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Taylor and Bradstreet, Two Puritan Poets

Puritans have a dour, unsympathetic reputation, so the idea of Puritan poets may seem rather odd. However, that faith tradition pr...

A Chapter Analysis of Robert Vincent Remini's Andrew Jackson The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821

In five pages this powerful President as portrayed in this historical text is examined in a chapter by chapter description. There...

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

such as the coyote tales which are only told in winter. Not only is the story repeated according to the inflections, drama and hu...

A Wife for My Son by Ali Ghalem

her time between home and school. But when her parents decide to marry her to Hussein, her only a choice is to submit to their wis...

Canadian Aboriginal Canadian Women and their Equality Struggles

In four pages the struggles for equality by these aboriginal women are considered and include self government tribal fights and th...

Chinese American Communities and Cultural Anthropology

In nine pages this paper examines U.S. Chinese American communities and their traditions in this discussion of cultural anthropolo...

T.S. Eliot, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Modernism

In 7 pages the evolution of modernism is chronicled in an analysis of 'On the Genealogy of Morals' by Nietzsche; 'Civilization and...

More Than Pastoral in William Shakespear's 'As You Like It'

The tradition of pastoral in Elizabethan literature is the focus of this paper that consists of 6 pages. However there is a psych...

Health Care and Native Americans

In five pages this paper examines the health care of Native Americans and considers the impact of their cultural traditions. Six...

Religion and Christian Women

In four pages Christianity is discussed in terms of women's roles with references made to Her Story Women in Christian Tradition ...

Urban Environment and Segregation

urban setting is critical to American life. The recent clashes between blacks and whites have gone unnoticed as time erases memori...

African Colonialism

A. Abu Boahen gives an unusual view of the colonial experience in African Perspective on Colonialism. Most books take the European...

Early Greek Theater and Ritual

In eight pages this paper discusses Greek theater's traditions, rituals, and ceremonies with Oedipus the King among the topics cov...

Jane's Fairytale Sisters in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and th...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages this research paper focuses on the novel's protagonist Okonkwo and discusses how he reflects his ideal society's trad...

Yoga in Buddhism and Hinduism

from around A.D. 300, which is one of six classical systems of Indian philosophy. The literature on Yoga stems from the set of sut...

Eucharistic Meal and Passover Seder

In ten pages this paper discusses the tradition represented by the Eucharistic Meal and Passover seder. Six sources are cited in ...

Christian Progression of Celtic Paganism

In five pages the literary progression from Celtic paganism to Christianity is discussed through the ways in which the emerginc cu...

Roots of Avant Garde's Visual Arts

In eight pages the roots of avant garde regarding film are argued to be in the visual arts as opposed to the narrative cinematic t...

Sub Saharan Regional Music

In six pages this research paper examines Nigeria and Cameroon in a consideration of the tradition laden music in these African re...

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Fyodor Doestoevsky's Notes From the Underground

In five pages these two works are compared in terms of how the symbolism of researcher and doctor represents 'state' and tradition...

The Use of Dialect by Swift, Blake and Conrad

Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...

English Culture Considered During a Visit to England

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the tradition and history of the English culture when on a trip to England, landmarks, Brix...

Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

European Clashes and the Xhosa Culture

fifteenth century (Mostert, 1982). But some came from Natal later, and other groups arrived in the Eastern Cape as a result of the...

Writing and Speech in Novels by Camara Laye and Ousmane Sembene

In one page this paper examines Third World Africa in a contrast between written language and oral tradition as represented in G...

The Rio Carnival

The writer describes the annual Carnival celebration in Rio De Janeiro, including some of the traditions and rituals that occur du...

Culture of Contemporary Greece

In ten pages this research paper examines modern Greece's culture in a consideration of tradition, ritual, religion, language, eth...

'Dia de los Muertos' Traditional Mexican Ceremony

In five pages this research paper examines this 'Day of the Dead' Mexican ceremony in terms of its tradition and the meanings behi...

Kenyan Woman

countries (33 out of 46), fertility remains at levels of six or more children per woman, while only in two small countries (Maurit...