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Glittenberg, Transcultural Nursing in Guatemala

to protect their anonymity; however, the actions and attitudes that Glittenberg describes reflects the cultural orientation of the...

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 ...

O’Nell/Disciplined Hearts

Part three continues this analysis, focusing on narratives of experience. In creating these discussions of data and the issues the...

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 (...

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

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...

Reitz’s Heimat, The Final Episodes

surprised by change. To him it is has if the village and his family stayed frozen as they were in 1928. In his absence, his father...

Edgar Reitz’s Homeland: A Chronicle of Germany

home, but in a mythical way that remains difficult to obtain and hold on to. The first episodes of the series begin the process of...

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...

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" (...

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...

Gulliver/His Cultural Tools

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

Questions on Readings

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

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...

Indian Influence in the United States

Indian immigrants but it has also made its way here indirectly as the style has influenced Western clothing designers. In...

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 ...

Main Theme in Flight by Sherman Alexie

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

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...

Crash, A Cinematic Parable

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

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...

Imperialism & Conrad's Heart of Darkness

complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves" (Bowers 91). Marlow is discouraged by other Europeans who work for the enigm...

Crash, A Central Theme

Graham is having an affair with his partner, Ria, who is of Latin American descent; however, Graham cannot seem to remember that ...

Chang-rae Lee/A Gesture Life

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...