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The Amish Culture

use of or involvement with modern conveniences. Their choice to eschew the intrinsic benefits of contemporary technological advan...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

Ralph Ellison/The Dream at the end of "Battle Royal"

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Mark Monmonier's "From Squaw Tit To Whorehouse Meadow" - Changes To America's Cultural Landscape

respect local tradition (Monmonier 71). The place-naming process outlined in Monmoniers book illustrates the transitional ...

Crash, A Cinematic Parable

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Immigrant Views on Being American

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

Intercultural Communication In The Workplace

ground" (Wilbers, 1996, p. 02D). "The goal is not for one party to vanquish a second party (in the judgment of a third party), bu...

Cause & Effect/Sexism

children (Briffault, 1927, p. 1415). This was the rule across Europe until the coming of Christianity and patriarchy. Patriarcha...

Native Americans

For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Ethnographic Study of Lack of Women and Minority College Faculty Representation

for the under representation. The first rationale is that there are relatively few minority students in doctoral programs, and t...

College Staff Minorities Ethnographic Research Study

impacts of acculturation on their self-identification. In particular, minority faculty members in colleges with large white/male ...

Minorities, Government, and Business Zones

observes: "Fostering the growth of these federal contractors as viable businesses, for the long term,...

Prejudices, Criminal Justice System, and Overrepresentation of Minorities

any given day, there are myriad reports of crime and violent acts purportedly committed by persons of color, origin and ethnic bac...

British Underclass and the Disadvantages of Ethnic Minorities

An overview of this topic is presented in 5 pages. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Hiring Minorities: Diversity in Education

does not lead to the most able getting the job but that many positions are filled to make sure all goes accordingly in the "politi...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Unfair Treatment of Minorities in the Criminal Justice System

This paper examines the ways in which blacks and Latinos are unfairly discriminated against in the US criminal justice system. Th...

Minorities and Prisons

at a full 25% above their capacity (McMurry, 1997). Though some have blamed increased recidivism rates and decreasing prison effe...

US Unemployment and the 'Minority Trap'

In three pages this paper examines this issue within the context of a Studs Terkel interview conducted by Stephen Cruz. One sourc...

Minorities and Domestic Work According to Nicole Constable and Mary Romero

expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina workers. These Filipina guest workers, who are flooding the Hong Kong domestic job...

Comparative Analysis of Canadian Religious Minorities

on similar fundamentalist Christian beliefs, there are marked similarities between the roles that these communities assigned to me...

Minority Group Plights and U.S. Assimiliation

In eight pages the plight of the African Americans, Latinos, and Asians in terms of assimilation and immigration are considered. ...

Issues in Minority Education

must come. When black Americans were first freed, the desire to become educated was strong. Being able to read and write, they...

The Relationship Between Minority Immigrants and Poverty.

released a report entitled "Urban Poverty in Canada: A Statistical Profile". While this report covered a great many demographics r...

Gifted Programs and the Lack of Minority Representation

enhance the overall achievement of students in both classrooms. Statement of the Problem There are three prongs in this researc...

Four Examples of Minority Literature

This paper examines four stories from the genre, including Bambara's Medley, Kingston's, No Name Woman, Chavez's The Last of the M...