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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Identity and Fashion

(Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002). Another result was that those dressed in a more formal manner described themselves more quickly than...

Identity Construct, Gender, and Sexuality

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...

British Museum Sesostris III Statue

to change, a significant development given the importance of funerary ritual and art in later stages of the cultures evolution. ...

Mexican Identity and the Significance of Porfirio Diaz

really contingent on the efforts of the leadership that was around at the time. Meyer explains: "Porfirio D?az controlled the des...

Krickett Carpenter Case and Its Implications

lost his or her memory, only to meet up with the same people again? There are unusual stories about coincidences and how people wi...

Zoe and Clare in Abeng by Michelle Cliff

In five pages the identity search that forged Zoe and Clare's relationship in Abeng by Michelle Cliff is examined. There are no o...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

In My Father's House by Anthony Appiah

traveler would have felt that there were "profoundly different impulses, ideas and forms of life" (174). In short, Appiah makes ...

Women in The Sound and the Fury Faulkner's Femme Fatale Caddy Compson

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

Ralph Ellison's Identity Search

In 5 pages this paper examines the narrator's identity search presented by Ralph Ellison in his text 'Invisible Man.' There is 1 ...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Depiction of Merlin, Monmouth, and Briton by Geoffrey Monmouth

In ten pages this paper discusses national identity within the context of Geoffrey Monmonth's heroic tale and includes the nationa...

Self as Perceived from the Male Perspective

relationships from which she derives her sense of self. II. What is a Sense of Self? At around the age of five, a child begins...

2 Articles on Multiple Personality Disorder Reviewed

In five pages this paper considers 2 articles in a contrast and comparison of dissociative identity disorder and multiple personal...

Racial Identity and Globalization

How globalization affects race relations in addition to racial identity are the main issues explored. Various theories are include...

Patient and Relationship Development, Illness Treatment and Coping

In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...

La Nave de los Locos (The Ship of Fools) by Cristina Peri Rossi and Gender Identity

In nine pages the representation of gender identity in this Uruguayan novel is examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Alienation, Experience, and Identity as Viewed by Erving Goffman and R.D. Laing

In nine pages this paper considers how these mental health theorists view schizophrenic issues such as alienation, experience, ide...

Central Asia Today

the Soviet political, governmental, and cultural totalitarianism began to dissolve. The rapidly shifting balances of the 1990s, th...

Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

Works of Diane Wakoski and Alicia Ostriker's Remythologizing of Women

In 5 pages this paper discusses the ways in which these feminist authors show how women can reinvent their identities in a positiv...

Great Literary Works, Experiences, Lessons, and Hope

In 10 pages this paper examines the shared theme of the determinants of one's identity as revealed within 'God's Pocket,' 'Tumblin...

Issue of Ethnic Conflict

This paper consists of fifteen pages and discusses issues of language identity and globalization as they relate to ethnic conflict...