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A Consideration of Two Studies in Anthropology

so harsh and most of the children died. Glittenberg describes how she subsequently returned to Guatemala after that initial visit...

Post 19th Century Indian Women and How They Have Progressed

a degree. Indian women too, however, are slowly gaining momentum in terms of equal rights. While in nineteenth century Ind...

Indian Art Piece the Bodhisattva Maitreya

21 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2".2 One author, in relationship to the material schist and its use, states that, "Unlike their Mathuran coun...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

National Indian Identity and Mughal Emperor Akbar's Contributions

shrewd advisor who protected him and insured his safety, it is without doubt that the young prince would have seen another birthda...

The Poor Treatment of the American History

for the Native Americans and they did this without a thought to their natural human rights. American historical facts supports thi...

The Strategic Approach of the Shakkti Project

customer to buy them, and diversification, which is often referred to as the suicide strategy in this matrix, looks to the develop...

Main Theme in Flight by Sherman Alexie

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

Sea of Poppies by Ghosh

white which clearly brings into play language and communication styles. There is Paulette, a woman who is French but prefers to we...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

Indian Influence in the United States

Indian immigrants but it has also made its way here indirectly as the style has influenced Western clothing designers. In...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

Applying the Singapore Association of Counseling (SAC) Ethics Code to a Case Study

the nature of the counseling relationship and issues such as confidentiality. B(7) is breached in several ways, the receptionist...

Sequoyah and His Invention of Cherokee Syllabary

He even became known by the names George Gist and George Guess and served in the US Army in the Creek War yet he never learned ...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Negative Ramifications of the Canadian Indian Act

the federal government sought to eradicate the Native peoples. This fact is substantiated in the literature itself. L.F.S. Upton...

Recommending a Sect of Buddhism

the people of your kingdom should adopt. The Vajrayana "mythologizes the doctrine of emptiness" (Conze, 2003, p. 178). Through t...

The Sari as the Symbol of Regional Tradition and Women’s Status in Indian Culture

Said argued that this enabled the West to use this part of the world as "a benchmark" to measure its own progress while at the sam...

Regulation of Gambling and Casinos

started to arise in the 1970s and 1980s when under the Regan administration there was increased pressure for Indian communities no...

North American Asian Indian Temples or Churches

in the existence of Brahma or "the supreme world soul or spirit" (Ramisetty-Mikler, 1993, p. 36). The older generation incorporat...

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Buddhism, and Vedanta Hinduism

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

Comparing Sermons of Samson Occom and Jonathan Edwards

Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...

India and Hinduism

Interestingly enough, the Hindu religion is not one single religion per se, but rather, a collection of customs, traditions, belie...

Indian Sultanates from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries

be known as the Delhi Sultanate, early India succumbed to the "invaders" (Metcalf et al 4) whose original objective was to bolster...

The Ramayana and Its Interpretation by R.K. Narayan

short stories many in which he dealt with the political and social issues associated with Indian independence, many in which he pr...

Perception, Language, Cognition and Consciousness in Classic Indian Philosophy

modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....

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...

Ineffective Company Practices

Finally, well examine the Indian Motorcycles, a company that has manufactured superior motorcycles during the early 20th-century, ...

Right and Left Wing Politics in India

for those struggling to survive in a class-based society, it is also something that was never implemented properly. While India ...