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Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

American Dream As Embodied in Benjamin Franklin

it pertains to ones identity. Franklin essentially constructs his approach to self, or identity, never really calling it self or...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Large Social Processes and the 'Private' Sphere of Asian American Families

In a paper consisting of eight pages the problems that Asian Americans face in the United States are considered in terms of confor...

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...

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...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

Satire, Animation & The Simpsons

willing to "deflate our most over-inflated pieties" and delight in the "demolition of our most hallowed institutions" (Turner 50)....

First Amendment & Tort Law, UK & US

law began with the injustices incurred by the public due to the Industrial Revolution (France, Woeller and Mandel, 2005). Until 19...

Early American Architecture: Colonial and Georgian

the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...

Complying With Japanese Labor Laws

comply with U.S. labor laws, including the EEOC, no matter where their operations are but they must also comply with local laws an...

The Clean Slate

be seen as lacking this soul. However, their lack of exposure to the great works and ideas also means that when they are exposed t...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

The Myth of the Melting Pot

we like, and in public, since these people attacked us first. The problem with this distorted thinking is that it is the product...

American Revolution Compared to the French and Latin American Revolutions

greatest superpower exerted her independence from Great Britain. The focus of the American Revolution was to win politi...

Race Considerations in Gilbert Arizona: Native Americans

lands and claimed them as their own. Racism in Gilbert is, in fact, a deep component even of our academic world...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

The Great Gatsby: Summing Us Up

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...

A Plea for a Native American Alliance

us have done so and we have witnessed the strength of the alliance. Consider, for example, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and Potiacs ...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response

The authors recognize how utilizing this single Chicago community is not sufficient to represent the entire Chinese American popul...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

Essays on Health Care

before, with the result that there is a "pill" for virtually any physical condition. Individuals taking any kind of ethical drug ...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...