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Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

American Ethnic Literature

do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Achebe/Gender in Dead Men's Path

has absolutely certainty in his own value and the value of his "modern" ideas. However, by rejecting older, more traditional appro...

W.W. Brown/Clotel

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

John Okada/No-No Boy

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

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...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

Act Two, Scene Two of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

to address the illusions that nobody else was originally able to see. HAMLETS PSYCHE Indeed, Hamlet was at the end of...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

Ecological World View as a Cultural Artifact: Native American Subcultures vs. Mainstream White Americans

cultural artifacts. Many have contended since the original "discovery" of this country that Native American spirituality is...

Bahamian Immigration Policy

are considerable. There is no personal income tax, no capital gains tax, no "corporate earnings tax, sales tax, estate or inherita...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

Immigrant Views on Being American

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

Cooperative Groups For Non-Native English Speakers

of cooperative learning is to encourage student accomplishment "by coupling individual accountability with group incentives and re...

"Indian Givers"

would be hard to take in everything at one sitting (Moyers, 2002). Weatherford claims there are literally no areas of modern civil...

Thomas King/Medicine River and Canadian Literature

the bearer of Native Canadian culture. For example, the novel opens with Harlen inviting Will to lunch at 10 a.m. and talking abou...

Summary and Questions on the Last Three Chapters of Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker

politicians ordeal. Henrys feelings of loneliness and isolation are revealed in a type of flashback manner that links the social ...

Admission Essay

and customs to the University" and toward that end this year we held an information event on campus. The Embassies of Saudi Arabi...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

U.S. Muslim Families

precedent in relation to establishing official recognition of Islamic religious holidays in American schools. Two major Islamic h...

Richard Wright and Lorraine Hansberry's Styles of Writing

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...

Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright

victim is a white girl who is sincerely trying to be his friend, to treat him as a fellow human being...Her mother, who is blind, ...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

Spanish America

milestones in the history of Europe. The Portuguese, Spanish and French explorers who set out to see what lay beyond the horizon c...

English as a Second Language Preschoolers

learning to read English as well. Between reading books at home and book in the classroom, children picked up a significant amou...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...