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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...

Two Boston Communities

communitys balance of power * develop new community leadership which stands for the interests of the majority * organize for great...

Western Civilization and the Roman Empire's Collapse

and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

Media Representation of Africa

elected to Prime Minister of Ghana. At the onset he was very popular and effective in getting his programs supported by parliament...

The Development of the West End and Chinatown Communities in Boston

so-called blighted slum that the city claimed it was, the area was actually described as the "lively, working-class community of t...

21st Century Western Threat Represented by North Korea

three years. This is a significant development and something that made international news. The scope of this particular article re...

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...

Hondo by Louis L'Amour and the Connection Between the Masculine Social Construct and Violence

activities. Sometimes this encouragement is overt but sometimes it is very covert and they receive it from practically everyone th...

Non Western Homosexuality Judged

other cultures are quite different and thus cannot be expected to be like western cultures. The judgments that would initially ...

Analysis of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

variety of perspectives on Cleopatra, which serve to inform the audiences comprehension of her as a decadent foreign woman. When ...

West and Whether or Not Iran Poses a Legitimate Threat

life. Though cultural and religious differences are often supported as a means of directing public opinion towards the belief t...

Western Influences Over Colonial India, Japan, and China

basis for the set up of the Imperial Diet, a governing system central to the reform underway and based in the will of the people (...

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...

Post 1875 Influence of the West

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

Shepard, Ibsen, Hare, and Shakespeare Character Sketches

is certain he will. Nora then discloses how she borrowed the money for their trip to Italy and has been struggling to pay it back ...

Bermuda's Anglican Church and a Problem with Provincial Alignment

In twenty pages this research paper examines the Anglican churches of the West Indies, Canada, or the US in a comparison as to whi...

Western Enlightenment and the Philosophies of John Locke

In five pages this paper discusses how Locke's philosophies contributed to the Enlightenment of the West in an examination of how ...

Masculinity Perspectives in the Play True West by Sam Shepard

The masculinity perspectives expressed by Sam Shepard in the play True West are analyzed in seven pages. Five sources are cited i...

Works of Maverick Playwright Sam Shepard

In seven pages this essay considers playwright Sam Shepard's life, his unique style of writing and offers abstracts of his plays F...

Comparing and Contrasting The Wedding by Dorothy West with Jazz by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two novels, The Wedding by Dorothy West and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The novels are the onl...

US Frontier Myth

In four pages this paper examines one of America's most enduring myths, that of the Old West frontier and territorial expansionism...

Old West Forts as Centers of Trade

In twelve pages this paper examines how the forts of the Old West served as trade centers with references made to the historical t...

Critical Comparative Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

This paper compares the literary criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner by Ray B. West Jr. in 'Atmosphere and Theme i...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

Ashantee and the Gold Coast by John Beecham

In ten pages John Beecham's 1841 anthropological study featuring West Africa's Ashantee tribe is examined in terms of 3 examples o...