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Papers On U.S. History (20th Century)
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Analysis of Elaine Tyler May's "Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era"
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A 6 page paper which analyzes Elaine Tyler May's 1988 book "Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era," which asserts that after World War II, Americans preferred marrying young, perpetuating traditional gender roles and a secure home life, because of the unsettling experiences of the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War. Specifically assessed are the relative causal influences of these historical events to determine which factor was the most responsible for the desire of Cold War America to achieve security
through marriage, tradition and home. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGhomewd.wps
Analysis of Jack Metzgar's, "Striking Steel":
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This 4 page paper examines the governmental policies that served to improve the standard of living for both union and non-union workers. This paper is based upon the governmental policies detailed in Metzgar's analysis of the means by which the government intervened in the free market to manipulate the laws of supply and demand. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: GSStrike.rtf
Analysis of Michael Lind’s “Vietnam: The Necessary War”
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An 8 page paper which examines the differences between public perceptions (including misinformation) and the reality of the Vietnam War. Specifically considered is the information that was unavailable to the American people at the time, and what the Soviet archives have since revealed, and also discusses the most effective strategy in garnering home support for the war. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TGnecwar.rtf
Ann Banks' "First Person America" And John Ford's "Stagecoach": Representation Of Social and Economic Changes In The 1930s
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5 pages in length. Ann Banks' "First Person America" and John Ford's "Stagecoach" individually represent a changing class-consciousness related to modifying economic and social conditions of the 1930s. Indeed, it can readily be argued that imaginative texts do not directly document such experiences of the 1930s, but rather they indirectly represent conflicts, tensions, changing values and the ever shifting conditions of the particular setting. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCstage.wps
Antebellum Economic Development
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Reconstruction was a time of new beginnings
for the people of this country. It included successes as well as failures.
This 5 page paper explores the social ramifications of the reconstruction era,
the causes for the great expansion of industrialization that followed
reconstruction and the economic causes for the stock market crash of 1929 that
resulted in the Great Depression. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KTantblm.rtf
Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War
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A 10 page paper which discusses what the film Apocalypse Now tells a viewer about the Vietnam War. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: RAapv.rtf
Arguing About Affirmative Action
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This 10 page report discusses Affirmative Action, primarily from the point of view that it should be abolished. Negative arguments are presented in the first half of the paper. The second half refutes those arguments Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: BWaffirm.rtf
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