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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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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Huxley wrote this novel in 1932 about a hyperbole of a futuristic society. ... It's taking away their ability to think for themselves in ways such as being creative or imagining their own world to play in. ... They don't need to imagine a world of their own to play in outside. The game they're playing through a screen shows them everything they need to see. ... Playing without technology develops creativity, imagination, and keeps children staying active. ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (Qtd. ... Richard Wright wrote of an uncle whom during this period owned a small business which saw a great deal of profit, and as a result of that profit he was subject to a great deal of envy from local whites. ... For years women had aided in the movement to end slavery, playing a prominent part in the prewar abolitionist movement and often pointed out that both women and blacks lacked basic civil rights and later in the movements to give blacks civil and voting rights, though had themselves been deni...

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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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(Out of Many, 614) In addition to the revoluntaries that encouraged reforms, muckrakers also played a crucial role in addressing injustices and calling attention to the American citizen. ... Upton Sinclair was best-known for his novel, The Jungle, which he wrote in 1906. ... (Out of Many, 634) Ida Tarbell also brought about change, she wrote History of Standard Oil Company in 1904, were she exposed the practices of some corporations and strengthened the movement for outlawing monopolies. ...

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In 1953, Six counties in South Carolina pass a law that "prohibits the playing of popular music in jukeboxes anytime on Sunday or anytime within hearing distance of a church" (Nuzum 214). ... A Nashville deejay known as Great Scott burns six hundred Elvis records in a city park; WSPT in Minneapolis vows never to air any of Presley's records; and Los Angeles station KMBC refuses to play Elvis's Christmas Album, saying it is tantamount to "having Tempest Storm give Christmas gifts to my kids" (Nuzum 220). ... Some people affected by the attacks would love to hear Lewis Armstrong&#x...

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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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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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Also in the same document they wrote "We believe in constitutionally sound, evidence-based partnerships with faith-based and other non-profit organizations to serve those in need and advance our shared interests.... "Comprehensive immigration reform is essential to continue the tradition of innovation that immigrants have brought to the American economy and to ensure a level playing field for American workers....

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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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As Lesley Goober at Cosmopolitan wrote in her "The Incredible Shrinking Stars" article, "The message they (Hollywood) seem to be conveying is that in show biz, the thinner an actress is, the better roles they"ll get and the bigger star they"ll become." (211). ... The truth is, we can't have someone who's not skinny playing a character who has a boyfriend." (211). ...

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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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As it used to be, children would come home from school and go outside to play with neighbors at the park or in the yard. ... This is where creativity and motivational strategies come into play-how are you going to get on overweight person to the gym, when you can't even get them to take the stairs? ... In "Letters to the Editors" in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, three doctors wrote in saying, "It is our responsibility to shift current attitudes about weight management toward a solid evaluation of health risk... Intensity and frequency also plays a role in commute. ...

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He grew up exploring the hills, forest and lake near his father's estate where he acquired that play so important a role in his fiction and non-fiction. ... He wrote the novel as historically based as he could but still making it a fictional work. ...

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The modern understanding of this ancient theory of tabula rasa can be largely attributed to English philosopher and scholar, John Locke, who wrote on the subject in his work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding published in 1690. ... Throughout history philosophers have debated whether biological determinism and environmental determinism have more of an impact on the development of a child and why the adult's actions and personality traits are the way they are; however, each argument–whether it asserts that biological determinism is more affective on a person's development, ...

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If African Americans wrote textbooks then students" views of this country's history would be very different than has been the case. ... The role that African Americans played in this country would be gone into with much more detail and understanding as well. ...

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William Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis," which was one of the first high-quality poems produced in the United States. ... Transportation Revolution Railroads, canals, better roads, and steamboats all played a vital role in improving transportation. ...

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James Madison wrote in Federalist Papers #10, "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." ... The XYZ affair played right into the hands of the Federalist Party. ... The Federalist needed the Sedition bill to shut down the Republican presses and Bache played right into their hands with his publication of Tallyrand's conciliatory letter to the ...

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America the Bully As a child, my first remembrance of war is the Gulf War. I was sitting in front of the television watching the soldiers land from the helicopters to the sandy desert plains of Iraq. Forty-two days later, my mother told me that the war was over and that everything was going to be okay. Of course, I had no fear or worries. I had little understanding of exactly what was happening in a place that was so far away. ...

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This essay will critically evaluate the evidence for the view that the American criminal justice system is racist, comment on the view that the Justice system is racist, with evidence gathered from both sides of the argument, and will conclude to agree with the view that the system is racist. "We ca...

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Changes During the Fifties and Sixties When the fifties and sixties were talking shape the Second World War had just ended, America was going through a reconstruction process and many changes began to take place all over the world. Major issues were being faced and problems were in the works of be...

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He couldn't believe that the fort's flag was still flying at the end of the battle and later wrote a poem called "The Star-Spangled Banner," which was set to the tune of an English drinking song. ...

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