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The Navajo Peacemaking Process in Domestic Abuse

penalties for the abuse. In too many cases involving traditional native peoples, however, this also means that the victim is sepa...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Second World War Navajo Code Talkers Honoring Falls Short in John Woo's 2002 Film Windtalkers

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

Environmental Contamination on Navajo and Hopi Land

Grand Canyon in the last 15 years. Livestock have been poisoned and people suffer from respiratory illnesses and kidney disease ca...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

The Power of Myth: The Monomyth

of achievement and experience" (123). They are individuals who have ultimately given themselves to something that is larger than t...

Northern California Myth

up there" (Rigsby). However, while David admits that the days of the pioneers are over, "like many myths," he supposes that ther...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Barriers Between Readers and the Other

West, who defined the native American tribes as "savages"; and by so doing, made it possible to justify killing them (in self-defe...

Issues Facing the Transgendered Person

(2001). Duberman got his doctorate in 1957 and was firmly "in the closet" at the time, but when he wrote in 2001, he no longer had...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Payment for Donating Blood

the blood utilized by the pharmaceutical industry in developing vaccines, diagnostics, and drug products (114). That of course mak...

No Climate Crisis According to Author Michael Crichton

most entertaining books ever written, including Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World among others. His 2004 "tec...

There’s Something About Mary

fool has a wondrous capability of truly providing many different elements of human nature to the audience. They can be ridiculous ...

4 Interpretations of the Icarus Myth

notice. That he soared toward the sun on wings made of wax only to have them melt, plummet him into the sea and ultimately drown ...

Nutrition and its importance in Athletic Performance

Dispelling some old myths, this paper emphasizes the considerations that go into choosing an atheletes diet are basically the same...

The Mexican Government Analysis of Alan Riding

principal emphasis in this article is on the centralization of the Mexican government, as evidenced by the authoritarian nature of...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Parallels Between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Legend of Prometheus

and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...

'Daedalus Myth' and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

him all his life, what he had been groomed to do. To not become one would mean breaking free and telling everyone he knows that h...

Reality v. Myth of Jackson Pollock

a periodical that contained art and artistic literature. This is perhaps what truly inspired Jackson to enter into the world of ar...

Mythology for Nations and Individuals

the will to live together is the result of sharing past memories. These shared memories of common experiences, whether "of glories...

Woolf and Nancy: Interruption of Myth

community in Between the Acts fits with Nancys conceptualization of the interrupt of myth because Woolfs intention was to offer an...

Health Among the Homeless

They are in the community and spreading bacterial infections to the general public. Appropriate health care could greatly improve ...

Myth and Allegory in Beowulf

and Christian values that are embedded within the narrative; in other words, it, like many myths, intends to convey a central less...

Mythology in Advertising

image South African-ness. The markets of this iconic South African beer would often refer to it as the peoples beer (Talotta, 2000...