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- 321: The Gilded Age
- ... simply by having their wealth. Poor versus rich debates will never go away no matter how much change is done to government and society. The “just deserts” theory of poverty is one that best describes American society. “For many, the logic of the mobility ideology led to a ‘just deserts’ rationalization. The matter was simple, according to a local editor: ‘We declare it a vice and a sin for a man ... be poor, if he can help it.’ And the typical poor man in America could help it”(Thernstrom33). More often than not poverty can be helped. Perhaps poverty is what is deserved for laziness in American society. America can not alleviate the defective state of society. Other nations inevitably encounter many of the very same problems and deal with them differently, establishing a wide range of economic systems. Some take on ... a freely flowing economy that places little or not restriction on occupation allowing individuals utmost rights. America took on an ethos of a mixed economy of market and command that struck a successful economic equilibrium. American economy also changes with different periods of history. The Civil War had lit the spark of industrialization needed to enhance the American economy. Technology advanced by leaps and bounds and free labor was done ...
- 322: Native Americans and the American Dream
- Native Americans and the American Dream Americans have always believed that in a free society people showing individual responsibility and diligence will get ahead. So deeply ingrained is this belief that it is known as the "American" Dream. Dr. Ben Carson epitomizes this American dream. As a poor black male from the Detroit ghetto, he was able to pull himself up from his bootstraps to become an internationally respected Neurosurgeon. He credits faith in God and in himself ...
- 323: How Did Mao Change The Face Of
- How far did Mao Ze Dong change the face of China? As China emerged from a half century of revolution as the world's most populous nation and launched itself on a path of economic development and social change, Mao Zedong, its principal revolutionary thinker and for many years its unchallenged leader, occupied a critical ... throughout the whole struggle. In the early years of the Chinese Socialist Party, he was a secondary figure, though by no means a negligible one, and even after the 1940s (except perhaps during the Cultural Revolution) the crucial decisions were not his alone. Nevertheless, looking at the whole period from the foundation of the Chinese Socialist Party in 1921 to Mao's death in 1976, one can fairly regard Mao Zedong ... party. Almost all urban women and the majority of rural women worked outside the home. But women remained disadvantaged in many ways, economic and social. The Five Year Plan, The Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution The First Five-Year Plan, 1953 - 1957 Having restored a viable economic base, the leadership under Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and other revolutionary veterans was prepared to embark on an intensive program of industrial ...
- 324: The American Dream - Great Gat
- The "True" American Dream In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald paints a vivid portrait of life in the Jazz Age. Taking place in between World War I and the Great Depression, people during this time were all trying to achieve their own version of the American Dream. If it meant becoming rich as quick as possible, or the old fashioned way, everyone had their eyes set on the same prize, money. People would do anything to get it and morals were all but lost in this frenzy to become rich. Fitzgerald uses his novel as a way to demonstrate and criticize different versions of the American Dream. He gives us a variety characters and with each of these characters he offers different means of achieving the American Dream. Although many of the characters in the novel have corrupted views of ...
- 325: American Dream Of African Amer
- American Dream of African American soldiers after WWI During World War I many things changed, lives were destroyed; dreams shattered, and many soldiers who went to war came back with a different view of life. This lost generation was one of the main reasons why the speakeasies and popular 20s culture arose. That culture arose because the men returning from the battlefield did not care. Especially when the African American soldiers returned from WWI. They changed their views also on their American Dream. These soldiers the lost generation are what made the 20s. The African American soldiers when upon returning to the United States ...
- 326: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict With Social The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict With Social "It was according to the old saying, 'give a [African-American] an inch and he'll take an ell.'…Here was this [African-American] which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children - children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man ... Huck) is a 12-13 year old boy, one can't help but realize the hypocrisy in this statement that he said to himself. It is hypocritical because what he is accusing Jim (the "African- American") of (stealing children from somebody he didn't even know) is the exact same thing slave owners did when they brought slaves from Africa. Huck has this "passing on of what he denies" attitude ...
- 327: American Studies
- By: Dayna Hoffenberg Understanding America November 11, 1999 Midterm Examination American Studies can be a variety of different meanings to a lot of different authors. They are all pretty much on the same note, but with different alterations. For me, I believe that it is to make connections between the past and how it will impact the future. American Studies has transformed overtime. Each individual has their own beliefs and feelings of what it really means. In Gene Wise’s article he states how he is interested in how the field of American Studies has transformed overtime, what American Studies methodology is, and the types of questions that American Studies practitioners ask. I believe that there is no one way to understand America. For Gene, he begins ...
- 328: Native American Recognition
- A Past Forgotten Centuries ago a people filled and roamed the North American continent with an easy freedom and uncommon respect for the surrounding land. Nature and man intertwined in gracious style and extraordinary equilibrium. These people known as Native Americans led an amazing interdependent lifestyle with their ... from their homelands and confined to destitute reservations in the Indian Removal Act of 1830, more widely known as The Trail of Tears. (Trail) Regarded by the white man as uneducated and helpless, thousands of American Indians were forced to march to the reservations beyond the Mississippi, all the while being told it was for their own good. Eventually they were even expelled from these desolate locales for the mining of ... the horrific oppression of the white man was left to fend for itself against the growing power of the Federal government. The unjust treatment exposed to the Native Americans did not go unrecognized by the American government. Attempts to correct the unfairness and to compensate the Indian population can frequently be referenced throughout recent history. The National Congress of American Indians (NCIA) is the largest and oldest organization that strives ...
- 329: American Indians Between 1609
- The American Indians Between 1609 To 1865 The Native Americans or American Indians, once occupied all of the entire region of the United States. They were composed of many different groups, who speaked hundreds of languages and dialects. The Indians from the Southwest used to live in ... gems, cooper. seashells and soapstone.To this day, movies and television continue the stereotype of Indians wearing feathered headdresses killing innocent white settlers. As they encountered the Europeans, automatically their material world was changed. The American Indians were amazed by the physical looks of the white settlers, their way of dressing and also by their language. The first Indian-White encounter was very peaceful and trade was their principal interaction. ...
- 330: Making The Corps
- ... is Platoon 3086 at Parris Island, S.C., in 1995. Their story is about their eleven weeks boot camp training to become a full-fledged marine. Mr. Ricks writes about what separates the marines from American society, he writes how the Marine Corps differ from other branches of the Unites States military, as well as life after boot camp. How the Marine Corps’ values show contempt to those of the American society The Marine Corps transforms young civilians into a life of values: honor, courage, and commitment. These values are instilled in each recruit as they go through the eleven weeks process of boot camp. According to Marines these values are to the Corps and “comes before self” (p. 55). In American society we work to better ourselves first rather than as a whole. Drill Instructors strip all your old values and Marine Corps values are formed. “There is no ‘I’, ‘I’ is gone” (p.60). ...
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