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Essays 241 - 270

Sherman Alexie and Gish Jen: Dealing with Prejudice

would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...

'Guests of the Nation' by Frank O'Connor

In six pages this paper examines this text on the Irish independence conflict in terms of its strengths and weaknesses or limitati...

Postmodern Playwright Marina Carr

theatrical works - old and new. One of those "new" Irish playwrights is Marina Carr (1964 -- ). Irish Invasion of Theater...

The Tribute to Endurance that is Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

In five pages the book in which McCourt recounts his Irish childhood of poverty is examined within the context of Angela, the indo...

U.S. Life and Immigrants of Ireland

other systems of employment. Few had major industrial skills or their own trades outside of agricultural skills, and there was no...

1840 to 1900 Immigration of the Irish to America

In five pages this paper examines the Irish immigration during this time period in a consideration of geographic composition and i...

Civil War and Role of Irish Americans

In ten pages this paper examines the Irish Americans' role during the Civil War. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Ireland and 'Home Rule'

This paper that is 7 pages in length charts the historical evolution of Home Rule and considers whether it was expected by the Bri...

Comparative Analysis of Terrorist Organizations

In twelve pages the terrorist organizations Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Sendero Luminoso, the ETA, and the ...

Irish War of Independence Leader Michael Collins

In twenty pages this research leader examines Michael Collins's life and charismatic leadership that would both flourish and be cu...

Differing Perspectives of Irish Americans and African Americans

A research paper that consists of fifteen pages discusses why Irish Americans and African Americans have differing views regarding...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' Emigration from Ireland to the United States

In six pages the immigration to the United States by the Irish is examined in terms of the struggles and achievements that were en...

'Orange Order' and Immigration of the Irish

In fourteen pages the Boston immigration of the Irish and the Orange Order discriminatory practices of the mid nineteenth century ...

Fact or Fiction in the Life and Film Adaptations of Michael Collins

the boundaries of Eire. While Jordans film begins amidst the political turmoil of Ireland in 1916, with Jordan at the center of t...

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and portrayal of pertinent Irish American political and social issues ...

James Joyce Portrait as a Young Man

In ten pages this paper examines the author's life as it reveals itself in his novel 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and e...

Overview of Irish Screenplays

In eight pages Frank McGuiness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World are examined in the...

Individual Savings Accounts in the U.S. Economy

older) of the United States tripled to about 34 million between 1940 and 1995. This group is expected to reach 80 million by 2050,...

Intercultural Communications and Irish Americans

massive prejudices against immigrants and of extraordinary displacements of people from their communities of origin, the question ...

Capitalism and Exploitation of Chinese, Irish, and Italian Immigrants and Native Americans

In seven pages the ways in which capitalism has exploited the Native Americans and discriminated against immigrants most notably t...

Irish Folk Drama and English Ritual Drama

the Christian faith, though it can be stated that this idea came from much earlier roots in human civilization. English Ritual D...

'Translations' and Irish Charms

cross-cultural issues; in one sense, someone born in a culture refutes it totally, in another sense, someone born in another cultu...

World History and Ethnic Group Persecution

The main reason why the Huguenots were unpopular with the majority in France during the time period was because they were not of t...

Architecture of a Hawaiian Home for an Irish Japanese Family

human being and the human beings relationship to both community and structure. Sissons (1998) explains that in many circumstances ...

Immigrant Workers who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how immigrants helped build the transcontinental railroad. This paper includes explanations...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

Examples of Welfare Colonialism

be descended from the original inhabitants of a region prior to the onslaught of arrivals from outsider cultures (Burger, 1988). ...

US vs. Ireland: Cultural Patterns:

This research paper relates numerous aspects of Irish culture and discusses how they are similar or differ from those of the US. S...

An Irish Art Interpretation

In eight pages Patrick Hennessy's postwar surreal painting is examined in terms of meaning and in an exhibition setting with a dis...

Political Transformation and the Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration

With the Mid-nineteenth century potato famine in Ireland, hundreds of Irish fled here. Although they received a less than hospitab...