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Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

Marvin Harris's "Cannibals And Kings"

of more people, more food, more impact upon the land repeats itself every time cultural modify themselves in order to maintain the...

A Million Little Pieces and Tao te Ching

thrown up and obviously experienced writhing agony, yet he falls asleep, after her call, "Still. Eyes closed. Smiling" (Frey 130)....

Illegal People by David Bacon

the immigrants, creates a situation wherein they are seen as a problem rather than a beneficial source in the nation. This is furt...

A Look at Tally's Corner

written word" (Liebow, 2003, p.16). Here, the man described is someone who did not have the benefit of being raised by his parents...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

Barbara Kellerman: “Bad Leadership”

man was right" (Kellerman, 2004, p. 29). This is the dilemma which, Kellerman argues, no one wants to acknowledge: that bad, even ...

“Keeping Promises: What Is Sovereignty and Other Questions About Indian Country”

the United States, the problems facing Native Americans remained essentially be the same but instead of dealing with a European ba...

Sanborn: “The Fred Factor”

name is Fred, and Im your postal carrier. I just stopped by to introduce myself -- to welcome you to the neighborhood and find out...

Beverly Daniel Tatum: “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”

to become part of black culture, she had to be able to get away from the dominant white culture entirely. This wasnt possible in a...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

Positivist Law and Natural Law

two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...

A Short History of Progress - Or Lack Thereof

past, we can use it to predict what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly whol...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

The Environment in Literature: Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and the Concept of Dwelling

That is, non-ecocritics appear to be uncomfortable with criticism that acknowledges the fact that it is possible the natural world...

Analysis: “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” and “The Hours”

happy: "Except that one day Haroun asked one question too many, and then all hell broke loose" (Rusdie, 1990, p. 8). The question ...

Winkie, Road & Corruption in Society

destroyed civilization and the world as we know it because this point is not relevant. Whatever the rationale, the world is gone. ...

Analysis: “The Coming Darkness”

white supremacist."4 De Hoyos charges that Ankerberg uses misdirection, subterfuge and innuendo to make his points, which are larg...

Proverbs and Feminine Wisdom

in order to obtain the principal goal of her text.3 This goal is "move beyond" the way in which the male sages of the Old Testamen...

Maurice Sendak

10). The first section of this exhibition was entitled "The Old Country" and featured the Eastern European familial ties that are ...

The Relationship Between Michael Jordan and September 11th

than a dozen endorsements would go to these other charities" (p.166). The author minimizes the generosity of Jordan and continues...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Murder in the Deep South

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

The Nature of Evil

permit others to do so on your behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick ...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

Picoult: “My Sister’s Keeper”

wrong with Anna; her pain and suffering - which are very real, given the type of procedures she undergoes as a donor - are all to ...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Vol. 2. Boston, MA: Ginn, 1906. Hanover Historical Text Project. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/barth.htm (accessed May 18, 200...

McWhorter's Losing the Race

have gone by with many of the problems in the black community magnified and tied to race relations. Yet, one has to wonder whether...