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Criminal Justice

correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attor...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

The Great Gatsby: Summing Us Up

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...

The American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Things Fall Apart: A Cultural Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Novel

This act served a dual significance - it ended Okonkwos life and anguish, and it was a parting shot to the Christianity that had t...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Sweeeeet! How Language and Culture Intermix

start of fancy, imagination and humor, breathing into its nostrils the breath of life" (Dalzell, 2005). Since Whitman wrote that (...

The Poor Treatment of the American History

for the Native Americans and they did this without a thought to their natural human rights. American historical facts supports thi...

The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

Popular American Culture and Recent Trends

the tip of the iceberg. Aaron Gross (1996) asks: "Should the state be required to support as well as legally grant rights and priv...

Terrorism and Wartime criminal law

an individual may initiate a private lawsuit, that is, in regards to "contracts, injuries, real and personal property and family r...

The Condition of Education for Black Americans

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

King Philip's War by Jill Lepore

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...

“Generation Rx”

do, in fact, demonstrate an phenomenal increase over time in the number of prescriptions that the typical American uses. This num...

The Strengths of African American Families

7 pages ad 4 sources. This paper outlines the basic principles presented in Robert Bernard Hill's The Strengths of African Americ...

Black American Feminism

7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...

Women's Studies and 'In Defence of Elitism' by William A. Henry

and every person. To say that women had to fight for their existence within a patriarchal world would be a gross understate...

Literature and Music Expressed in the Nationalist Culture of African Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...

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...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Culture of Cuba

The Cuban exile culture in the United States is a vibrant one. This paper argues that Cubans as a group are no different than most...

Anthropology and Leisure

In five pages this paper takes an anthropological view of leisure within the context of Phillip R. DeVita and James D'Armstrong's ...

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 ...

Overview of Chinese Americans

In seven pages Chinese Americans are considered in terms of their American historical significance with political struggles and ra...

U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...