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'New' Russia and Its Power, Ideology, Military, and Policy

he pointed out that "Russias national identity is still evolving" and probably more importantly, "the new Russia is not the Soviet...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Film American Pie and Sex

just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...

Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Developmental Identity

the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and...

Worldviews and Storytelling

their lives more worthwhile. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons account ...

Internet, Computers, and Global Issues

to create problems, while others are out to do damage (Adams, 2000). There is in fact a debate on the ethics of hacking as there a...

The Identity of Adult Learners

In this paper that consists of five pages the identity acquired by adults through the learning process is examined within the cont...

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

Religious Beliefs of Indigenous Africans

having the "same" culture.4 The slave-trading colonial powers saw this vast territory as a single place, a single country occupied...

Global Corporate Identity of Nike

was tied to Asia (Labich and Carvell, 1995). Early in the companys history, Knight and a group of ex-athletes he had hired as top ...

Garcia Lorca's Yerma and Motherhood

produce a child, she eventually seeks out the village sorceress where she is involved in witnessing a pagan ritual. When her husba...

Naming Pedophiles

In sixteen pages this paper examines whether or not pedophiles should be shamed by having their identities revealed with the empha...

Social Identity and the U.S. Jewish Community

same beliefs and as such it is selective collectivism. Zionism is included within that group of schools of thought, here the idea ...

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

he has known in Mockingburg, New York, to return to his ancestral home. That home was on the coast of Newfoundland, to which he r...

The Waves by Virginia Woolf and the Nature of Individual Identity

that takes individual characteristics far from their origin but then allows them to flow back. At the same time, that identity fus...

Reproductive Technology and Identity

to be inferior (Chesterton, 1922). The idea behind this premise was to protect the American "identity" which in many ways was stil...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Identity Theft Protection

loaded onto his computer and being spied on for a short time by coworkers. Jackson (2001) was able not only to gain access...

Importance of Graphic Design in Forging Corporate Identity

influential. Here we first need to what we mean by graphic art, and then at the way that modern corporate logos have developed m...

MPD DID Overview and Treatment

(DID) but the meaning of the disorder is based on the diagnosis that two or more personalities seem to reside within one person. D...

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...

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

to the bed and lay on it with my eyes closed. Now there was ice and darkness inside me. I could feel the cold darkness moving sl...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

The Natural by Bernard Malamud and Identity

implies that Roys tears at the end of the book signify his total defeat. However, Roys admission that he had never learned from pa...

Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Humor

literatures of the Native American Indians. There was a significant oral and narrative gamut of American culture which is both his...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

International Exhibitions and National Identity

own citizenry of the glory of France and to also demonstrate French glory to foreign visitors. Additionally however, a stroll down...

Spiritual and Psychological Influence on Human Identity

dangers and that bad things only happen to other people (Rodriguez,1995). That is simply one example of how Piagets work may be ap...