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Mexican-American Homeless & Programs

research that has investigated the characteristics of new Latin American immigrants has determined several characteristics that ma...

Hypertension in African American Populations

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

The Control of the American Sugar Industry

it would provide subsidies for the sugar growers (Bovard, 1998). By the time 1950 rolled around, the sugar programs in the U.S. wa...

African American: History and the Present

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

The American Presidency

1789-1797, sought reelection only once and a two-term limit became traditional and was the national standard for 150 years (OConno...

Campaigns and the Media

their newspaper competed with each other to see which could produce the most sensationalized news (OConnor and Sabato, 2008). How...

The Influence of Stax Records

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

Afghanistan and America in The Kite Runner

cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

American Telephone and Telegraph

subsidiary of American Bell, chartered to build and operate the original long distance telephone network" (A Brief history: Origin...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Erie Canal’s Impact Upon Early America

War, American colonists including George Washington, pondered how to access the lush soil of the West (Albion and Pope 83). In 17...

3 Sociology Issues

and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage,...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

William J. Bennett: “The Death of Outrage”

about sex, even under oath, dont really matter" (Bennett, 1999, p. 8). Bennett argues that if we accept these attitudes, which he...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

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...

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...

“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...

Native American Oral Tradition: Parallels in the Literature

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

Why Americans Hate Welfare

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

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

The American Women's Suffrage Movement

in the United States again is sometimes attributable to Adams. Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, who was president at the time,...

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...