Essays About Americanism
The notion of the American dream has become the main topic for thousands of movies, songs, paintings, and books. The so-called passion for freedom, money, and individualism is something all Americans strive for. Like most countries around the world, the United States has rich traditions and diverse culture. Since its founding, there were a lot…
A month after the inauguration of François Mitterrand in 1981, Reagan sends his vice president,George Bush, on a fact-finding mission to Paris. The same morning, the Presidential Palace of the Elysée announces that there will be four communist ministers in the newly formed socialist government. How will the number two from the White House, who…
In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby painted a picture of the Roaring Twenties as an epoch of decadence, idealism, and excess, tinged with disillusionment. To this day, a strong cocktail of romanticism and nostalgia has persisted in reinforcing this incomplete and misleading narrative by glossing over the growing hostility within American communities…
The Bilderberg meeting is an annual three-day conference established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Netherlands ‘to cultivate a relationship between the countries of Western Europe and North America.’ Participants are most usually European and North American political leaders, experts in Industry, Finance, Academia, Military, and the Media. The group operates using the Chatham…
How could someone describe emotions, personality, and setting? Imagery, materialism, love, racism, and many more topics are very important to how the reader can understand the novel, The Great Gatsby, and what is being said. When reading this literary analysis one can learn more about how the author uses these topics to explain certain events…
Roosevelt denounced ‘hyphenated Americanism,’ which he characterized as Americans relating to numerous nationalities and being increasingly faithful to a nation outside of the United States. Roosevelt affirms that the remotely conceived populace must communicate in English and embrace customary American goals. He relates work unsettling influences with outsiders who are seen as a ‘mechanical resource…
Sharon Kwinjo Hist 165, Section 1 TA: Salonee Bhaman The document at hand comes from the “James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers (JWJ MSS 49)” collection in the Beinecke Library. It is found in Box 26, Folder 6, titled “Series, I. Correspondence, Grace Nail Johnson Correspondence, Anti-Lynching Crusaders / c. 1922-23.” The document…
Revised Thesis Statement The Irish were a significant part of the forces that made up the Civil War, and even though they fought in every battle during the Civil War, some people think that the riots that happened around the time of the war made it difficult for the Irish immigrants to assimilate into society….
In his 2004 article, “One World, Rival Theories”, Jack Snyder asserts how the theories outlined in Stephan Walt’s article, “One World, Many Theories”, failed to predict events like the 9/11 attack. Even though the theories have their own way of “shaping both public discourse and public analysis”, they don’t suffice the power needed in today’s…
What is Catholicism? Catholicism is the largest Christian church. When Catholicism first started spreading the Americans didn’t like it. The idea of the unknown scared them as they believed Catholic immigrants as an ideological and a racial threat. Their different point of view made it difficult for Americans to trust them as they were from…
To sum up my finding in the conclusion of in Redeeming La Raza by Gabriela Gonzalez the “Mexican Problem” is a cultural and class division issue. The term “gente decent” or “decent people” refers to the Mexican elite that needed to distinguish themselves from the others crossing the border in the 20th century. They brought…
