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Biography of Dancer and Choreographer Isadora Duncan

In five pages this notorious artist, her life, tragedies, and dance contributions are examined. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Black Folk Tradition and Black Middle Class Tension

In ten pages this paper examines the conflict between African cultural traditions and the contemporary African American middle cla...

Dance and Fitness Concepts for the Physically Impaired

This paper examines various concepts pertaining to instructional techniques for teaching fitness and dance classes to individuals ...

Blue Winds Dancing by Thomas Whitecloud

In five pages this paper discusses social orientation questioning within the context of Thomas Whitecloud's Blue Winds Dancing. T...

Female Trendsetters During the Heyday of Jazz and Big Band

This paper addresses issues of racism and sexism faced by female musicians during the nineteen-thirties and nineteen-forties. Thi...

The Lasting Influence of Bill Bojangles Robinson

The writer describes the influence of Bill Bojangles Robinson on the public perception of dance, and his ability to break down eco...

Dance and the Internet

In twenty three pages this paper discusses how the Internet has been used to promote dance. Seventeen sources are cited in the bi...

American Concert Dance Periods

time to waste. Indeed, nothing could be further from the truth, as is clearly demonstrated by the following four American Concert...

Sitting Bull's Life from Dakota to Wounded Knee

In five pages this paper discusses the life and death of Sitting Bull which include such topics as his Little Big Horn battle invo...

Drinking, Love, Loss, and Raymond Carver

In seven pages the numbing effects of alcohol as depicted in Raymond Carver's 'Why Don't You Dance,?' 'Gazebo,' and 'What We Talk ...

Regulating Behavior Through Communication

In five pages the ways in which verbal and nonverbal communications can be employed as regulations on behavior are examined throug...

Edgar Allan Poe versus Arthur Conan Doyle

In six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...

The Dance of Legislation by Eric Redman

In five pages this paper examines the National Health Services Act bill passage as depicted by Eric Redman in The Dance of Legisla...

Martial Art of Capoeira

In a paper consisting of twenty three pages the culturally complex Capoeira martial art is examined in terms of its Afro-Brazilian...

Biography of Fred Astaire

In five pages a biography of Fred Astaire is presented along with an analysis of his dancing artistry as revealed in his films The...

Chicago by Carl Sandburg

Carolina, on July 22, 1967 at the age of 89. Although beloved during his lifetime, Sandburg remains a target of critical neglect ...

Chicago Architectural and Planning Impact of Edward Bennett and Daniel Burnham

new generation of designers have stepped away from admiring only the beauty and grandeur of the lakeside city and have begun to re...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Resource Guide for South and West Sides of Chicago

This 3 page paper gives an example of a resource guide for services in the west and south side of Chicago. This paper includes org...

Katherine Dettwyler's Dancing Skeletons

In five pages this book in which the cultures and lifestyles of the U.S. and Mali are compared is discussed. There are no other s...

Chicago Controversy and 'Chef's Tables'

In three pages an essay arguing the unnecessary imposition of the proposed 1995 Chicago Board of Health's regulatory restrictions ...

Late Nineteenth Century Labor Movement

In five pages this research paper discusses media misrepresentation of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century with an e...

1886 Haymarket Square Riot and Justice

In five pages this notorious 1886 riot in Chicago is examined in a consideration of justice and whether or not it was denied to th...

1871's 'Great Chicago Fire'

In nine pages this paper discusses this massive 1871 fire that threatened to destroy the city of Chicago in a consideration of who...

Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Eight

In eight pages this paper examines the conspiracy trial of the eight people who instigated the riots at the Democratic National Co...

1960s' Political and Social Movements and the Chicago Seven Trial

In seven pages this paper discusses the counterculture, Vietnam War protest, and student movements of the 1960s with the emphasis ...

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

Social Conditions as a Backdrop to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

This 4 page paper discusses the relationship of the text of the book The Jungle to the actual conditions of the Chicago packinghou...

An Analysis of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 15 page paper analyzes Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, about the meat packing industry in Chicago in the early 1900s. The ...

L.A. and Chicago Gangs

Economic and social problems which have an effect on the creation of gangs in both Los Angeles and Chicago are discussed. Politica...