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1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

Russell Banks' Continental Drift and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

complete of his sense of self - everything within his environment has the feeling of being "other." Tayo is literally the walking ...

The Dreamers by Isak Dinesen and Identity

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

Pre Stonewall America and Authors' Treatment of Gay Society Identity

government - harbored toward the homosexual population. Lumped together with such socially unsavory issues as Communism, Katz ill...

American Women, Blacks, and Discrimination

of discrimination, the following thesis will be investigated: Numerous factors affect the level of discrimination...

Catalan Identity in 'Teta I La Luna'

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

History and Culture of Assyrian Americans

another reason why ?migr?s are so intent on passing it along (Horan, 2003). The Assyrians were apparently never numerous, and the...

Religious Extremist Movements

that are more passive and believe that "God will punish" or "evil will be punished" much less threatening than those that say "God...

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him the sometimes intense and often expansive sens...

'Death of a Traveling Salesman' by Eudora Welty

between/among society, family and self. She forces her readers to view and view again tendencies of conflict toward self and soci...

Identity and Image in the Corporate Sector

influenced a large number of people when they were choosing a new car. Many would not even consider buying one of these cars due t...

Memory Role and Personal Identity

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Illness and the Relationships Between Body, Mind, and Language

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

Ireland from 1879 to 1918 in Terms of Protestant Unionism and Catholic Nationalism

just the opposite during Irelands late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, proving to pull people apart who would otherwise ...

Social Identity According to Bourdieu

culture is not superior to that of working class cultures, only different. Failures that are classified as class related, such as ...

Society, Biology, and Gender Identity

environment that causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology, but since ...

Theme of Identity Featured in Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

Lifestyle Choice of Transgenderism

significant elements as well. Therefore, transgenderism is truly the end result of the combination of these various components. ...

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...

Personal Identity According to Swinburne

of these issues is apt, Olson provides an explanation that is easier to comprehend for the average reader. Swinburnes first issu...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Constructionist Perspective of Identity

Gergen states that, "one cannot depend on a solid confirmation of identity, nor on comfortable patterns of authentic action (p. 14...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Information and Communications Technology Interview and Interpretation

a predicable change as may be expected if we were to apply the theories of Clark (et al, 1988). In terms of identify there are m...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

Cultural Identity and Commerce

example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world" (Aveda [1], 2004)....

Importance of Setting to the Protagonists in Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell and Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

to the United States by way of some illegal documents and the assistance of a smuggler. Once on American soil, Jyoti receives a r...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...