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Essays 271 - 300
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...
life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...
ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...
Our ideas of what it means to be American have changed dramatically over time. Since the arrival of peoples...
to when the US declared war on Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, order Commodore George Dewey to...
wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...
diversity), and pride/camaraderie (philanthropy, celebrations)" (Levering and Moskowitz, 2005; p. 97). If news that could affect ...
magnet for US corporations as they do not have to physically move to the island to gain the advantages. Bermuda has much lower tax...
In seven pages Chinese Americans are considered in terms of their American historical significance with political struggles and ra...
In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...
5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...
In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...
crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...
illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...
In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this paper discusses this Native American text in terms of differences in worldviews between the Native Americans an...
Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...
unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...
essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...
play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...
The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...
In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...
remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...
come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...
traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...
include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...
a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...
another reason why ?migr?s are so intent on passing it along (Horan, 2003). The Assyrians were apparently never numerous, and the...
"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...
settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...