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Essays 271 - 300

Leo Simmons' Edited Text Sun Chief

a government boarding school he was pressured to cleanse himself of practically all elements of his traditional culture. He was f...

The Upanishads and the Atman

same in his "Heart Sura" (Upanishads). The term "Atman" refers to the immortal aspect of mortal existence (Atman-the Soul Eterna...

Muslim Holiday Eid

extreme importance to the members of the religion in question as well as being relatively unknown to those outside of that religio...

Southern Fiction and Manners

that manners and formal politeness will overlap: the way in which white Southern gentlemen treated white Southern ladies, for exam...

Indian Empress Mumtaz Mahal

issues. Mahals graciousness extended far beyond her own people, inasmuch as she felt that all of mankind should live in peace tog...

Indians by Arthur Kopit

putting on a play for the President and the First Lady is obviously designed to make the viewer angry (i.e. this is the "most piss...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

Indian Music and the Tabla Drums

the emission of harmonics(Courtney, 2001). Musicians play the tabla (or a smaller one at least) by placing it in their la...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

The Basque Tradition

but amusing chatter among themselves, laughing at times and it is this apparent joy that draws in the crowd causing them to share ...

Chinese and Mexican Communication Across Cultures

When addressing someone in China, one should remember that in China, family names come first. So for example, Mr. Li Hongjun would...

Women and the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

or three line synopsis of the story. Then, there would be at two or three points which illustrate how women in this piece are trea...

Hinduism vs. Buddhism

four different occasions away from his palace he encountered the true pervasiveness of human suffering. When Prince Siddartha went...

3 American Authors and Perspectives on Forced Cultural Assimilation

family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Comparing the Impact of Colonization in Brand's 'Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater' and Walcott's 'A Far Cry from Africa'

the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...

Comparing Buddhism's Different Forms

did not want to support the offspring of the religious leader. Yet, whatever the reason, attachment is a concept that is very impo...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

Yogesh Chadha Gandhi A Life

and rely on previous works and historical documents to formulate a guideline. Since the publication of the entire 90 volumes of wo...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

Short Fiction's Depiction of Families

judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

History and Traditions of the Ashanti

The capital of the Ashanti kingdom, Kumasi, was taken by the British in 1873 and the kingdom became a British protectorate at the ...

Cultural Traditions and Technology

had to change some things, in his heart he is, perhaps, doing exactly what he and those before him have always done: worship The M...

Blair Water Purifiers in India- A Qualitative and Quantitative Case Study

as inductive reasoning. The strength of the quantitative approach is in its reliability or the repeatability of the pattern. The...

School Mascots Debate

has been a debate that has raged for about 30 years (Price 66). The issue is generally over whether names like Braves, Redskins, ...

Early America, England and Rights of the Individual

right to political participation and freedom of religion, became the motivating forces behind the English Revolution of 1640, whic...

Cultural Change in Kung San

A paper of 5 pages, this essay discusses the nomadic people, their lifestyle, customs that are representative of the hunter/gathe...

Past and Present Fairy Tales

human spiritual life and then comes back with a message." The usual heros adventure will start with someone "from whom something ...