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Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

Gilded Ages and African Americans

in the Gilded Age. In the presentation we will argue that the predominance of the Victorian Culture helped to shape racial relatio...

America and Attitudes About the Middle East

that Afghanistan and Pakistan are also middle eastern ("Middle East," 1993). What this means is that, from a religious, political ...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Virtual Tour of the American Wing

represent American copies of European styles from Holland, France, and England. The craftsmanship on these pieces is excellent. Th...

Second World War Torturing of US Prisoners of War by Japan

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Libya Since 1945

come to an end, and Libya would be independent (Shalom, 2002). A subcommittee of the U.N. General Assembly voted to approve the ag...

American Express and Monster.com

may not be well placed for the placement of some occupations, especially those where there is no element of technology and older c...

Earth in the Balance by Al Gore

between what he writes in the pages of Earth in the Balance and what he, as politician, businessman and individual, chooses to pra...

Comparative Analysis of 'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

US Occupational Structure and Stratification

Still, certain trends never change and social class makes a difference. Historians have examined the occupational and social str...

Contemporary Society and African Americans' Roles

are unable to advance and thus are thrown into a never ending cycle of self depreciation. Yes, true, the United States Just...

21st Century America and African American Social Mobility

or success is associated with fame and fortune, or achievement in terms of the arts or sciences. Some individuals have not earned ...

The So-Called Ongoing Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

a part of Iraq, yet Kuwait had systematically encroached on Iraqi territory, while also deliberately stealing Iraqi oil from the R...

History and Uses of Total Quality Management

In forty two pages this paper examines the history of TQM, the models of Juran, Baldrige, and Deming, and implementation experienc...

"American Gods" and Dichotomy

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Gaiman's "American Gods". The dichotomy between old and new gods in the text is show...

Native American v Puritan Mindset

This paper reviews the seventeenth century accounts by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. Rowlandson was held captive by Native...

American Hotel Industry Changes

law and it is enforced by the Wage & Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). This Act was amended in 1940, 1947, 1949...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

White Noise by Don DeLillo

electrifying success. The chancellor went on to serve as adviser to Nixon, Ford and Carter before his death on a ski lift in Aust...

Deborah, Golda and Me Being Female and Jewish in America by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, The Vanishing American Jew by Alan M. Dershowitz, and Jewish Issues

social mainstream, not the least of which has been in terms of marrying outside of his religious faith, something Dershowitzs own ...

Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis

their eyes when the Star Spangled Banner is played or the pledge of allegiance is recited. There is the visualization of those bom...

An Overview of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...