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American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Gender Identity: Nature or Nurture

on triggering biological development. The researcher maintained that for males, "the biological cause of... putative homosexualit...

Wangero’s Betrayal

shows the dilemma of those who seek to build a new life for themselves, at the cost of betraying their heritage. This paper discus...

Retail Stores Seek Too Much Information

their power to not only attract new customers but retain the ones they get. It is their intentions to build a relationship with th...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

Waters (2007), Summary and Outline

their children self-identify. III. Intermarriage a. Incidence of intermarriage is increasing and affects the way in which racial/e...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

Revolutionary Identity in the Works of Langston Hughes

to a revolutionary conception of identity that transcends race and ethnicity and focuses instead on the deep socially ingrained di...

The Social Construction of Gender and M. Butterfly

homosexual, while others are only attracted to someone of the opposite sex. M. Butterfly is not the only film to confront...

Language and Symbols to Communicate Personal Identity

feminine or masculine identities (Dobkin and Pace, 2006). While disliking the concept of stereotypes, in communicating identity ma...

The Influence of Sport in the Context of Creating, Maintaining and Challenging Ethnic Identities and Stereotypes

game, including the way the game may be associated with the national identity in terms of values in a manner not found in other sp...

Gender Identity and its Origins

a matter of "nature" or "nurture". At the core of most modern debates on gender identity is the question or whether gender is dete...

Cultural Identity and Commerce

example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world" (Aveda [1], 2004)....

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

Personal Identity According to Swinburne

of these issues is apt, Olson provides an explanation that is easier to comprehend for the average reader. Swinburnes first issu...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Importance of Setting to the Protagonists in Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell and Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

to the United States by way of some illegal documents and the assistance of a smuggler. Once on American soil, Jyoti receives a r...

Information and Communications Technology Interview and Interpretation

a predicable change as may be expected if we were to apply the theories of Clark (et al, 1988). In terms of identify there are m...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Constructionist Perspective of Identity

Gergen states that, "one cannot depend on a solid confirmation of identity, nor on comfortable patterns of authentic action (p. 14...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

American Women, Blacks, and Discrimination

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

Pre Stonewall America and Authors' Treatment of Gay Society Identity

government - harbored toward the homosexual population. Lumped together with such socially unsavory issues as Communism, Katz ill...

Russell Banks' Continental Drift and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

complete of his sense of self - everything within his environment has the feeling of being "other." Tayo is literally the walking ...

The Dreamers by Isak Dinesen and Identity

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

Identity and Fashion

(Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002). Another result was that those dressed in a more formal manner described themselves more quickly than...

Identity Construct, Gender, and Sexuality

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...

Krickett Carpenter Case and Its Implications

lost his or her memory, only to meet up with the same people again? There are unusual stories about coincidences and how people wi...