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2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Continuing Power Crisis in California

amount of finger pointing going on in California as to who is responsible for this most recent energy shortage. Nonetheless, few ...

Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

Life in America and the Works of William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

A Review of A Bronx Tale

A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...

The American Dream in Advertising

includes urban culture, and a variety of lifestyles, money still is important in a culture that demands the consumer to "buy now" ...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

Orsi's Madonna

is of utmost importance to the Italian heritage. Each generation represents years of respect, admiration and power that are ultim...

The Good Society by Robert Bellah, et al

negative" (p. 10). They explain that an "institution" can be as simple as the social custom of shaking hands as a...

American Ideology and Multiculturalism

In seven pages this essay discusses the importance of multiculturalism and diversity to the American ideology. Five sources are c...

America Changes 'Her' Mind in the Year 1991

sponsored by the National Cable Television Association. Of course there were many other studies done, but these made headlines bec...

World View of Native Americans

In five pages this essay examines Native American conservatism and society in a discussion of various world view issues. There ar...

Welfare Reform Issues and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

Influence of Women in American History

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Honda Motor Company - Analysis

South America, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (Honda, Global, 2008). Each area hosts research and development ...

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

Perils and Promises of American Society in The Federalist and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...

Max Weber and Karl Marx on Capitalism

have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subject differently. Weber expressed that capitalism did not just ...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

Federalist #51

of the new United States, the theory went, was far too large to be governed by a central federal authority; it should be left to t...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...