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Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

of African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the South and migrated North, in search of a "Promised Land" where they mig...

Katherine Lumpkin's The Making of a Southerner

student in the 1920s she became a civil rights activist on the University of Georgias campus. Lumpkin shows in her book that p...

Nathan McCalls' Makes Me Wanna Holler/Social Control Theory

grow ups and is exemplified when an individual feels that has a stake in their society as a whole. From the beginning of McCall...

The Children of Sanchez Autobiography of a Mexican Family by Oscar Lewis from an Anthropological Perspective

cycle of poverty is at play which acts to entrap its unfortunate victims into a set of circumstances which is all but impossible t...

Dementia Alzheimer's Delirium

This essay discusses several issues related to cognition in old age. This includes diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia, life...

Aging and Other Gerontology Issues

In eight pages this paper discusses how there are some individuals are are capable of better handling poor health and loneliness t...

Bildungsroman or Coming of Age in The Reivers by William Faulkner

This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...

Nature v. Nurture and Sexual Orientation

In 7 pages this paper examines heterosexuality and homosexuality differences in a sociological consideration of the age old argume...

Critiquing Literature's Treatment of Age and Youth

In a paper of five pages the youth and age of protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and A Clean, Well Lighted...

How Old Can We Go? (Article Analysis)

the results. The author explains: " Remove those factors and researchers find that U.S. life expectancy continues to climb, but by...

Creative Essay on the ‘Revolutionary’ King Lear

could have joined forces with another expatriate, Edmund of Gloucester, much like Fidel Castro did with the revolutionary Che Guev...

Sterilization Methods, Ancient to Modern

and isolation of contagious patients would save lives and slow the transmission of illness. Sterilization and disinfection of mi...

Social Resistance

educating his readership as to the importance of racial harmony. Gaines (1992) primary objective in this story is to point ...

Johnny Tremain

maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...

Overview and Summary of The Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal

In five pages this text on fourteen year old Magda's coming of age in the politically turbulent Uruguay is summarized and the focu...

Behavioral Genetic Component

In five pages this research paper considers the age old scientific debate on whether the behavior of humans is controlled through ...

2 Works of Ernest Hemingway Analyzed

may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...

Thematic Similarities in the Writings of Plato, Cicero, and Sophocles

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

Nurture, Nature, and Dislike of Certain Foods

II. TEENAGERS AND CONDITIONED RESPONSE Teenagers are notorious for disliking most foods that have any nutritive value to them, in...

Psychosocial Development Personality Theory of Erik Erikson

from the perceived "productive worker" to the now retired idle person. This time of life can be even more traumatic than adolescen...

Thematic Conflict in John Nichols' The Milagro Beanfield War

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

Apocalyptic Literature

new age apocalyptic literature appears to be motivated to essentially calm those who are disturbed. Apocalyptic Literature refers...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Young Child and Environment

other connotations as the factors of gender and race were thrown into the mix. In most models a person is constantly at war with h...

Personality, Behavior, and the Significance of Nature v. Nurture

that people behave themselves and conform to laws. Thus, the revolution in thinking about genes has monumental consequences for ho...

Security and People

adult at all times (Harris). This is the key element that all children need: they have to know that there is an adult that they ...

Drinking and the College Student

on-campus student residences. Forty-four percent of schools restrict alcohol use at several college-sponsored, on-campus events" (...

Aging and Dying in the Modenr Family

process can have tremendous detrimental effects on families, both from a financial standpoint and an emotional one. Results from t...

Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...