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Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Daniel K, Richter's Facing East from Indian Country

text prologue, Richter observes, "The emergence of an aggressively expansionist Euro-American United States... is a problem to be ...

Hanay Geiogamah's Body Indian

and friends understand that he has to have more alcohol so that he does not go through painful withdrawals and mental problems. In...

Ethnic Poetry of Tato Laviera and Chitra Divakaruni

all whistle as she seductively moves her hips. The lover-hero of the film dances in, lip syncing to a song, which is "a little off...

'Narrative of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' and the Puritan Covenant

In this six page paper Mary Rowlandson's relationship with God symbolizes the Puritan covenant and sustains her through her captur...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Negative Ramifications of the Canadian Indian Act

the federal government sought to eradicate the Native peoples. This fact is substantiated in the literature itself. L.F.S. Upton...

Recommending a Sect of Buddhism

the people of your kingdom should adopt. The Vajrayana "mythologizes the doctrine of emptiness" (Conze, 2003, p. 178). Through t...

Characters in Hemingway's "Indian Camp"

who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...

Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

In six pages this paper discusses how the struggles of Indian women are reflected in this novel's female characterization. Eleven...

The Sari as the Symbol of Regional Tradition and Women’s Status in Indian Culture

Said argued that this enabled the West to use this part of the world as "a benchmark" to measure its own progress while at the sam...

Regulation of Gambling and Casinos

started to arise in the 1970s and 1980s when under the Regan administration there was increased pressure for Indian communities no...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

O’Nell/Disciplined Hearts

Part three continues this analysis, focusing on narratives of experience. In creating these discussions of data and the issues the...

Mary Jemison and the Senecas

a living on their own. It offered very inexpensive land and freedom although it was a very harsh life and a life full of dangers (...

Canadian Indian Act

(Okanagan Indian Band). While it can legitimately be argued that the concept of Indian status was originally intended to "separa...

Questions on Readings

long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...

Chumash

to live off of what the land could provide. We would travel from one location to another in the past, but then we became skilled a...

Rich and Poor: the Growing Income Disparity in India

Development Bank (ADB) says the number of people in Asia living on less than $1 a day fell by 223 million between 1990 and 2002" (...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Broken Promises: The Penns and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians

is believed to be around 1600. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, ...

Article Analysis and Response: Saskatchewan Indian Gaming

the history of SIGA and the casinos it built and manages, and future plans. SIGA has given First Nations people both revenue and j...

The Widening Gap Between the Rich and Poor in India

This 16 page paper examines some of the issues surrounding the gap between the rich and poor in India, including the growth of the...

Art: European and Asian

particularly with the theme of human vanity and the transience of life." The student also notes that there is a sense of wealth se...

Proposition 5 in California

In five pages Proposition 5 which sought casino operation approval from the state of California is examined in terms of the ways i...

Chapter One of Genesis and the Rig Veda Indian Creation Myth

In four pages this paper compares the creation myths found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis and 'In the Beginning' of t...

Eastern and Western Mythology and Women

in the house" (Kamat women.htm). It is as though the very essence of a woman as a human being is given no consideration beyond th...

Survival of Native Americans and the Importance of Memory

In five pages this paper examines the importance of memory to the Native American cultural experience in a consideration of memory...

The Voyage of Cabeza de Vaca Three Themes Assessment

deceitful attack that ensued, the Spaniards had no other choice but to flee for their lives in makeshift boats. Only after forty-...