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Identity of Native Americans, Religion and Politics

but it also led to a form of identity crisis for the descendants of these tribes. Part ancient heritage and part colonial industr...

Sylvia Plath's Poetry Experience

In five pages Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered in an analysis of reader experiences and how their tragic elements differ from 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...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Great Depression and the American Labor Movement

unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...

USS Maine Bombing in 1989 and the Reactions by American Newspapers

In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...

The Relationship of African-American Men to Conflict Theory

The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

The Myth of the American Family as Discredited in Death of a Salesman and An American Beauty

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

Comparison of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

In a paper consisting of 7 pages the poems in these two works are compared and include variations of 'Little Girl Lost' and 'The C...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

Great Literary Works, Experiences, Lessons, and Hope

In 10 pages this paper examines the shared theme of the determinants of one's identity as revealed within 'God's Pocket,' 'Tumblin...

Meanings of Spiritual Experience

In five pages this paper discusses the spiritual experience represented in The Cloud of Unknowing, Juliann of Norwich's A Revelati...

Alienation, Experience, and Identity as Viewed by Erving Goffman and R.D. Laing

In nine pages this paper considers how these mental health theorists view schizophrenic issues such as alienation, experience, ide...

The Aging Experience by Jennie Keith, et al

!Kung villages, there are no social customs that would bring old people together. Their most frequent interactions are with indivi...

Differing Workplace Experiences in America

from fourth-quarter 1999 projections" (pp. 8085). Clearly, this represents the level of dependency in all work realms related to t...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

In five pages this paper discusses this Native American text in terms of differences in worldviews between the Native Americans an...

U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

Experiences and 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' by Maya Angelou

In five pages this paper examines personal development and second class citizen infringement as depicted by Maya Angelou in her te...

Experiences and Metaphors

In five pages this paper examines how personal experiences are conveyed through metaphor but also discusses the constraints of gra...

The Mass Media and Black Americans

6 pages and 7 sources. This paper relates the fact that the mass media has promoted a variety of ways of viewing African American...

An Analysis of Slavery and Freedom in America

This paper consisting of six pages analyzes early Virginia's demographic and economic development as it is depicted in American Sl...

Spiritual Experience Personal Essay

In two pages the way in which a life event resulted in losing faith is the focus of this personal essay in which the writer descri...

An Article 'Dissociative Experiences of Sexual Offenders' by Dwyer et al Reviewed

In six pages this article is reviewed in terms of structure, content, findings, conclusions, observations, and critical assessment...

The Black Identity in American Politics

20 pages and 15 sources. This paper assesses the role of Black Americans (African Americans) on the politcal scene in the United S...