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Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

Ecological World View as a Cultural Artifact: Native American Subcultures vs. Mainstream White Americans

cultural artifacts. Many have contended since the original "discovery" of this country that Native American spirituality is...

Comparative Analysis of Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era and Major Problems in American History Since 1945

This paper explores the concepts and themes featured in these texts in a comparative analysis consisting of four pages. Two sourc...

Thematic Similarities Between American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan and Myne Owne Ground by Breen and Innes

took off and many different African people started coming into the region. Many slowly began to leave for less hostile states, suc...

Youth Gangs in American Society

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

American Provincialism

opportunity and they also, in many ways, dismissed the pomp of the British aristocratic (Sandefur, 2007). It is perhaps th...

Millman: "The Other Americans"

that it has grown from a small concern to a huge business that now makes over 400,000 tortillas a year (Millman). Fernando Sanchez...

American and Indian Youth and Drugs

as "early onset" was 20.76 years; those classified as "late onset" was 26.53 years (De et al, 2003, p. 339). Even though this is c...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

The Mexican-American War

obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...

Holton/Forced Founders

describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the American Labor Situation

employees are also excluded from the applicability of the NLRA (Fisher and Phillips LLP, 2007). Interestingly, employees ...

Lewis, Marshall and Tolliver: African American Artists

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

An Evaluation of the American Response to Terrorism

A military action at first is successful, but then, the taking of Baghdad only seems loosely related to the terrorism that occurre...

African American Culture and Child Rearing

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

Robert Dallek/FDR & American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...

American and Iraqi Women

in many respects. The Iraqi women, by all outward appearances and by all media theorizing, are made to wear clothing that consta...