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A Blue Care Network Analysis

Michigan with a family of products that has been around since the middle of the 1970s ("Company," 2002). There was a time when BCN...

Langston Hughes & Raymond Carver

sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...

Theater Design of Gordon Craig

in the nineteenth century traditional ideas of scenic design were rejected by artists such as Craig, who felt that scenery should ...

A Lively and 'Theatrical' Dinner Party

are likely to be found. To provide contrast, the gender of the second guest should be the opposite of the first guest. There will ...

Musical Theater Legend Chita Rivera

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and its Depiction of American Families

and harsh conditions, these family members work together, while arguing and combating one another, to move on and make their situa...

A Study of the American Theater

- the nation then being confined largely to the east coast" (Theatre History, 2003). The four largest theatre towns were Philadel...

Character Comparisons of Janie Crawford in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

and proper nineteenth-century Victorian lady; Zora Neale Hurston was a plain-speaking twentieth century African-American woman wit...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

Zora Neale Hurston's Porch and Carson McCullers' Café

be seen, as one example, in Hurstons short story "The Bone of Contention" wherein a man is talking to other men on the porch and r...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Domestic and International Marketing

"two nationalist and one globalist approach" (Ravenhill, 2001). The first approach was for the government to bail out the compani...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

Women's Opportunities for Employment in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

This paper discusses the employment opportunities for women and what influenced them in a comparative analysis of these novels con...

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

1880 to 1980, a Century of Russian and American Theater's Revolutionary Elements

In 20 pages this paper examines the revolutionary theatrical approaches of American and Russian dramatists with society, culture, ...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

Continuity in the Culture of African Americans

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...

Using Vernacular to Reflect Self Image in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...