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Arguments Surrounding the Issue of Prayer in Schools

place for religion in the schools. The debate is heated. First, it should be noted that there are many good reasons for inclusion....

American and Muslim Faith

"He tolerated all the difficulties of his life to convey the message of God. We can learn from the example of the prophet. We al...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

The Future of Capitalism by Thurow

most--actually all, as few dispute its dominance-- there are critics of capitalism. There are flaws, such as the fact that America...

Family Concepts Defined

In five pages sociological and cultural definitions of the family concept are examined with the traditional Indian culture compare...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Only after his death was it realized that much of Washingtons attitude was more like the wolf tending the sheep in a sheep outfit....

Spanish and English Approaches to Colonial Slavery

Spain and Portugal were the first nations to reach the shores of the "New World". Their arrival preceded that of other major colo...

Anthropology and Leisure

In five pages this paper takes an anthropological view of leisure within the context of Phillip R. DeVita and James D'Armstrong's ...

Ideology and Law

In eleven pages European and American societies are considered regarding how their laws were developed in a discussion of the Comm...

The Relationship Between African Americans and Jews in Baltimore

This 10 page paper considers the views of a number of theorists, including Ernest Burgess, Homer Hoyt, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth a...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois on Reconstruction

In five pages this paper contrasts these differing views on Reconstruction by these important African American icons. Six sources...

Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson's Vies of 'the American Dream'

In five pages this paper examines how the American Dream is viewed by Anzia Yezierska and Woodrow Wilson in a comparative analysis...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Reasons Why the US Suffered a Loss in Vietnam

against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Richard Lester: "Petulia"

counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...

Joseph Nye/Paradox of American Power

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

911 and Hostile Behavior from Sociological Perspectives

sad truth may suggest just the opposite. It is also valuable to consider the perspective offered by Oliver Cromwell Cox who note...

Wag the Dog: The Barry Levinson Film From a Cultural Perspective

an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...

Politics and Youth

This paper examines American Generation X's political views in eight pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Weber and Marx Perspectives on U.S. Social Stratification

of the day where the lives of the commoners were ruled by the elite. If one examines Marxs original theory on...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

African American Youth Stereotypes

more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...

Solving the Problem of the Homemaker in Feminist Culture

most comfortable for her. This is true whether an individual woman chooses to take work outside her home as the CEO of the worlds...

Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

Overview of the U.S. Presidency

the nation was in crisis--he came through. His famous words which were something to the effect that the people who knocked down th...

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty i...