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Musical Systems: Scales, Maqamat, and Ragas

This research paper offers a brief overview of scales, maqamat, and ragas, which derive from Western Arabic and Indian music respe...

American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

Cultural Differences in an Acquisition

The writer looks at the problems faced by Indian firm Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) when acquiring a western firm. The managem...

The Mystic Massacre

This essay pertains to the causes behind the massacre of Pequot indians that occurred at Mystic, Connecticut in 1637. Two pages in...

Future Currency Projections in Canada, Mexico, and India

This paper addresses the future of the Canadian Dollar, The Indian Rupee, and the Mexican Peso. The author discusses what events ...

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

In five pages this analyzes the novel in terms of the differences that exist between the British India at the beginning and the In...

Wedding Customs of Indian Natives

This paper discusses the continuing wedding customs of Native Indians with traditional wedding ceremonies explored in ten pages. ...

ESL Private and Public Experiences

In five pages this paper contrasts the public and private experiences of English as a Second Language school development as they p...

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

The New Indian Generation Moves Away from the Practice of Arranged Marriages

In a paper that contains ten pages the changes in attitudes regarding Indians that relocate to the United States are examined in t...

Philosophy of Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

In seven pages this research paper examines how King's philosophy of nonviolent protest was influenced by Indian practitioner of c...

Kanthapura by Raja Rao

In five pages this report examines the 1938 novel that is widely regarded as the first English modern Indian literary classic. Tw...

A Fine Balance/Misty

family to fear for its consequences, as compliance with the caste system was considered to be absolutely essential and defiance of...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Indian Music and the Tabla Drums

the emission of harmonics(Courtney, 2001). Musicians play the tabla (or a smaller one at least) by placing it in their la...

Indian Empress Mumtaz Mahal

issues. Mahals graciousness extended far beyond her own people, inasmuch as she felt that all of mankind should live in peace tog...

Indians by Arthur Kopit

putting on a play for the President and the First Lady is obviously designed to make the viewer angry (i.e. this is the "most piss...

Leo Simmons' Edited Text Sun Chief

a government boarding school he was pressured to cleanse himself of practically all elements of his traditional culture. He was f...

Women and the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

or three line synopsis of the story. Then, there would be at two or three points which illustrate how women in this piece are trea...

Young Women Depicted as Objects in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...

Objectification of Women in 'Soldier's Home' and 'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this research paper examines how Ernest Hemingway uses women as objects in his stories 'Soldier's Home' and 'Indian C...

Critical Measures Undertaken by US Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson

"The Senate concurred with this decision and voted ratification on Oct. 20, 1803. The Spanish, who had never given up physical po...

Historical Indian Epic Mahabharata

Western thinking is presented in an interview with French author Jean-Claude Carriere who adapted the great epic for the stage. ...

In Custody by Anita Desai

nature of Indian nationalism that was formulated during the colonial period (Rege, 1996). To understand the relationship between...

'Emergency' and Indira Gandhi

that one might readily argue how this particular occurrence was almost predicable. Upon her 1971 election, Gandhis campaign cente...

Society of India and Women

and their domestic responsibilities before themselves (Varma and Agrawal, 1992). In order to initiate sociological advancement, m...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

1756 to 1763 French and Indian War

some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...

Pakistan and India's Political Relations

easily resolved (India and Pakistan: Tense Neighbors, 2002). In 1947, India gained its independence from Britain, and as a...

Ute Indians and the Meeker War

dealings with the government were not to their benefit and in the late 1800s, treaties with the Untied States forced the three ban...