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A History of American Fashion

to emerge in the latter part of the 1800s. Today, people are fashion conscious and this is something reflected in popular culture....

The Myths of Westward Expansion

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

La Cosa Nostra & The Cali Cartel

province, " as well as eleven affluent landowners (FBI, 2008). He was taken into federal custody in New Orleans in 1881 and sent b...

3 History Lesson Plan on Slavery

Hawkins, a former slave, slaves constantly spoke of the possibility of escape among themselves. Hawkins writes that the yearning f...

Changing Perceptions of the Deaf and ASL

There has also been a move toward cultural diversity, which has paved the way for the classroom additions of bilingual and ASL tra...

Pharmacists Ethics

senior citizens (Editors, 2006). An overwhelming majority of more than 800 pharmacists surveyed said that it was their responsibil...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

Influence of Women in American History

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

The Fair Tax

used by the wealthy to shield themselves from paying a fair share of the national tax burden. The fair tax would,...

Article Analysis: Nursing Shortage

to others, at least not as frequently as would seem reasonable if they liked it as well as the general public does. The reason mo...

How Ralph Ellison’s Life Affected His Writing

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

Peoria and Water

that the city wrote into its 1889 franchise agreement with Illinois-American ("Water"). This option gives city officials the right...

Campaigns and the Media

their newspaper competed with each other to see which could produce the most sensationalized news (OConnor and Sabato, 2008). How...

Management and Leadership in American Business History

literally with nothing and achieve financial success and economic stability for his family. It also had its dark side, howe...

William J. Bennett: “The Death of Outrage”

about sex, even under oath, dont really matter" (Bennett, 1999, p. 8). Bennett argues that if we accept these attitudes, which he...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

Considerations in Social Work

stage. In "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" Goffman (1997) presents his theories of "dramaturgy". He explains human in...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

The Influence of Stax Records

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Chicago Pizza in the Czech Republic

for there to be many cultural differences. Being fluent in the language may serve to create understanding, but alone it will not ...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...