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Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...

Beauty Concepts of Aristotle and Plato

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

Cosmetic Surgery for Men

accessory that can make a man appear to be more "attractive powerful and masculine" (Fraser 77). Considering this new focus on co...

'The Eye of the Beholder' and Crime

is any action that is against the laws of the land, and as such needs to be a social construct as it is the laws that are develope...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Helping the White as Well as Black

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

African Americans and WWI

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

The Computer’s Impact on Society

computer people would call one another on the telephone or they would write a letter. If they wanted to send someone a picture the...

Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality

society, actually many shifts, that led to the current attitudes held by Christians today. For example, there was a time when peop...

African American: History and the Present

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

Is the Supreme Court Protecting the Rights of Americans to Equality?

This 3 page paper argues that the Supreme Court’s decisions in Loving and Brown v. Board of Education demonstrate its ability to p...

The Supreme Court: Role Played In The American Political Process

physician assisted suicide and affirmative action most certainly involves heated discussions in the courtroom, however, it is not ...

Multicultural Communication; Potential Difficulties

effective it needs to be understood by the people whom the ideas are being communicated to. There is a communication failure when ...

Obesity in American Children

While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...

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...

Native Americans and Hetch Hetchy Valley

became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...

The American Health Care System: A Disgrace

they should have "choices that are diverse and responsive to individual needs"; and they should exercise personal responsibility i...

The Bennett Scale and Milton Gordon on Assimilation and Native Populations

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

Mexican-American Homeless & Programs

research that has investigated the characteristics of new Latin American immigrants has determined several characteristics that ma...

Hypertension in African American Populations

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

The Control of the American Sugar Industry

it would provide subsidies for the sugar growers (Bovard, 1998). By the time 1950 rolled around, the sugar programs in the U.S. wa...

The Influence of Television on American Society

1977, p. 4). For children in particular, there is no activity that permits as much intake "while demanding so little outflow" (Win...

Organizational Behavior - Case Study

of his third year, he broached the subject of changing career directions with the president as they golfed together and subsequent...

Diabetes Mellitis and Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

"Native Son" And American History X" - Dual Racial Intolerance

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

The North American Union

the development of programs" (Sanchez, 2007) and they also gave more instructions to their committees (Sanchez, 2007). At that ti...

Politics of Latin America

perspectives may well have something to offer the worker. With populism the worker can, hopefully, possess more of a voice and mor...

Argument: The Status Quo Favoring the Death Penalty is Unjust

all those "red blooded Americans" who have the "love it or leave it" mindset, it might be useful to point out that this list conta...

William J. Bennett: “The Death of Outrage”

about sex, even under oath, dont really matter" (Bennett, 1999, p. 8). Bennett argues that if we accept these attitudes, which he...