American Studies 356/History 356K Main Currents in American Culture Since 1865 Fall‚ 2010 Dr. Mark Smith TTh 2-3:30 Burdine 428 Burdine 134 Tues 10-11‚ Th 12:30-2 and by appt. 232-2150/471-7277/e-mail: mcsmith@mail.utexas.edu Teaching Assistant: Jeanette Vaught Office: Burdine 408 Hours: TTh 3:30-5 and by appt. At the end of the Civil War‚ American society became flooded with new technologies‚ ethnic groups‚ ideas‚ and customs. A society‚ which had bewildered earlier
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of adults believe the American dream has become impossible.” Many people’s parents drilled the American dream in their brain and that they can achieve anything with loads of hard work. “63 percent surveyed believe most children will live to be worse than their parents” ‚ (CNN). Horatio Alger National Scholars is giving us some hope due to the fact that they are awarding more than $100 million to undergraduates. The question we are all asking is as a nation could we have lost touch with what makes us so “American” ? Lastly
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McDONALD’S HISTORY LISTING 1948 In December‚ Dick and Mac McDonald open the first McDonald’s in San Bernardino‚ California. A little hamburger man called "Speedee" becomes the company logo. 1954 Ray A. Kroc‚ a Multimixer salesman from Oak Park‚ lIIinois‚ visits Dick and Mac’s San Bernardino McDonald’s‚ his curiosity initially aroused by the large number of Multimixers they were buying. Ray Kroc becomes the exclusive national franchise agent for the McDonald’s brothers. 1955 On April 15‚ Ray Kroc
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differences of things‚ qualities‚ events or problems. Compare and contrast the attitudes of three of the following toward the wealth that was created in the U.S. during the late nineteenth century. Andrew Carnegie‚ Eugene V. Debs‚ Horatio Alger‚ Booker T. Washington‚ Ida Tarbell. Define: Give concise‚ clear‚ and authoritative meanings. Don’t give more than one example to support your definition. Describe: Recount‚ characterize‚ sketch‚ or relate in sequence or story form
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~Dwight L. Moody This man‚ part of the social gospel movement‚ proclaimed the gospel of kindness and forgiveness and adapted the old-time religion to the facts of city life and founded an institute in 1889 ~James Gibbons An American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877‚ and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921. Gibbons was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886‚ the second American to receive that distinction. ~Salvation
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Income inequality means that there is no equality between people. Also‚ there are big differences between the rich and everyone else. This problem grows year after year. Some people become poor and other become rich. The American Dream is related to income because everyone who wants to achieve the American Dream must have a great income. Rich and poor people are all human beings‚ but poor people have stolen money from each other because they do not have a great experience to get money. Rich people
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at Iwo Jima during his visit and to commemorate people who fought there. It starts out describing the childhood of the six flag raisers. The six flag raisers‚ who the book is all about‚ names are John Bradley‚ Rene Gagnon‚ Ira Hayes‚ Mike Strank‚ Harlon Block‚ and Franklin Sousley. The story is about their life from their childhood to their time in the military and the battle at Iwo Jima. There is a part
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Manhattan Center for Science and Math High School 280 Pleasant Avenue New York‚ New York 10029 Tele # (212) 876-4639 – Fax # (212) 348-1167 J. David Jimenez‚ Principal Daniel Albetta‚ Assistant Principal Mr. Musialik‚ Social Studies Department Email: DMusialik@schools.nyc.gov 2014-2015 School Year Congratulations! You have been accepted into the Advanced Placement United States History Course for the 2014-2015
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and acting. Angelou also has many awards and accomplishments. She has three Grammy Awards‚ a Chubb Fellowship Award‚ a Ladies Home Journal‚ Golden Eagle Award‚ and a North Carolina Award in Literature‚ Golden Plate Award‚ Candace Award‚ and a Horatio Alger Award. She also won a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School. She has been in many movies and plays and even has a few CD’s of her own. One of her CD’s is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and a play that she was in
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land-grant colleges Colleges and universities created from allocations of pubic land through the Morrell Act of 1862 and the Hatch Act of 1887. These grants helped fuel the boom in higher education in the late nineteenth century‚ and many of the today’s public universities derive from these grants. liberal Protestants Members of a branch of Protestantism that flourished from 1875 to 1925 and encouraged followers to use the Bible as a moral compass rather than to believe that the Bible represented
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