American Symbols Essays and Term Papers

Hate Crimes

" are acts of violence directed against people because of their racial, religious, ethnic, gender, or sexual identity. They are also acts of violence against the American ideal: that we can make one nation out of many different people." Hate crimes are motivated by bias against the ...

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The Computer Underground

Department of Sociology Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 (5 March, 1990) THE BAUDY WORLD OF THE BYTE BANDIT: A POSTMODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND An earlier version of this paper was presented at the ...

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Collective Action Frames

Benford’s recent critique of the framing perspective in the social movements literature posits the need for a sociology of framing processes (Benford 1997). The framing perspective was inspired by Erving Goffman’s (1974) notion of “invisible structures” called frames (Ritzer 1992). The outcome of ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee's is a highly regarded work of American fiction. The story of the novel teaches us many lessons that should last any reader for a lifetime. The messages that Harper Lee relays to the reader are exemplified throughout the book using various methods. One of the most important and ...

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A Brief Overview Of Psychedelics

Throughout human history people have sought experiences that somehow transcend every day life. Some sort of wisdom that might progress their knowledge of self and of the world that they live in. For some reason they believed that the tangible world just could not be all there is to life. Some ...

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Luke's Three Dimensions Of Power

"Power serves to create power. Powerlessness serves to re-enforce powerlessness"(Gaventa,1980:256). Such is the essence of the on going relationship between the Powerful and the Powerless of the Appalachian Valley where acquiescence of the repressed has become not only common practice but a way ...

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Dyslexia

Growing, developing and learning are the facts of life for all children. Each day children are faced with many new concepts and various challenges. Can you imagine how it feels for a child to face not only new challenges life has, but to face these challenges while living with a learning ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Light And Darkness

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is one of the most analyzed and most discussed literary works in American literature and for good reason. Hawthorne's ambiguity and his intense use of symbols have made this work incredibly complex and incredibly bothersome. In The Scarlet Letter, ...

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Global Warming

The relationship between humans and the state of the ecosystem is not only dependent upon how many people there are, but also upon what they do. When there were few people, the dominant factors controlling ecosystem state were the natural ones that have operated for millions of years. The human ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird

Themes and Symbols in the Novel Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28. She was a caring person yet very curt, she wrote in one of her poems, “There is only one kind of love…love”, (Lee, Love in Other Words, article) which showed one of her better qualities. She told it like it ...

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How Was the Underground Railroad Advertised?

The history of the Underground Railroad has many books and articles written about it and they even have a few personal diaries and letters of correspondence but the question we ask now over a hundred years later after slavery has been abolished. Was the Underground Railroad effectively advertised ...

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The Green Lantern: Gatsby

Across the lake, on Daisy’s dock, shines a green light. The image of the green light in the novel The Great Gatsby is a significant symbol which reflects Gatsby's version of the American dream and mainly Daisy who is beyond Gatsby's reach. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses many other images or ...

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Europe as Simulacrum - Vojislav Despotov, Europe Number Two

Vojislav Despotov’s short novel Europe Number Two captures readers’ attention from the first to the last page. Despotov, Serbian novelist, introduces us to a game of imagination and reality, creation and destruction, secrets, conspiracies and revelations by combining fictional narration, ...

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Cognitive Development

One of the main tasks confronting children is understanding their environment in which they live. They relate to the environment in different ways due to the difference in their intellectual abilities. Bruner (1963) claimed that any aspect of the curriculum can be taught effectively and in some ...

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Adultery's Effects On Prynne, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale In The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about the lives and interactions of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale; three characters in a Puritan society who are affected by adulterous actions. Hester Prynne In the story, Hester is found ...

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A Breif History Of Comics

Comics: In the Beginning The modern comic, as we know it, began in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World on February 17,1895. The comic, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, was based on the life of Mickey Dugan, an Irish immigrant child in the city. Although the strip had no name, people have dubbed it the ...

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Constantinopolis

Architecture, the practice of building design and its resulting products; customary usage refers only to those designs and structures that are culturally significant. Architecture is to building as literature is to the printed word. Vitruvius, a 1st-century BC Roman, wrote encyclopedically about ...

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MTV And The Madonna Phenomenon

"Madonna's intuitive grasp on the televisual world in which we live- of the medium's possibilities for engaging spectators in diverse ways- that in part accounts for her success. She is the supreme television heroine." (E. Ann Kaplan 271) "What are the main theories which we have studied ...

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The Great Gatsby: The Green Light

The image of the green light in the novel Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a significant symbol which reflects Gatsby's dream and other aspects beyond Gatsby's longing. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses many other images or symbols. At first, it may seem very basic, but when ...

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Invisible Man

According to Goethe, "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Despite the hyperbolic nature of Goethe’s statement, it holds some truth. Because of this element of truth, society looks to psychoanalysis as an important tool ...

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