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US History and the West's Role

"Americans" from European backgrounds would have been unable to imagine that one nation could be as vast as the United States even...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

American West and Frontier Perceptions

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

American West and Its Important Traits

rich contrasts. According to Stegner, the West is America. This is very profound geographically and culturally, because ...

American West and its Diversity

massive immigration in the early days when people came over from Europe. It began in the colonial times of course, but there was a...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Relations Between Jews and African Americans

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the views on relations between African Americans and Jews based upon the contrastin...

1800 to 1845 Exploration of the American West

This paper examines the exploration of the American West that began with Lewis and Clark's expedition and continued with the Orego...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

The Old West As Portrayed in Frederic Remington's Art

In twelve pages the ways in which Remington's depiction of the American West in his art in terms of its identity and conjuring of ...

America and Black Studies

In a research paper consisting of ten pages black studies within the curriculums of American college and universities are examined...

Native Americans and Different East and West European Experiences

In five pages the Eastern Woodlands and the West cultures of Native Americans are examined in terms of the cultural experiences th...

China Boy by Gus Lee

In eight pages this paper analyzes the novel's Chinese American boy's struggles in a consideration of masculinity as defined by th...

American Family as Viewed by Playwright Sam Shepard

understanding of family life, much as do shows like The Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle. Families are not always polite to one ...

Entertainment Tourism and Socioeconomic Structural Space

see. A type of tourism, according to Rothmans 1998 book Devils Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West, literall...

U.S. Society and Cinematic Stereotypes of Hispanics

In five pages this paper considers how Hispanics have been stereotyped by American society and how cinema has perpetuated this dis...

Reviewing Cornel West's Race Matters

In five pages a discussion of race relations in America is examined as seen through the eyes of Cornel West who believes white Ame...

West's Rise

a sort of capitalistic juggernaut that rolled over countries that had less military capability with incredibly ease. This commer...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Morris West's The Devil's Advocate

was while he was stationed in Queensland that Morris wrote his first novel. It was titled "A Moon in My Pocket." "It was based on...

Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locust and Nihilism

Mention "nihilism" and the first thing that could come to mind, especially if one is a student of philosophy (or a chronic watcher...

Concepts and Theories in Cornel West's Race Matters and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The theories and concepts contained in each of these African American texts such as religion and race, the separatist movement, an...

West Africa, West Central Africa, and Slavery's Consequences

names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...

First 5 Chapters of Cornel West's Race Matters

ugly, xenophobic resentment, its air of adolescent carnival, and its downright barbaric behavior...signified the sense of powerles...

Root Cause of Problems in the Middle East

that the CIA covertly engineered a coup in Iran that overthrew a democratically elected president and instituted a dictatorial rul...

American Ideal Man and the West

situation and can emerge unscathed by the trials and tribulations of life. Then for the first time I noticed a...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...