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Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

Afghanistan and America in The Kite Runner

cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Mentally-Ill Homeless/Mexican-American Women

of child care (Rosenheck, Bassuk and Salomon, 2003). Homeless women and men are more likely to have a history of mental illness th...

Campaigns and the Media

their newspaper competed with each other to see which could produce the most sensationalized news (OConnor and Sabato, 2008). How...

The Influence of Stax Records

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Erie Canal’s Impact Upon Early America

War, American colonists including George Washington, pondered how to access the lush soil of the West (Albion and Pope 83). In 17...

3 Sociology Issues

and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage,...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

American Prohibition and the Economic Boom of the 1920s

At the turn of the century, dry legislatures had been favoring womens suffrage and also allowed popular referenda in respect to wh...

Hopi Indians and Kachina Ceremonies

In five pages this research paper considers the American Southwest's Hopi tribe and the belief significance of kachinas ceremonies...

Racism and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines how racism is attacked by the author in this classic American novel. There are no other sources...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

911 and Hostile Behavior from Sociological Perspectives

sad truth may suggest just the opposite. It is also valuable to consider the perspective offered by Oliver Cromwell Cox who note...

Santos Garza, Chief Executive Officer of Counter Technology Inc.

he worked to establish expanding international trade opportunities between Mexico and the U.S. Garzas company is listed as one of ...

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...

American and Apache Wars

lived by hunting and fishing; they diversified into many different climatic regions and separated into a number of discrete societ...

America and the Importance of Trademarks

In ten pages this paper discusses global trade and commerce in an overview of the role played by trademarks nationally and interna...

Appearance of Place in The American Friend Film by Director Wim Wenders

An analysis of the city's role in The American Friend, a 1977 film by director Wim Wenders, is presented in seven pages. There is...

The American Dream in Advertising

includes urban culture, and a variety of lifestyles, money still is important in a culture that demands the consumer to "buy now" ...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

America and Terrorism

stock market was closed for several days and it would not be until the following Monday that the opening bell would ring-a task ac...

African American Cultural Perspectives in W.E.B. du Bois' Souls of Black Folks

African American cultural perspectives on Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. du Bois are considered in a paper consisting of 5 pages. ...

American Steel by Richard Preston

In five pages this report discusses Preston's Nucor Steel profile in American Steel and considers and the changes it represented. ...