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Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

Varying Definitions of the Civil War

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

The 1980s and a New Era of Conservatism

as the party of minorities and liberals and the Republicans as the predominantly white Christian Right. At the same time campaign...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Hemmingway, Farewell to Arms, and the Lost Generation

from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example, Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the...

A Gathering of Old Men

old and thus were, as children, clearly affected by many residual realities concerning racism as it was connected with the era of ...

Prescription Drugs and Our Over Medicated Society

orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Big Pharma now represents a practically inescapable component ...

Ernest Jones on Hamlet’s Inability to Act

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

Oedipus Complex and Hamlet: 'Love Thy Mother

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

Are Americans Selfish?

many people in the world, but they are working hard to get what they can and they are also very limited in the way they can live. ...

Hispanic Americans

not hard to please" (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). They are also generally Catholics (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). Bu...

What is a Real American?

of the good things the nation stands for and the good things that the nation does in the world. But, a good or real American is al...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Five Events That Speeded the U.S. on Her Way to Full World Involvement

U.S. interaction in world events has changed radically...

College Admission Essay for a Student with ADD

companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far ...

Plate Tectonic Processes and Continental Crust Formation and Destruction

In "Yin and Yang of Continental Crust Creation and Destruction by Plate Tectonic Processes", an article published in...

Marijuana Propaganda verses Fact

Our society has changed radically over recent history. One of the reflections of this change is an evolution in the way that...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

Mid Twentieth Century Sierra Leone Decolonization and Nationalism

became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...

American Minorities and Culture

in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

Minority-Owned Media Outlets

is cause for serious concern (Rawls, 2003, See also Wilson and Gutierrez, 1995). "The cultural, economic and social gap between w...

Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the American Dream

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

Differing Views on Native American Distinctions

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...