Alexie shows that the Native American's history is more of importance than the white woman's. ... These events are acknowledged in the title " The Amtrak from Boston to New York", which identifies where the characters are heading and traveling on. ... The reader can infer that the Native American is being narrow-minded and judgmental by considering her an ordinary woman. ... In this quote the reader can see how the Native American has some sort of emotion to be not as unkind as he is in the poem. ... The poem uses tone to express the Native American's internal though...

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Manifest Destiny became the accepted title of the drive America had started into the west, and was the fundamental belief of American expansionism. ... Our reactions to the Native American issue however was a little less civilized . . . ... If applied to a right-wing Christian's thought process in progressive America, Darwin spells certain doom for the "inferior" native American pagans. ... Therefore, a civilized people like the settlers have a right and obligation even to force civilization on people like the native Americans. ... Clearly it was not hostility but social responsibi...

• Word Count: 2913
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He wanted to be in command and for the ambitious "do it my way" attitude that Custer possessed, an officer's title is probably the only way he would last in the military. ... This incident is easily referred to as a slaughter, which is basically what happened to the Native Americans that day. ...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

His ability to command his army through the Civil War gave him the title of a Southern Hero; some even viewed him as a higher being. ... "Lee's senior subordinate [James Longstreet] had been an apostate in his own native region, the man held responsible for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg and thus of the cause itself" (128). ...

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Abraham Lincoln was a very great man. He did many great things for our county. Abe Lincoln showed great leadership and he brought our country to a whole. If not for him, our country might still be divided today. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Currently the cou...

• Word Count: 2431
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School