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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...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Contemporary Melting Pot and America

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Comparing and Contrasting Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs

only reinforces the theme of madness. The book is one of dense layers. On the purely shallow context, this book is about a mans ...

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and Italics

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

An Economics Article by Cooper and Madigan Reviewed

predicts that any shortfall in GDP will be made up by summers end and that in the past--or at least through mid-2003--businesses w...

Allan Blook and Rousseau in Comparison

better educated, then by extension so too would the world be a better place to be. Rousseaus philosophies were controvers...

A Place at the Table by Bruce Bowers

the authors personal bias. There was much about this book that challenged my personal beliefs and outlooks. For instance...

Magical Realism in the Novels of Isabel Allende

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...

Dracula by Bram Stoker and the Themes of Sexuality and Perversity

antagonist, Count Dracula that encompasses both sexuality and perversity. In the oft-analyzed Chapter III, the unconscious Harker...

Review of Hidemi Suganami's 'Narratives of War Origins and Endings A Note On The End Of the Cold War in Millennium'

Hidemi Suganamis "Narratives of War Origins and Endings: A Note On The End Of the Cold War in Millennium" explores the causative f...

Interpreting For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

fresh in the minds of many leaders, this work takes on many topics. One man struggles with his political ideals but in the process...

Humanity and Science in The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow

was Frank Raymond Leavis, one of Snows contemporaries. Leavis viewed Snows suggestions as crassly materialistic. He suggested in...

An Article on Literacy Reviewed

the entire article and the question is specifically: "What do teachers in our schools value in literacy?" (Dadds, 1999, p. 9). Thi...

All Animals Are Equal by Peter Singer Critically Reviewed

when discussing how and why sentience/consciousness does, indeed, exist into the greatest reaches of the entire animal kingdom. ...

Shelby Foote's Shiloh and Characterization

by (22). The student may want to state that to show that everything isnt perfect in battle, Foote doesnt have Metcalfe mal...

'Against Love' by Katherine Philips, 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake and the Theme of Love

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

Future Trends in Education and Technology

at a slow speed and the facilities are still run with the nine to five ideology in mind. In other words, while it is now known th...

Multiculturalism and Education

society. She comes up with a list of 26 items, some of which are valid, a few of which are a stretch (McIntosh) The point that she...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

Photography of Lewis Carroll

albumen paper. It was a complicated process which meant that a penchant for picture taking wasnt the only requirement for a photo...

Analysis of Symbolism in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

family would become highly educated as well as become involved civically. Following with that, then, he took a position as a...