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Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

The Clean Slate

be seen as lacking this soul. However, their lack of exposure to the great works and ideas also means that when they are exposed t...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

Complying With Japanese Labor Laws

comply with U.S. labor laws, including the EEOC, no matter where their operations are but they must also comply with local laws an...

Satire, Animation & The Simpsons

willing to "deflate our most over-inflated pieties" and delight in the "demolition of our most hallowed institutions" (Turner 50)....

Overview of Chinese Americans

In seven pages Chinese Americans are considered in terms of their American historical significance with political struggles and ra...

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 ...

U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

In five pages this paper discusses this Native American text in terms of differences in worldviews between the Native Americans an...

Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

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...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Fr. Andrew Greeley Book

This essay discusses one of Fr. Andrew Greeley's many books. The topic of this essay is: Great Mysteries: Experiencing the Catholi...

Behavior Modification: Walking A Dog Three Times A Day

three-times-a-day schedule of walks at 7:00 am, 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm. The first walk was the shortest of them between Monday and ...

Mental Issues, Mindset And Social Work

state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

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 Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...