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Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

Gardens of Versailles Art History Examination

itself" (Covington, 2001, p. 90). The gardens mirrored the "air of grandeur" that French royalty itself sought to embody (De Nolh...

Plato's Republic and Five Essay Questions

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

American Dream As Embodied in Benjamin Franklin

it pertains to ones identity. Franklin essentially constructs his approach to self, or identity, never really calling it self or...

An Aesthetician's Perspective on Art

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

Bernard Malamud's The Natural and Conflict

is there? (Malamud NA). From this we see his determination, but we also see little else. We do not gain the understanding that ...

Analyzing the Film Real Women Have Curves

work in the dress shop but her internal conflict grows steadily as she delves into a relationship with one of her classmates. It ...

Red, White, and Black by Gary B. Nash

portrayed the Native Americans as reminiscent of the ancient civilization for Spartan, which was highly efficient and egalitarian....

Slave Trade and Owners' Attitudes are Analyzed in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Mothers and Daughters

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

North American Colonial Period, Native Americans and African Slaves

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

The Character of Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and in Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptation

primary theme within the whole novel, as well as the film, is that which asks us to look at ourselves, and our society, and see ho...

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Critically Reviewed

will lead to prosperity for all citizens, rich and poor. He coined his approach to free trade "laissez-faire," which is a French ...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

European American Values and Native American Values

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

American Colonists, England, France, and Spain and Their Treatment of Native Americans

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Class

see him, comes from how many people think he feels he is better than others. The men in the factory thinks he is somewhat pretenti...

Resistance of African American Slaves and Native Americans

English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficie...

Portrayal of Time in Works by Terence Davies and T.S. Eliot

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Depiction of Deviance

have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...

Native American and European American Cultural Interaction

of the Native Americans, inasmuch as the settlers had no desire to include the indigenous people in their progressive plans. Rath...

Western Culture and Variations of Lingusitics, Socioeconomics, and Gender

criticism. Regardless of the form, however, it is an acknowledged fact that most forms of communication operate on a basis of rec...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

Canadian Aboriginals: Evolving Identities and an Emerging Hybridity

of European descent. Interestingly, however, aboriginals were viewed simultaneously with distaste, with awe, and with envy. They...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Wal-Mart Company Culture

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...