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Grades Seventh through Twelfth and Dropout Rates

and test performance, inasmuch as stereotype vulnerability has proven to predispose ethnic populations to related test anxiety. "...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing

two worlds, the tropical island and the cold city, and which would later surface in my dreams and in my poetry" (Cofer 1990, 15). ...

Portugal, the United States, and Business Law

similar in many ways, but there are also differences. It should also be noted that the UCC is not valid in the state of Louisiana....

Global Media, Culture, and Language

million people in the world who live outside their countries of birth or citizenship (Kent, 2002; U.S. Newswire, 2002). In 1990, t...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Library Science Challenges

Libraries need to respond to those challenges by initiating programs that will cater to the needs of present and future users, in ...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

19th and 20th Century Development of Russia

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

Cuban American Community and Assimilation

the beginning of our history. According to popular belief, the U.S. has actually been more successful than other countrie...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

1960s' Culture

come around, Americans were frantically attempting to launch a man into space, more to keep up with the Soviets (who had already l...

Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

Universality, Cultural Diversity, and Human Rights

the imposition of a single set of standards it is argued that there is a loss of cultural diversity, but it is also argued that th...

Border Between US and Mexico and Tuberculosis's Cultural Aspects

needs to be explored as to why such a high number of cases exists." 2.0 Complicating Factors...

'Amerka, Amerka' by Anton Shammas

(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...

Culture and Science Conflict

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism

were Europeans. Hence, the plight of the American Indian is thoroughly ignored. Cultural relativism on the other hand looks at all...

U.S. and Turkey Dating and Selection of Mates

is the mother who stays at home and cares for the children and the father who works outside the home in order to provide financial...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

Anthropology and Cultural Understanding According to Nancy Scheper Hughes and Renato Rosaldo

power that Scheper-Hughes and the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be i...

Disintegrating Cultural Identity fo Aymara Peoples?

of society. In short, to outwardly encourage assimilation would be nothing short of advocating the quest for control. The ways i...

3 American Authors and Perspectives on Forced Cultural Assimilation

family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...

Global Culture and the Impact of the Aryan Race

and America was just the place for which they were searching. However, when they arrived onto the Native American soil, they turn...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...

Taking Steps Toward Organizational Change

This may be true, but it depends on the type of change that is being sought. If the change is one that is a large one in totality,...

TV Comparisons of Friends and Three's Company

democrat and one-time peanut farmer Jimmy Carter became president, there were significant differences in attitudes among the older...