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AMERICO PAREDES: A SECRET RACISM

the end, most likely killed by her stepfather, a Hispanic, through sheer ignorance and neglect. The fact that no one seems to no C...

Frederick Douglass, Successful Despite Slavery

been a slave and not due to his celebrity status among abolitionists for having endured slavery. In order to fully appreciate th...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

Mainstream America and Being African American

suburbia ideal, even though they were raised in that setting. For the African American it may be different for they may have been ...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Research into Life Satisfaction Measurement

This research paper offers a proposal for a researech study that would exmine life satisfaction in relation to race, gender and re...

Poems That Reveal Joy Harjo's Life and Art

Reservation in Oklahoma. Harjo has retained the storytelling brilliance of her ancestors in her spiritually moving works, and t...

American Literature and Multiculturalism

In five pages this paper examines how multiculturalism is represented in such American literary works as The Souls of Black Folk b...

A Comparison of the Autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, Mary Rowlandson, & Olaudah Equinao

This paper compares and contrasts the lives of three influential early Americans. The themes of freedom, faith, and inspiration in...

How Incredible Odds Against Them Were Overcome by Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

to construct a code for living that would be world-renowned. One of his favorite stories concerned a formative period in hi...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

How Old Can We Go? (Article Analysis)

the results. The author explains: " Remove those factors and researchers find that U.S. life expectancy continues to climb, but by...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

The Nonprofit Sector and American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

How Has The Internet Affected Life

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

Social Rituals

existence in the face of such tremendous adversity as political transformation can also indicate the growth of tradition as a legi...

American Life Prior to the First World War and Following the Second World War

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...