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William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

American's Loss of Leisure Time

Those futurists dreams did indeed come to pass. In times past, the nuclear family consisted of a father who worked for money, a m...

School Violence, Poverty, Racism and the Nation's Schools

as a whole, or toward an individual because he (or she) is a member of that group" (Spencer, 1998, p. 25). By and large, schools ...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

American Dream As Embodied in Benjamin Franklin

it pertains to ones identity. Franklin essentially constructs his approach to self, or identity, never really calling it self or...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Battling Racism in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

to Jim. There are other issues as well but this is the predominant one. So then, the question is whether or not Twain was actual...

Renaissance Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

Racism According to Joyce Appleby and David Roediger

that their numbers (like those of "our own natives") are dwindling. As this suggests, Ball is not unsympathetic toward the natives...

American's Government Distrust and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

acted on his own to kill the President (Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne, nd). They believe there is a very strong cover-up in this...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Large Social Processes and the 'Private' Sphere of Asian American Families

In a paper consisting of eight pages the problems that Asian Americans face in the United States are considered in terms of confor...

American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

19th and 20th Century Asian-American Gangs

7 pages in length. The existing and ever-growing power of Asian-American gangs during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have...

Student Submitted American History Questions

In five pages this paper considers three questions supplied by a student that include the popular Native American savage concept i...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

Communist 'Menace' and the Creed of America

In five pages this paper discusses how American civil liberties were sacrificed in an effort to offer protection of the American C...

Society, Race, and Racism

discern race visually is not true, and at least not at first glance. There are many light-skinned black people in the world for ex...

Counseling Associations' Code of Ethics

In a comparative analysis consisting of five pages the code of ethics espoused by the American Associate of Pastoral Counselors, t...

Overview of American Community Colleges

In five pages this paper examines Arthur Cohen and Florence Brawer's 'The American Community College' and Marlene Griffith and Ann...

American Dreams and American Cities

that -- unlike the European countries, from which so many nineteenth century immigrants to the US left behind - the upper classes...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

History and Culture of the Cherokee

was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

American Domestic Interests and the North American Free Trade Agreement

CREATION OF NAFTA NAFTA was created as a means by which North American trade and investment could be energized past the levels th...

America and Attitudes About the Middle East

that Afghanistan and Pakistan are also middle eastern ("Middle East," 1993). What this means is that, from a religious, political ...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

History of Racism in the United States

including women, but while things would eventually be repaired to the point of some closure on the subject-intermarriage, black ca...