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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...

'Good' and 'Bad' Tradition in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

The History and Operations of Alcoholic Anonymous

When Rowland returned to America, he found both spirituality and sobriety with an evangelistic organization called the Oxford Grou...

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...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Hinduism vs. Buddhism

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

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...

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 ...

Southern Fiction and Manners

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

Fictional Russian Jewish Immigrant's Story

both a Russian perspective and a U.S. perspective. Scholars tell us that the intent of the Cold War was to stabilize world politi...

Jewish Sedar and Roman Catholic Eucharist Meals

In nine pages these meals and their ritualistic meanings are contrasted and compared with the societal impact of each also assesse...

Analyzing Jewish Russians Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue by Sascha Goluboff

people there were often at odds with one another based upon the perceptions that existed regarding the different groups. It was a...

Second World War Jewish Stereotypes and Minority Group Perceptions Regarding Gays and Lesbians

gays and lesbians within their own ethnic group, one might readily surmise how the lack of religious tolerance is partly to blame ...

Eliezer Ben Rafael's Jewish Identities

Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

Italian and Jewish Transnational Ties in From Ellis Island to JFK by Nancy Foner

making the home and host society a single arena of social action. Migrants may be living in New York, but, at the same time, they ...

Jewish Medical Experimentation by the Nazis

(1988, p.PG). They wanted to form a master race that would eventually rule the world (1988, p. PG). The Nazis, after rounding up J...

Jewish History and Spain's 'Golden Age'

grand, self-improving - yet highly attainable - aspirations are what ultimately brought the era to be known as the Golden Age of S...

Jewish Museum Berlin and its Architectural Importance

the world, but it is also a way for people to express themselves. Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Water House is something spectacular...

American Jewish Experience by Jonathan D. Sarna

In five pages this paper examines American Jewry's characteristics within the context of this anthology compiled by Jonathan D. Sa...

The Legends of the Baal Shem, Hasidism and the Modern Man and Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber

In five pages this report examines the relationship between God and the individual within the context of these writings by Martin ...

Myths and Rituals in the Jewish Religion

This paper consists of five pages and considers rituals and myths as they pertain to Judaism. Nine sources are cited in the bibli...

Comparative Analysis of Paintings Jacob van Isaackszoon Ruisvael's Jewish Cemetery and Frans Post's Brazilian Landscape

In five pages this report presents a comparative analysis of these paintings in terms of how they are similar and how they are dif...

Oppression of the Poles and the Jewish Peoples

was the case with Poland, a region that Schmundt -- Hitlers attach? -- contended was at the crux of enemy lines. "The Pole is no ...

Comparison of Second World War Jewish Genocide and Extermination of Native Americans

In five pages this paper defines genocide and then examines it in a comparison of practices against Native Americans and Jews with...