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Self as Perceived from the Male Perspective

relationships from which she derives her sense of self. II. What is a Sense of Self? At around the age of five, a child begins...

2 Articles on Multiple Personality Disorder Reviewed

In five pages this paper considers 2 articles in a contrast and comparison of dissociative identity disorder and multiple personal...

Great Depression and the American Labor Movement

unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...

Beloved Disciple's Identity and John's Gospel

In six pages this paper examines John's Gospel in a consideration of its theories, assesses its weaknesses and strengths, and also...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

The Myth of the American Family as Discredited in Death of a Salesman and An American Beauty

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

USS Maine Bombing in 1989 and the Reactions by American Newspapers

In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...

The Relationship of African-American Men to Conflict Theory

The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

Wealth and Poverty and Issues of Social Identity

Realization of Differences As already noted, a child is not born knowing that he or she will attend Harvard, be given a...

Cultural Diversity, Racial Intolerance, and Personal Identity

In six pages this paper examines cultural diversity from the perspectives of racial intolerance and personal identity. Ten source...

Identity and Influences of Culture and Society in the Characters of Heathcliff, Catherine, and Edgar in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

years of heartache and turmoil. With Catherine the daughter of a proud land owner and Heathcliff a rugged but humble lad brought ...

Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall and Selina's Assimilation Quest

is never easy, and, as the reader of Brown Girl, Brownstones soon realizes, coming of age on the cusp of two cultures as a black f...

Identity and Adolescent Development

In this paper consisting of ten pages the importance of developing an identity during adolescence and the influences of peers as w...

Postmodern Playwright Marina Carr

theatrical works - old and new. One of those "new" Irish playwrights is Marina Carr (1964 -- ). Irish Invasion of Theater...

Henry James's Daisy Miller and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares Daisy Miller and Hamlet in terms of character identity. There are no other sources...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man

This paper examines the issue of identity and 'passing' within the context of James Weldon's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Ma...

Refugees from Tibet

This 6 page paper discusses ways in which Tibetan refugees have succeeded in maintaining their purpose and ethnic identity, even i...

2nd Amendment and Gun Control

In fourteen pages this research paper supports the 2nd Amendment's declaration of an American's 'right to bear arms' and opposes g...

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...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Jordan Business and Joint Ventures

6 pages, 6 sources. This paper considers the nature of Jordanian business and the impacts of joint ventures with American compani...

U.S. and NAFTA's Economic Impact

no intention of keeping. As its main goals, the treaty was to set the stage for significant improvements in employment, living st...

Group Interaction As Expressed Through Clothing

Many schools are considering a return to school uniforms. This paper examines the interactions of groups and group members and how...

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

In My Father's House by Anthony Appiah

traveler would have felt that there were "profoundly different impulses, ideas and forms of life" (174). In short, Appiah makes ...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

Identity Testing and DNA

known, and "probability of identity" applies only to the father. Genetic Profiles (1998), a laboratory specializing in DNA ...

Continuity in the Culture of African Americans

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...

The Mass Media and Black Americans

6 pages and 7 sources. This paper relates the fact that the mass media has promoted a variety of ways of viewing African American...