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Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Racism from an Asian American Perspective

of racism, of course, are not limited to the U.S. History has proven, in fact, that multiethnic and multiracial societies in gener...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

American Minorities and Culture

in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

A Review of An Hour Before Daylight

and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Illegal Immigration Issues and America's Agricultural Policies

facets of daily life, from job availability to health care and public education, but the list is growing, even to the long term af...

Counselors' Codes of Ethics

that introduces concerns that differ somewhat from the client bases and environments found in other organizations....

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Are Americans Selfish?

many people in the world, but they are working hard to get what they can and they are also very limited in the way they can live. ...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

What is a Real American?

of the good things the nation stands for and the good things that the nation does in the world. But, a good or real American is al...

Piven, Goldfield, and Greenstone on Politics and the Role of Labor

In ten pages this report discusses the analysis offered by these theorists regarding American politics and the influence of organi...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...

Hispanic Americans

not hard to please" (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). They are also generally Catholics (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). Bu...

Too Few Women Senators

Historically, very few women have has access in the political arena. This is beginning to change. While there are more in both Hou...

Overview of National Black Theatre of Harlem

This essay discusses the history, cultural contributions and reputations of the National Black Theater of Harlem. Three pages in ...

Foundations of Methodist Church

This essay discusses the history of the Methodist church in England and then in America. Doctrine, theology, and major tenets are ...

Canadian Politics: Discontentment in Quebec

This research paper/essay presents a comprehensive overview of the issue of Quebec separatism, within the framework of Quebec hist...