Angel Island Angel Island is little far from San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. ... The view of San Francisco bay from Angel Island is so pleasing and so beautiful. ... This feeling, however, must have not been come up immigrants during the time that Angel Island was used as a Gateway to the United States. Compared with the size of Angel Island, the immigration center is in a very small area. ... Fortunately, the immigration station was preserved, as an apparent exhibit of the hidden Asian Americans history, and a record of Asian immigrants' pathetic experiences....

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• Grade Level: High School

These two novels are The Killer Angels by Michael Schaara and The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. ... As this hostility escaladed the outcome would be the bloodiest war ever waged on American soil. ... The Killer Angels main characters are Robert E. ... The setting of The Killer Angels the glorious three day battle of Gettysburg that changed the outcome the war. ... Without these books, no one could possibly imagine the emotions, sights, and personal feelings of all involved in the American Civil War. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The ties of brotherhood were strong though, should any Hell's Angels member have a run-in with the law, all of the present Angel's members were expected to help in some form or another. ... I"m sure they have quieted down somewhat, but they are still regarded as one of the most organized crime groups in North America. ... Very similar was the case brought against one of Canada's Hell's Angels leaders. ... The only real difference that I can see between the Hell's Angels and the Mafia of Capone's era is that the Angels were able to stick around longer and go glo...

• Word Count: 1000
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Fallen Angels Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, begins with the introduction of an African American 19-year-old boy who lives in Chicago. Recently he's joined the army and been assigned domestic work as he hoped for due to his bad leg and unreliable strength on it. Then, by accident of pap...

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• Grade Level: High School

Makes it full man instead of ½ man ½ angel. ... (Arguments are the same as those for Angels due to the fact that these are angels. ... The "sons of GOD- are fallen Angels A. ... The name Elohim or sons of the Elohim are given to GOD and Angels, Angels being Elohim in an inferior sense. 2. ... On a quick side note, the American Heritage Dictionary states some interesting information. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They embraced new music that was introduced from America including Jazz and soul music. ... They were incredibly interested in the American Jazz scene predominant of Black America and it was through this music that Mods managed to differentiate themselves from the mainstream culture. ... I feel it important to show the strong distinction between the Rockers and the highly affluent Hells Angels motorcycle gang from America. ... The Hell's Angels are guided by a simple philosophy: "Fuck the World". An Angel does what he wants, regardless of the consequences. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

FALLEN ANGELS FCA's:1. ... The name "Warrior Angels" was given by Lieutenant Carroll to American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. When soldiers are killed in action, they become "Fallen Angels." ... He has an easygoing attitude with a hint of American pride. ... Americans were on unfamiliar territory. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Angels in America," focuses on the lives of two couples as they struggle through issues common during the 1980's; homosexuality, politics, AIDS, and religion. ... The other characters in the play are Belize, an African American homosexual nurse and Roy Cohn, a famous New York attorney and closeted homosexual. ... "Angels in America" playwright, Tony Kushner, purposefully makes these scenes awkward as he constantly challenges stereotypes throughout the playl. ... It is Kushner's ability to challenge American stereotypes through the use...

• Word Count: 917
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• Grade Level: High School

(Rise of Industrial America, 1851-1900) "New Immigrants- were immigrants who moved to America after the civil war. ... (History book, The Americans, Chapter 15, page 441, Angel Island.) These two entrance points, Ellis Island and Angel Island, had extreme differences; not only in the people who entered, but in the way each was run. ... (New Immigrant Movie) Angel Island was a prison compared to Ellis Island. ... Angel Island consisted of filthy, ramshackle buildings, in which Chinese immigrants were confined like prisoners. ...

• Word Count: 1922
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, tells the story of the historic Battle of Gettysburg. On July 1, 1863, the Confederate army and the Union army fought the largest and most gruesome battle of the American Civil War. ... In The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara brings us a vivid image of what the battle was like. ... The Killer Angels gives us an idea of how war affects people. ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I attended a lecture on the Chicano movement given by Jose Angel Gutierrez, an active member from the Chicano movement from the 1960s. ... Jose Angel Gutierrez was a key activist in the Chicano movement which became a popular uprising for the Mexican population in the United States. ...

• Word Count: 316
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

For some movies like "Charlie's Angels" and "Bad Boys", the entire story involves violence and if the violent scenes were removed there wouldn't be many scenes left. ... In our highly evolved society, most forms of violence are shunned, except for "American football" and "action movies". ...

• Word Count: 284
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel, The Killer Angels, gives the view that history is much more than just a series of dates and events; it's the stories of men showing their courage and fear under these extreme conditions. ... The Killer Angels won Shaara a Pulitzer Prize and sold more than two million copies. ... He was a man who had "grown-up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God." ... Along with heroism and courage, issues and values on both sides played a significant role in the novel The Killer Angels. ... What I liked best about the novel The Killer An...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, The Killer Angels, gives the view that history is much more than just a series of dates and events; it's the stories of men showing their courage and fear under these extreme conditions. ... The Killer Angels won Shaara a Pulitzer Prize and sold more than two million copies. ... He was a man who had "grown-up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God." ... Along with heroism and courage, issues and values on both sides played a significant role in the novel The Killer Angels. ... What I liked best about the novel The Killer An...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

America knows him better as David Koresh. ... These passages dealt with an angel of God separating the faithful from the sinful right before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. ... According to him, he was the seventh and final angel destined to be the agent of God who brought about the end of the world. ... Koresh was sure that this action would surely cause an American invasion in the Holy Land. ... At this point Koresh would be turned into a warrior angel that would cleanse the earth in preparation for the New Jerusalem. ...

• Word Count: 1322
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

America knows him better as David Koresh. ... These passages dealt with an angel of God separating the faithful from the sinful right before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. ... According to him, he was the seventh and final angel destined to be the agent of God who brought about the end of the world. ... Koresh was sure that this action would surely cause an American invasion in the Holy Land. ... At this point Koresh would be turned into a warrior angel that would cleanse the earth in preparation for the New Jerusalem. ...

• Word Count: 1322
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• Grade Level: High School

Many of the American soldiers didn't come home from Vietnam, and the ones who survived only survived because they learned to contend with the harshness of war. Walter Dean Myers wrote Fallen Angels, a novel that realistically recounts the day to day lives of a group of solders in the Vietnam War and the way they cope with reality of it; faced with the horrors of war, each soldier must either reconcile reality with his personal beliefs or cling steadfastly to comfortable illusions of absolute morality. ... The men in Fallen Angels who control their emotions and try to maintain morals as...

• Word Count: 668
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Killer Angels Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels tells the amazing story of the Battle of Gettysburg. On July 1, 1863, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac fought the largest battle of the American Civil War. ... The Killer Angels gives great insight into the lives of those involved in the civil war. ...

• Word Count: 930
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Fallen Angles was a great way for the author to show what kind of life styles that the American soldiers had to live like while fighting in Vietnam. ... Fallen Angels is the first real book that I really enjoyed because it was so enjoyable that I forgot that I was reading it for school and it was so easy to read it was almost like I was watching a movie. ...

• Word Count: 387
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• Grade Level: High School

Since the mid-1960's, there has been a tremendous increase in the popularity and quality of Latin And South American novelists; in fact, some call this literary movement "El Boom." ... The 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the Guatemalan novelist Miguel Angel Asturias. ...

• Word Count: 159
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

José Angel Moreno ITESM Nowadays companies are required to get funds for their operation and sustainability, in order to achieve this, they get credit lines. ... In a recent study americans showed that they where less probably to pay their credits, these is because they have no funds to pay the banks, and some others say that they are confident that in a period of time they will be able to pay them as the income starts to flow. ...

• Word Count: 476
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The loss of innocence is an evident theme in both Walter Dean Meyers' "Fallen Angels" and Tim O'Brien's "The Man I Killed". ... Comparatively it is evident in both pieces from Myers' with Lieutenant Carroll calling the dead soldiers "angel warriors" because usually young boys were the ones who fought the war; despite the fact that they were quite young and most of them couldn't vote. ... In "Fallen Angels" Myers' characterizes the loss of innocence through the young soldiers differs from O'Brien in "The Man I Kille...

• Word Count: 938
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• Has Bibliography

Both the story and the painting illustrate the relation ship between White settlers and the Native Americans. ... The painting shows farms and an infrastructure on the right side of the painting "the east" and a rugged wilderness with Native Americans in "the west." ... This perception of Native Americans is well illustrated in the painting by the contrast of white in the east and dark in the western Indian territory. ... The painting shows this belief with the symbol of the angel. ... In the painting the angel is leading the way westward. ...

• Word Count: 275
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

One of the largest and most wealthy countries in the world, the United States of America, has gone through many changes in its long history. From winning its independence from Great Britain to present day, America has changed dramatically and continues to change. ... Immigration stations, such as Angel Island, were a symbol of exclusion. ... Similar to the Jim Crow laws in the American South, Angel Island's racial segregation policy was created to keep the classes and races separated throughout the station. ... The hospital portion of the Angel Island was separated into to two distinc...

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While improvements have been made over the last several decades in the way African-americans are portrayed in the media, the entertainment industry still has far to go in its attempt to reflect Africans-americans properly. ... Again Hollywood adjusted by creating sitcoms that showcased upper-middle class African Americans. ... Also consider that long-running African-American shows are usually those that paint a picture of idiocy. ... Meanwhile, shows that shine a favorable light on African Americans, "City of Angels" for example, are short-lived due to low ratings. ... So what does the futu...

• Word Count: 516
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate