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China Changes in The Bridegroom Stories by Ha Jin

and the job of teaching the children fell to the grandparents" (Social Revolution and Students), which forced people to become mor...

Women of Ancient Greece and Rome

of their bodies and exercise often, sometimes along with the men, and sometimes by themselves" (Anonymous Legal Status in the Gree...

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

forced to make in their lives regarding who and what they will ultimately become as individuals. "Top" Women of History The chara...

Quest for the Purpose of Life in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

Gelsey Kirkland, Ballet Dance Artist

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

Gender Assumption in Boys Don't Cry

of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...

Wilde's and Dickens' Ideas of Traditional Families

the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...

Fiction of Eudora Welty

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

then the damage to his children had been done. And, perhaps the only hope for them was to arrive at the sense of enlightenment tha...

'Cage' of Maya Angelou

to sing a very bold song. II. The Life and Times of Maya Angelou Marguerite Johnson, who would later call herself Maya Angelo...

Greed and the Disaster at Mt. Everest

Consultants in order to consider the commercialization aspect of Everests summit (Magnuson , 1998). The expedition had paying clie...

The Seventies and 2000s Compared

lib became quite the rage and Gloria Steinham spoke about issues which many thought were radical, obscene, and downright anti-fami...

Rural China and Communism

might compare the situation to that of the United States in the twentieth century when farmers went bust, depended on government a...

Islam and the Hijrah

and goddesses. The commerce and economy largely depended on the tourist dollars. When Muhammad (pbuh) began preaching that there w...

Punishment and Its Effectiveness

works. Yerkes demonstrated the principal in a simple T-shaped maze, as in one of the places, the experimenter placed a strip of s...

Erik Erikson's Stages and Ages Human Development Model

ability to communicate his wants and needs. Sadly, Erikson also notes that those infants whose needs are not met and who are not...

Reflections on the Philosophy of Albert Camus

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

Families in the Movies Soul Food and My Family

one gets to that point, there is something that changes or something that does not fit well. For example, we could get a good look...

Impact and Culture of the !Kung and Ju/'hoansi Tribal Peoples

constraints. These people have been put into a position of having to cooperate with their society in order to accomplish the som...

50 Year Political Career of Sen. Strom Thurmond

electoral votes including those of South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana (Glover, 1998; Kellman, 2001). Thur...

Revenge in 'Wuthering Heights'

manner by which he perpetually transfers his deep-seated anger and frustration upon all who enter his life, even to the point of e...

Ernest Gaines/Centrality of Racism in His Work

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough

as a foundation member; in 1774, he relocated for good to London where he expounded upon techniques he learned while at Bath, whic...

Answering the Question of 'Who Am I?'

putting up a front or in other words "that part of the individuals performance which regularly functions in a general fashion to d...

Social Activism, Songwriting, and Poetry of William Blake

primarily agricultural pursuits to one which depended almost solely on complex machinery. The simpler hand tools which had been s...

Philosophies of William David Ross

If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

Sigmund Freud's Contributions

aggressive and constantly seeking self satisfaction and power. Because of this dueling reality man is often confused, and filled w...

Biography of Wisconsin's District 1 Representative Paul Ryan

former Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp and former U.S. Drug Czar Bill Bennett, and as a Legislative Director in the U.S. Sen...

Psychology and Identity Approaches

people and in some way negates the assumption of uniqueness. Yet, psychologists recognize that while people are unique, there are ...