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Healing the Body and Mind with Yoga

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...

Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" - A Post-Colonial Criticism

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Economics

In fifteen pages this paper examines MRIs in a history that examines its market value, financing, marketing, and business implicat...

U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

'An Image of Africa' and 'Heart of Darkness'

This paper consists of 3 pages and considers the emotional elements that characterize these novels by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Con...

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

Visual Images in Last Action Hero Film

In six pages this paper refers to Timothy Corrigan's Film Terms and Topics the text edited by Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan entitle...

Hispanics and The American Dream

This paper pertains to Hispanics Americans and the importance of these immigrants in achieving the American Dream. Three pages in ...

Pidgins and Creoles, Origins, Features

This research paper/essay discusses how pidgin and Creole languages develop, emphasizing the influence that African Americans have...

Aspects of European and American History

This paper presents discussion of five issues that pertain to European and American history, such as the factors that compelled Eu...

The Body Reacts to Stress

Stress is one of the most common mental health problems in the world. It is also a catalyst for numerous physical ailments, many o...

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

In five pages this paper discusses this Native American text in terms of differences in worldviews between the Native Americans an...

Identity of Native Americans, Religion and Politics

but it also led to a form of identity crisis for the descendants of these tribes. Part ancient heritage and part colonial industr...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

US Companies and the Effects of NAFTA

Companies must comply with regulations pertinent to the environment due to the treaty and they also have the opportunity to move f...

Critique of Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

In six pages a critique of Winterson's text is provided in an examination of the sex theories of Sigmund Freud along with the conc...

Great Depression and the American Labor Movement

unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

The Myth of the American Family as Discredited in Death of a Salesman and An American Beauty

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

USS Maine Bombing in 1989 and the Reactions by American Newspapers

In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...

Renaissance Era Poetry as 'a Speaking Picture' Body of Work

In ten pages this 'speaking picture' approach to poetry during the Renaissance focuses upon the English poetry of Francis Quarles....

The Law as a Living Body and Due Process

a way to state that the law is ever changing and adapting much in the same way that living entities do. The law will change accord...

Brain-Body

directly related to how strong that memory will be (Klein and Thorne, 2007). He offered a cell-assembly model for memory and propo...

Literature in America

survival, and native Americans which is also something very unique to America. In relationship to specific examples, To Kill a M...

American Son by Brian Roley

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...

The Philippine Insurrection

to when the US declared war on Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, order Commodore George Dewey to...