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The Philippine Insurrection

to when the US declared war on Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, order Commodore George Dewey to...

The Role of Marketing and Mass Media on Gender Perceptions

theory was developed in an attempt to break through established conventions and depict society, as it actually is, not as the gend...

Gender Identity: Nature or Nurture

on triggering biological development. The researcher maintained that for males, "the biological cause of... putative homosexualit...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

Revolutionary Identity in the Works of Langston Hughes

to a revolutionary conception of identity that transcends race and ethnicity and focuses instead on the deep socially ingrained di...

Language and Symbols to Communicate Personal Identity

feminine or masculine identities (Dobkin and Pace, 2006). While disliking the concept of stereotypes, in communicating identity ma...

The Social Construction of Gender and M. Butterfly

homosexual, while others are only attracted to someone of the opposite sex. M. Butterfly is not the only film to confront...

Race Considerations in Gilbert Arizona: Native Americans

lands and claimed them as their own. Racism in Gilbert is, in fact, a deep component even of our academic world...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Sylvia Plath’s Identity as a Confessional Poet

was not just one simple dream that Plath had, but an ongoing connection or vision of these three old women, these three witches wh...

A Plea for a Native American Alliance

us have done so and we have witnessed the strength of the alliance. Consider, for example, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and Potiacs ...

The Great Gatsby: Summing Us Up

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...

How Do ‘Identity’ And ‘Obsolescence’ Contribute To This Continual Change In the Fashion?

interpreted as obsolescence these may be lead socially or as a result of the fashion industry. Blumer (1969) argued that there we...

Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

Identity Explored in Three Texts

niece (Kingston) doesnt even know her aunts name. The scene in which the villagers wreck the girls familys home is related to th...

Plato’s Cave and Sartre

without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

Identity and Cultural Borders in The Red Convertible by Erdrich

subtle and strong ways. It is something that connects the two, and means something to the two of them. It is a material object, an...

Non-Western & Western Music

"Cubop," an "appellation (that) aptly symbolizes the new equipollent level of cross-cultural musical integration that differentiat...

IT Article Review: Identity Management

for vendors, still another for customers - and eliminating layered access serves to simplify the structure of the larger informati...

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 ...

American Imperialism

strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, ...

Tattoos in America

in prison, and that marks them as a particular type of person, connecting them with gangs and criminal activity. Or a young person...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

Barn Burning by Faulkner

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

Amy Tan and Nancy McCabe

when she fails-according to them-it overwhelms her and undermines her sense of self and her self-esteem ("Meeting Sophie"). The "...

Handicapped Parking

that are close to access to the building designated as Handicapped Parking. These spaces should be eight-feet wide and have a wide...

Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...