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In 5 pages Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony are compared and contrasted iin order to evalu...
under an imposed patriarchal structure" (Osburn 10). Arranged marriages and unions born out of convenience were not an unus...
In eight pages this paper discusses the Hopi culture in terms of its oral religious traditions as well as its steadfast resistance...
This 20 page paper examines the concept of modesty in Islamic tradition, and the use of the hijab in this connection. The writer e...
In ten pages this report compares romantic and classic traditions as they are reflected in literary criticism. Five sources are c...
The enduring customs and cultural traditions reflected in Irish folklore are examined in 6 pages with the sacred thorn, the Sidhe,...
This 8 page paper examines the role of several different African healers: the diviner, the herbalist, and the traditional healer. ...
In five pages this paper discusses gender perceptions in Japan in a consideration of the traditional images of women and recent ch...
In seven pages this paper examines the epic 'Beowulf' in a consideration of the poetic oral tradition. Seven sources are cited in...
that context, it becomes clear that they must be seen as something very different than what any audience has seen in the nearly 10...
In five pages this paper discusses the historical tensions between high culture and the military in Japan, past and present. Six ...
In ten pages the various experiences involved in the American religious condition are examined in a consideration of the firsthand...
In five pages the organizing tradition as it evolved in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s as depicted in this text by Charles...
In this paper consisting of five pages the ways in which American prose reflects the issues and the times in which it was composed...
This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...
another, results in a convoluted narrative in which attempts to redress injustice are not always successful and it appears that th...
of literature which, although derived from the centre, must be constituted as peripheral since they do not follow in a direct line...
of traditional Chinese medicine, it is important to also understand that it is not only a collection of ancient remedies and pract...
19wright.html). It is a tradition that remains powerfully strong today and is, according to Wright (2001), "well represented by li...
India is broken into a multitude of cultural groups and social institutions. Essentially, however, there are two basic divisions:...
And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
but amusing chatter among themselves, laughing at times and it is this apparent joy that draws in the crowd causing them to share ...
on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...
The capital of the Ashanti kingdom, Kumasi, was taken by the British in 1873 and the kingdom became a British protectorate at the ...
had to change some things, in his heart he is, perhaps, doing exactly what he and those before him have always done: worship The M...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
a rather powerful enemy. Thus, one sees heroic feats on either end, but also, there is Christian love and the love of a parent tha...
not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways. Impressions and experiences which...
brought in a great many Chinese and Indian immigrants which had further influence on the cultures and traditions of the Burmese (A...