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1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

American Minorities and Culture

in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

Mission and Application of the NCQA

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and its mission which is to assess A...

Analysis of Jack Nelson Pallmeyer's The School of Assassins

In five pages this paper analyzes the text that recommends closing the 'School of the Americas' that contributes to Latin American...

Analysis of Mona in the Promise Land by Gish Jen

In five pages this paper examines and analyzes this Chinese American novel first published in 1996....

Experiences of Immigrants

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the immigrant experiences of the Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and African ...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

A.H.M. Jones' Athenian Democracy

In four pages this text is reviewed and comparisons are made between Athenian and American democracies....

Pop Culture and The News

Art often imitates life, particularly in American media. This paper compares the media frenzy over the Clinton-Lewinsky affair wit...

The Course of African Americans Through the History of the United States

injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...

U.S. Workforce and the Role of African American Women

In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...

Developing Countries and Unemployment

In four pages this paper defines unemployment in terms of developing nations in a contrast and comparison to how it is defined by ...

2 US Colleges Admissions Essay Samples

In four pages this paper discusses 2 admission essay samples for an Asian student who wishes to study at an American college or un...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

Classic Literature's Portrayal of Male Characters

In five pages this paper evaluates the realistic depiction of male characters in literature past and present in a consideration of...

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

Assessing Fortitude An Operational Proposal

9 pages and 6 sources. This paper considers the concept of fortitude and the ability of hospital personnel to assess fortitude. ...

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

Mexican American Communities and the Implications of Alcoholism

In eight pages this paper examines how the Mexican American community is affected by the social problem of alcoholism with compari...

African Literature's Oral Culture and Tradition

In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Literature's Faust Legend

In six pages this research paper analyzes literature's various Faustian tales in a consideration of their timelessness. Four sour...

Literature's 'Three Unities'

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

Complex Union of Marriage

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Critiquing Literature's Treatment of Age and Youth

In a paper of five pages the youth and age of protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and A Clean, Well Lighted...

Psychological Research Issues

In six pages this paper discusses various psychological research issues including an assessment of American Psychiatric Associatio...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The writer analyzes the book The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which argues that American culture is deteriorating....

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...