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A History of American Fashion

to emerge in the latter part of the 1800s. Today, people are fashion conscious and this is something reflected in popular culture....

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

Questions on North American Petroleum Dependency

sixty percent of the current U.S. oil demands (Roberts, 2008). With the price of oil moving upward of $130 US dollars...

Jews of Eastern Europe and American Blacks in the 1930s

non-Jewish citizens who might have protested at their treatment (Sowards). The last step of course was their mass murder (Sowards)...

Who is American?

is the institution of slavery expressly forbidden. A great many scholars have argued that it is the fact that the nation was found...

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

Race and the American Dream

Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...

20th Century Time: Conflict & Turmoil In The World

that veered off into the direction of Communism and/or democracy when in the company of Soviet dignitaries, inasmuch as one slip o...

Why Americans Hate Welfare

the perception that these people are mostly black, lazy and "shiftless" (Gilens, 1999). Lieberman, reviewing Gilens book, notes t...

The American System of Government

of the amount of power the states would hold. Today, many are used to hearing about the Constitutional rights of others. This eme...

Technology and Changes in American Culture

were large multi-branched entities and several generations typically lived under one roof. This was, in fact, a necessity in thes...

American Ethnic Literature

thinking that challenges ethic writers, who are torn between their native culture and their adopted land. Where do they really bel...

Speaking Out: The Bonus Seekers, Textile Worker Strikes and Resistance to the Native American Reorganization Act

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

Changing the American Culture

motivating factor. The goal of this task force is to reduce the friction between the people. Kreitner & Kinicki (2007) do go on t...

The American Women's Suffrage Movement

in the United States again is sometimes attributable to Adams. Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, who was president at the time,...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Global Staffing Issues - Acquiring Company In Germany

enhance the economic outlook in the cities where they are located. Human Resource Challenges When operating in any other countr...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

The American Presidency

1789-1797, sought reelection only once and a two-term limit became traditional and was the national standard for 150 years (OConno...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

Stoessinger on Vietnam

(Kissinger 684). Rather than commit virtual genocide and lose the "soul of the United States," Johnson was finally forced to withd...

Management and Leadership in American Business History

literally with nothing and achieve financial success and economic stability for his family. It also had its dark side, howe...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

Native American Oral Tradition: Parallels in the Literature

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

Mexican-American Homeless & Programs

research that has investigated the characteristics of new Latin American immigrants has determined several characteristics that ma...

Hypertension in African American Populations

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...