Steven Spielberg’s An American Tail 1. In what year does the story take place? 1885 2. What country is Fieval Mouskawitz from? What religion is he? Russia / Jewish 3. Who / what do the cats of each European nation represent? Who / what do they represent in America? - Russia: Cossaks / Political Oppression / scapegoats for assassination of Czar - Ireland: British gov’t / Protestant landlords / famine - Italy: local Mafia bosses / political corruption - America: anti-immigrant prejudice
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American Infrastructure-Now or Never Because of the poor state of the economy the care American infrastructure has been ignored‚ which poses a danger to everyone that come in contact with it. Recent disasters have reminded many how important the care of American infrastructure is. America’s infrastructure gets a grade of “D” from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)‚ which recommends that we spend $2.2 trillion on repairs and maintenance. “Much of America is held together by Scotch tape
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American Dream A life of freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity‚ more commonly known as the American Dream‚ motivates people every day to achieve personal happiness and material comfort. John Winthrop‚ Judith Sargent Murray‚ and Ben Franklin encouraged this lifestyle by writing to the people of the United States explaining in their own way how this utopian lifestyle can be achieved. Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity” was written on board the Arbella on the way to the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Morgan’s American Freedom American Slavery documents the early and late beginnings of Virginia‚ and the factors that both hindered and encouraged the growth of the colony. It chronicles the most difficult and almost impossible survival of the first colony. The Trouble with Tobacco‚ Chapter 9‚ addresses exactly that the trouble with tobacco. In 1644 for the first time since its founding the colony was able to sustain a population that was not only healthy but was far out living their predecessors;
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American hegemony‚ coined in the era of World War II‚ is a predominance of power and control in one country over others (Babones‚ 2015). The word “Hegemony” is used to describe leadership in a system by social scientist. Power can be explained economically‚ politically or through military control‚ and America has been the forerunner in hegemony since the early 1940s‚ and has only continued its acquisition of power. The peak of American hegemony is often credited to the dissolving of the Soviet Union
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The American Hero Every child has fantasy’s of being a super hero and leaping tall buildings in a single bound or staring death in the face everyday and somehow finding a way to escape. All of these imaginative thoughts have been derived from the past literary works by the great writers of the early American literary period. These early writers entered society into a world of action and adventure‚ where one can see spectacular events unfolding through the eyes of a notorious man of
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The American Mafia‚ commonly known as the Mafia‚ Italian Mafia‚ Italian Mob‚ or the Mob in the United States‚ is an Italian-American criminal society. Similar to the Sicilian Mafia‚ the Italian-American Mafia is a secret criminal society without a formal name. Its members usually refer to it as Cosa Nostra (Italian pronunciation: [kɔza nɔstra]‚ Italian for "our thing"). The press has also coined the name "National Crime Syndicate" to refer to the entirety of U.S. organized crime‚ including the Mafia
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The Ugly American The Ugly American demonstrates a kind of ignorance that lingers in the American Ambassadors and the process by which foreign policy is created and implemented. Throughout the novel the characters consistently prove of this theory. One character in specific is that of the Honorable Gilbert MacWhite who is sent to Sarkhan in replacement of the Honorable Louis Sears. His downfall in office was a compilation of things of seemingly his own fault and misjudgment of his own and others
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American Exceptionalism American exceptionalism is not an assertion of common Americans. Rather it is a statement of the political establishment in the U.S. Political establishment in the U.S. tries to embed and implement the conviction that the U.S. is a “city on a hill‚” the “last best hope on Earth”. Stephan Colbert is very cute in portraying American exceptionalism sufficiently mocking the idea of “Americeptionalism.” At the same time‚ he reiterates his admonition that the U.S. is indispensable
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Jessica Smith Instructor Ashley Allen Composition 101 February 10‚ 2015 American Sniper Once the lights dim‚ the screen expands‚ and the audience becomes silent‚ the greatest true story to be told is about to begin. Chris Kyle‚ “Legend‚” grew up in a small town in Texas with an aspiration to be a cowboy. He then realized he needed something different‚ more rewarding‚ which is when he decided to utilize his special talent by becoming a sniper in the navy SEALs. While in Iraq‚ Chris ventures out
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