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Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Civic Participation According to Schudson

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

'The Color Line' as Perceived by W.E.B. Du Bois

purely social we can be separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted ...

Second World War Fashion and Social Trends

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

Addressing Family Topics

to make it clear that they are not attempting to replace the biological parent, and, furthermore, that they should be accepting of...

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

A Brief Description of Booker T. Washington

he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...

U.S. Migration by Mexican Immigrants Seeking the American Dream

money and even littler time to "enjoy" U.S. culture. Often times, however, these immigrants can turn their heritage into an asset...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Analyzing the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and A. Philip Randolph

offensive against the union" (Anonymous Biography: Chronology: In Search of A. Philip Randolph, by Juan Williams, 2002; aprbio.htm...

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

African American Women and Anorexia Nervosa

& Estes; 1996). Also, it was found that ethnically diverse individuals who do end up with eating disorders do so because they ha...

Rockets and Scientist Robert Goddard

In six pages this paper discusses the life of Robert Goddard and the impact of his scientific contributions upon the American spac...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

Carrie Allen McCray's Freedom's Child

mans baby. So, in this there is no unique condition. But, the unique element comes into play when we note that the household posse...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

The American Dream as Embodied by Benjamin Franklin

commission to go to Europe to buy supplies for a new printing house, but was abandoned when he got off the ship (Kindig, 2006). A...

Debating W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

Boycotting Wal Mart the American Way

described as "the darling of Wall Street" and was declared "most admired company" in 2003 by the influential financial publication...

An Oral History of One Woman Presented as an Historical Interview

goin to be trouble from the start. But back then women just didnt speak their minds." Thelma told the story of the mans hiring, ...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

U.S. Hispanic Groups

of the Roman Catholic Church" though there are a growing number of non-Catholics in the population (Mexican American, 2006). The ...

Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

of the largest firm in Chicago at the time. During this time he met and married his first wife, Catherine Lee Clark Tobin. He work...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

The American College of Surgeons

create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...

American Society and Class

existence such as the types of housing that accommodates us is affected by class. Housing, in fact, is one of the most obvious ar...