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Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...

Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" - A Post-Colonial Criticism

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

Colonialism

This essay/research paper, first of all, defines colonialism and discusses how it can be differentiated from imperialism. Then, t...

History of Blackface Minstrelsy

Black minstrelsy and its role throughouth the history of Black American culture is discussed within the context of Eileen Southern...

Contemporary American Culture and Films

In a paper consisting of 7 pages American cinema and how it satirizes or reflects American culture is considered with student tuto...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

Northwest China's Unique Hui Muslim Culture

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the Chinese Hui Muslims with the US Native American and African American cultures...

Cultural Expressions of Tattoos and Body Piercing

In eight pages this paper examines how tattoos and body piercings are cultural representations. Seven sources are cited in the bi...

Society and Tattooing and Body Piercing

is now considered to be part of mainstream culture (Armstrong 236). Iverson contends that the discomfort society has with tattoos ...

Tattooing and Body Piercing

is seen, by many, as a rite of passage. For others, it fulfills a need to justify social anxiety by avoidance. "Body piercing ...

Modification of the Body

In a paper consisting of 20 pages body modification is examined in terms of psychology and history with elective amputation, scari...

Stereotypes of the Elderly, Tattooed Persons, Feminists and Politicians

the observation of one or two members of that group. For instance, one young African-American mother cheats to get welfare, and su...

Evaluation of Health Brochure

using a variety of strategies that are designed to create "richer, more sensory experiences" by using "missed paper stocks, emboss...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

Cosmetology of Ancient Egypt

as iron oxides for cheek blush and malachite for eye shadow - a green copper ore that represented fertility - was to avail oneself...

Overview of Tattoos

of skin. Then, once the scratch was made a dye of some sort would be rubbed into or drawn into the grooves....

An Evaluation of Tattooing

it causes, that is also attractive and why it is so controversial. Finally, an important notion about tattooing is its permanence....

The Use of Rhetoric in Stereotyping Groups

image to all persons" must be interpreted to mean that "all persons" means "everyone in the world." Since its not possible to cont...

Tattoo Removal and Societal Approval

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Art: Chinese Graffiti and Tattoos

It is a flat surface and the primary color seems to be a fluorescent type orange/pink, though there are many colors throughout thi...

Stereotypes

also stereotyped in contemporary culture. These societal assumptions typically associate liberal political aspirations on the part...

Body Modification as a Way to Express Individuality

against parents or to be a part of a group. Some may just follow friends, but others get gang tattoos that acknowledge them as a p...

The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Wal-Mart's Company Culture

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

Finding Peace in a Culture of War

individual is exposed to any type of experience there is the potential for that individual to be desensitized to any experiences t...

Turth And Impact Of Stereotypes

tattooed persons is geared at a specific subset of this group whose antisocial actions (i.e. criminality) have created such a bias...

Tattoos in the Workplace

raised in Massachusetts by a tattoo artist, Stephen Lanphear and his client, John R. Parkinson ("Stephan A. Lanphear vs. Commonwea...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

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...