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Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

U.S. Race Relations and Sports

his firm resolution until his lifes end (Faulkner, 1995). The turning point in Robinsons life was when his mother uprooted him an...

Films Chinatown and Raisin in the Sun and Ethnicity

element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Communist 'Menace' and the Creed of America

In five pages this paper discusses how American civil liberties were sacrificed in an effort to offer protection of the American C...

American Dreams and American Cities

that -- unlike the European countries, from which so many nineteenth century immigrants to the US left behind - the upper classes...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

History and Culture of the Cherokee

was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

Native Americans and Their Socioeconomic and Political Roles

that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

America and Attitudes About the Middle East

that Afghanistan and Pakistan are also middle eastern ("Middle East," 1993). What this means is that, from a religious, political ...

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...

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...

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 ...

19th and 20th Century Asian-American Gangs

7 pages in length. The existing and ever-growing power of Asian-American gangs during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

Overview of American Community Colleges

In five pages this paper examines Arthur Cohen and Florence Brawer's 'The American Community College' and Marlene Griffith and Ann...

Counseling Associations' Code of Ethics

In a comparative analysis consisting of five pages the code of ethics espoused by the American Associate of Pastoral Counselors, t...

People's History

In five pages history as seen through the eyes of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and factory workers is glimpsed in a...

Student Submitted American History Questions

In five pages this paper considers three questions supplied by a student that include the popular Native American savage concept i...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...

The Idealized America

Our ideas of what it means to be American have changed dramatically over time. Since the arrival of peoples...

The Philippine Insurrection

to when the US declared war on Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, order Commodore George Dewey to...

A Plea for a Native American Alliance

us have done so and we have witnessed the strength of the alliance. Consider, for example, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and Potiacs ...

The Great Gatsby: Summing Us Up

less than legal involvement. But, for the most part that did not matter, for the premise of the book, in relationship to acceptabl...