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RV Travel, the Retirees, and American Culture

is a relatively expensive endeavor as RVs do not get great gas mileage. In addition, their RV is not often their home. It is their...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Race And Public Policy

all across the country make their respective appeals for racial equity that much more poignant. Frederick Douglass What To ...

Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

Cultural Influences on HRM

arguments regarding the lack o of equality and the presence of the glass ceiling, the way that the issue is seen and the ways it i...

A Society of 'Post Work'

Lopez outlines the political situations that have led to the economic and cultural conditions of the present day in Puerto Rico. S...

Cuban American Community and Assimilation

the beginning of our history. According to popular belief, the U.S. has actually been more successful than other countrie...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing

two worlds, the tropical island and the cold city, and which would later surface in my dreams and in my poetry" (Cofer 1990, 15). ...

Culture and Science Conflict

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

Chinese Culture and Parenting Approaches

2002). Furthermore, the idea of mien (face) is very important in the Chinese culture and very directly related to respect and t...

Culture of Mexican Americans

The irony of the great American dream becomes quickly apparent. Never-the-less, Mexicans continue to seek that dream as a means o...

Identity and American Assimilation in My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

the daughters have difficulty understanding their mothers past lives and their perspectives on their daughters lives. The daughter...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

American Families v. Chinese Families

the woman more "desirable" and therefore more likely to marry and not be a burden on her family any longer (Family Structure, 2003...

American Icon Superman

insightful perspective of Superman, an understanding of Engles essay is essential. He reiterates the story of Superman, as who is...

Article on Conflict in Classroom, a Critique

stations. They practiced karate moves on the new carpets. Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as ...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Native Americans and Africans Compared

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

Group Work and Alderian Therapy

to move beyond only the routine approach to group work, she still provides an overview of group counseling theory as a foundation....

Film American Pie and Sex

just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...

Political Power, Supernatural Rituals and Anthropology

in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...

Pyramide du Louvre by I.M. Pei

controversial as the actual building. (An adjective often preceding his name is "iconic.") For one thing, the idea that an America...

Differing Views on Native American Distinctions

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

Cultural Effects of Negro Spirituals

and so realize their place in the world. Such was the convoluted logic of pre-Civil War America. However, the spirituals were much...

Mexican Americans' Culture and History

Mexican American identity in San Antonio, then, demonstrated the self-definition that took place that separated the Spanish Mexica...

Zoot Suit History

In five pages this paper considers the importance of the Zoot Suit that includes its enduring African American cultural influence....

Cultural Nationalism and Diversity

In eight pages intermarriages and issues of cultural diversity and nationalism are considered from a U.S. perspective through Jewi...