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Economic Productivity and Latin American Tourism

In thirteen pages this report examines whether or not the tourism industry in Costa Rica and Mexico has contributed to these count...

Different Cultures for Women in America

Women in America do not have a monolithic cultural experience. This paper examines the difference between Chicano and African-Amer...

Religion in Early America

In five pages the original 13 American colonies are examined in terms of their diverse religious practices with the effects on wom...

Three Decades of American Freshmen

In nineteen pages this paper examines the changing American freshman class in a literature overview that includes demographics, hi...

The Paradox of Change by William H. Chafe

In five pages this historical text regarding American women's twentieth century development is analyzed. There are no other sourc...

Trespassing My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege by Gwendolyn M. Parker

been one of the smartest children in a class, the teachers now refused to acknowledge her raised hand in answer to one of their qu...

Bildingsroman Aspects of Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

In seven pages this paper discusses the bildingsroman characteristics of Lakota Woman, which metaphorically depicts a Native Ameri...

The Conservative Movement and Judaism

Conservative Judaism has historically evolved along with its American congregations. This paper argues for a uniquely American rea...

The Wind Won't Know Me Book Review

In a paper consisting of five pages the conflict between the Hopi and Navajo is examined especially in terms of the impact this st...

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

Women's Studies and 'In Defence of Elitism' by William A. Henry

and every person. To say that women had to fight for their existence within a patriarchal world would be a gross understate...

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force by Mary Beth Mills

In five pages this paper summarizes and analyzes M.B. Mills' text on rural Bangkok women that examines similarities between them a...

Glenda Gilmore's 'Gender and Jim Crow'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages, the author's apology for her lack of knowledge pertaining to the African American women's strugg...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

Solving the Problem of the Homemaker in Feminist Culture

most comfortable for her. This is true whether an individual woman chooses to take work outside her home as the CEO of the worlds...

Yankton Sioux Zitkala Sa and Christianity's Impacts

non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...

Religious Roles of Native American Women

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

African American Social Contributions of bell hooks, Alice Walkler, and Betty Friedan

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty i...

Significance of Women in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions'

In a paper that is consists of 5 pages the African American woman Timbu is chronicled through parallels, symbolism, themes, and st...

People's History

In five pages history as seen through the eyes of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and factory workers is glimpsed in a...

Becoming an American and Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

from the traditional customs of her village and adopt more modern, urban ideas. For example, in her village, wives addressed their...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

American Women, Blacks, and Discrimination

of discrimination, the following thesis will be investigated: Numerous factors affect the level of discrimination...

U.S. Culture and Society as Determined by Women's Economic Role

of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can s...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...