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Issues in Ethnomusicology, Agawu and McClary

(Agawu, 1992, p. 246). At this point, Agawu states that the purpose of his essay is to critique ethnomusicology writing that has f...

Falasha Liturgy and Indian Cassette Industry, Reflection on these Issues

were struck by the similarities between Falasha liturgical practices and Judaism and this perspective became so entrenched that in...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Comments on Freedoms

This essay discusses several articles that deal with freedoms. Topics include: the responsibilities of parents, music censorship, ...

Freedom of Religion, A First Amendment Right

travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This a...

Lerner and Lowe's Brigadoon

everything of importance in this musical is conveys via song, music or motion, as these are the vehicles that seem at home on the ...

Music History, Classical Era to the 20th Century

as an example of perfection ("Romantic"). The sociopolitical upheavals of the late eighteenth century created "new social order an...

Burning CDs/Ethical Issues

and spread of music, but "bad" in that it could, conceivably, destroy the source of this music, the recording industry. However, i...

Reflection on Counseling Ethics

is eventually taken. Afterward, I reflect on how my choice turned out and, if I could do it over again, the factors that I might c...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

US Economic Life/Billionaires & Poverty

fact that the minimum wage has been frozen at $5.15 an hour since 1997 (AFL-CIO). The following examination of the extremely wealt...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Is The Japanese Manufacturing System Appropriate In The U.S.

documentary that asked why American manufacturing enterprises could not be as successful as Japanese enterprises (Heller, 2005). B...

One Way to Stabilize the U.S. Dollar

In recent years, a number of prominent analysts and economists have suggested that the only way to stabilize the American and Worl...

Nineteenth Century Evangelists, Foote and Lee

This essay offers summaries and comparisons between the autobiographical narratives of African American nineteenth century preache...

Alexander Hamilton On the Economy, A Summary

This essay offers a summary of "Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791" by Alexander Hamilton. The essay also relates this d...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

American Appeal of Blues Music

both in terms of musicality and lyrics. This paper will examine the roots of the blues, what has made it very appealing...

The History Of American Gospel Music

nothing but these songs, these oral traditions that communicated not only their religious beliefs but their hopes and dreams as we...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...