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Essays 1771 - 1800

Overview of the Text When I Was Puerto Rican

In six pages this paper discusses the US and its Puerto Rican culture in a text overview that includes cultural variations, the La...

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon and the Postal System

In five pages this text examines how the author portrays his view of the postal service and its cultural impact. Three sources ar...

'Milton's Imperial Epic' by J. Martin Evans and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

intent of colonialism as an example of divinely inspired imperialistic politics and unabashed expansionism. Arguing with Evans "Im...

A Historical World View of Female Genital Mutilation

an exclusively Islamic practice. FGM is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual and is in most cultures primarily a social pra...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

The Heroic Aeneas

In a paper that consists of eight pages the definition of hero throughout the course of cultural history is considered in support ...

Creating Utopia

This 7 page paper discusses current perceptions of what utopia is, and how to achieve it. The writer argues that there is an emerg...

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....

'Anesthetic' Words and Communication

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

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...

Literature and Modernism

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

Chinese American Communities and Cultural Anthropology

In nine pages this paper examines U.S. Chinese American communities and their traditions in this discussion of cultural anthropolo...

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 ...

Treaty of Versailles and Consequence of Revolutions in Asia

dynasty nearly three millennia ago (Diamond 78). Therefore, feuding between the various, similarly ordered Asian countries is an ...

The Art of Healing and Frontier Medicine

This paper addresses various facets of medicine during the settlement of North America. The author addresses various cultural med...

Self Concept According to George Herbert Mead

In five pages Mead's self concept is examined in I and Me definition applications along with social cultural nature of self also c...

An Article of Cultural Identity Issues Involving British Asians Reviewed

S. Johal's article 'Brimful of ‘brasia;' British Asians and Issues of Culture and Identity' is reviewed with an emphasis upo...

U.S. Southwest and Cultural Influences of Mexico

In six pages this paper examines the cultural influences of these 2 border countries in an assessment of pros and cons with assimi...

Citibank Asia Pacific Information Systems and 'Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom'

In ten pages this paper uses case study data regarding Citibank's Asia Pacific information systems and applies the cultural saying...

Culture and Child Abuse

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

Mozambique and Possibilities of Freshwater Prawn Fishery

In five pages the species Macrobrachium rosenbergii freshwater prawn, its cultural methodology, and the possibilities for Mozambiq...

Global Marketing Issues

result in costly withdrawals, as when Caterpillar Inc. recently was forced to close a factory in Scotland. Careful study of foreig...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...