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Comparing the Impact of Colonization in Brand's 'Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater' and Walcott's 'A Far Cry from Africa'

the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...

Western Perspectives on the Prophet Muhammad

J.W. Sweetman is another writer who chronicled the views of the West in terms of Muhammad. He too sites much evidence in support ...

Deaths of Long Island Lobsters

to make the public think twice about spraying again. Lobsters began dying in great numbers. Lobstermen in Connecticut first began ...

Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums and East Meets West

religious beliefs. We have these men living in the United States. They are products of a Christian country, and a Christian societ...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert

these early projects, such as Hoover Dam and other projects, much of the West would not be what it is today. Large cities would no...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Western Organizations and Eastern Europe Manipulation

is being undertaken as a result of the conditions that need to be satisfied to join the EU. The humanitarian requirements c...

U.S. West Coast and the Decline of the Sea Otter Population

to continue at this rate (Englander PG). The otters depend upon the ocean as a means by which to sustain life, with shellfish one...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Policy and Social Work Implications of The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns

The most vivid message of "The Corner" is the desperate situation under which the people of "the corner" exists. We find that the...

Western Market and Fashions of Japan

quite clear in some instances but it can become muddled in meaning when multiple identities are involved within the context of one...

East v. West Definition Evolution

the current countries of Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Israel as well as other countries. It included the peoples known as the Byzantine...

Early West and Settlers from Mexico and Spain

Perhaps the most eye-opening and interesting aspects of the history of the western states, California in particular, is the fact t...

Black Male Identity as Viewed by Dorothy West and Langston Hughes

taken their toil, making the man seem much older then his years (West 122). His oldest daughter practices incessantly on a rente...

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid and Cultural Differences

and that ... I was reminded of how uncomfortable new can make you feel" (Kincaid PG). SURPRISING EMOTIONS Lucy thought she was ...

Analyzing Twelve Poems

remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...

West Side Story, Manhattan Transfer, and Uses of Dialect

In five pages the ways in which ethnic dialects are used in the stories of West Side Story and Manhattan Transfer are considered. ...

Should the U.S. Sell Jets to China

Peoples Liberation Army is looking at the aircraft with both awe and disdain. The jet he describes is Chinese owned and registered...

5 States and the English as a Second Language Educational Programs

bilingual pupils. And while New York City is a melting pot, that does not mean that English is not a concern throughout the rest o...

Modern East and West Germany

refugees from the Soviet zone to where some had fled during the war ("Germany"). Also among the refugees were individuals who had ...

Cyber Cafe Life and Media Imperialism

the world for, at least, the past thirty to forty years. Their particular focus, as well as a number of other studies have paid sp...

Documentary 'The West' by Ken Burns and Stephen Ives

This paper examines how information on the history of the West was presented in this PBS documentary series in five pages. There ...

Books on America's Racism Problems

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...

West African and East African Slave Trade

than one hundred slaves at a time and usually carried other type trading goods on their ships as well, such as ivory, spices, and ...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

Japanese Internment at Tule Lake Relocation Camp

This 10 page paper discusses the internment of Japanese citizens by the U.S. government in WWII, and argues that such internment r...

Cultural Aspects of China and Brazil

The writer examines the cultural aspects of China and Brazil with regard to the way the two nations relate to the West. The writer...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and an Analysis of East versus West

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

Issues Involving Mississippi and West Virginia Higher Education

In eleven pages this paper examines regional differences in college education issues in a consideration of West Virginia and Missi...