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Education and Enrollment Decline

secure knowledge of basic skills is highly important. In this day and age of technological advancements taking the place of funda...

Eating Disorders: Health Concerns for Men

Although the subject of eating disorders are quite well publicized when it comes to girls and women being affected, a little appre...

Forces Driving Change in Colleges

form of inertia wherein principals become comfortable with the way things are. An institution of higher education is a unique or...

Kingdom and Sowell's Views on America

into two very obviously distinct groups. These groups of citizens may not have the same political party affiliation or the same ec...

Contemporary Society and African Americans' Roles

are unable to advance and thus are thrown into a never ending cycle of self depreciation. Yes, true, the United States Just...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

The Clean Slate

be seen as lacking this soul. However, their lack of exposure to the great works and ideas also means that when they are exposed t...

Native Americans

For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...

Jazz Curriculum for Korea

to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...

U.S. - Native American Relations from 1850-1890

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

Beliefs of Hopi and Iroquois Native Americans

to stand in the way of colonial development for some time. In short, they were quite united and yet separate and as such are consi...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

The Origin of the First Americans

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

US Government's Failure of the Late Nineteenth Century Assimilation of Native Americans

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

Socialization of Native Americans

society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...

Alcoholism, Poverty, and Native Americans

Wing (1996) notes that research findings have indicated the fact that within the Native American culture, the reality of alcoholis...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

Festive and Ceremonial Attire of Native Americans

In nine pages this paper examines the clothing styles of Native Americans in a consideration of cultural influence and the primary...

Culture and the Mortuary Practices of Native Americans

In thirty pages this paper discusses the cultural importance of Native American mortuary practices and burial rituals. Sixteen so...

Creek and Cherokee Tribes and Traditional Southeastern Dance Decline

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why traditional Southeastern Native American dances like the stomp dance have decline...

Native American Culture and Totem Poles

might be suggested by valued animal faces. The most important aspect of totem poles utilized to demonstrate lineage is that the...

Pacific Ocean and Totem Poles

and a change in the way of life occurred for the Indians. As a result, the ocean became the center of their way of life (Garbarino...

Sacred Pipe of Native Americans, Ritual, and Repatriation

In ten pages this paper discusses the Sacred Pipe of Native American cultures particularly the Lakota Sioux in a consideration of ...