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Essays 391 - 420

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

CHILD LABOR ISSUES, GLOBALIZATION, INDIA AND PAKISTAN

practices in India and Pakistan, and how they impact the textile, carpet and apparel industries. Teach the Children Well I...

Regulation of Gambling and Casinos

started to arise in the 1970s and 1980s when under the Regan administration there was increased pressure for Indian communities no...

Sequoyah and His Invention of Cherokee Syllabary

He even became known by the names George Gist and George Guess and served in the US Army in the Creek War yet he never learned ...

Native Americans/Preserving Independence

did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...

Sea of Poppies by Ghosh

white which clearly brings into play language and communication styles. There is Paulette, a woman who is French but prefers to we...

Characters in Hemingway's "Indian Camp"

who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...

Article Analysis and Response: Saskatchewan Indian Gaming

the history of SIGA and the casinos it built and manages, and future plans. SIGA has given First Nations people both revenue and j...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Recommending a Sect of Buddhism

the people of your kingdom should adopt. The Vajrayana "mythologizes the doctrine of emptiness" (Conze, 2003, p. 178). Through t...

The Sari as the Symbol of Regional Tradition and Women’s Status in Indian Culture

Said argued that this enabled the West to use this part of the world as "a benchmark" to measure its own progress while at the sam...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Negative Ramifications of the Canadian Indian Act

the federal government sought to eradicate the Native peoples. This fact is substantiated in the literature itself. L.F.S. Upton...

The Widening Gap Between the Rich and Poor in India

This 16 page paper examines some of the issues surrounding the gap between the rich and poor in India, including the growth of the...

Rich and Poor: the Growing Income Disparity in India

Development Bank (ADB) says the number of people in Asia living on less than $1 a day fell by 223 million between 1990 and 2002" (...

Article Analysis: American Indian Societies

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...

The Importance of the Attack on the Tuscarora Indians

things gone differently, todays world might have been different too. Some have speculated that there is a definitive turning point...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Chumash

to live off of what the land could provide. We would travel from one location to another in the past, but then we became skilled a...

Canadian Indian Act

(Okanagan Indian Band). While it can legitimately be argued that the concept of Indian status was originally intended to "separa...

Questions on Readings

long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...

Art: European and Asian

particularly with the theme of human vanity and the transience of life." The student also notes that there is a sense of wealth se...

Mary Jemison and the Senecas

a living on their own. It offered very inexpensive land and freedom although it was a very harsh life and a life full of dangers (...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

Musical Systems: Scales, Maqamat, and Ragas

This research paper offers a brief overview of scales, maqamat, and ragas, which derive from Western Arabic and Indian music respe...

A STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Natives (Indian Health Services, 2012). The HIS is the principal federal health care provider and advocate for American Indians, a...

World War II and the Debates over Indian Independence

of whether or not continued occupation of India was well-advised. 2. The critics of British rule in India supported immediate ind...

Facing East from Indian Country

history of the United States but are all too often not the focus of American history. While other authors seem to circumvent the r...

Different Cultures Different Times

Cultures that are radically separated by geography and distance in ancient times have often...

China and India

century was an important turning point for Chinese history, as this event forced the incorporation of China within the world syste...