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Essays 151 - 180

'What You Pawn I Will Redeem' by Sherman Alexie

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

An Overview Perspective of Quebec

leading traders of the north even before European contact (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 1995). Utilizing their strategic lo...

Tutorial on Writing About One's Heritage

and experiences of moving as it related, for example, to leaving friends behind or making new friends after the move. Was the move...

Review of the Native American Novel The Light People

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

Mining Uranium in Kakadu National Park

effected by the Mining Management Act (ERA, 2002). These are the primary tool by which operations are controlled. At the t...

Culture in Alberto Rios's Nani and Marilyn Chin's Turtle Soup

the person who is coming home from work: Chin then directly enters into the conversation as an outside voice addressing the "Bab...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Hawaiian Sorcery

at his door, he must not "send forth his death-dealing prayers" (Kamakau 120). Wealth that he can accept is when he uses his mag...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Individual and the Effects of Culture, Environment, and Heritage

shocker. The Father is in actuality a nun who had been fleeing the sins of her past. She comes upon the body of the deceased Fathe...

'How to Remember the Forgotten War' by Stanley Weintraub

inadequacies compiled by Weintraub is impressive. While Weintraub portrays the US as narrowly avoiding another "Dunkirk" -- tha...

Eban and Wetmore's Promised Land

If one considers Ebans work from the perspective of cultural analysis, it immediately becomes apparent that Jewish culture, unlike...

'Ethnic Scarring of American Whiteness' by Patricia J. Williams

the next. While this may be true, it does not necessarily indicate that the salesman is the product of a maligned group. Periodi...

French Canadian Heritage and the Nationalist Movement of Quebec

extreme, only because it is about secession. Similar to the South in the United States, separatists want to break from the larger ...

The Leadership Style of Anwar Sadat

discussed, in terms of his personal qualities, his commitment to nationalism, and his political strategies with regard to Israel, ...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Theatrical Reflections of U.S. Multicultural Heritage

Multicultural performing arts range across all spectrums of the ideological rainbow. There are essentially no boundaries to the m...

The Rainbow Sign by Hanif Kureishi

speeches that he felt spurred the creation of the neo-Nazi attitudes in youth. For instance, in 1967, Duncan Sandys said, "The bre...

Economic Values, Heritage, and Nonheritage Developments

poor areas also tend to suffer from social problems such as high crime rates and deterioration of the infrastructure, this may als...

The Significance of Social Networks for the Communities of China

people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...

Aspects of the Multiple Heritage Seen in Africa

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

Identity and Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

back from their daughters until they felt they were ready to understand. The second two sections of the book are from the daughter...

A 911 Sociological Analysis

Whether or not the charge regarding globalization is true is besides the point. The people feel that way and are perhaps angered t...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

The Development of Milkman Dead's Character in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 8 page paper discusses the development of the character of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon. The writer ...

From Korea to Heaven Country by Lee Ki Chuck

This paper consists of five pages and applies a cultural heritage point of view to this text by Lee Ki Chuck. Six sources are cit...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

The Old Bunch by Meyer Levin

In twelve pages this paper examines this novel by Meyer Levin in terms of ethnic heritage and how it was influenced by the author'...

An Analysis of the Film, Sankosa

This paper examines the relevance of the film, Sankosa, and others like it that focus on African-Americans holding onto their heri...

Haiti and the Impact of the Art of Africa

In ten pages this paper discusses how the art of Africa contributed to the culture of Haiti in a consideration of artists, craft, ...