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The Courage of Their Convictions by Peter Iron

In five pages this paper discusses Peter Iron's text which features the case of Robert Mack Bell v. Maryland involving racism....

Feminist Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...

Peter the Great by Klyuchevsky

In five pages this paper presents a review of Klyuchevsky's biography and critically evaluates the author's portrayal of Russia's ...

2 Views of Moshe Dayan

In seven pages this paper compares past and present Israeli and Arab views of Moshe Dayan with Boutros Boutros Ghali background in...

The Clintons and Partners in Power by Roger Morris

In five pages this book report discusses the portrayal of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Roger Morris' text and its particularly nega...

Drug Use Perceptions and Films

In five pages this paper examines how film portrayals of drug use has influenced public perceptions of it as 'cool.' Four sources...

Minorities, Violence, and Law Enforcement Psychology

In three pages this essay examines psychology in law enforcement as it relates to racism, treatment of minorities and distrust of ...

Women and the Benefits of Pornography

In fifteen pages this paper considers how despite its savage criticism regarding its treatment and portrayal of women that pornogr...

A Study of Gener Issues in 'The Birdcage'

This paper comprised of 25 pages compares and contrasts the portrayal of homosexual men and their defined gender roles with realit...

Biography of Social Worker Margaret Sanger

In five pages this paper examines social worker Margaret Sanger in terms of her famous activism regarding contraceptives and birth...

Senior Citizens and Sex

In five pages this paper considers various issues of sexuality as they pertain to senior citizens and society's portrayal of them....

Doomed Native America

In five pages this paper examines how the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans was doomed from the beginning in a c...

The Plight of African Americans in the United States

people..." (p.88). It is an idea that makes sense. There are differences of opinion between people and a hatred festers. Similar t...

Brooklyn's Lower Class as Depicted in Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn

This 6 page paper provides quotes and an analysis of three characters in this thesis paper that focuses on social stratification. ...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Jack London’s Call of the Wild

was apparently controversial at the time, but clearly desired. One critic, in looking back at the time wrote, in 1928, "that a hea...

Microsoft and Racism

ability of races that are not white. It indicates that the nation is geared towards white people and the way they may think, thus ...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Sexism and Racism in Trading Places

brash prostitute that flaunts her body and acts like a tough hooker. She is representative of women who sell their body and are al...

Hurricane Katrina: What Really Went Wrong?

could have packed a bigger wallop and even if the levees did not break, the people would have been devastated, but that did not ha...

Alice McIntyre/White Talk

rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collectiv...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Social Issues in Education

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...

UNINTENTIONAL RACISM

Stuart Taylor Jr. (2006) points out in a commentary that law firms are trying to embrace diversity by using "large" hiring prefere...

Racism is Alive in the USA

in which Thomas Jefferson described all men as being created equal. However, equal has occasionally been interpreted as being syn...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Helping the White as Well as Black

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

Systemic Racism

foundation for those white men with power and money. Feagin (2000) states, "This was not just a political gathering with the purpo...

Racism in the United States

using it to divide and to confuse the people about the reasons for the economic and social crisis of the system. Because the syste...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

Racism and Class: 1890 to 1929

dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...