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America's Game? Major League Baseball's efforts to globalize the game have come at the expense of maintaining a moderate level of African-American interest in the game
(2005-01-01)Baseball has long been dubbed as America?s pastime. However, with the increase in the United States? global influence, baseball too has experienced a rapid growth in foreign popularity. Economically, for Major League ... -
American Printed Mass Media: A Study of Chinese American Views on U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000.
(2001-01-01)Today, there are 2.5 million Chinese Americans and 70 percent of them are immigrants. Despite the differences in national origins, political affiliations, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds, Chinese Americans have ... -
Oxy-at-arms: A Student's-eye History of Occidental College in Wartime, 1916-1941
(2006-01-01)The redevelopment of Old Pasadena in the late 1970?s and early 1980?s was a catalyst for altering the way the city of Pasadena operates. The need for economic and retail growth was challenged by historic preservationists, ... -
Progress and Problems: Filipino Immigrants to the United States in the 1990s
(2004-01-01)A major characteristic that distinguishes the United States from other nations is its large number of immigrants from virtually every part of the world. Particularly since 1965, the number of immigrants entering the U.S. ... -
The Destruction of Paradise: Exploring Toni Morrison?s A Mercy and John Milton?s Paradise Lost
(2009-01-01)Despite overwhelming comparisons between the work of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, Morrison?s work filled with many Christian motifs and concepts which enter into direct conversation ... -
The infamously heroic William Jennings Bryan
(2006-01-01)William Jennings Bryan was born in 1860 and died in 1925. William Jennings Bryan was nominated three times by the Democratic Party to run for President. Bryan failed all three times. His failures in 1896, 1900, and 1908 ...