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Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

Gender Perceptions and Prostitution During the Victorian Age

way that different people were seen. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the...

Student Submitted American History Questions

In five pages this paper considers three questions supplied by a student that include the popular Native American savage concept i...

Identity Perception and Thought According to Thomas Reid and John Locke

identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Section 9 Book II, Chapter XXVII). Yet, Locke gathered his ideas from talkin...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

19th Century Working Class Perceptions of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

This paper considers the working class perceptions of Marx and Engels resulting from major 19th century socioeconomic changes in a...

Society, Personal Perceptions, Nietzsche and Hegel

In six pages this paper examines how society's outlook is reflected in individual perceptions in an analysis of Nietzsche's On the...

From Infancy to Age 15 and Human Depth Perception

and augmentation of the visual cortex synaptic density, enables a six-month-old infants visual acuity to attain the equivalent of ...

Perception, Sensation, and Their Effects on Cognitive Processes

In seven pages this report considers cognitive processes and the functions of perception, sensation, and thinking that despite the...

American Revolution's Failure to Secure Equality for African Americans and Women

In five pages this paper considers the ideology behind the revolution of 'equality for all' but concludes that this has never been...

American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

Bias and Sensory Perception

In eight pages this paper discusses cultural, racial, and physiological process biases as they influence sensory perception. Eigh...

19th and 20th Century Asian-American Gangs

7 pages in length. The existing and ever-growing power of Asian-American gangs during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have...

People's History

In five pages history as seen through the eyes of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and factory workers is glimpsed in a...

Overview of American Community Colleges

In five pages this paper examines Arthur Cohen and Florence Brawer's 'The American Community College' and Marlene Griffith and Ann...

Changing Gender Perceptions in Great Britain from 1865 to 1915

In five pages this paper discusses social pressures, imperialism, and increasing nationalism as causes of changing gender percepti...

Global Perceptions, Economic Status, and Religion

In three pages this paper considers how global perceptions are developed through religious backgrounds and economic status. One s...

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

Literary Transcendentalism by Lawrence Buell

In six pages this paper discusses the American Transcendental movement in a summary and analysis of Lawrence Buell's Literary Tran...

Ethical And Aesthetic Perception

This paper addresses how emotions relate to ethical and aesthetic perception. The author examines various philosophies people use...

The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

American Foreign Policy in Anders Stephanson's 'Manifest Destiny'

This is a paper of 10 pages that pertains to American foreign policy as it relates to American expansionism. There are 2 addition...

'Hyphenated Americans' and Remarks by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

In five pages Schlesinger's 'hyphenated Americans' comment is examined by way of the argument Richard Rodriguez presented in his t...

Microsoft Word and Gestalt Perception

the fact that being tuned into these elements helps an individual to tap into ones intrinsic sense of consciousness. "... some sc...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

Contemporary American Culture and Films

In a paper consisting of 7 pages American cinema and how it satirizes or reflects American culture is considered with student tuto...

Social Stereotyping and the Black Americans

12 pages and 9 sources. This paper considers the fact that stereotyping in the United States is common and that the stereotyping ...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...