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Mexican American Communities and the Implications of Alcoholism

In eight pages this paper examines how the Mexican American community is affected by the social problem of alcoholism with compari...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

Analysis of Mona in the Promise Land by Gish Jen

In five pages this paper examines and analyzes this Chinese American novel first published in 1996....

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

The HealthSouth Scandal

value from dropping.5 He was able to get away with it because he was the person who was charged by the SEC with the responsibility...

Religion: Symbols, Systems, Thought and Practice

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

The Concept of Evil

God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...

Critiques of "Richard III"

and is killed. Henry then becomes King Henry VII. Richard is "not a good man who, when tempted falls, and who, when fallen, hopes...

“The Story of Mathematics”

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

“A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity”

use of mathematics generalizations could be made from certain observations which could be applied to other observations, that patt...

Mary Tyler Moore Show & Feminist Theory

photogenic, but air-headed newscaster. Additional cast members were Valerie Harper, as Marys best friend Rhoda; Cloris Leachman, n...

El Cid: Ramon Menéndez Pidal versus Richard Fletcher

the prolific works of critic and scholar Ramon Menendez Pidal as the definitive studies on Diaz, but more recently, an English his...

Studies in Public Administration

to meet the "major goals of society" (Stillman, 2000, p. 1). For instance, he says, if a state agency proposes to build a new high...

High School Students: Reasoning

or concepts being classified" (Maxwell, no date). Critical reasoning is a form of logical thinking where conclusions are drawn f...

Questions on Hydrology

frequency or duration for use in a hydrological model. This is not the case when using an actual storm. Natural storms are...

Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright

victim is a white girl who is sincerely trying to be his friend, to treat him as a fellow human being...Her mother, who is blind, ...

Richard Wright and Lorraine Hansberry's Styles of Writing

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...

Questions on the Crusades

Cairo. Also, the recent deaths meant that there was a power vacuum and no decisive leadership anywhere. Therefore, Muslim forces n...

Dave in "The Man Who was almost a Man" and "The Dutchman"

is 17 year old Dave, a young black man living in the south in the 1930s. He wants to feel powerful and grown-up, and thinks that i...

The Homemade Self

individual (Keating, 1999). People are generally selfish. They look at life from the perspective of whether or not something will ...

Point of View: Atwood and Ford

her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...

Irish American Influence on American Culture

society, so much so that the Irish ultimately became "more American than the Americans in their appreciation for the blessing of c...

Native American Influences on Modern American Culture

also being reflected in modern culture with the search for a spiritual connection with the earth, which is a value being adopted a...

Native Americans and Japanese Americans

they ultimately became part of the majority as their facial features and skin color were not obviously different. But, with the Na...

Richard Lionheart and Isaac Comnenus, A Play

that if he will allow the ladies to land, return what he has stolen and make a suitable penance to God, well pass by and le...

Life in Prison from the Inside

are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...

Richard III and Animal Imagery

a place" (I.ii.146). And she answers, "Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight, thou dost infect mine eyes!" (I.ii.147...

Richard Rodriguez and the Isolation of Education

grades and become a good student made it more difficult for him to relate to his parents and the life he lived outside of school. ...