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Youth, Culture, and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

In five pages this paper examines this unusual and controversial love story in terms of various cultural perceptions. There are n...

Mythic Figures Teiresias and Oedipus

In five pages this paper discusses how these characters featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles can be describes as mythic because th...

Culture as Molded by the Media

In five pages this paper considers the cultural influences of the media in terms of belief systems, values, and social perceptions...

A Consideration of Angels in Life, Literatue, and Culture

In a paper consisting of eleven pages the angel is examined in terms of history and cultural representation with the emphasis on t...

Cultures and Their Similarities

In four pages this paper discusses cultural similarities with the only differences being income and ethnicity. There are no sourc...

Class Struggles in Canada

In seven pages the continuing class disparity between the poor and the rich that exists in Canada is examined with such issues as ...

Peru's Human Habitation

In two pages the cultural progression that resulted from Peru's early habitation are considered in terms of the impact on the land...

Post First World War Culture and Radio

In six pages this paper examines the cultural significance of radio since the First World War and how it led to TV and Internet me...

Zoot Suit History

In five pages this paper considers the importance of the Zoot Suit that includes its enduring African American cultural influence....

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Comparing 'Oroonoko' and 'Persian Letters'

uncle was without children, he had been designated his uncle?s heir and began using his name at that time.) The Persian Letters ...

Nubia and Egypt

In five pages these two historical rivals are examined in terms of their cultural adversity based upon recent archaeological findi...

Mexican Americans' Culture and History

Mexican American identity in San Antonio, then, demonstrated the self-definition that took place that separated the Spanish Mexica...

'Anesthetic' Words and Communication

In seven pages communication is examined in terms of various nuances, phrases, styles, and cultural roles. Six sources are cited ...

Health Care Industry Strategic Planning

In eleven pages this paper discusses strategic planning in the health care industry with HMOs and their impact, the relationship b...

English Language Acquisition and its Value

In nine pages this paper examines the value of immigrants' acquiring the English language in terms of cultural assimilation in the...

Culture, Food, and Ritual

In five pages this paper discusses food and a funeral ritual as cultural components. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Russian Elections and Sociocultural Influences

In seven pages Russia's 1995 parliamentary elections are examined in terms of how they were influenced by various cultural and soc...

Middle East and Belly Dancing

In five pages the cultural value of belly dancing in the Middle East is examined and is also compared with other U.S. dance forms....

Country Overview of Kuwait

In ten pages this research paper presents a country overview of Kuwait with such subdivisions as its early history, geography, dem...

Historical Influences Upon the Culture of Iran

In ten pages the cultural development of Iran is examined in a historical overview that includes Western, Islamic, and Persian inf...

U.S. and Mexico Cultures Contrasted

In four pages the cultural differences that exist between the U.S. and Mexico are considered with an emphasis upon intercultural e...

U.S. and the Influence of Nicaragua

In nine pages this research paper discusses the relationship between Nicaragua and the United States in a consideration of the cul...

Establishment of Literature in America

In six pages American literature and its establishment are considered in a discussion of various authors from Mark Twain to Carl S...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front II

In ten pages this paper analyzes how the novel exposes war and its grim realities that are in stark contrast to the cultural illus...

Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County

have held a job, had a hobby, read a book, or expressed an opinion since the Korean War. Still, this hunk from National Geographic...

A Comparative Analysis of In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, Arts in the Contact Zone and The Hundred Secret Senses

In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...

Epistolary Novel and Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith

who never writes back -- she says that the name of her would-be friend ?tastes sweet in my mouth like honey or cane or how I pictu...

'Guest of the Sheik' by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

In five pages Fernea's story is analyzed in terms of social constructs that are gender based and considers the Eastern cultural ex...

From Korea to Heaven Country by Lee Ki Chuck

This paper consists of five pages and applies a cultural heritage point of view to this text by Lee Ki Chuck. Six sources are cit...