SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Forming an American Identity

Essays 511 - 540

Diaspora, Jewish Identity, and Israel's Role

has been the focus of world attention for generations. From a Palestinian perspective, however, this goal is simply unobtainable....

National Identity and Ethnic Music

band Yothu Yindi, has asserted that popular music provides a useful tool to propagate Aboriginal political awareness: (Dunbar-Hall...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

International Exhibitions and National Identity

own citizenry of the glory of France and to also demonstrate French glory to foreign visitors. Additionally however, a stroll down...

Spiritual and Psychological Influence on Human Identity

dangers and that bad things only happen to other people (Rodriguez,1995). That is simply one example of how Piagets work may be ap...

Identity in 'The New York Trilogy' by Paul Auster

to Quinn because they allow him to temporarily lose his identity. By walking, he could leave "himself behind," and simply give him...

Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Humor

literatures of the Native American Indians. There was a significant oral and narrative gamut of American culture which is both his...

The Natural by Bernard Malamud and Identity

implies that Roys tears at the end of the book signify his total defeat. However, Roys admission that he had never learned from pa...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

Importance of Graphic Design in Forging Corporate Identity

influential. Here we first need to what we mean by graphic art, and then at the way that modern corporate logos have developed m...

American Diversity

and economic issues must be considered along with positions of ethnic and religious minorities as well as issues that go to enviro...

Self Identity and Nelson Mandela

quiet demeanor. And yet, this quiet, intelligent man has managed to accomplish great things in his life. He is known the world o...

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

Overview of Experimental Feminist Poetry

Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...

Issues of Multiple Identity as They Relate to Nationalism and Individualism

both a person who is unique in his own right and a member of society. It seems that individualism as a concept...

Robert A. Orsi's Madonna of 115th Street and Catholic Identity

reader see that the various gestures and postures of the people, as well as the kinds of prayers said, and the way in which they w...

Northern Frye on Canada's Political, Social, and Cultural Structure

individuals interaction not only with their cultural background and heritage but also with the social construct of such phenomena ...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

History and Culture of the Cherokee

was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

Three Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca

another side of his work that illustrates Lorcas sexual instinct: dealing with conflict between human beings. The exact manner in...

English Football and Hooliganism

In eight pages this paper considers the phenomenon known as hooliganism and how this antisocial and violent conduct can manifest i...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Sports

Antinoos and Eurymakhos, presided" (IV 654-657). In this way, sports is used as competition for a womans hand in marriage. The c...

EU and Cultural Identity Issues

this exemplifies the common purpose and historical links which unite the countries of Europe and demonstrates that there are more ...