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Kansas and Slavery

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

The 1980s and a New Era of Conservatism

as the party of minorities and liberals and the Republicans as the predominantly white Christian Right. At the same time campaign...

An American Shame - The Ku Klux Klan

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

Hemmingway, Farewell to Arms, and the Lost Generation

from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example, Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the...

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Thematic Comparison of Gilgamesh with Current Events

of evil. Bush pursued his quest for immortality by invading the Middle East, first in Iraq in March of 2003, and then established...

Shortcomings and Suggestions for Improvement in the ANA Code of Ethics

those that do not receive another. Nurses, however, (and rightfully so) are expected to perform their duties irrespective of such...

Wag the Dog: The Barry Levinson Film From a Cultural Perspective

an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...

Islam in America's Workplace

(Lampman, 2001). Fourth is the Ramadan month-long period of fasting, which recreates the first communications between God and Muh...

How Did You Get to be Mexican?

students and he is sometimes amazed by the amounts of money they spend on things; hes equally amazed at high tight-fisted wealthy ...

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

The Significance of H.L. Mencken

Mencken biography). His criticism was skewed by his attitude toward it, "for he sacrificed discrimination for immediate attention ...

Theories in Sociological Studies

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...

Stop Fearing, Start Thinking

and try to block all attempts at reform, whether its health care, keeping the Internet free of corporate gatekeepers, improving ed...

Black Religion as Formed by Racism

individuals were members of St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church but, because of the fact they were African American, found them...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

The Divergence of Country and Folk Music? ?

music brought to the country by Anglo-Celtic immigrants (Malone, 1968, 1). This music was tremendously influenced, however, by Af...

Women's Roles in Latin America vs. Native America

is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...

Sweeeeet! How Language and Culture Intermix

start of fancy, imagination and humor, breathing into its nostrils the breath of life" (Dalzell, 2005). Since Whitman wrote that (...

Personal Admission Statement

no country is totally isolated due to the proliferation of media content there is both direct and indirect exposure to other cultu...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

The Need for Cultural Competency Care

African-American culture tends to eat more fat than is recommended. Socioeconomic status as well as education play a role in meal ...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

NAFTA, WTO, and Global Free Trade

one would desire to do business with. In this form of trade, according to McConnell and Brue, "Governments curtail imports and pro...

American Express Case Study

company would earn 33 cents for each day earlier they could get the car in the customers hands. The third one, responding more q...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...