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Eric hobsbawm 's "Nations and Nationalism"
... criteria to define nations, such as ethnicity, language, common identity, territory and culture, citing them as "ambiguous ... Perspective". Governments had become occupied in conscious and ideological manipulation of citizens to contribute to the solidarity ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
John. Edgar Hoover - The Legacy
... his negative interpretation. Examples of the powerful descriptive language used when describing Hoover include: "Insatiably egocentric, Vindictive - ... in everything he did, Hoover was able to manipulate society through his talented oral skills. The use ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Aaron Burr, father of the political machine
... the natural prejudices and passions of men. To these manipulators, these designers, these leaders, we trace the parentage of ... composure concealed them. But so fervent and impressive was his language, and so lofty his sentiments, that his auditors were ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Emily dickinson
... expressed with vivid personal feeling, original verse forms and rhythmic language that gives her poetry a mystical directness that secures her ... dashes in this poem are good examples of Emily's manipulation of punctuation to create a unique rhythm in the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Innis's Screen Capitalism
... French and major transportation systems to also contain both languages. Despite the diversity of Canada, its institutions have been ... diversity, and that could be used to formulate and manipulate perspectives of citizens everywhere. With this in mind, the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History
Lawrence R. Tenzer,White slavery and the civil war
... stereotype, Tenzer shows how statistics on mixed-race people were manipulated to create notions of sickliness and inferiority which still ... racial stock. Tenzer is fully aware of the differences in language used in this issue. He points out that Northerners ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Sam Houston Biography - Outline for Oral Presentation to include intro, body, conclusion, transitions and references
... Private to Major General f. In 1823 as predicted and possibly manipulated by Jackson, Houston was elected to the House of Reps and ... and took Young Sam under his wing. e. Taught him the language and the ways of the land like woodlore, hunting, stealth and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Historical interpretations of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, including progressive, counter-progressive, and republican views.
... them. Leonard Levy echoes these statements, though in less harsh language, in his book Jefferson on Civil Liberties. McDonald also ... a touchstone, of we as a people are, some invented, manipulated, turned into something we Americans like or dislike, fear ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"Religion and the Witch Craze": accusations, trials and executions.
... of religious truth and it had been translated into several different languages and most took the translations literally as in Exodus 22:18 ... of a man, through his sly and cunning ways of manipulating weaker persons to do his evil bidding. This grew into ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
An Overview of the Hopi Indians.
... and irrigation, the Hopi could live in the desert by manipulating flood waters either to their fields or elsewhere to prevent erosion ... discern the exact meaning because the Hopi have no written language (O'Kane 1953: 156-7) Hence there is no definite ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History