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The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

Raboteau & Elkins/2 Views of Slavery

performing these rites for the multitude of abducted Africans who died in transit to the Americas. In the second chapter, Rabote...

The Issue of the Extension of Slavery Reported in the American Whig

may be ill-timed or inhumane; it may be constitutional and yet smack of arbitrary power-of oppression: it may ... carry with it a ...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

In Favor Of The Aristide Government

p. 15). Financial backing is one of the most critical components of such an objective. The U.S. Agency for International Develop...

Aztec Influence: Mexican and Mexican-American Artists

joined with an interest in surrealism. Surrealism emphasized the role of dreams and the unconscious in the creative process. To th...

Can violence in American society be controlled?

of appropriate parental guidance and role models that makes certain youths choose lives of violence. In the Old West violen...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

than the indiscriminate massacre in the canals around. (Greene [1]). In so many ways this illustrates the reality of war that alwa...

Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

Examining the Personal and Cultural Background of an African-American

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

Intercultural Communication In The Workplace

ground" (Wilbers, 1996, p. 02D). "The goal is not for one party to vanquish a second party (in the judgment of a third party), bu...

American Colonies' Divergence from England

any legitimate claim upon the land, the New World was not uninhabited and European settlers necessarily had to contend with and ad...

Financing Considerations: American Superconductor Corporation

companys decision to go public with its stocks rather than relying on debt financing was that their products had been placed in th...

The Evolution of American Democracy

James Madison and John Jay (Federalist party, 2005). Opposition to a strong federal government was known as anti-federalism, and ...

Unequal Pay For Women In American - Gender Wage Gap

59.2% 1971 59.5% 1981 59.2% 1991 69.9% 2001 76.3% 2004 77.0% Notice that women earned 63.9 percent of what men earned in 1951; t...

What is an Arab American?

Again, the stereotypes never look beyond the color of the skin, or the accent, or the clothing. It is immediately assumed they hav...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Design of American Automobiles from 1930 until 1939

African Americans who had been restricted from purchasing these cars. When GM opened their doors to the minorities, they were able...

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

American Airlines and British Airways Compared

teetering economy right over the brink, taking literally the worlds travel and tourism industry right with it. All major travel d...

American Culture and the Film Manhattan by Director Woody Allen

Brando, the apples and pears of Cezanne...and Tracys face" (Chances 66). Throughout the film, Ike professes his belief that "It is...

A Glance at Lesbian Characters in American Cinema in the 60s, 70s, and 80s

high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

Native Americans

For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...

U.S. - Native American Relations from 1850-1890

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

History, Literature, Knowledge, and Native Americans

always well-received by those who consider the humorous aspect out of place. Welchs (2003) approach when he crafted his account w...

'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...