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  • American History X

    American History X

    In many ways, the media must be involved in ethnic and racial issues. The media is to provide the public with information useful to them. The media is on the public’s side. Racial stereotyping is a problem that is out in the public. Drugs, teen pregnancy, child abuse and rape are also problems that affect the people of the world everyday. The media has a job to make these issues aware to the people and

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • American Culture of Pop Music

    American Culture of Pop Music

    I.Invasion of American Popular Music After World War I, American popular music -- blues, jazz, and Tin Pan Alley songs -- swept Britain, much as British music invaded the United States in the 1960s. American songs such as "Chicago" and "Manhattan" were consistently among the most popular tunes in Britain in the 1920s. As a result of the invasion of American popular music, Britain was influenced by such culture. The Beatles and other British rock

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Annie Hall and Manhattan: Two Different Ways of Looking at New York's Beauty

    Annie Hall and Manhattan: Two Different Ways of Looking at New York's Beauty

    Near the end of Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall, Diane Keaton’s role as Annie says to Allen’s character Alvy Singer, “You’re just like New York City. You’re an island!” However, the link between Alvy Singer and New York City is not simply a fictional creation. Nor is the connection between Allen’s character Isaac Davis and New York in his 1979 film Manhattan fictional adoration. Woody Allen loves New York. It is through the various

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Steve
  • Cardiovascular Disease in the African American Community

    Cardiovascular Disease in the African American Community

    Cardiovascular Disease in the African American Community Causes, Preventions, and Treatments Cardiovascular disease (CVD) refers to the dysfunctional conditions of the heart, arteries, and veins that supply oxygen to vital life- sustaining areas of the body like the brain, the heart itself and other vital organs. Since the term cardiovascular disease refers to any dysfunction of the cardiovascular system there are many different diseases in the cardiovascular category, and many of these diseases are strongly

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Is There a Distinct Subculture in American Policing?

    Is There a Distinct Subculture in American Policing?

    There is a very wide variety of jobs to choose from in the working world. Some jobs are made for certain types of people. Police work calls to a certain type of person, the type of person that would put his or her life in danger for the good of another. There is a debate on whether or not there is a distinct subculture in American Policing. I feel that there is a distinct subculture.

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture Through language, bias has proliferated in our culture against both women and men. Language expresses aspects of culture both explicitly and implicitly. Gender expectations, behaviors, and cultural norms, are determined through language. A divide between the sexes has developed which includes language usages, intention, and understandings. This has created obstructions to communication between the genders. When anthropological linguists look at a language, he/she takes into consideration the “world

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Analyse the Relationship Between African American Cinema and Hollywood Exploring the Effect on Ethnic Representation in 2 Key Films

    Analyse the Relationship Between African American Cinema and Hollywood Exploring the Effect on Ethnic Representation in 2 Key Films

    Analyse the relationship between African American Cinema and Hollywood exploring the effect on ethnic representation in 2 key films Today on the surface at least it is possible to say that black actors have reached stardom comparable to and in some instances well beyond their white counterparts. Will Smith is the current favourite for the blockbuster action movie moving away from his ethnic buddy movies such as Men in Black and Wild Wild West. There

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • An Historical Perspective of the Accounting Environment: A General Outline of A Western European and North American Linkage

    An Historical Perspective of the Accounting Environment: A General Outline of A Western European and North American Linkage

    AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ACCOUNTING ENVIRONMENT: A GENERAL OUTLINE OF A WESTERN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN LINKAGE Berith Bronger Siemers Dongbei University of Finance & Economics Dalian, PR China Working Paper 05-22-2006 ABSTRACT It is recognized that the usefulness of accounting information is contingent upon its (1) neutrality, (2) relevancy, and (3) reliability. Given that all socio-economic systems are comprised of participants and institutions, it would seem that the attainment of those three

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • Banglalink - Making a Difference

    Banglalink - Making a Difference

    banglalink - making a difference When banglalink entered the Bangladesh telecom industry in February 2005, the scenario changed overnight with mobile telephony becoming an extremely useful and affordable communication tool for people across all segments. Within one year of operation, banglalink became the fastest growing mobile operator of the country with a growth rate of 257%. This milestone was achieved with innovative and attractive products and services targeting the different market segments; aggressive improvement of

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Americans Views

    Americans Views

    A stereotype is the creation of an unfair opinion or view; an individual will take the behavior of one person and state that all people belonging to that particular group behave in the same manner. Stereotyping encourages people to react and behave in a manner that is both judgmental and prejudiced. The perception of Arabs and the Islamic religion has created a system in which prejudices and stereotypes worked their way so thoroughly into literature,

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • African Americans

    African Americans

    Context Today, Anne Moody is famous for two things: being one of the students who demanded service at the famous Woolworth’s lunch-counter sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi, and her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, which stands out as one of the classic autobiographies of American literature. Most leaders of the civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and W. E. B. Dubois, were middle-class or even wealthy. Moody is unique in being the

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The American Revolution: A Last Resort to A Liberalist Ideology

    The American Revolution: A Last Resort to A Liberalist Ideology

    Liberalism was a fundamental ideology of the colonists that became a principle catalyst for the American Revolution. Guided by years of financial and cultural independence and stability, the American colonists were becoming increasingly distinct from their English counterparts thousands of miles across the sea. With the English empire struggling to maintain dominance over the colonies, it was merely a matter of time before the colonists pursued a government on the basis of individual liberty. Liberalism

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Vika
  • African American Heritage in Chicago

    African American Heritage in Chicago

    A History of African American Heritage in Chicago The massive exodus to the north began in 1915; a population of people weary of pervasive hostility and constraint in their former lives, fleeing a social system comprised of miserable oppression and repeated violence. The primary cities for resettlement became New York and Chicago, metropolises humming with the vigor of big-city life and the excitement of a new beginning. When the Chicago Commission asked African American migrants

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Max
  • Illegal Immigrants of American Society

    Illegal Immigrants of American Society

    Illegal Immigrants of American Society A Realistic Approach At present, the U.S. immigration system is burdened both by policy and implementation challenges. It is barely able to meet the commitments required by law and policy and is ill-prepared to address new challenges and mandates. Agreement that the system is broken may be the only point of consensus among many diverse stakeholders. The Task Force believes that immigration laws and policies are broken in four

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Clara Barton and the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton and the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton was an amazing woman and a true humanitarian according to Burton (1995). Born on Christmas day in 1821 to a middle class family in Oxford, Massachusetts, Barton would someday be famous and honored for her contributions to society and for laying the foundation of the American Red Cross. Barton began her career at a young age; she began teaching school in her late teens. She taught school for 14-years in New Jersey before

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: July
  • The English Teacher

    The English Teacher

    What about our own roots? Krishnan's journey in R K Narayan's The English Teacher [1] . . . something has been drained from the adult heart. Belief in the miraculous closes down [2] Krishnan, the central character of R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher, undertakes an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey during the course of the novel. At the start of the novel he is an English teacher, living and teaching at the same school

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: July
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    American Dream Willy Loman is a man on a mission. His purpose in life is to achieve a false sense of the "American Dream," but is this what Willy Loman really wants? In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller analyzes the American Dream by portraying to us a few days in the life of a washed up salesman named Willy Loman. The American Dream is a definite goal of many people, meaning something different to

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Differences in Empires

    Differences in Empires

    In the fifteenth and to the seventieth centuries, religious beliefs had a very important impact on the lives people. Cultures were being formed and destroyed because of their beliefs. During these times cultures became united through syncretism, separated cultures through sectarianism, and cause wars by having different beliefs. Babur is one example of cultural syncretism. In the Baburnama, Babur had taken over the land of Hindustan and had a hard decision to make. How am

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Colonial American Settlement

    Colonial American Settlement

    The point of view that encompasses all of the American Colonists, in particular the Puritans, as possessing one “mind” as expressed by even our own modern day politicians is a convoluted theory which needs to be thoroughly dissected. In other words, to say that American Colonists presented a monolithic point of view which is accurately portrayed by modern day politicians would ignore all of the events in American history which have clashed with this philosophy.

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Top
  • Pocahontas and the Mythical Indian Woman: Reforming the Image Through Native American Fiction

    Pocahontas and the Mythical Indian Woman: Reforming the Image Through Native American Fiction

    POCAHONTAS AND THE MYTHICAL INDIAN WOMAN: REFORMING THE IMAGE THROUGH NATIVE AMERICAN FICTION Pocahontas. Americans know her as the beautiful, Indian woman who fell in love with the white settler John Smith and then threw her body upon the poor white captive to protect him from being brutally executed by her own savage tribe. The magical world of Walt Disney came out with their own movie version several years ago portraying Pocahontas as a tan,

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Jack
  • Treaties Between Native Americans and the U.S. Government

    Treaties Between Native Americans and the U.S. Government

    When the first Hispanic colonists came to North America in 1769, the population of the Native Americans dropped critically. There used to be over 300,000 Native Americans in California. The Hispanics forced the Native Americans into slave labour and in no time, European diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and typhus which the Spanish and French settlers brought from Europe to America broke out and killed over 100,000 Native Americans in California alone. The first

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Anna
  • American's International Knowledge

    American's International Knowledge

    American's International Knowledge In the last century international affairs has become increasingly important and critical to U.S. politics. The importance of education with respect to foreign affairs is rising, and is becoming more and more imperative that everyone become familiar with its effects on everyday life. In our project we wanted to research how the level of knowledge about international affairs influences the subject's involvement in government. We believe that a large portion of Americans

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will speak mainly around those involved on the battlefield in the closing days of the conflict. Also, reference will be made

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Canadians

    Canadians

    The Canadian identity has always been difficult to define. We, as Canadians, have continued to define ourselves by reference to what we are not - American - rather than in terms of our own national history and tradition. This is ironic since the United States is continuing to be allowed by Canadians to take over our economy and literally buy our country. Culturally Canada has its own distinct government and institutions which differ and are

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • African American

    African American

    Chapter 4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle For Independence, 1763- 1783 The Rising Expectation of the African Americans and the struggle for Independence was a great thing for blacks they started rise up over slavery, they made a big impact in the wars, and they got the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson. I. The Crisis of the British Empire 1) The Great struggle. 2) The two empires Great Britain and France.

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: David