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Comparative Analysis of Organized Crime in Japan, China, Russia, and Mexico

the don (also known as Godfather) at the top of the hierarchy, with sottocapos (underbosses), and caporegimes (soldiers) below. I...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

How Race Shapes Fashion Design in New York City

a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...

US Imperialism: The Transition Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...

Intercultural Communication

the interview, the American interviewers decide the German interviewee is rather rigid. They think he has no sense of humor and wh...

Philip Guston

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Adequate Housing for Older Adults

adults becoming an ever-increasing percentage of the population is expected to continue until roughly 2050 (Boyd, et al, 1994). Th...

STIMULUS PACKAGE AND IMPACT ON EMPLOYERS

failure put a paralyzing shock on the financial markets, its effect started seeping down into businesses that had nothing to do wi...

Rereading America: Education

are quite different, and sadly so. He puts it right out there: Americas schools are as segregated now as they were in the 1950s, o...

Henry Ford and His Impact on Economics

is, it owns or controls suppliers of raw materials, parts, fabric for seats-anything that goes into a Ford, Ford Motor controls; i...

The Rise of the AFL

we are slaves! (Journal of United Labor, May 1881)" (Hallgrimsdottir; Benoit, 2007; 1393). This was referred to as wage slavery be...

Roe v. Wade Will Never be Overturned

the state has no interest in fetal life prior to a certain stage of development (when the fetus had developed to the point where i...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

Populism

formed a political party, the "Peoples Party or Populists" (Agricultural discontent, 2007). While the Populists goals were basical...

Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

The Nineteenth Century Ghost Dance Era

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

Human Trafficking: Policy Proposal

means by which to put an end to global trafficking of women and children. Coupled with the help of the U.S. Agency for Internatio...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

A Survey on Political Knowledge and the Public (Reaction)

were interviewed. The survey was conducted between February 1st and February 13th in 2007 ("What Americans Know: 1989-2007," 2007)...

Sex Chromosomes in Flowering Plants

Interestingly, an estimated seventy-five percent of angiosperms are characterized by distinct male and female characteristic that ...

Barack Obama's Speech On March 18, 2008: Race

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

Ecocriticism and Post-Colonialism

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

Article Critique/Dypsnea in the Obese

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

The U.S. Move From Isolationism

independent from outside intervention. This establishment was political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the...

AMERICO PAREDES: A SECRET RACISM

the end, most likely killed by her stepfather, a Hispanic, through sheer ignorance and neglect. The fact that no one seems to no C...

The ‘Bright’ Promise of Communism Contrasted with the ‘Darkness’ of the Great Depression in the Films The Grapes of Wrath and Bound for Glory

supported, they were confronted with harsh realities that caused them to seriously question their sociopolitical ideology. Two fi...

Culture and the US Fight Against Terrorism

is still centered on "Christian religion, Protestant values and moralism, a work ethic, the English language, British traditions o...

The Repercussions of the “Boston Massacre”

the two sides mounted (BMHS 2008). They finally erupted on March 5, 1770 (BMHS 2008). On that evening, "the Twenty-Ninth Regiment...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...