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Vital Signs/Multi-Ethnic Groups in US

pressure) is a chronic condition that constitutes a major risk element for both coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease...

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

William Shephard described his horror at witnessing this. "Thud-dead; thud-dead;...sixty-two thud-deads" (Leap for life). Shephard...

American Ethnic Literature

thinking that challenges ethic writers, who are torn between their native culture and their adopted land. Where do they really bel...

Affirmative Action Views

up against glass ceilings, and find themselves, in relation to men, as poor as ever" (Katz, Stern and Fader, 2005; p. 65). ...

How Hitler Designed "Mein Kampf" As A Blueprint For What Would Soon Follow

as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew" (Hitler, 1969, p. 293). Propaganda reflects the attempt to...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Substance Abuse Counseling For Diverse Populations

and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural ...

Religious And Racial Stereotyping: Causes Many Problems In Today's Culture

categorization. Inasmuch as racial and religious stereotypes are both unreasonable and erroneous, such predisposed opinions about...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Accommodating Cultural Differences In Esl Classroom

styles of cognitive learning by offering both individual and group work to students. For instance, some of the assignments would b...

Conflict Resolution & Iran

announced that Irans scientists had succeeded in enriching uranium, as the first step in making that country self-sufficient in pr...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Darfur: An Analysis

The problems in Darfur have been complicated by a lack of world involvement in the region. Despite the fact that authorization to...

Minnesota/Immigrant Cuisine & Customs

each controlled by its on nobility, and a united German state did not emerge until the 1870s. Therefore, it is problematic to defi...

Under-Representation of Minorities in Sports Leadership Positions

however, has been questioned, but there is probably some truth to it. To take a trivial example, if we see a black janitor in a sc...

Conflict Of Interest: Part of Police Department Culture

For a South Florida investigative reporter, the realization of how South Florida police officers can disregard inherent citizen ri...

American Artists and Art from 1900 to 1950 Annotated Bibliography

world as well as that within the U.S. In comparison other articles reveal that American art has not been considered as successful ...

Cultural Considerations When Counseling Latino Clients

(Degado-Romero, 2001, p. 207; Pumariega, 2000; Koss-Chioino and Vargas, 1999). Researchers have also found that generally Latinos...

Bram Stoker and Dracula

of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...

Sex Crimes and the Media

justification than because of their color. However, law enforcement officials are not the only ones who misconstrue reality and p...

The Issue of Equality and Efforts to Achieve Equality

be representative numbers of minorities within the results. Feminists and activist groups not only took to the equality of opportu...

Discrimination in America Between 1900 and 1945

life of their own, relegated to minding the household chores, raising the children and looking after a husband who never recognize...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

UK Health, Ethnic and Class Differences

and education levels. Health is also an education issue, with greater knowledge better healthcare practices may be developed and a...

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

Australian Universities and Ethnic Minorities

to place limitations on the educational opportunities of children from any non-dominant groups (Blackledge, 2001). Bullivant (1984...

'Ethnic Scarring of American Whiteness' by Patricia J. Williams

the next. While this may be true, it does not necessarily indicate that the salesman is the product of a maligned group. Periodi...

Society and How Color Functions

a personal discrimination and not a discrimination against his race as a whole. And, they are quick to point out that the sufferin...