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“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...

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 ...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Marriage as a Problematic Institution

and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener" - 'Eminently Safe'

them, much of which is brought about by Bartlebys unusual behavior (Dickstein, 2005). The method by which Melville (2004) address...

"SWALLOWS OF KABUL" AND "DAWN": A RELIGIOUS COMPARISON

reign of the Taliban. "The Afghan countryside is nothing but battlefields, expanses of sand and cemeteries," the author writes in ...

Anxiety and Male Sexual Anxiety as addressed in Philaretou's The Perils of Masculinity

is expected on the "third date," at the very latest, and this presents added pressure for the inexperienced male. The chapter ad...

CHICAGO'S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Though the Fair itself was definitely a source of economic growth for Chicago, turning it from its vision as a "frontier town" int...

Layne/Peace of Illusions

the U.S. undermined the British Empire through a combination of "conditional aid and political leverage," which made eradication o...

Puzo and Marshall

play in the street amuse themselves with a dangerous pastime: jumping onto the freight as it rumbles down the street (Puzo, 1998)....

Kingsolver: “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

of oil a year per citizen" which is almost as much as we use in our vehicles (Kingsolver, Kingsolver and Hopp, 2007, p. 5). The hu...

A Review of Time on the Cross

is true despite the fact that it is somewhat well known that economics were important in the context of this issue. Of course, the...

Siebert: The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

the Railroad, which would probably have delighted him no end (Quarles, p. 145). Seibert also does something else that has largely ...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

How Did the New Left Lead to the Rise of the New Right?

support one another, and as a result, there was great social change. Perhaps the greatest success of the New Left was the Brown v....

Thank You Letter to Lissa Weinstein

was especially moved by your frustration, and the way you felt that all your education and training was useless to you in this sit...

Brave New World as a Blueprint for America’s Future

Social stability, in Huxleys nightmare vision, depends on making "[S]tandard men and women; in uniform batches" (Huxley). It turns...

Lareau: “Unequal Childhoods”

the childrens behalf" (Lareau, 2003, p. 138). This intervention sometimes took the form of discussion with the childrens schools i...

Dyson: Come Hell or High Water

looks at it in a certain way-the way the media wants them to perceive it. In this case, the media has used this device to portray ...

WORKING CLASS HEROES AND BLACK PICKET FENCES: A COMPARISON

the every day people who live, work and form the community, from stay-at-home moms who mold their families, to fire-fighters, who ...

Palast: Armed Madhouse

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...