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Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

The Great Gatsby and American Greed

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

Influence of Women in American History

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

The Heart of Whiteness by Robert Jensen

Heart of Whiteness, Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege. San Francisco: City Lights, 2005. Jensens purpose in writing ...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

The Sexual Restrictiveness and Sexual Permissiveness of America

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which American society remains both restrictive and permissive in terms of sexuali...

History of Irish Immigration

the nationalist movement Sinn Fein was formed, in an attempt to establish once and for all a separate Irish parliament, with its o...

Issues: Robert Oppenheimer The Inequality of the Draft and Illegal Immigrants Trying to Avoid Exportation Because They are in High School

This is just 3 examples of the types of moral dilemmas we sometimes face in American Society. There are four sources listed in thi...

How Workers Built America

In five pages this paper discusses how the American workers built the US society and industry. There is 1 source cited in the bib...

Comparing the 50s and the 80s

This essay contrasts and compares various aspects of the 1950s American society to that of the 1980s. Five pages in length, five s...

U.S. Corporate Sector and Sexual Harassment Issues

made such conduct a crime of "discrimination for which the employer might be held responsible (Stein, 1999, p. 3). Despite a few ...

Weber and Marx Perspectives on U.S. Social Stratification

of the day where the lives of the commoners were ruled by the elite. If one examines Marxs original theory on...

The Evolution of American Fatherhood

as humans are mammals and the male mammal is often inconsequential to the raising of the next generation. Amneus (2002) makes the ...

Gilded Ages and African Americans

in the Gilded Age. In the presentation we will argue that the predominance of the Victorian Culture helped to shape racial relatio...

Traditionalism - Changes from the Early 1900s to Today

of the anti-democratic forces in post-Soviet Russia and by the end of the 20th century, traditionalism had entered the debate in t...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

America and Religion

systems. Durkheim, for example, considered that religion was grounded in the nature of things and that any belief system which doe...

Continuation of Segregation in the United States

reality. This is perhaps, incredibly evident within the field of education as it relates to the African American citizen. Granted,...

Issues of Welfare, Institutionalism, and Systems Theory

establishment of the institution of welfare was thought to be a process of liberal politics. The system of political decision m...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

Roe v. Wade Will Never be Overturned

the state has no interest in fetal life prior to a certain stage of development (when the fetus had developed to the point where i...

Equality - A Dream

about of black drivers being pulled over for no other reason than the color of their skin, coupled with an overly-paranoid cop. Th...

Racism in Contemporary America

lives of two young people, an Asian American, Seung-Hui Cho, and Kekoa, a Native Hawaiian. Both of these young men faced pervasive...

Addressing the Problems of Illegal Immigration

topic of illegal immigration is highly controversial in todays world. Americans want to place the finger of blame on some specifi...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....

Democracy and The Role of the Citizen

2006). Hudson (2006) acknowledges that he used to support the idea of removing barriers to increase voter turnout, but notes that...

Theories in Sociological Studies

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...