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College Campuses and Merton's Deviance Theory

desire for material security, success, and comfort on one hand, and limited opportunities to achieve these things on the other han...

Civilizations of Ancient Times

extant of the distinctive grey geometric ware produced in Crete during this period. Towards...

Three Essays on Business Management

launched on the brilliance of one researcher, who then turns over the reigns to a professional management team as he or she moves ...

Ancient Literature and Cultural Characteristics

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

Race and Class of U.S. Housing Dynamics

limited in housing. "For a short time after the Civil War there was some racial tolerance in the South. W.E.B. DuBois in Black ...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie and Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe Compared

her. The son would have no say in the match, for this is how the marriage ritual had been performed for generations. The only qu...

Black Noise by Tricia Rose

or in any number of ways that reflect the current concerns of black male youth. Female rappers, on the other hand, tell stories fr...

Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

Student Achievement and the Importance of Class Size

compared the achievement of students who were in classes of between 13 and 17 students to classes where there were 22 to 26 studen...

American Dream and the Writings of John Steinbeck

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

School Children, Internet, and Computer Classes

everywhere - in the workplace, in libraries, and in the home. According to a 1998 commercial survey, some 60 percent of American ...

The LA Housing Market and Accelerating Decisions

In a paper consisting of twenty four pages the demographic changes in the Los Angeles housing market along with implications of de...

Japanese History

This paper discusses the history of Japan in 7 pages which includes the Tokugawa Shogunate and its importance, contrast and compar...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

Latin America, Capitalism, and Class

In five pages Latin American capitalism is examined in terms of history and its social relation to class. Seven sources are cited...

Class Size Reduction and Technology

In eight pages this paper discusses whether instruments of technology technology are more important than class size with an argume...

Reconstruction to the Populist Party in U.S. History

Lincoln developed a reasonable Reconstruction plan to stitch the nation back together again. But again, remember we are talking a...

American Dream of Home Purchase

In five pages the American housing market is examined in terms of supply and demand, social effects, and narrowing the class based...

Great Britain and Class Mobility

In five pages this paper first defines class and then applies it to an explanation of the United Kingdom's intergenerational and i...

Credit and its Impact

care of their credit rating can expect to find doors closed in their faces when applying for such important commodities as insuran...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

1960s to 1900s' US Middle Class

In nine pages this paper discusses the American middle class with three questions relevant to this time period answered. Seven so...

Hutterites of North America

In seven pages this paper examines the Hutterite culture with its emphasis upon religious tradition and its isolation from contemp...

Our Kind of People Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known for his provocative New Y...

Dorothy Allison's 'Question of Class,' William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and Class Distinctions

In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...

New Designs from Ancient Forms

Originally, there were fifty-eight columns: seventeen on the sides, eight at each end, and six in the inner row of each porch. Th...

Contemporary World and Taoism

in modern Chinese society; however, as the following discussion will illustrate, Taoist principles are also influencing Western cu...

Definition of Gay and Lesbian Culture

did the other, so we are caught between polarities. "I hope to be able to produce valid, reliable statistics about gay people an...

Defining the Upper Class According to G. William Domhoff

In seven pages this paper discusses G. William Domhoff's definition of the upper class within the contexts of national groups and ...