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Second World War Fashion and Social Trends

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

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 ...

Civic Participation According to Schudson

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

African American Imagery in the Nineteenth Century

or by those whose paintings are still recalled and researched. It indicates that although some struggles to free African Americans...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Achievements

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

Wealth Inequalities in American Society

while another might only have a Bic lighter and a camp fire. The blue collar worker category, in turn, also has its share...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

Slave Life in the South before the Civil War

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

Phillis Wheatley

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

The Roosevelt Administration and the Black Cabinet

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

American Society and Class

existence such as the types of housing that accommodates us is affected by class. Housing, in fact, is one of the most obvious ar...

Depression and African American Women

In eight pages this research paper discusses how there are factors unique to the life experiences of African American women that d...

Loss of Light and 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In four pages this paper argues that the poet's uses of 'light' involve loss of life in terms of the fighting for life and grief o...

Social Realist Ben Shahn

In a paper that consists of five pages an artist's engagements in issues in order to improve the American way of life are consider...

Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley and Her Impact

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of African American poet Phyllis Wheatley in a consideration of her life and her poe...

The Life and Career of Playwright Arthur Miller

miller.htm) was single-handedly instrumental in establishing Miller as one of the most well-received and respected writers. ...

Louis Pasteur and 'The Germs Of Dissent and The Origins Of Life'

own ideals of the impossibility of such an occurrence. The concept behind spontaneous generation is that "life can form from dead...

Life and Achievements of Daniel Webster

In five pages this paper considers the life and achievements of distinguished American Daniel Webster and also discusses his 'dark...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Capitalism

In five pages Miller's protagonist Willy Loman's life is compared with the American definition of capitalism and its tragic conseq...

The American Revolution from a Female's Perspective

In an essay consisting of two pages the fictional account of life for a white colonial Patriot living in New York State during the...

Social Realism and Ben Shahn's The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

In five pages this paper considers the importance of an artist to affect social issues as a way of improvement in American life wi...

The Client-Centered Therapy Theories of Carl Rogers

the Teachers College was the international center for the "dissemination of Deweys educational philosophy" (Gordon, Feb 1997, p. 7...

Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Work II

In nine pages this research paper considers this African American novelist, poet, and lecturer in terms of her life and work with ...

Revolutionary Mathematician Solomon Lefschetz

In five pages Russian American Solomon Lefschetz is featured in this overview of his life and U.S. mathematical accomplishments. ...

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry

scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there ...

Life and Contributions of Ida B. Wells

In five pages this paper considers the life and activism of Ida B. Wells on behalf of African American oppression. Six sources ar...

Nutrition Issues of Mexican Americans

In five pages this paper examines the problems Mexicans experience in American life adaptivity with a consideration of lifestyles,...

Family and History of the American South

with his own family and for any hired help -- or slaves (Glazer, 1992). Much of this Southern tradition continues today. The ster...