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Immigration of Mexicans and Italians

amount of concern over Italian immigration today. Italy is a relatively small country that poses no stress to the United States to...

Moliere's Works Compared - Plautus, The Miser and The Pot of Gold

of Harpagon is the counterpart to Plautus Euclio, but in many ways Harpagon is far preferable. Where the character of Euclio exhi...

The Connection between Traditional Indian Dance and Contemporary Women's Expression

Dance comprises one of Indias most important art forms, art forms which have been in existence for thousands of years. While clas...

Social Change Through Theater and West Side Story

Story from Historical, Social, Cultural, Political and Religious Perspectives Surprisingly, the original idea for West Side Stor...

Contemporary Hero Mother Teresa

Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience" (Dictionary.com, 2004). Applying this we can look at the way she c...

Walker's Battered Women Syndrome and the Frye Rule

be categorised as admissible once it is seen as "generally acceptable" in its field. As Grossman points out, however, since the co...

Evolution of Myth

aspects of the people from whom it is spawned. Barthes views on the evolution and purpose of myth are echoed...

Modern Society and Gender

a majority of the time, demonstrating and reinforcing the concept that father/male involvement with their children isnt important....

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Marxist Perspective on Workplace Conflict

middle class can now drive BMWs through inexpensive leasing options, but the divide is still there. The middle class and lower cla...

Man v. Nature in The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

Contemporary Social Applications of the Human Rights' and Justice Theories of John Rawls

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

The Role of Women in Islamic Society

no means represent the lives of most Muslim women (2002). What are the lives of most like? How are women viewed in Muslim society?...

'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...

History and Current Situation of Domestic Violence

What is Domestic Violence? Domestic violence, or battering as it is sometimes called, is "a pattern of behavior used to establish ...

Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

Life and Art of Franz Kafka

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

Contemporary China and Catholicism

its work in China but on an interdenominational level (Yang, 1998). The "official" Catholics in China began to ordain their own b...

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...

Branch Davidians, FBI, and ATF Standoff

groups have long been at the forefront of controversy with their indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. These ordi...

Dorothee Solle's Thinking About God

hundred years ago the God that Americans envisioned is highly different than the God envisioned today. Today we can see God take o...

Nursing and Communication Theory

relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

Freudian and Social Psychology

correct? If he is, then social psychology has little meaning. After all, everything would be tied to Freuds models that really do ...

Social Problem of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary world and the social problem of marriage. Four sources are cited in the biblio...

Ancient Literature and Cultural Characteristics

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Hypothetical Debate Between Presidential Candidates Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...