Again this sounds a great deal like the means in which America was founded, by brut force. ... In addition to exploiting Native Americans, Astor succeeded in forcing his employees in the western wilderness to buy from company owned stores at exorbitant prices (Meyers 1936; Rugoff 1989). ... On the basis of testimony presented by Joseph Valachi to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in 1963, the commission's Task Force on Organized Crime was able to construct an organization chart of the typical Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, family. ... The Sicilian immigrant...

• Word Count: 2135
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Allen Ginsberg's response to a post-war America is powerful and rebellious, challenging the values of ordinary American citizens and addressing the issues of McCarthyism, consumerism and capitalism that enclose him, in a corrupted American society where Ginsberg and fellow beat writers, and visionary artists were not valued. ... Moreover, conscription was brought in, forcing young men to join the army unless insane or medically unable. ...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The conquistadors needed labor force in order to achieve their goal of colonizing the New World, so they went to Africa where the Royal African Monopoly controlled a vast majority of the community and forced them into slavery. ... Their governments are corrupt and make promises that they cannot keep up. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Beveridge, who in his address to Congress declared that the United States would not back out of the Philippines, presumably because of the Filipino-American conflict of the time, and that as god's "chosen people" America should proceed to large-scale trade with the Far East and to become the great force in the world (Doc E). ... The Corollary was imposed, purportedly, in an attempt to protect the people of the North, South, and Central Americas from corrupt leaders and foundering governments, as Roosevelt himself said in his annual address to Congress (Doc F). ...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Washington ordered the militia to suppress the rebels, and Jefferson saw this as an abuse of power and said Washington had become corrupt. ... Nationalism is the unifying force that allowed the American people to break free in the first place. ...

• Word Count: 1803
• Approx Pages: 7