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The Rites of Passage Associated with the Tribal Cultures of Africa

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the African young man's rites of passage are examined in the customs of tribal peoples Masai...

Journey of Passage Taken by Telemachus in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this essay considers the rite of passage Odysseus' son Telemachus takes on the journey to find his father and protec...

Escape Themes in the Works of Larry McMurtry

In six pages this essay discusses Horseman, Pass By and The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry in an analysis of how the escape t...

Sharon Olds’ Vision of Children

of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...

1995 Film By John Singleton, Higher Learning

In five pages this report examines the 3rd film effort by director John Singleton in a discussion of content, prejudice, and issue...

Drinking and the College Student

on-campus student residences. Forty-four percent of schools restrict alcohol use at several college-sponsored, on-campus events" (...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux' and Heinrich Boll's 'Like a Bad Dream' Compared

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

Irony in Rite of Passage by Sharon Olds

This paper consists of twenty pages and discusses how irony is used in the poem to express meaning. There are no other sources li...

Rites of Male Passage in the Americas

In five pages this paper discusses how masculinity is conceptualized by the Americas in terms of gender interaction and in contras...

Iroquois Boys' Manly Rite of Passage

hunter and a brave individual is the most important element of a boy becoming a man. Demonstrating that a person is brave and ab...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Studies

At the same time, it is also the case that Black women...

Cochran and Miller's 1941 Text The Age of Enterprise

In five pages this paper discusses the still accurate premise for American business articulated by a text originally published bac...

Meso American Civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca

In six pages this essay contrasts and compares these early Meso American civilizations in terms of organizational, agricultural, r...

Global Consequences of the Spanish American War

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

Are Americans Selfish?

many people in the world, but they are working hard to get what they can and they are also very limited in the way they can live. ...

What is a Real American?

of the good things the nation stands for and the good things that the nation does in the world. But, a good or real American is al...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Piven, Goldfield, and Greenstone on Politics and the Role of Labor

In ten pages this report discusses the analysis offered by these theorists regarding American politics and the influence of organi...

Hispanic Americans

not hard to please" (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). They are also generally Catholics (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). Bu...

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...

US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

Racism in Contemporary America

investigations that "successfully demonstrate the unfairness that only Affirmative Action can begin to redress" (Bradley 450). Spe...

Literature of the New American Republic

commentators argued throughout the 1820s and 30s that there should be works of literature to match "emerging political greatness o...

American History

for farming" (Dawes Act, 2008). II: Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner was a man who developed a thesis: ...

Racism from an Asian American Perspective

of racism, of course, are not limited to the U.S. History has proven, in fact, that multiethnic and multiracial societies in gener...

Workforce Participation Rates

riveter). But with the war, the demand for workers grew, and "everyone" agreed that women would work; they also agreed that the jo...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...