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Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

Criminal Justice

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

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 ...

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...

The Nonprofit Sector and American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

American Imperialism

strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, ...

America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

Mental Issues, Mindset And Social Work

state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Hunter's "Race, Gender, And The Politics Of Skin Tone" - Methodological Review

part of Hunters (2005) methodology, it serves to illustrate the point each author is making about extracting data based upon a mor...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Compare and Contrast Beloved by Toni Morrison and Silko by Leslie Marmon Ceremony

This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...

Crash, A Cinematic Parable

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

HIV Prevention for Youth in Rural Areas

sex (Dunn, et al, 2007). Statistics, such as this, indicate the clear need for HIV prevention programs that specifically target ad...

Mark Monmonier's "From Squaw Tit To Whorehouse Meadow" - Changes To America's Cultural Landscape

respect local tradition (Monmonier 71). The place-naming process outlined in Monmoniers book illustrates the transitional ...