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Amish Culture

wheels and horse shoes" and complying with "public health inoculation programs, as well as compliance with other public health reg...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

120 Years of American History

interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...

Technology as a Societal Addiction

weapons of mass destruction that are the center of world controversy today reflect that fact. These weapons do exist and they exi...

Nonconformist, Society, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

Three Differing Views of the Origin of Religion

Tylor asserts that in order to assess a culture, one must approach it from an objective standpoint: if one does not do so, ones ow...

The Impact of Street Crime on Society

if their fear keeps them inside, there is a chance that they are not victims simply because they are not on the streets as frequen...

Music and Society

addition, it is noted that no matter what type of music there has been through history, and no matter the culture, the main functi...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

Is Society Selfish?

most vulnerable citizens-low income children-the hardest. (The fact that this move will also make it very difficult for any Republ...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

Leadership Models through the Ages.

Greeks it had negative connotations, but also neutral and even positive ones (The early Greek world, 2006). One leader from this...

A Postmodern "Amadeus"

movement that reacts to modern art and literature; postmodernists suggest that truth is no longer verifiable, and that new art for...

Appropriation, Simulation and David Carson

new. One artist who does this is Yasumasa Morimura; his work is "often understood as part of that international tendency of the la...

Oates/How I Contemplated the World... & Postmodernism

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

Gayle Gullett's "Women Progressives And Immigrant Women"

every forward progression middle class women had made. So it was to be that the California Daughters of the American Revolution s...

Akhenaten: Heretic Not Religious

innovative leader whose combined perspective and actions serve to bring about positive change. While in one negative sense, Akhen...

Hoarding

not is that hoarders judge more possessions to have these values. This may also be true for people who hoard animals. Their atta...

Suicide And Sociological Theories

what choices they believe they have to better their lives; as such, they become all the more vulnerable to being influenced in the...

GloboChrist by Carl Raschke

of Westerners who "cling to the outmoded modernist assumption that Christianity is basically the same, or should be the same, ever...

Aspects of Modern and Postmodern Art

from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...

Postmodernism in Slaughterhouse-Five

the painter to paint the picture (time of production), the time required to look at and understand the work (time of consumption) ...

"Family Guy" - A Sociological Reading

cross-country destination to fulfill a nefarious purpose. Despite being a baby and a dog, Stewie and Brian are both fully articula...

Discussion of Postmodernism and Post-Postivism

asks questions (Aylesworth, 2010). This has a direct impact on the state of knowledge because it suggests that knowledge is always...

An Analysis of Josh Gracin's "The Other Little Soldier"

anything too abstract or relevant to human concepts of beauty and complexity. While the songs lyrics sing the tired tale of a sold...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

Van Gogh, Sherman: Modern, Postmodern

the popular lexicon connotes the current era and whatever is contemporary within that era, and it has been used in this context si...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...

Western Concepts on Imagination and Its Origins

of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...