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2. The American Revolution was about the unalienable rights of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The American Revolution was a very personal war. Americans fought the British in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, rifles and swords. Why did Americans start this war? It was to win their rights, land, and freedom. Before the colonies could even think about gaining thier independence, they had to fight a long and gruesome war. Even after the first outbreak of battles in the…

historically throughout America. Initially, African Americans were enslaved and taken from their homes to work for white man’s financial profitability since the birth of this nation. Many were kidnapped from their homes in Africa and forced on lengthy voyages to tend for laborious tasks on American white men 's plantations. They were racially ridiculed and were deemed as inferior. Even though the civil war concluded in the emancipation of African American enslaved individuals, they still…

reasons tell us that the early Americans yearned for liberty.…

(Matsumoto & Juang, 2013). In the article, L. Robert Kohls discussed thirteen American values that are essential to living the American dream in which is somewhat the backbone of what America is built upon. Although, I considered myself Americanized after living in the United States for about twenty seven years, there is one distinct American value that is still hard for me to comprehend, the…

Originating in 1931, the first definition of The American Dream was written by historian James Truslow Adams. Described in a journal produced for Cornell Law School, Adams refers to the suburban status quo as, “That dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement” (Adams). Although Adams is credited for defining The American Dream, The Dream had been alive for centuries prior to it’s formal…

will earn God’s curse in the form of poverty.”(Hughes 130). Wealth and power also brought on a dominance ideal of the individual and what the wealthy were entitled to do for the community. Andrew Carnegie expressed this in his essay in the North American Review, “the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor...but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself…”(qtd in Hughes 131). Carnegie felt that is was the wealthiest person’s destiny to make…

of Blacks in Higher Education does not disclose how the four scholarly authors where chosen. The four scholarly authors are: • Rhett S. Jones, professor of history and Afro-American studies at Brown University, now directs the university’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. He chaired Brown’s Afro-American studies program from 1972 to 1984. • Alexander W. Astin, professor and director of the Higher Education Research institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. •…

What is African American psychology? African American psychology is defined as “the body of knowledge that is concerned with the understanding of African American life and culture. African American psychology recognizes the commonality of experiences of African people throughout the world” (Fairchild, pg. 93). There are two perspectives in which African American psychology can be presented. The first way in which the reaction of African American psychology to racist attacks on black people by…

g., a straw “Coolie” hat, a Maoist Red Guard uniform). In 2004, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle featured two Asian-American leads, both of whom played stereotypical Asian roles. The identity of Asian Americans has long been constructed through popular culture. This paper seeks to analyze how Asian American identity is constructed in popular culture by examining Asian American identity through a theoretical approach, as well as in sports and literature. Through a theoretical approach, the…

African Americans generally, persons living in the western hemisphere who are descendants of Africans, especially black Africans. Ethnicity is defined as a shared culture, which may include heritage, language, religion, and more. No ethnicity group came into this country without fighting for their place in society, but the longest fighting group was done by African Americans from 1620 to 1960s. Although slavery was abolished in 1865, the Civil Rights Movement ended it all. African American…