American History

Average box office genre in 2008.One segment in the comedy that has grown significantly in the past decades is situation comedy or sitcom. Concerning the issue, this paper will elaborate several points on American popular culture, humor, sitcom etc. Aims and ObjectivesConcerning the analytical review over the development of American popular culture, this paper will discuss three aims and objectives as following. This paper intends to discuss about American popular culture History and Humor. Using...

Slave power can be defined as the great social, economic and political influence that the slaveholders wielded. The slaveholders who lived in the South had far-reaching influence that affected all aspects of life. Their influence was not only over their slaves, but over society in general. Certainly, those who were slaveholders had considerably more influence than those who were not slaveholders. Slave power had control even of the government. Slaveholders were in virtually all the offices of the...

African-American is a term that has been used to refer to Americans who owe their roots to Sub-Saharan Africa. They have, in the course of history, involved themselves in activities that are in the in their interest as a group. Such activities included pride, defiance, and fighting for human rights. The governments during these periods did not seem to be comfortable with the activities of the African Americans. Their struggle dates back to the nineteenth century in the form of political movements...

This paper shall attempt to address the issue of gender as it has been portrayed and reflected upon in the Beat generation and its literature. By doing so, the paper shall attempt to achieve its purpose of identifying the contribution that the Beat culture has made to the evolution of the American society and in bringing it to its current standing. With regard to the commonly considered perspective that questions that Beat attitudes toward gender and seeks to identify whether they differ from those...

The Vietnam crisis had been gathering momentum since the early 1950s and American involvement had started in the 1940s and kept on increasing over the years. By 1965, the war escalated as President Johnson began a massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam. At this time, the antiwar movement established its roots as more groups who were opposed to the war became more vocal. The American vocabulary saw the emergence of such terms like counter culture,  establishment, nonviolence,  pacification,...

The progress of Negroe freedom in America since the end of revolution to the early nineteenth century owe a lot to the entire works of U.S president Thomas Jefferson. Over time, Jeffersons commitment to end slavery in America has received mixed reactions among various people across the globe. Some have adored his commitment to end slavery while others have criticized this commitment terming it as mere hypocrisy given that some aspects of his life proved otherwise. Since the 1700s, Jefferson writings...

The deaths of the popular American gay writers William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke and Allen Ginsberg cannot be deemed as the end of the Beat Generation which is considered as the most influential literary movements in the history of the country as such their influence is still very evident in todays poetry.    Beat Generation is a group of American writers who came to prominence during the 1950s which basically tackles issues about experimentation with drugs, sexuality and other...

The Sixties was marked of massive unemployment and poverty. The people of America are demanding for economic justice. Americans are calling for social change. People are caught up in the culture of protest  against poverty, unemployment, racial injustice, and against the Vietnam War. 1968 was described as a tumultuous year for America. Is it because of the rallies, picket, strikes, and sit-ins emerging around America These are the succeeding events that left scar to America. January 31 The...

One major similarity between the 1920s and the 1980s was the turmoil coming out from the previous decade. People living in the 1920s came out of World War I (1914-1918) and while those in the Eighties were coming out of Watergate (1974), a nationwide gas shortage (several years) and the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979). People wondered what the next ten years would bring.    Having ideological troubles abroad continued through both decades. During the 1920s, Germany and its allies were...

 The Vietnam War was one of the debacle  militarily and politically for the USAs policy in Asia. The collapse of South Vietnam, the US ally against the aggressive and disciplined North was possibly inevitable as the counter insurgency strategy of the US miserably failed. Former President Richard M. Nixon argued that the US was winning the war in Vietnam but we lost the war politically in the United States.  Such argument was perhaps a sort of face saving statement from politicians...

In his book, Toward and American Revolution, Jerry Fresia gives a thought-provoking account of one particular event in Americas political history   the framing and ratification of the Constitution.  Fresias approach differs from other authors in the sense that he sees the making of the Constitution from a different perspective.  Fresia sees something wrong about America based on what happened in 1787.  He views it as the creation of an elite plutocracy rather than a real...

Winthrop Jordan explored the culprit behind rampant racism in the US. He not only investigates US, instead he goes back from the first contact of Europeans to the Africans. In the book, Jordan suggested that white men encountered black men and monkeys at the same time, they thought that there was a connection between them. He said that belief was not wide spread but was available as a theory for later use. Fast forwarding to America, Dr. Jordan cites the writings of Thomas Jefferson, who seemed...

The making of wage labor regulation for the slave owners was the governments alternative solution to the demand of emancipation by the Black Americans.  Due to the westward expansion, capitalist had nothing to do but to follow this new law.  Otherwise, their businesses and the industry in general would surely drop.  On the other hand, anti-slavery organizations were making demands to abolish totally the slavery and slave labor.  However, Black Americans are still in need to have...

The 18th century came with the American Revolution which was the beginning of the manumission of the slaves. This was meant to be the beginning of a new life for the slaves though the process was gradual. In the Northern states, the slaves were given some rights for example in capital cases they had the right to trial by jury. Just after the Revolution, there came a trend of separation and segregation. The Americans became threatened by the free slaves more than the slaves themselves especially...

 In his book,  White Mans Burden,  Winthrop Jordan explored how slavery started in America and stopping his narrative short before the start of the civil war.  It can be seen here that it was not merely an issue of slavery, but an issue of racism as well, an issue which would survive the civil war and be rooted in some, if not a lot of of Americans then and even today.    Africans arrived in Americas shores as slaves, more often than not, against their will. ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) was one of the phenomenal event in the history of America. The survival of todays most powerful country was an outcome of the nations ability to bring the ideals of liberty, human dignity, equality and justice during the reconstruction process. This reconstruction process was one of the most chaotic and divisive periods in Americas history. The reconstruction began when President Lincoln issued his proclamation more commonly known as the Ten Percent Plan. This plan was...

With the end of the Civil War, the enmity between the North and the South ended. Confederate troops returned to the barracks many of them returned to farming or trading. Union troops were disbanded. The one-million strong Union army was severely reduced to 10, 000.  President Lincoln implemented a reconstruction program the purpose of which were as follows 1) rebuilding the economic infrastructure of the South, 2) abolishing the institution of slavery in the South, and 3) emphasizing industrialization...

1 Slavery was something that the North and South held in common before the American Revolution. Yet after the Revolutionary slavery became a polarizing sectional issue that drove the United States to Civil War. How do you explain this development IntroductionSlavery was an important aspect of economic production before the American Revolution. In deed, both the South and the North benefited immensely from the services that were provided by the slaves. In particular, the South relied heavily on slave...

1.The Thinker is a sculpture of bronze and marble created by Auguste Rodin in 1902. Although it is independent and self-sufficient, the sculpture was designed as a part of The Gates of Hell, a portal that depicts the characters of  Dante Alighieris epic poem Divine Comedy. The Thinker represents the Poet, or Dante himself, sitting in front of the Gates of Hell and pondering poem. Auguste Rodin worked on The Gates of Hell for ten years total. 2.Reflection. The Thinker depicts a meditating man,...