The national guard website used to say that it served the role as the constitutional militia but now it doesn't and very few references to the militia remain. Either the national guard is the militia and they were unconstitutionally sent into Iraq, or they are not the militia and the gove...
The claimant's exploration and reevaluation of the familial past, with all its gothic overtones, forms an important paradigm for the American quest for national identity. Through a close reading of American claimant fictions by Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and ...
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These glorified stories claim to reveal what is exceptional or distinctive or virtuous about the nation, and they ground powerful forms of collective identity that help Americans understand who they are as citizens. At the same time, they usually dramatize some sort of urgent threat. So, in cele...
claim: Sometimes intransitive in BrE (used with for), strictly transitive in AmE. meet: AmE uses intransitively meet followed by with to mean "to have a meeting with", as for business purposes (Yesterday we met with the CEO), and reserves transitive meet for the meanings "to be introduc...
I don’t. And I bet these “true patriots” will never claim that, either. So then, the obvious conclusion is to look at the only changing variable: The fucking guns. Or perhaps we are more evil. How depraved is our society when we allow a man to murder an unarmed black teenager an...
The story highlights a fundamental difference in the way Native Americans and Europeans viewed perennial fruit trees. For the Lenni Lenape, fruit hanging from a branch could not be “owned” by an individual, nor could an individual claim private ownership of the tree from which it grew. Owners...
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I would predict a sig- nificant improvement in grades if blacks and Hispanics were kept apart from each other once they reached middle school, but the liberals who claim to care so much about them would never consider this obvious step. James Allston, Florence, Ala. Sir — I am reading ...
This declaratory judgment action arises out of a personal injury lawsuit filed against Nordic, a motor vehicle leasing company, in 1988 in the State of Maine. Nordic filed a claim for indemnification under its policy with American, despite American's representation that the policy had expired. Ame...