Hollywood played a major part in producing a number of movies that provided a release for the war-weary. ... Sports also played a major rule during World War II. ... He wrote songs that Americans sung across the country and lifted spirits while family members were off at war. Guthrie wrote songs such as "This Land is Your Land", which described the beautiful land of America. ... As the new season approached, Landis wrote a letter to President Roosevelt asking if he should shut down the game until America felt it was a proper time to continue. ...

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After Sinclair was commissioned to investigate labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards he wrote about his observations in The Jungle. ... Upton Sinclair wrote dozens of books, pamphlets, and plays. ... He wrote a few novels before he wrote The Jungle. ... Sinclair wrote his book as fiction to introduce a family that had adventures relating to what was going on in America. ... The fact that he wrote it as fiction and not non-fiction did not detract from its usefulness as a historical resource because there were so many exact truths in the book. ...

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Washington wrote many pieces that include Sleepy Hollow, a tale of romance and horror, and Rip Van Winkle, a story about a man and how he changes over time. While Crevecoeur wrote Letters from an American farmer, a collection of letters describing the attributes of America. ... Crevecoeur wrote a very famous piece entitled, Letters from an American Farmer. ... Rip wasn't what anyone would call a poster man for the American Dream as he lazed about and played with kids all the time as evident in a few quotes from this story; "He inherited, however, but little of the martial character o...

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Richard Mulcaster wrote the words, "Nature makes the boy toward, nurture sees him forward.?Even though nature plays a role in defining sex and gender, nurture plays the greater part in helping society define the two terms. ...

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She wrote this essay while working as a lecturer in the Program for the Study of Women and Men at USC. ... One explanation for the obsession is the role fashion has played in weight regulation. ... We are placed in between a past where women fought for respect, and a future which is threatening to be the same as the past The author was a lecturer at the University of Southern California when this she wrote this essay, so the information she relays is more than likely accurate. ...

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Livingston in his book "A Prospect of Liberal Democracy " wrote: "In the developing nation the problem of democracy are more directly economic."... Money and economic status are playing a big role in the developing nation. ... Harvey Wheeler in his book "Democracy in a Revolution Era" wrote: "The problem of world order is directly related to the second issue, that of democracy. ...

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In the cave, he encountered a group of men playing a game that seemed to be a lot like bowling. ... The original author Washington Irving wrote the story in 1819, and the story was part of the book, The Sketchbook. ... Irving was called the literary vagabond in England, Holland, France and Italy and frequently wrote using the creative tools of fiction to comment on historical background and events of American history. ... (P.274) This quote shows how Rip Van Winkle interacted with the children of the village, and it tells the reader what the American children in the early 1800s enjoyed p...

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Oliver stone wrote and produced the movie, Platoon. 2. ... They played a significant role in the movie as they demonstrated the guerrilla tactics and warfare that was happening between the two camps. ... These people did play a significant role in the movie, Platoon, as they demonstrated how society functioned throughout the war. ... "All Vietnamese people should play for what they are doing to our people."... The movie demonstrated how Americans were viewed as the dominant force back home (this was proven by the way Stone wrote and directed it,) and how the soldiers viewed each other. ...

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While these people would play a part in the future prosperity of our country, the true future of America rests in the hands of the children and youth who will become the leaders, businessmen and women, and teachers of tomorrow. ... A great man once wrote that, "United we stand, Divided we fall." ...

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Richard Mulcaster wrote the words, "Nature makes the boy toward, nurture sees him forward.?Even though nature plays a role in defining sex and gender, nurture plays the greater part in helping society define the two terms. ... Boys must play sports; girls must play with Barbie dolls. ... But while it is true to say that nature starts the process, nurture play it and in the end finishes it. ...

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Hamilton supported that idea when he stated "I go no further," he wrote in The Federalist, "and affirm that bill of rights are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. ... The Bill of Rights plays a significant role in determining court cases. ... The Bill of Rights however wrote ten amendments that established and protected the people's right. ...

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Farming as most people know is an important part of are society and plays an important role in the hierarchy we call life. ... What initiative 300 basically does is keep small family farms and large corporate farms on an equal playing field. ... In an article she wrote called "A Good Farmer," she says that tobacco is the last big commodity in America to still be grown on family owned farms. ... So while family farms for the most part will be a thing of the past the may still play a small role in tobacco industry in the future. ...

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Censorship of Music In today's society, all types of music artists are expressing their views, opinions and feelings in their songs about what they see and what they know. This is on of the great things about this country, the freedom to express yourself. It is not fair, nor is it constitutiona...

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The colonists often had issues with it's mother country, however this first really came into play after the French and Indian War. ... After the Stamp Act was passed a group of delegates came together in New York and wrote up a list of grievances to the King, asking both him and Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act. ...

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But I feel that since Twain wrote the novel back in the time of slavery, or near the time of slavery, that it is surely not racist. ... Love and violence is clearly shown in the play, "A Streetcar Named Desire", especially with the characters Stanley and Blanche. ... Blanche and Stanley do not get along at all, and as the play goes on, there hate towards each other grows. ... The American play "The Death of a Salesman" shows us that success should not be measured by wealth. In this play, by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy Lowman is married and he has two sons. ...

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It was and still is sometimes played fast and shallow, with intentionally still rhythms on a piano. ... Tome Turpin was the first African-American composer and wrote a composition called "The Harlem Rag" that same year. ... Playing exactly in tune was often a more important issue then the feeling of the part. For instance, in early New Orleans Dixieland, the feeling of the phrase was of much more concern than any other aspect of playing. ... The term applied to a number of bands and small groups who played a darker sound than their big band era counterparts. ...

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However, I feel times have changed in America since 1979 when Rich wrote this speech, and women are making great progress. ... I also feel that Rich neglects to include the roll society, the way young girls are taught by their mothers, and American culture played in the oppression of women. ... I feel that Rich's anger toward men prevents her from seeing the role women play in their own ignorance. ...

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Golf boomed, with some two million men and women playing on nearly five thousand courses across the country. ... Plays and novels focused on adultery, and the new urban tabloids-led by the New York Daily News-delighted in telling their readers about love nests and kept women. ... All shared a sense of disillusionment and wrote pessimistically of the flawed promise of American life. ... They were critical of mass production and reliance on the machine; they wrote wistfully of the disappearance of the artisan and of a more relaxed way of life. ...

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According to Richard Rodriguez, who wrote "Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans", assimilation occurs when people (immigrants) acquire the culture of a group (Americans), becoming more like that group. ... Rodriguez believes that assimilation happens, and assimilation plays a part in the new upcoming mixed culture of the 'New World'. ... The DREAM [sic] Act plays a role in aiding immigrants as well. ...

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I look the part of the perfect wife and mother, and it's a part I play with all my heart. ... Nine out of ten considered themselves "very happy" and found work to be an essential ingredient, "a challenge and outlet," one wrote. ...

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The kids are either outside or downstairs watching a movie or playing cards. ... Pflanz wrote of the stress felt from the separation anxiety between families and soldiers, felt by the limited access given between them. ...

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When this happened many newspapers journalist {yellow journalism} took advantage of the explosion and wrote whom they thought did the explosion or who did the people want it to be. ... At 12:00 on that day you could hear Stars and Stripes forever playing with a 21-gun salute. ...

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"Jim Crow Laws" or racial segregation was soon to play an important roll in history. ... Wells, who wrote The "Anti-Lynching Campaign", had much to say about the brutality being placed among the black race. ... In the late 1800's a journalist wrote a newspaper pamphlet in order to divulge social barriers that African Americans were facing. ...

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In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... Medieval Islamic historians such as al-Tabari and al-Masudi wrote histories of great scope, often employing sophisticated methods to separate fact from fable. ... The way was prepared for the beginning of modern history. 9 Hist...

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By this time, he had moved to California, where he began a lifelong career of political activism and journalism devoted to exposing the evils of greed and materialism: Between 1917 and 1927 he wrote a series of pamphlets on aspects of American life, The Profits of Religion (1918; The Brass Check (1919), a study of journalism; The Goose-Step (1923), and The Goslings (1924) dealing with education; Mammonart (1925); and Money Writes (1927). (Americana, ) During this period he also wrote plays and articles; one play, Singing Jailbirds (1924) was a critical success but not a theatrical hit....

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