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Grades Seventh through Twelfth and Dropout Rates

and test performance, inasmuch as stereotype vulnerability has proven to predispose ethnic populations to related test anxiety. "...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing

two worlds, the tropical island and the cold city, and which would later surface in my dreams and in my poetry" (Cofer 1990, 15). ...

Portugal, the United States, and Business Law

similar in many ways, but there are also differences. It should also be noted that the UCC is not valid in the state of Louisiana....

Global Media, Culture, and Language

million people in the world who live outside their countries of birth or citizenship (Kent, 2002; U.S. Newswire, 2002). In 1990, t...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

Culture and Science Conflict

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

Body Image Perceptions and Western Society

is essentially a rejection of the traditional values and argues for an "authority of our own experiences" (Bordo, 1993, 283). In p...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Cultural Destruction and Personal Wealth

In five pages this paper examines the social emphasis upon personal wealth and argues that this pursuit is culturally destructive....

Australian Children's TV

dilemmas regarding sexuality and drugs, conflict with school and parents, and so on. Even though these are recognised as being aim...

Michael Kohlhass by Heinrich von Kleist

In six pages this research paper examines von Kleist in a consideration of hist time's cultural background and then concentrates o...

U.S. Cultural Progress from the Years 1880 to 1990

to the workers. Each worker then performed a specific task. An automobile that took 12.5 worker-hours to build in 1912 was down to...

Alternative Learning Perspectives

In a paper consisting of ten pages alternative learning from a cultural perspective is explored as a relevant choice in a contempo...

Tutorial on a Vietnamese Woman's Life

In five pages this essay tutorial considers how to reconstruct a young Vietnamese woman's life from her birth in 1956 to the prese...

Ancient Civilizations and Geography

subject to severe earthquakes and its climate is rather mild; Greece has mild wet winters, but dry hot summers (2001). Achi...

Motown and Berry Gordy

Vegara, and "Urban Crisis" by Thomas Sugrue. Berry Gordy and Motown Berry Gordy is considered to be the father of Motown. "In ...

Cultural Narcissism and the Media

The media also consists of the radio, newspapers, magazines, and all forms of advertisements that promote one product or another. ...

South Africa's Development and the Impact of the Boer Wars

and the British Empire - black people were also involved at all levels of the war and this in itself had a salient effect on the w...

AIG and Corporate Cultural Diversity

as a provider of property, casualty and unusual insurance (Hoover, 2001). An example of this may be seen in the number of entertai...

Behavior and Cultural Values of the Television Series Ally McBeal

are two of the primary cultural values that stand out in virtually every episode; amidst the young law firm is a collection of peo...

Northern Frye on Canada's Political, Social, and Cultural Structure

individuals interaction not only with their cultural background and heritage but also with the social construct of such phenomena ...

Great Britain's Post Compulsory Education and Training Philosophies and Policies

In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...

Culture, Identity, and Roots in the Writings of Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

society as a whole had become better educated by the mid-19th century, a new market presented itself for stories, regional sketche...

Ideas and Events of the Medieval and Renaissance Eras

Europe. He directly linked the power of government to religious reform, and brought the clergy under the jurisdiction of the crown...

Counseling Techniques and the Effects of Cultural Variables

techniques can become particularly complex in the case of traditional cultures and cultures which have derived distinctive differe...

UK, Japan, and Business Cultural Differences

the physical infrastructures destroyed. However, now we see a country which is renowned for high quality high tech goods, such as ...

U.S. Hazardous Waste Facilities and Historical, Archaeological, and Cultural Information

problem stems from the fact that polluted water flows directly into the Apalachicola Bay from other sources, rendering the bay def...

Cultural Aspects of Game Shows

can be found to replace it. Observers not only see the individual advantage but enjoy the same type of participation they have che...