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Gender Identity and the Impact of Video Games

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how gender identity and roles are influenced by various video games. Twenty sources are cit...

George C. Wolfe's 101 Dalmations, Toni Cade Bambara's The Lesson and Identity

girl who has no real identity aside from that which is perhaps preconceived by her and her community. We see this young ignorance ...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Catherine J. Allen's The Hold Life Has

previously the case" (Allen, 1988: 195). It is a very popular pilgrimage that draws people from all over the region, if not the wo...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

Film American Pie and Sex

just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...

Worldviews and Storytelling

their lives more worthwhile. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons account ...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Cultural Determinism in the Songs of Tupac Shakur

has upon his fans, one must first understand the meaning behind the words. Perhaps the best definition of this particular type of...

Music of Samoa

significance (Amerika Samoa). These dances are "elegant, vibrant and sometimes erotic" (Amerika Samoa). Author Robert Louis Stev...

Cultural Identity According to Margaret Mead

in Samoa. What she found there was that culture influences personalities, not genetics. She concluded that "the adolescence is no...

Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas More's Utopia, and European Identity

with the following excerpt: "Under the equator, and as far on both sides of it as the sun moves, there lay vast deserts that were ...

Identity and American Assimilation in My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

the daughters have difficulty understanding their mothers past lives and their perspectives on their daughters lives. The daughter...

Thematic Comparative Analysis of Gloria Anzaldua's Hybridity and Creative Identity as Described in Borderlands and Toni Morrison's Sula

related to sexist elements in society. Within her work are the essential themes used in "African-American and expressive enterpris...

North America Cultural Identity

of these norms. Although individual identity is also defined along subcultural lines in urban society, researchers must also be aw...

Children of the River by Linda Crew and Roots by Alex Haley

he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Black and Outsider Culture

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

Social Identity According to Bourdieu

culture is not superior to that of working class cultures, only different. Failures that are classified as class related, such as ...

Russell Banks' Continental Drift and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

complete of his sense of self - everything within his environment has the feeling of being "other." Tayo is literally the walking ...

Cultural Identity and Commerce

example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world" (Aveda [1], 2004)....

British Museum Sesostris III Statue

to change, a significant development given the importance of funerary ritual and art in later stages of the cultures evolution. ...

Catalan Identity in 'Teta I La Luna'

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

Identity and Fashion

(Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002). Another result was that those dressed in a more formal manner described themselves more quickly than...

Counseling Process and the Importance of Culture and Cultural Identity

next was through storytelling. In fact, storytelling has become known as one of the primary ways that history has been taught thr...

Globalization and the Media

defence if it is criticised. The Eurovision song contest raise national feeling and the violence that arises out of footba...

Cultural Identity and Intercultural Communications

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...