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21st Century America and African American Social Mobility

or success is associated with fame and fortune, or achievement in terms of the arts or sciences. Some individuals have not earned ...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

History of Mexico and Mesoamerican History's Role

across the continent moving throughout what is now the United States and down into what is now Mexico. In regards to his we note t...

The First Amendment and Art

This essay presents a scenario in which the writer is presumed to be the major of a city who is confronted with a problematic situ...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

Kupuna and the Hawaiian Culture

play a role in it" (273). As with many schools, and educational institutions around the nation, the Hawaiian schools need a deep...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

both sides of the border throughout the Southwest. Here, the boxcar is a solid black shape that fills almost the entire area of th...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

American History

experience in the war for a soldier other than seeing battle, worrying about home as it became vulnerable, dreaming of freedom and...

Amerindian History, Culture and Accomplishments

developed; they were located along the "shores, rivers and creeks of southeastern Alaska to northern California," and they were a ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

to customize therapies to variations in genetic makeup" (The Childrens Hospital, 2007). They are noted as being one fo the first h...

Reliquaries: Metropolitan Museum of Art

and is also French. It is made up of "Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, and gilt; champlev? enamel: dark, medium, and light bl...

History of Public Administration

served in the Revolutionary War and employed them in civil service positions in the government (Highlights in the History of Publi...

The United Nations: History.

the purpose of establishing ways to settle crises peacefully, prevent wars and codify "rules of warfare" ("History of the United N...

Escalators

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

Pictures of the Apocalypse at the Met

versions of the Bible. "In addition to lavishly illustrated volumes of the Book of Revelation, such as this example, isolated scen...

Comparison of Greek Art: Getty Villa Museum

the colors, whereas the Storage Jar with Achilles and Ajax Gaming is a black figure painting because the figures are in black. Des...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

Creating a New Museum

long flight of steps towards the imposing architecture of the museum (Virtual tour, 2004). This building is characterized by Gre...

Ballet

of her toes), wearing the bell-shaped white tutu that is, for many, the enduring image of the ballet dancer" (Webb, 2006; 41). ...

Analysis of Six Museum Works of Art

accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater

gowns for one clients wife" (Strickland 147). Falling water was designed by Wright both inside and out and this was part of the pr...

1937's Weeping Woman with Handkerchief Painting by Pablo Picasso

man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...