ...

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They argued that segregated schools were not necessarily harmful to black children; great African American such as Frederick Douglas, Booker T. ... The court had to make its decision based on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when the amendment was written in 1868, but based on whether or not desegregated schools deprived black children of equal protection of the law when the case was decided in 1954, On May 17, 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren read the decision of the unanimous court: In the field of public education the doctrine of separate...

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