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Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall and Selina's Assimilation Quest

is never easy, and, as the reader of Brown Girl, Brownstones soon realizes, coming of age on the cusp of two cultures as a black f...

The Social Construction of Gender and M. Butterfly

homosexual, while others are only attracted to someone of the opposite sex. M. Butterfly is not the only film to confront...

Wealth and Poverty and Issues of Social Identity

Realization of Differences As already noted, a child is not born knowing that he or she will attend Harvard, be given a...

Cultural Diversity, Racial Intolerance, and Personal Identity

In six pages this paper examines cultural diversity from the perspectives of racial intolerance and personal identity. Ten source...

Identity and Influences of Culture and Society in the Characters of Heathcliff, Catherine, and Edgar in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

years of heartache and turmoil. With Catherine the daughter of a proud land owner and Heathcliff a rugged but humble lad brought ...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

Waters (2007), Summary and Outline

their children self-identify. III. Intermarriage a. Incidence of intermarriage is increasing and affects the way in which racial/e...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Gender Identity: Nature or Nurture

on triggering biological development. The researcher maintained that for males, "the biological cause of... putative homosexualit...

The Idealized America

Our ideas of what it means to be American have changed dramatically over time. Since the arrival of peoples...

The Philippine Insurrection

to when the US declared war on Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, order Commodore George Dewey to...

The Role of Marketing and Mass Media on Gender Perceptions

theory was developed in an attempt to break through established conventions and depict society, as it actually is, not as the gend...

Revolutionary Identity in the Works of Langston Hughes

to a revolutionary conception of identity that transcends race and ethnicity and focuses instead on the deep socially ingrained di...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

Language and Symbols to Communicate Personal Identity

feminine or masculine identities (Dobkin and Pace, 2006). While disliking the concept of stereotypes, in communicating identity ma...

The Influence of Sport in the Context of Creating, Maintaining and Challenging Ethnic Identities and Stereotypes

game, including the way the game may be associated with the national identity in terms of values in a manner not found in other sp...

Gender Identity and its Origins

a matter of "nature" or "nurture". At the core of most modern debates on gender identity is the question or whether gender is dete...

USS Maine Bombing in 1989 and the Reactions by American Newspapers

In six pages this paper discusses how American reporters covered the USS Maine bombing in Havana during the Spanish-American War o...

Film Adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

accusations, which effectively illustrates the films irony. Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe and Steven Waddington play th...

How American Beauty Serves as American Social Criticism

The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

Paula's Identity Search in The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle

Abused wife Paula's identity search is discussed in an analysis of The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle consisting of fi...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper offers a character analysis of Ophelia in terms of the identity crisis she suffered due to the various me...

Lives of Men and Important Moments

In five pages this paper discusses important moments in men's lives in terms of the socialization of early childhood, gender ident...

Group Conflict and Social Identity Theory

In five pages social identity theory is examined in a consideration of its various elements as well as group conflict. Five sourc...

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya and Unity

why. Antonios mother is the daughter of Indian farmers, who are closely tied to the land and tend to look at things from a magic...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

Identity in 'Moll Flanders' by Daniel Defoe

In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist's personality defines identity in 'Moll Flanders' by Daniel Defoe. One source ...