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Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

Cultures, Communications, and Comparisons Between Do the Right Thing and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

to give them their blessing before the evening is over. What is interesting to see is that Joanna has turned out just as the Dr...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

Elderly and Cultural Behavior

bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...

RV Travel, the Retirees, and American Culture

is a relatively expensive endeavor as RVs do not get great gas mileage. In addition, their RV is not often their home. It is their...

Practice of Culturally Competency

homosexual community should also be considered. While psychologists and other practitioners of psychology do want to have a cultur...

Cultural Differences Examined

this concept. In exploring family and cultural issues and belief systems that emanate, how has that affected Maries personal belie...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

Conservative Muslim Women and the Difficulties Encountered When Living in Western Countries

and those who resist equality are vilified. In a culture where gender is a key determinant of the role in society equality is not ...

Contemporary Western Culture and Humanities

deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....

Guatemala's Mayan People

business conducted in Spanish and schools are based on Spanish as well as bilingual programs that are thought to be transitional...

Humanities Makes Life Worth Living Through the Study of Literature, Art, and Music

their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...

City of Quartz by Davis

had been full of light and life and rather innocent. They were optimistic. The debunkers had already seen the seedier side of life...

Marshall Islands and the Significance of the Outrigger Canoe

Islands are indeed impressive. Traditionally they were made of breadfruit logs using only the most primitive of tools, tools like...

Culturalization and Implementation of Electronic Relationship Management Systems

give up their privacy to tell companies about their likes and dislikes. But with companies becoming more global, its essen...

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

Japan and Abortion

of her people when she states that "Fetuses should be buried properly in accordance with socially accepted ideas even when they ar...

Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first fo...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

U.S. and Japan Cultural Memory Influences of the Atomic Bomb

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

Human Resource Management Expatriate Issues

legislative requirements for working conditions. Acts such as the Employment Rights Act 1996, and Employment Protections (part tim...

Leslie Marmon Silko

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

Failed Approaches and Major Events Pertaining to White and Native American Interaction

chapters of the history of European domination in the so-called "New World" sometimes took slightly different directions. Such wa...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Gatsby and Larsen's Passing

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

Alternative Adult Education Models

adult education within the confines of a college, university or junior/community college. Adult students attend such institutions ...