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The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

In five pages identity is considered in an examination of Kincaid's novel. There are no other sources listed....

Racial Identity Conflicts of Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

is clear that Rhyss intention in Wide Sargasso Sea is to demonstrate that if black women are not placed into otherwise constrictin...

Using Vernacular to Reflect Self Image in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

Group Interaction As Expressed Through Clothing

Many schools are considering a return to school uniforms. This paper examines the interactions of groups and group members and how...

The Old West As Portrayed in Frederic Remington's Art

In twelve pages the ways in which Remington's depiction of the American West in his art in terms of its identity and conjuring of ...

Refugees from Tibet

This 6 page paper discusses ways in which Tibetan refugees have succeeded in maintaining their purpose and ethnic identity, even i...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man

This paper examines the issue of identity and 'passing' within the context of James Weldon's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Ma...

Identity Testing and DNA

known, and "probability of identity" applies only to the father. Genetic Profiles (1998), a laboratory specializing in DNA ...

Overview of Sexual Identity Determination

This paper consists of five pages and argues that the sexual identity of an individual is determined neither sociocultually nor bi...

Skinner and Erikson Theories of Personality

- 35: Intimacy versus isolation. Form intimate relationships. 7. Middle age, ages 35 - 60: Generativity versus stagnation. Goes be...

Nineteenth Century American Identity Development

of those character traits became a part of what most Americans like to think of as an uniquely American point of view, as well as ...

Personal Perception of Judaism

small child, I knew I was Jewish, so I really do not remember when this identity was established or how. I did not think about it ...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Being a Man in the 1999 Film Boys Don’t Cry

petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

Issues in e-Commerce

IT security professionals must take a "comprehensive view of threats both inside and outside the direct control of the enterprise"...

Fight Club/Dissociative Identity Disorder

purchase expensive consumer goods. The stress and psychic pain of this situation causes chronic insomnia. A disinterested and unsy...

Identity Construction

identity formation are represented in specific works. One of the outcomes of the childhood socialization process is that the child...

Kate Chopin: Exploring Culture and Identity

themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...

Identity in the Architecture of Le Corbusier and Kahn

studied in Paris under August Perret (Matthews "Le Corbusier"). It was during this period that Le Corbusier developed a intense in...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

Technological Change: Anthropological, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...

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...

Comparison of Scots Law with Sharia Law

Majestatem, which was heavily influenced by Glanvills English law treatise, but it demonstrates the many sources of Scottish law a...

How Did You Get to be Mexican?

students and he is sometimes amazed by the amounts of money they spend on things; hes equally amazed at high tight-fisted wealthy ...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Grandparents and Parents

help identify myself. For example, my mothers father was a commercial artist and she would often claim that she did not ever wan...

Adolescent Development of Individual Identity

This research paper offers an overview of adolescent identity development and the issues associated with this stage of personality...