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Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

Political Discourses and Ethical Approaches That May Impact on Environmental Issues

capitalistic hegemony. Mainstream models such as socialism and feminism given alternative view on the political and ethical issues...

Canadian Aboriginals: Evolving Identities and an Emerging Hybridity

of European descent. Interestingly, however, aboriginals were viewed simultaneously with distaste, with awe, and with envy. They...

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...

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...

The Debate over Bilingualism

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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). ...

African Americans in Early America

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

Overview of African American and Native American Ideologies and Globalization

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

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 ...

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...

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...

Music Therapy as a Pediatric Sedative

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

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...