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America's Culture and the Effects of TV

In five pages this paper presents the argument that it is television that molds culture in America, not vice versa. Four sources ...

America's 'Lost Generation' in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Ernest Hemingway portrayed the group of US expatriates author Gertrude Stein described ...

Theories of Social Work and America's Teen Violence Problems

an impermeable substance but provides a subjective sense of self-continuity as it symbolically integrates the events of lived expe...

America's First Prisons

This paper examines the very first prisons in America, and discusses the drastic differences between early and modern prison facil...

Rural America's Information Needs

In eight pages this paper discusses the impact of restricted information access on rural America in a consideration of social excl...

America's Revolutionaries' Hostility

that is the most threatening aspect of revolutionary behavior. A large percentage of Americans are content with their lives an ar...

America's Negative Connotation of Dissent

Nonetheless, even VOAs projection of domestic political harmony and its minimization of dissent highlights the essential vagueness...

America's Late 19th Century Urbanization

Introducing such revolutionary concepts as were developed during the latter part of the nineteenth century truly transformed the w...

Overview of America's National Holocaust Memorial and Museum

The US National Holocaust Memorial and Museum is examined in an overview of eight pages and includes history and displayed exhibit...

America's Early National Disgrace, the 'Trail of Tears' of 1838

even thought they have adapted considerably well to our European cultures and lifeways have become an obstacle to these desires. ...

Japan's Buddhism and Shintoism

of Confucianism and Buddhism. Unlike the primitivism of Shinto, the Chinese religious practices were far more sophisticated, whic...

Eastern Religions and the Self Concept

In five pages this paper examines the Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism religions in terms of the concepts of self and reincarnation...

Feared Regional Diseases of South America's Chagas' Disease, Asia's Cholera, and Africa's Malaria

by which a person can be infected is from food or water contaminated by bacteria from the stools of cholera patients (Abramowicz P...

Discussion of Hermann Hesse's Siddartha

In five pages this paper analyzes Siddhartha's journey in a consideration of the author's life as well as the parallels that exist...

America's Homosexuality Construct and Lesbian Issues

In eight pages this report examines lesbian issues within the social construct of homosexuality that exists in the United States. ...

Buddha, Jesus and the Great Spirit, a Comparison

and that the intervention of priests between the faithful and God was a necessary component of worship. Nevertheless, there is sti...

Peace is Every Step by Hanh

bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...

Harry S. Truman, America's Greatest President

In 5 pages this paper argues that Harry Truman was the best US President in a consideration of his leadership. There are 4 source...

Our Kind of People Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known for his provocative New Y...

America's Urban Ghettos

Two developments after 1900 laid the foundations for the black urban ghetto: the industrialization of American and collapse of sou...

Twenty First Century Challenges to Buddhism

In six pages Buddhism is discussed in terms of its basic principles with an examination of how it can continue to prosper througho...

D.T. Suzuki's The Manual of Zen Buddhism

This paper discusses The Manual of Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in four pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Basic Concepts of Zen Buddhism

Zen Buddhism is the focus of this conceptual report consisting of five pages. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Psychotherapy and Zen Buddhism

In twelve pages this paper examines the patient benefits of mutual applications of Zen Buddhism and psychotherapy. Seven sources ...

America's Constitution and the Views of the Anti Federalists

In three pages this paper examines the eighteenth century debate of the U.S. Constitution's structuring from the anti Federalist p...

Comparison of Judaism, Christianity, Zen Buddhism, and Islam

regard to the manner by which they worship only one god. Unlike so many other religions that divide their devotion among several ...

America's Tumultuous Sixties

In seven pages this paper examines the 1960s' decade of social protest movements in America with the Students for a Democratic Soc...

America's Role in World Affairs After the First World War

In one page the isolationist stance that influenced American policy economically, diplomatically, and militarily is examined alon...

The War of 1812 As America's Second War of Independence

This paper contains five pages and discusses how the War of 1812, also the Napoleonic Wars, was relatively minor and that its limi...

History of America's Transcontinental Railroad

In six pages this report discusses the travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific that resulted from the Transcontinental Railroad in...