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Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

History and Traditions of the Ashanti

The capital of the Ashanti kingdom, Kumasi, was taken by the British in 1873 and the kingdom became a British protectorate at the ...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Chinese and Mexican Communication Across Cultures

When addressing someone in China, one should remember that in China, family names come first. So for example, Mr. Li Hongjun would...

The History and Operations of Alcoholic Anonymous

When Rowland returned to America, he found both spirituality and sobriety with an evangelistic organization called the Oxford Grou...

Comparing Buddhism's Different Forms

did not want to support the offspring of the religious leader. Yet, whatever the reason, attachment is a concept that is very impo...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

Traditions of Radical Feminism, Socialism, and Liberalism

19wright.html). It is a tradition that remains powerfully strong today and is, according to Wright (2001), "well represented by li...

Tenacity and the Jewish People

to Jeremiah, words intended for the Jewish nation: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you ...

The Upanishads and the Atman

same in his "Heart Sura" (Upanishads). The term "Atman" refers to the immortal aspect of mortal existence (Atman-the Soul Eterna...

Muslim Holiday Eid

extreme importance to the members of the religion in question as well as being relatively unknown to those outside of that religio...

Southern Fiction and Manners

that manners and formal politeness will overlap: the way in which white Southern gentlemen treated white Southern ladies, for exam...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

Hinduism vs. Buddhism

four different occasions away from his palace he encountered the true pervasiveness of human suffering. When Prince Siddartha went...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

20th Century and Gothic Horror - A Comparison

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...

Land and Money and the Status Quo

The 1990 movie "The Field", written and directed by Jim Sheridan is based on a 1965 film by John B. Keane. This is a captivating...

Twentieth Century Music, Various Aspects

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first half of the paper pertains to three works in which the composer turned ...

Examination of Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views

This essay pertains to Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views, which is edited by P.C. Kemeny and presents five perspectives...

Hebrew and Egyptian Mythology - A Comparison

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Hebrew and Egyptian mythologies. A discussion highlights similarities between the tw...

Lakota Sioux Traditions

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Lakota Sioux traditions. An analysis of marriage practices and the sacred pipe ritua...

Passover, Passing on the Tradition

This research paper/essay presents an overview of Passover that focuses on how the rituals of the holiday transmit this tradition ...

The Impacts of Digital Technology on the Production and Consumption of Media in Indonesia

and a range of problems for women, the "New Order" regime under Suharto focused on mass media messages that put women in their pla...

East Asia History, Tradition and Changes

of two, had found feet.3 This practice involved binding the feet of the child so tightly that it broke the bones, causing excrucia...

The Pursuit of Happiness via Pleasure and Detachment

to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...

Love Soccer and Cultural Expectations

Starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi, the movie "Bend It...

Their History and Culture, The Navajos

Taking the form of an annotated bibliography, this paper provides the speaker notes for a 12-slide power point presentation, khnav...

Overview of Hinduism and Christianity

This essay presents a discussion of specific traditions and beliefs relevant to the Hinduism and Christianity. Seven pages in leng...

Science is Freedom, Their Relationship

This essay draws on the philosophy of Kant and Fichte, and argues that science freed humanity by offering a means to understand re...

The True Impact of Disrupting Small Town America Inner City Ghetto or Native American Traditional Lands

This paper discusses the disintegration of cultural tradition as it relates to the physical disruption of people's communities and...