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Literature, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

U.S. Multiculturalism and Nationalism

to answer those questions and come up with support for the answers to those perplexing queries, a student writing on this subject ...

Literature Review on Coping with Social Prejudice

patterns that were shown (Link, 2002). Between the ages of three and six there are some interesting attitudes. These may be seen a...

Theories on Globalization

their own position in relation to the larger process. Tomlinson doesnt see that as a negative aspect when seen in conjunction with...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

Philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

Technological Connections and 'Cyberfeminism'

this Cyberfeminism, 2002). Cyberfeminism got its start in Australia during the early 1990s, when a group of artists and ac...

Joy Concept

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon on Realism and Idealism

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

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 Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Young People Suffering from Seizures and Construction of Identity

particular illness. An excellent example is gay men with AIDS. Due to their own perception of what AIDS involves, many gay men c...

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

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...

Psychology and Identity Approaches

people and in some way negates the assumption of uniqueness. Yet, psychologists recognize that while people are unique, there are ...

Capital Punishment and the Philosophy of Thurgood Marshall

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

Necessity of Evil in Philosophy

In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...

Identity Testing and DNA

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

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...

Skinner and Erikson Theories of Personality

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

Education and Philosophy

In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...

Refugees from Tibet

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

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

Contemporary World Search for Arab Identity

with mixed feelings. Many of the Arabs were displaced after the war after spending a lifetime building their identity in Jaffa. Wh...

Art of Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Cultural Identity and Self

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

1934 and 1935 Long March of China

In five pages the march by the Chinese Communists over five thousand miles is examined in terms of philosophical considerations, c...