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New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

American Workers, Colonial Power

of 3,450 Filipina/os, roughly 3,200 were men (Fujita-Rony, 2003, p. 134). This is not surprising, as it was a pattern for Asian m...

How To Successfully Franchise in East Asia

East Asia. The student has posed 4 ideas form a literature review, these are that P1. The success of international franchising ...

Handicapped Parking

that are close to access to the building designated as Handicapped Parking. These spaces should be eight-feet wide and have a wide...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

The U.S. in Asia, 1945-1980

stocking bomb shelters. School children were participating in disaster drills. The focus of this paper will be the invo...

The Model Minority Myth

Dr. Nakanishi points out that that a large number of Asian American students attend "multiracial, low-income...low-performing scho...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

The Idealized America

Our ideas of what it means to be American have changed dramatically over time. Since the arrival of peoples...

Imagination Toward Identity in Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts

as "diaspora" and "world citizenship" have no identity within themselves (Bow, 18). To regain a sense of belonging in a new countr...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Human Trafficking: Policy Proposal

means by which to put an end to global trafficking of women and children. Coupled with the help of the U.S. Agency for Internatio...

American Society and Asian Discrimination

In five pages the negative impact of American discrimination upon Asians is examined with a discussion of its causes. Seven sourc...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

Mental Health Services and Limited Use by Asian Americans

that the theory which best describes the underlying expected relationships among variables is related to the stratification hypot...

An Article Analysis of 'Asian-Americans Note Issues Central to Them for Elections'

In three pages an article that appeared in the February 13, 2004 edition of the New York Times is analyzed....

North American Asian Indian Temples or Churches

in the existence of Brahma or "the supreme world soul or spirit" (Ramisetty-Mikler, 1993, p. 36). The older generation incorporat...

The 1965 Immigration Act and Asian Americans

In five pages the effects of this law's passage in terms of the skyrocketing number of Asian immigrants that moved to the United S...

The Crucible by Arthur Miller and Its Meaning to 1950s and Contemporary Audiences

In six pages the play and its meaning are discussed within a contrasting context of what it meant to 1950s audiences and what it m...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

What Patriotism Means to Me

the true freedom of all people that were the most patriotic. Patriotism is something that ultimately means you believe in your c...

Theme for English By Langston Hughes

This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...

'Cinderella' by Anne Sexton

stage for us, with the different levels of meaning of this story at the different times in our lives, when it may have been read t...

Concepts of Insider and Outsider Cultures

In sixteen pages this paper discusses minorities and social mainstream individuals in a consideration of what is meant by 'insider...

Analyzing 'I Am a Catholic' by Anna Quindlen

In two pages Catholicism's traditional meaning is contrasted with the view presented in Quindlen's contemporary interpretation....

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

conscious mind. * _ The kinds of wishes that are fulfilled in dreams and why they are forbidden in consciousness. * _ Dreams and d...

The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

In a paper consisting of five pages the text's purpose and meaning are examined....