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Timbuktu and Sonni Ali

reign was not necessarily a popular one (History Channel, 2003). Although a Muslim, he mistreated Islamic scholars (and put many o...

East Asia's Cultural Values and Competition With Western Europe and North America

of creating a tripolar global environment. Bergsten (2001) further asserts how the only way to prevent such a detrimental occurre...

Outline for Proposals for 10 Dissertations

easy to obtain. However, with organisations such as the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in London there is a good sourc...

Tony Awards Contest Between West Side Story and The Music Man

strife, the music of a time in a societys history. However, there are other languages of culture which speak to the changes, the m...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

Rome's Engineering and Law Contributions to the West

force in this particular body of the state. The army did not only serve as our armies do today, but also as simple police forces t...

Ethnocentrism v. Cultural Relativism

are utilizing an ethnocentric approach or a prejudiced approach. When we are more open to facts rather than our own expectations ...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

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...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

A West Midlands Regional Business Study

of this paper, well determine if our branch office will survive as well. STEEPLE ANALYSIS: WEST MIDLANDS In this section,...

Comparing Romeo and Juliet with West Side Story

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

Comparing Chinese and Western Mediation Models and Considering Cultural Differences

(Noesner, 1997). Active listening teaches that numerous steps can be taken when conflict does arise to resolve it in the most exp...

American West and Its Important Traits

rich contrasts. According to Stegner, the West is America. This is very profound geographically and culturally, because ...

Economic, Political, and Social History of West Africa and the Impacts of Slavery and the Slave Trade

on the African continent, their form of slavery was drastically different. The old form of slavery did not drastically impact the ...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Workplace Cultural Influences and Increasing Vanguard West Airlines Diversity

this year; (2) initiating programs internally among management and employees to increase awareness of race or sex in the appointme...

Western Civilization and its Greek Influence

the sciences we note that many civilizations prior to the Greeks had their own form of science but most of that science was based ...

West and Influence of Islam

culture of Islam and the occidental world. The book details the impacts Islam has had from a religious perspective in particular....

Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, Changes, and Conflict

fear. So, like the region itself we see the excitement and fear of the couple as they head off to the mans town, a town in which h...

Policy and Social Work Implications of The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns

The most vivid message of "The Corner" is the desperate situation under which the people of "the corner" exists. We find that the...

Western Market and Fashions of Japan

quite clear in some instances but it can become muddled in meaning when multiple identities are involved within the context of one...

U.S. West Coast and the Decline of the Sea Otter Population

to continue at this rate (Englander PG). The otters depend upon the ocean as a means by which to sustain life, with shellfish one...

Civilization and Religion of Islam

in war and conflict for generations. Islam is a unique and comprehensive ideology which serves as a guide for the worldly...

Early West and Settlers from Mexico and Spain

Perhaps the most eye-opening and interesting aspects of the history of the western states, California in particular, is the fact t...

Black Male Identity as Viewed by Dorothy West and Langston Hughes

taken their toil, making the man seem much older then his years (West 122). His oldest daughter practices incessantly on a rente...

Deaths of Long Island Lobsters

to make the public think twice about spraying again. Lobsters began dying in great numbers. Lobstermen in Connecticut first began ...

Comparing the Impact of Colonization in Brand's 'Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater' and Walcott's 'A Far Cry from Africa'

the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...

Western Perspectives on the Prophet Muhammad

J.W. Sweetman is another writer who chronicled the views of the West in terms of Muhammad. He too sites much evidence in support ...

Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums and East Meets West

religious beliefs. We have these men living in the United States. They are products of a Christian country, and a Christian societ...