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American Dream Represented in Literature by Homes and Houses

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

Native American Oral Tradition: Parallels in the Literature

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

American Ethnic Literature

thinking that challenges ethic writers, who are torn between their native culture and their adopted land. Where do they really bel...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

American Literature and the Impact of Benjamin Franklin

of subjects. Franklin had an insatiable need to know, and at an early age, he recognized that through words, he could positively ...

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

A Consideration of 'Three Negro Classics' in African American Literature

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

Early Twentieth Century American and Japanese Literature

In five pages this paper compares these two countries' literature during this time period in a consideration of religious, social,...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

American Literature and Multiculturalism

In five pages this paper examines how multiculturalism is represented in such American literary works as The Souls of Black Folk b...

The Vernacular Tradition and African-American Literature

admiring the speech, the student could say something like the following. Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" speech is one of th...

Analyzing a CNN Moneyline Segment

on the story was Peter Viles, who began his segment with the assertion that the American economy was losing jobs - and many times,...

HIV and African Americans

This research paper offers an overview of the significance of HIV/AIDS within the black American community. The discussion focuses...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....

Cancer and Minorities

The study also shows evidence that Asian Americans run an increased risk of stomach and liver cancer, and that Hispanic American a...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Gender

is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Effects of an Older Population

is, the generation of Americans born directly after World War II who are now entering their retirement years (Takamura, 1999). Thi...

Mentally-Ill Homeless/Mexican-American Women

of child care (Rosenheck, Bassuk and Salomon, 2003). Homeless women and men are more likely to have a history of mental illness th...

Mexican-American Women/Access to Care

A 5 page research paper. A previous research paper on this topic (khmexamh) discussed mentally ill homeless Mexican American women...

The Bennett Scale and Milton Gordon on Assimilation and Native Populations

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

Hemmingway, Farewell to Arms, and the Lost Generation

from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example, Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the...

The Largest Retail Store and OB

Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. It is criticized in the United States for low wages, lack of health and welfare ben...

Healthcare Disparities, African American Residents of West Virginia

This research paper discusses disparities in health outcomes that characterize the African American population of Mineral County, ...

Arguedas, Borges, Marquez, and the Literature of Latin America

and highly sexual, taking lovers and fathering illegitimate children, while others are quiet and solitary. The women, likewise, ra...

African American Females and Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

Perspective on Slavery

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

Still Burning Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...