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Hawthorne, Faulkner and the Element of Culture

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

Elaine T. May's Homeward Bound and Post World War II Society

history and the so-called cultural revolution of the 1960s that marked a return to normality, as it continued the liberal progress...

U.S. Culture and Its Subcultures

the nuclear family. The travelogue is admittedly shaped by a Memphis environment that allowed black and white to peacefully meld ...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Natural Environment Preservation and Perception

controlling is for one purpose, the convenience or even the profit of mankind. It is this "received" concept of wilderness which ...

Comparative Analysis of August Wilson's Play Fences and Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

Social Realist Ben Shahn

In a paper that consists of five pages an artist's engagements in issues in order to improve the American way of life are consider...

Contemporary Hedonism

In five pages hedonism as it exists in contemporary American society is discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Consumer Pressure for Better Health Care

A seven page paper delineating the factors behind the impetus for better health care products and services. From the 1960s onward...

Controversy Involving Health Care Reform

In fifteen pages this research paper examines American health care reform in terms of the political and economic controversies tha...

Health Care Provider Choices and the Rights of Patients

In seven pages this paper argues in favor of health care provider selection by Americans and considers reforms that more strongly ...

Changing Perspectives on Welfare and the US Federal Government

funded job. That was the theory. In practice, the bills drafters (of whom Clinton was one) knew Congress would not be able to...

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

The Culture of Contentment by John Kenneth Galbraith

In ten pages this paper presents an argument against Galbraith's contention that the American system of politics requires suppress...

Poverty, Work, and Single Mothers

purpose is to examine how, and when, these women ended their receipt of welfare, a key factor would be to know how long they have ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar's 19th Century Poetic Persona

In eight pages this research paper considers the persona that ensnared late 19th century African American poet Paul Laurence Dunba...

Action and Self Analysis Plan for Health

Health Analysis The ten areas covered in this analysis are: risk for stroke; cancer genetics; high blood pressure and renal dise...

Illegal Immigration and the Cuban Issue

have, in fact, moved far beyond the ideology we once cherished, the ideology we so identified with that it was engraved into the b...

Social Expression in Art

conditions of poverty during their particular reconstruction. Clearly such a time would evoke many forms of creative artistic expr...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Karen B. Strier's 'Primate Behavioral Ecology From Ethnography to Ethology and Back'

clarifies that her article picks up on "primatologys relationship to anthropology from 1981 onward". Striers goal is to s...

America and IKEA

only would flat packages be easier for customers to handle, but they could get more items on a truck if they were flat (Moon, 2004...

U.S. Market and Cellular Phones

hang onto their customers and poach more of their competitors (Its Cell..., 2006). Every major company started quiet campaigns e...

Lesson Plans for Language Arts

leads the students through the steps necessary to perform the skill using the trimodal approach - hear/see/do" (Robinson and Crawf...

Bimbo Bakeries' Strategy

all. The Industry Porters Five Forces model provides a tool for analyzing external conditions and evaluating the industry i...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

Book Review of Warpaths by Steele

group. Generally, American history books portray the white man as invading the Indians territory and that the Indians were meek. B...