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Rhythm and Blues of the Nineties and Hip Hop's Influence

In seven pages this paper discusses how 1990s' rhythm and blues music has been socially influenced by hip hop. Six sources are ci...

Great Barrier Reef's Blue Ring Octopus

the creature is already on the attack. It is not...

An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough

as a foundation member; in 1774, he relocated for good to London where he expounded upon techniques he learned while at Bath, whic...

Blues and Spirituals

means by which oppressed African Americans could expressed their extreme frustration, melancholy and longing. Intensely moving slo...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Employment Issues at Blue Grocery Stores

temp agency would handle the chore of establishing a reliable temporary employment pool specifically tailored to meet the needs of...

Australian Airline Industry

into a tailspin and also impacted Qantas negatively (Dennis, 2002). Ironically, Ansett throughout the 1980s was recognized...

Language and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

The Nature and Function of Humor

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

Five Case Studies of Various Organizations

and measures may have been taken sooner without the need to apply to the government to restrict trade with the use of trade tariff...

'Blue Grocery Stores' and Summer Replacement Employee Hiring

In four pages this report considers Blue Grocery's warehouse supervisor 'Arthur Reed's' annual summer dilemma of needing to fill v...

A Comparison of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...

Blue Grocery Stores and the Challenges of Staffing

wasnt looking forward to the inherent personnel problems: He needed vacation and sick hours covered, and a dependable constant poo...

American Appeal of Blues Music

both in terms of musicality and lyrics. This paper will examine the roots of the blues, what has made it very appealing...

Blue Bell Creameries and Corporate Level Strategy

its distribution system. In fact, throughout the years, Blue Bell had crafted an image as being "the little creamery in Brenham" a...

'Blue Period' of Painter Pablo Picasso

the self portrait from 1901....showing a pale and emaciated 20-year old Picasso" (Heindorff). It is perhaps within this painting t...

Stephen Ambrose's The Wild Blue

them and service the planes from a country in which only a relatively small number of men knew anything at all about how to fly ev...

Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the 'Productive Thinking' of Max Wertheimer

limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...

Puerto Rico Hotel and Implementing Technology

to benefit from such advances. Tourism in Puerto Rico is no exception to that rule. In fact, tourists visiting Puerto Rico may act...

Blues Music and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Global Cultures' Interconnectedness

which can be seen as signifying something - in other words, to everything which has meaning within a culture," states David Chandl...

Mesoamerica's Zapotec Culture and Persia's Sasanid Culture

In 7 pages the Mesoamerican Zapotecs are compared with the Persian Sasanids in terms of military policies, cultural and religious ...

Muslim Culture's Gender Roles and Religion's Influence

bridges in Spain." After the fall of Rome, Spain was dominated by the Teutonic tribes, the Vandals, and the Visigoths in successi...

Soviet Union Under Josef Stalin and Jewish Culture's Decline

the same fate as many of the Jewish leaders when he was to be executed at Stalins command many years later. II. Stalins Outward...

Cheyenne Culture's Sacred Pipe

In five pages this paper examines the cultural significance of the return of the Sacred Pipe to the Cheyenne. Three sources are c...

U.S. Political Culture's Development

In five pages this paper examines the growth of American political culture from British colonization until the 1787 Constitutional...

2 Different Cultures' Trickster Myths

trees trick the Trickster (Parks 132). The Trickster is a comic figure fragrant of laughter, humor, and irony. Paul Radin ...

The Subculture Of Malls As Locations With Social Function

represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that peo...