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Race and the American Dream

Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...

The Gas Between the Stars

their matter into the area that flows between the stars. Many of these stars were larger than the Sun and Reynolds reflects on ex...

Prejudice and Terrorism

better than the other based on eye color. One may apply the same idea to skin color or other aspects of ones makeup. Prejudice is ...

Who is American?

is the institution of slavery expressly forbidden. A great many scholars have argued that it is the fact that the nation was found...

Why Americans Hate Welfare

the perception that these people are mostly black, lazy and "shiftless" (Gilens, 1999). Lieberman, reviewing Gilens book, notes t...

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...

Chinese Custom in Business

something that is important in the Chinese culture. One of the most obvious problems in this scenario is that which involv...

Considerations in Social Work

stage. In "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" Goffman (1997) presents his theories of "dramaturgy". He explains human in...

Management and Leadership in American Business History

literally with nothing and achieve financial success and economic stability for his family. It also had its dark side, howe...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

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...

American Ethnic Literature

thinking that challenges ethic writers, who are torn between their native culture and their adopted land. Where do they really bel...

Gas Rationing

out a system so that those who drive farther get more gas? Whos going to go around to all the congressional districts and check on...

Speaking Out: The Bonus Seekers, Textile Worker Strikes and Resistance to the Native American Reorganization Act

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

Chicago Pizza in the Czech Republic

for there to be many cultural differences. Being fluent in the language may serve to create understanding, but alone it will not ...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

US Government's Separation of Powers

While England appears to be ruled by the Queen, it is actually a democracy. England has what is called a parliamentary democracy....

American Literature Trends

Nathaniel Hawthornes writing focused on a narrow range of psychological themes that reflected that heritage - "the consequences of...

Smollett's Humphrey Clinker

contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....

North and South Conflict and Slavery

rights alongside the emancipation that had already taken place; however, it actually proved to represent a time of significant dis...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

McCarthyism and Anticommunism

the grip of what can only be called a "Red Scare." People saw Communists behind every tree and were terrified that they were going...

Equality - A Dream

about of black drivers being pulled over for no other reason than the color of their skin, coupled with an overly-paranoid cop. Th...

Two Interviews Sociologically Analyzed

cultural difficulties and challenges that face Miguel are great, which he readily implies throughout his interview, pointing out t...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension a.k.a. DASH

documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...

Segregation in Education

past behind, signs remain at nearly every juncture that there still exists a strong sense of racial and class dissension, particul...