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Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

In five pages this paper discusses this Native American text in terms of differences in worldviews between the Native Americans an...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

Mental Issues, Mindset And Social Work

state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

Outsourcing by American Firms; A Literature Review on the Political and Economic Issues

may be realise (Xia and Gilbert, 2007). Porter divided this into five separate sections; inbound logistics, operations, outbound...

NANDA

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

American Criminal Justice System: Three Important Issues

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

NCLB, View of Teachers

perceive this legislation and its implications for the future of education in America. The following literature review focuses on ...

Concept Analysis: Aging

identifying the uses of the concept and its defining attributes (Walker and Avant, 1995). The steps involved also include defining...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

The Patriot Act

vital to national security (Pike 1). The 9/11 Commission even pinpointed several failure of communication that occurred within th...

The Debate over Bilingualism

the perception that the "melting pot" of American society worked better in previous generations. However, consider this quote conc...

Little Girls and the Effects of Children's Literature

relate to the inquisitive Alice who illustrated that an adventurous spirit was not limited to the male gender. Three years later,...