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Kenneth Hensall's Dimensions of Japanese Society Gender, Margins and Mainstream

emotion we most often find in Western culture. Just three decades ago, however, literature on Japan would take a different tactic...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

The Debate over Bilingualism

the perception that the "melting pot" of American society worked better in previous generations. However, consider this quote conc...

British Literature's Mainstream Tradition and Peripheral Culture

of literature which, although derived from the centre, must be constituted as peripheral since they do not follow in a direct line...

Music and Song in Latin American Literature

The ideas insights and images created and represented by these three influential authors play a crucial role (Hoeg p. 95). Go...

Latino Population and Mainstream U.S.A.

In six pages this paper examines how Latinos are perceived by the American mainstream. Eight sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Electronic v. Conventional Music Distribution

In five pages distributing music electronically through Internet download sites rather than by conventional means is critically an...

MP3s and Internet Technology

In ten pages this research paper discusses music and the impact of the Internet on technology in this consideration of MP3 music f...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

Music Videos and the Uses of Imagery

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the art of music videos in a consideration of accomplished directors of music videos...

Native American Students' Acquisition of Language and Reading Level and the Effects of Culture and History

In five pages this paper discusses how various cultural and historical factors impact the acquisition of language and reading unde...

Music Industry Changes Resulting from Digital and Analog Music

Smaller and easily transportable audiocassettes stored music onto acetate tape that was magnetically transmitted (Patrick, 2001). ...

September 11, 2001 and Speculation on Prior Knowledge by the U.S.

only were imaginable, they also were foreshadowed" (Ahmed). Then- Secretary of State Colin Powell stated after the fact that ther...

An Analysis of a Chamber Music Concert

lyricism and classical composition techniques" have made his music internationally acclaimed (Srul Irving Glick, 2003). In Glicks...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Modern Hispanic Family in the United States

as well. For example, we assume that African Americans largely live in the inner city and that the children are raised by single m...

Strategic Challenges to the Music Industry

extension of this established practice. The music industry claimed that the development was not a surprise, and that the potential...

Sex in American Culture

Human sexual behavior is examined in the context of American family values. Ideas about sex in mainstream America are discussed. T...

Calypso

in the call and answer format, with matching phrases with the use of many V - I cadences and then open cadences to allow the respo...

John Cage/His Impact on Music

"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Digital Music - Blog Entries

rapid from this stage in terms of take up of the technolgy in the industry. The Industry Standards Organization (ISO) adopted the ...

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 ...

African Americans in Early America

(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...

Music Piracy

artists work is pointless and they have made no money off of the pirated copies of their work. Anyone who spends time creating a p...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Funk Music

was despair. It was a time of high energy and it has become part of the nations mythology. It was unsettled and crazy, and funk mu...

Music Therapy as a Pediatric Sedative

post-discharge effects of chlorate hydrate, these parents/guardian reported unsteadiness, hyperactivity, poor appetite, vomiting a...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...