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Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

Large Social Processes and the 'Private' Sphere of Asian American Families

In a paper consisting of eight pages the problems that Asian Americans face in the United States are considered in terms of confor...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

Why Alfred Hitchcock is Not Dead Contrary to Popular Belief

In five pages the influence of this director in terms of imitation and teasing is considered. There are five bibliographic source...

How the Popular Game of Basketball Evolves as an International Sport

controlled, Naismith decided that teammates would move the ball by either passing it or bouncing it on the floor, but was uncertai...

Popular Teenage Magazine

the Freebie Issue! although there are not exactly freebies, it is a drawing readers must sign up for each day. The overwhelming ...

Pop Art: Art and Popular Culture

includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

The Opinions of Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalytic theory to explore cinema in her article entitled "Visual Pleasure ...

Popular Editorials and the Rhetoric That Drives Them

Post highlights what is ostensibly a growing problem in the United States: the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. In the firs...

The Transistor Conversation in Scholarly and Popular Media

the widespread interconnectivity in technology that has slowly developed over the first decade of the 21st century marks the begin...

Popular Music and the Effects of Technology

to downplay the drawbacks and imperfections of the recording medium. Naturally, this fact influenced what music was selected for r...

Popular Music and Mariah Carey's Influence

father (Dougherty 8). Carey relates that she has always loved to sing and gives a great deal of credit to her mother...

Popular Culture and Postmodernism

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Interaction Between Humans and Machines in Popular Films

longer inhabitable for the decent. The psychological perspective of Blade Runner addresses virtually every fear that humanity cou...

Advertising and Senior Citizen Treatment by Popular Culture

"Demographers predict that the numbers of elderly people will double in the next 30 years" (pp. 3). As the population of America ...

Moscow's 1980 Olympic Games and Russia's Popular Culture

towards the attack, the United States Olympic team boycotted the event. "In 1980 it was a symbolic stand, backed up with all sort...

Simon During's The Global Popular and the Pleasures of Viewers

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

Popular Culture Q and A

is my favorite cultural icon. She is very spiritual and does not close doors to anything. While she supports certain individuals w...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Popular Culture and Rap Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the sociocultural impact of rap music in a consideration of the genre's history and development....

"Pearl Harbor": A Critique of the Historical Accuracy of this Popular Movie

would become a primary target of that vengeance. For the United States to incur a direct attack on its shores was perceived as sa...

Popular Culture and Mass Media

In eight pages this paper examines how mass media affects social perceptions regarding products, politics, and people. Five sourc...

Popular Press and 'Selling Science'

In four pages this paper discusses public relations, technology and scientific reporting, and the ethics of 'selling science.' Th...

Popular Recreational Activity Known as Swimming

In five pages swimming is examined in an overview of its history, techniques, and rules regarding Olympic competition. Six source...

Popular Culture, Cinematic Violence, and Media Literacy

to the family, children, political leadership, and sexuality" (Wee, 2006, p. 50). Links have been discovered between these violen...