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The Godfather and The Sopranos Italian American Stereotypes

that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

Substance Abuse and Multicultural Counseling of Hispanics and African Americans

information. 2. Prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse within the group. 3. High risk, high need populations within the ...

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

21st Century American Linguistic Imperialism

In five pages this paper discusses how the US employs the English language to achieve global dominance. Eight sources are cited i...

Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death Revisited

of the funeral industry we turn to examining a few conditions presented by Mitford. This particular writer noted that in the fi...

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

William Bradford and Captain John Smith as Examples of American Colonial Writers

to tell its readers of the new lands and enterprises they had acquired and fought for (Bassett: Smith, 2002). The first historian...

1920s' American Republican Party

the League of Nations, dubbed as "Wilsons folly," cast a long shadow, and with a strong and unified party in place, thanks to the ...

Negative Effects of Single African American Motherhood

other American kid does, but what she lacks is an intact family with a live-in father (Ingrassia, 1993). She was born to a 16-yea...

American Population Impact of Immigration

to fully examine the impact of immigration both on this country and society as a whole. Without this understanding, it is impossi...

American Blackface and its Origins

It has been said that blackface was some of the most bold, blatant and extreme stereotyping in American history (History of Blackf...

Analyzing The Quiet American by Graham Greene

tough exterior but he manages to get along just fine with the other correspondents and there seems to be a good essence beneath hi...

Before the American Revolution, King Philip's War

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

Slavery and the Effects of the American Constitutional Convention

that after the war for independence the English goods that the nation had relied upon disappeared, making the goods that the South...

African American Stereotypes and Cinematic Semiotics

rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...

The Quiet American from a Critical Standpoint

much more concerned with relating the circumstances under which he read the novel rather then addressing the characteristics of th...

The Political Role of American Mass Media

In many ways it could be said that we are being lulled into a sense of complacency by the glowing light and ever present hum of th...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal iIn Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

a primary component of the transformation to African-American status, Huggins delves deep into the historical and cultural foundat...

Artists Horace Pippin, Edward Hicks, Thomas Cole, and American Romanticism

(Thomas Cole). In these works there is undeniable evidence of the pristine nature of his subjects (Thomas Cole). Cole renders hi...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

be reviewed closely and research which specifically targets African American women is essential. Interestingly enough, the "numbe...

The American Press and Its Bias Against Arabs

practice the religion? Why is there an anti-Middle East sentiment? By and large, Americans get the news from American media and it...

Culture of Mexican Americans

The irony of the great American dream becomes quickly apparent. Never-the-less, Mexicans continue to seek that dream as a means o...

Predictions of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Survival of Native Americans

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

Italian Americans Defined by Network Television Shows

intelligence as seen in the character of the Fonz. "When Arthur (Fonzie) Fonzarelli appeared on the screen in 1974, with his slick...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Prediction of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mexico As an American 'Poison'

U.S. His use of the metaphor "poison" reflects the intensity of his feelings on this subject. To Emerson Mexicos political sover...