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Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Journal Entries of Christopher Columbus

history select, describe, and explain historical evidence -- and thereby interpret" (p. 26). The end result is that, as MacLeod al...

Indigenous Populations and the Gold Rush in the Klondike

Russians, the Spanish, the British, and the U.S. on previous occasions. Indeed, the country had been penetrated some three centur...

The Sometimes Contradictory Ideology of Thomas Jefferson

This paper assesses Jefferson's contributions and how they corresponded with his views on slavery and indigenous rights. There ar...

Chinookan Economy

with all the amenities associated with those villages, these people had the time and the resources to develop other aspects of the...

Article Analysis: The Movement West

move on to the next topic. However, some serious reflection reveals problems with this approach, and part of the reason for the i...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

Hispanic Women from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Hispanic women featured in Chiquita's Cocoon: The Latina Women's Guid...

Kikuyu Indigenous Tribe of Kenya

In eight pages this paper discusses the people and characteristics of the Kikuyu, a group that comprises the largest tribe indigen...

A Review of The Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

arrival of the Spanish using Aztec omens. Chapter 2 provides us with the first impressions of the Spanish presented from Aztec ey...

Venezuela's Indigenous Cultures

In five pages this paper discusses the Pemon and Yamamao indigenous tribes that inhabit the rain forests of Venezuela in a conside...

Venezuela and the Pemon and Yamamao Indigenous Tribes

In seven pages the Venezuelan rain forest inhabitants the Pemon and Yamamao indigenous tribes are discussed in an examination of t...

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...

Women in the Canadian Military Forces

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

Education as a Key to Liberating Women

be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...

Postcolonial Literature and Displacement

group and not that of the colonisers, that the texts can be perceived as independent of the imperial system....

Indigenous Populations and the Narrative Therapy Model

with postmodern thought came a new way of looking at therapy. Before we go further, lets define "postmodern," a term that is extr...

Overview of Siberia's Tigers

territory as they hunt for wild boar and elk (Tigerhomes.org). They can live up to around 25 years in the wild (Siberian Tiger). T...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Attitudes Towards Education of Aboriginal Students in Australia

instigating it, where the natives were perceived from a paternalistic attitude, and seen as inferior due to their lack of technolo...

Enhancing Aboriginal Students Experience of School with the Waldorf Model

to as the Waldorf model (Grindley and Hampson, 2008). To assess how and why this model may be appropriate some of the influences t...

Development & Extraction and Indigenous Property

and Resource Development One of the most controversial issues with which indigenous peoples have had to contend in contemporary s...

The Problem of Inequalities of Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

have indicated that socioeconomic disadvantages are more significant than genetic vulnerabilities (Durie, 2003; National Health Co...

Can Women Play a Greater Role in Economic Development?

The writer considers the argument that developing countries are losing a potentially valuable resource by holding back women, prev...

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...