In the book‚ What Did the Constitution Mean to Early Americans?‚ Edward Countryman‚ the general editor‚ selects and introduces five reading selections by authors including Isaac Kramnick‚ Stephen E. Patterson‚ Gordon S. Wood‚ Jan Lewis‚ and Jack Rakove. Countryman’s purpose is to demonstrate to students the method historians use to examine historical issues and problems. This book is a series of related essays and the main topic addressed is how different kinds of people in America responded and
Premium United States United States Constitution Articles of Confederation
A Response to The Short Story "Sonny’s Blues" by James Baldwin Sonny’s Blues is a short story written by James Baldwin. In this story‚ Baldwin helps us understand the different ways people experience pain and suffering. It is a story about two brothers and the way they cope with pain and suffering in dissimilar ways. The narrator and his brother Sonny lives in a poor black dominant community in Harlem‚ where everyone struggles to survive. As the story begins‚ Sonny is arrested for using heroin
Premium Suffering Drug addiction Substance abuse
What It Means To Live Can the presence or absence of love determine whether a person is truly living or is not living at all? James Joyce’s “The Dead” is a work of the Modern era. In keeping with the time‚ this short story focuses on self-reflection and isolation. Throughout the story‚ the main character Gabriel is desperately searching for where his position is in the world. Gretta‚ his wife‚ also seems to live as merely a shadow of her former her. Although the story is predominately centered
Premium Love Marriage James Joyce
What It Means To Be a Patriot (1)Honor.There is a little bit of it in each of us‚ some more than others‚ but because they earned it. But what exactly is honor? When people think of honor there are a multiple things that come to mind that would define it. (2)People are often mistaken for what honor really is and who is deserving of it. Most people would think giving it to the patriots of their country would be suitable‚ which sounds understandable. But what is a patriot? (3)(T) In order for someone
Premium United States Nationalism Altruism
The American Civil Liberties Union is an American non-profit institution that works to defend American rights and liberties provided by laws and the Constitution. They also use court cases and through documentation of verdicts and are a very important protector of liberties and rights of the American people. From its official start in 1920 from the former National Civil Liberties Bureau the ACLU has been focused on the secular rights not of one theme but of all groups‚ from Civil Rights‚ free speech
Premium American Civil Liberties Union
In American society‚ there are many things that can be considered sacred. Sacred items are usually considered religious items‚ but that isn’t always the case. Sacred item examples include things‚ places‚ persons‚ and ideas. There are many ways to look at sacred elements. With there being many different elements that can be considered sacred‚ it depends on the person that is talked to. Someone may consider anything sacred if they wanted to. Most people‚ like myself‚ would correlate the word “sacred”
Premium Religion God Christianity
of making such a statement. One of these people was Marsha P. Johnson‚ an American drag queen and sex worker. She was best known for her role in the Stonewall riots. Her first trip to Stonewall was merely to celebrate her 25th birthday‚ but her influence would extend far from that day; eventually being a contribution to countless gay and transgender rights to be sanctioned in the future. Like Johnson‚ author James Baldwin was gay‚ black‚ and played a significant role during the time of great social
Premium White people Black people African American
What does it mean to be American? To me an American has always meant someone who is free‚ someone who is able to live their life as they see fit‚ someone who can live their life to the fullest. As an immigrant‚ America has always been this place where your dreams are real and possible. Once my family and I touched down in the United States‚ our goals and dreams became tangible. Success and American‚ has always gone hand in hand in my mind. I feel extremely lucky to live in America‚ if my family did
Premium United States James Truslow Adams United States Declaration of Independence
I am educated. So‚ what does that mean? To me‚ it means I have been taught a variety of subjects such as mathematics‚ social studies‚ science‚ music‚ and history in school. It also means that I have acquired a number of skills and values by virtue of my training‚ both at school and outside the school environment. Education can be received in a structured environment such as a school‚ at home from family members‚ self -teaching from books or the internet‚ or from simply soaking up knowledge while
Premium Ralph Waldo Emerson History of education Higher education
Case 26-4: Baldwin Bicycle Company* Note: This case is unchanged from the Eleventh Edition Approach The broad issue in this case is the analysis of the profitability of a company’s sales to specific customers. Most differential cost cases dealing with incremental volume are such that the student can reasonably assume that the “great majority (if not all) of the differential cost items will be variable costs. In this instance‚ a possible medium-to-long term volume increase of 22 percent suggests that
Premium Variable cost Costs Cost