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Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

U.S. Imperialism During the 19th Century

always rationalized based on diplomatic or human rights objectives. For example, when American politicians wanted trade access th...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

A Female Owned Native American Trucking Business

Rush held others to the same standard. All the time she maintained optimism and worked constructively responding as the need dict...

The American Dream and Its Death

is silly as the family lives in New York City. And "Happy" is ridiculous; perhaps Willy thought that if he gave his son that name,...

American Culture and the Media

for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.) Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that ...

Native American Images as Mascots

answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....

Diabetes and the Americans with Disabilities Act

take applicants with chronic diseases because health maintenance would be too taxing in the throes of war. Similarly, one does not...

Turkish and American Teamwork

on skills and abilities, personalities, flexibility, and diversity (Stretch, 2009). Further, the size must be appropriate for the ...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Popular Transitions in American Culture

as a society allowing these changes to occur. In this day of liberalism, this day of where every problem is believed to be best a...

Thematic Comparison of Gilgamesh with Current Events

of evil. Bush pursued his quest for immortality by invading the Middle East, first in Iraq in March of 2003, and then established...

American Theories of Leadership and their Potential Application in other Cultures

leaders such as political and military leaders. Burns (1978) argued that the transformational leader may be seen as an extension o...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Shortcomings and Suggestions for Improvement in the ANA Code of Ethics

those that do not receive another. Nurses, however, (and rightfully so) are expected to perform their duties irrespective of such...

Wag the Dog: The Barry Levinson Film From a Cultural Perspective

an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...

The End of Apartheid and American Influence

stocks of the companies doing business in the nation (Gethhard, 2010). In other words, stopping investment in the nation that is i...

The First American Casualties in the Korean War

Korean War. Unfortunately Task Force Smith was just the opening page of a war that would turn out to be a long and gruesome affair...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

How Did You Get to be Mexican?

students and he is sometimes amazed by the amounts of money they spend on things; hes equally amazed at high tight-fisted wealthy ...

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

Unemployment and Homelessness Haunt American Vets

that our veterans are adequately employed can obviously make the difference between them having a roof over their heads or not. A...

Iraq, North Korea, and American Ill Will

the United States (Culture of North Korea, 2010). The capital of Pyongyang, which had been severely bombed by the United States d...

Black American Women and Interlocking Oppression

words, when it comes to oppression, people are not necessarily held back due only to their gender, or their color, but a combinati...

An Ungrateful Nation - Blacks after the Second World War

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

Blacks in Uniform in the American Civil War

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

The American Working Class and the Constitution

would change with the defeat of the imminent defeat of the South in the Civil War. On January 31, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment ...

Hemmingway, Farewell to Arms, and the Lost Generation

from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example, Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the...