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The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

“Generation Rx”

do, in fact, demonstrate an phenomenal increase over time in the number of prescriptions that the typical American uses. This num...

Intercultural Communication

the interview, the American interviewers decide the German interviewee is rather rigid. They think he has no sense of humor and wh...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES AND AMERICAN AIRLINES: A COMPARISON

to a destination (though there may be two or three changes in the meantime) rather than to a major city "hub," which then branches...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

White Angle-Saxon Protestant

involved those British citizens who came to the America and founded the United States, although there were others as well. The A...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Technology and Changes in American Culture

were large multi-branched entities and several generations typically lived under one roof. This was, in fact, a necessity in thes...

Changing the American Culture

motivating factor. The goal of this task force is to reduce the friction between the people. Kreitner & Kinicki (2007) do go on t...

Afghanistan and America in The Kite Runner

cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

MUSIC AND ITS IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE

that provides ethnic minorities (and even poor whites) an opportunity to speak their minds and their feelings (Reeves, 2007). Over...

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 ...

Barack Obama's Speech On March 18, 2008: Race

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

The American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Richard Lester: "Petulia"

counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...

Mary Pipher's The Middle of Everywhere and Reflections of Refugees

formal education" (Pipher 334). As Pipher points out refugees (and other immigrants) are often doctors, professors, engineers, etc...

Amy Tan’s Two Kinds

she thinks her daughter should be doing. She tells her daughter "Only ask you be your best" (Tan). The author who discusses ambi...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

3 Sociology Issues

and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage,...

Organizational Behavior - Case Study

of his third year, he broached the subject of changing career directions with the president as they golfed together and subsequent...