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Are Americans Selfish?

are compassionate and although they are not perfect in the handling of needy children, or needy people, they are clearly a nation ...

Barack Obama's Speech On March 18, 2008: Race

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

Television Depictions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

The Power of Persuasion: No Magic Bullet for the Continuing Problems in Darfur

that this earlier time in history bears little comparison to contemporary times in regard to what it takes to inspire individuals ...

The Boston Tea Party

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

Reflection on Counseling Ethics

is eventually taken. Afterward, I reflect on how my choice turned out and, if I could do it over again, the factors that I might c...

Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

The Evolution of the Americas

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

Sociological Analysis and Summary of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper summarizes Steinbeck's great American novel and then presents a sociological analysis that considers conc...

Different Cultures and the Relationships Between Teachers and Students

In six pages this paper examines the teacher and student relationships in terms of student obedience in American, European, Japane...

Film Adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

accusations, which effectively illustrates the films irony. Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe and Steven Waddington play th...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

Ellen Lewin's Lesbian Mothers Accounts of Gender in American Culture

And, by presenting the reader with both sides, so to speak, a reader cannot immediately start stereotyping the results as they app...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

American Culture

generally argue was very specific to particular ethnicities, but there are also patterns to social organization in relationship to...

Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof and American Culture

all of the principals until they died and the destruction of the states evidence used at the trial, a turn of events that to this ...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

The Black Experience Before and After the American Civil War

6 pages and 5 sources. This paper outlines the experiences of Black Americans before and after 1865, relating to the changes that...

American Individualism According to Emerson, Bellah and de'Tocqueville

This 5 page paper examines various types of American individualism by analyzing literary works. The pitfalls of individualism were...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

Discrimination Based on Color

Race and color continue to be used to gauge acceptability in American culture. This paper examines racial and color factors, both ...

Americanism's Essence Through Advancement, Adaptability, and Adventure

the phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" is, in short, the essence of the spirit of adventure, adaptability, and advancement that d...

Overview of Portuguese Americans

achieve its dream of liberation. While there were a number of "complex factors that persistently" (Safford, 1992, p. 83) worked i...