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Gelsey Kirkland, Ballet Dance Artist

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in the United States

It is always important, essential even, to keep in mind the fact that American society is a pluralistic society in which diversity...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

Character Building and the Boy Scouts

exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...

Disagreeing with the Assertion That Modern Latin American Neoliberalism Results in Democratization

that the concept of democracy is conspicuously absent from this equation. By its very nature, neoliberal policy is responsi...

Slavery During the European Renaissance

can be termed neither solely positive or solely negative in regard to its influence on culture and people. There would be tremend...

Analysis of U.S. Consumerism in 'The Eagles Shadow'

In this way, I do not believe that the U.S. decision to not support the Kyoto Treaty is reflective of American consumerism run amo...

Cowboy Image in America

civilization these men were often more comfortable with the open plans and the cattle than they were with people who lived in a to...

US Same Sex Marriage History

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

North American Human Social Groupings

human beings approach all of life. Defining and describing this change precisely is not an easy task. As Laslett points out, no ea...

Freedom and America

allow their child to be refused medicine that would save their lives if they are of a religion that insists on such action. This n...

US and Mass Media

slant the truth in order to cater to their sponsors. Of course, the studios got around this by having their news anchors hawk ware...

Early American Attempts at Self Governing and Relations with Great Britain

won freedom from religious oppression. Christie suggests that the bottom line and that which caused many of the compoundin...

Bill Clinton's American Images

there are different views and images of America. Many take their images from their childhood. What is it like to grow up in Americ...

U.S. Era of Free Banking

when the bankers there allegedly established free banks in hard-to-reach locations - locations "where the wildcats roamed" (Dwyer,...

What Leads to Homelessness?

are many people in the lower and middle income brackets who have little put away. If they have no credit, and no one to bail them ...

Latin American Countries and Marketing

is much to be said about this from the cost-saving nature, such strategies simply do not take into account the cultural nuances or...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Differing Views on Native American Distinctions

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

Cobb Off Broadway Play by Lee Blessing

of Cobbs Georgian neighbors were card carrying members of the Ku Klux Klan, and while there have long been rumors circulated throu...

Historically Analyzing Racism Regarding Jews and Blacks in America

end, he assimilates, as they want him to as he is continually beaten and harassed. Though the author tries to make it seem as if t...

Colonial Latin America and Women's Social Code

Latin America). They are responsible for raising children and being charge of all domestic tasks. For the peasant lower class woma...

North and South America Differences and Their Reasons

in the North. For example, at the very Northern parts of New York State near Canada, homes are very inexpensive. Generally speakin...

Women and Poverty in America

women were in a sort of Catch-22 situation. Charities did not want to contribute to able bodied women, but at the time women could...

Central America and Deforestation

we see that "The rate of habitat destruction has increased to 2.47 acres per second, 214,000 acres each day, and about 78 million ...

Essays on Education - A Comparison

and Streshly back up their assertions by quoting studies and surveys (2000). They assert that not only is this myth wrong, that tw...

Choices and Motivations of Benedict Arnold

would seem that the beginning of the end started when some of the officers placed beneath him attempted to be reassigned stating t...

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine Writing About America

There is no question that through Jeffersons influence, the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and li...

Exhibition Overview of New World of Wonders

their existing worldview. The maps made at the time, for example, show the difficulties the cartographers had with accurately repr...