From the Paper "F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby develops a number of themes related to Fitzgerald's view of his society and also to his particular concerns with the role of the artist in society. The novel makes use of a number of symbols and symbolic actions. The social classes in the novel are intended to be symbolic of the age, an age in which one group was considered the "lost" generation, lost because it had lost its way after World War I. There is a symbolic interaction between the Long Island world of money and leisure and the more frenetic and working-class image of the city of New York, and the characters in the novel can move between the two realms as much of the working class cannot. The city becomes a metaphor for a mechanistic and materialistic society. The city is also a source of ambivalent feelings, for the writer is both attracted to the energy and life..."
From the Paper "In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American Anglo-Saxon ideology of Manifest Destiny laid the foundation for the government's right to territorial and economic expansion. The American republic was deemed a white Anglo-Saxon republic. Hence, white races would be readily absorbed into the nation, but nonwhite races would not be welcome. Using these arguments as a base, the government was able to justify the annexation of areas that were heavily populated with "inferior" races and the country shaped policies that reflected its belief that Indians were inferior and expendable (Horsman 226)."
From the Paper "Different cultures produce their own particular way of structuring the world they see around them. They use religion and ritual to explain, to gain control, and to express their own sense of connectedness to their environment. Pre-scientific societies develop their own mythologies to explain the origin of the universe and of human life. A comparison of three such societies shows how varied these ideas can be, with reference to the Maya, the ancient Chinese, and the Indians of the American southwest.
The New Text School in China was dominant throughout most of the Former Han dynasty and was given its name only later in apposition to the Old Text school, which rose to prominence in the time of Christ and gained ascendance through the Later Han dynasty. By "old" text the name means that the work was written..."
From the Paper Shere Hite released the groundbreaking or the results of her nationwide study of female sexuality, The Hite Report, in 1976 to wide ranging acclaim. Collecting detailed questionnaires from diversified American socio-economic stratums, Hite synthesized her unprecedented research which successfully accessed women's consensual but unspoken attitudes about sexuality. The Hite Report articulated American sexuality's as yet untold folk-talk by printing direct quotations from its questionnaire's participants. Its pioneer approach combined statistics with the savvy of street knowledge, casting the illusion that poetry and science could momentarily be squeezed together in a culture increasingly specialized. To coalesce the scientific with the poetic allowed Hite to further her political agenda with greater..."
From the Paper "Americans at times seem to be consumed by crime, showing at one and the same time a fear of crime and a fascination with it. Crime is a topic in the daily newspaper, often crowding other news off the front pages. Crime and fear of crime are important subjects in political campaigns. Crime is a staple on entertainment programs on television and in books and movies which detail both real and fictional crimes from a wide variety of points of view. Organized crime is only one aspect of the crime problem in America. In the past, organized crime was a more potent and feared force, especially in the cities of the Northeast, but then and now organized crime has an effect on society in terms of added costs to goods and services, increased costs for law enforcement, and an effect on the administration of..."
From the Paper "The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by President George Bush on 26 July 1990 (Public Law 101-336: The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, 104 STAT. 327, 42 USC 12101). This law have been made applicable to persons with contagious diseases such as AIDS (acquired immunity deficiency syndrome). This research examines the ADA, the problem of AIDS in the workplace, and organizational responses to the situation.
Societal Protection For the Disabled
The first legislation prohibiting discrimination against persons with a physical handicap was enacted in 1948 to protect ..."
From the Paper "The Harlem Renaissance has become a well-known episode in American cultural history, as the time and place of the first great public flowering of black American art and literature. Yet, as Nathan Huggins suggests in his 1971 book of the same name, it is much more the idea of a Harlem Renaissance than its actual productions that has proved to be durable. Of the cultural figures associated with it, perhaps only poet Langston Hughes is still well-remembered, and his work still presented to a wide public. In contrast, Harlem Renaissance novels such as Claude McKay's Home to Harlem are more likely to be read today as cultural artifacts than as works of literature in their own right.
This state of affairs is all the more striking when we compare the literary and artistic productions of the Harlem..."
From the Paper "Naturalism is frequently cited as one of the dominant literary movements of 19th century America. Naturalism aimed at a detached, scientific objective portrayal of a natural self controlled by instincts and ruled by passion. Since a self was not perceived to have free will, naturalism debunked moral judgment. Historically, naturalism is perceived to have been more inclusive but also less selective than realism (Hart 525). Naturalism was boxed-in by a determinism established by Darwinian theory and Marxist economics. The compelling writings of Stephen Crane which celebrate a fierce self battling against the harsh elements of its environment offer a striking example of American naturalism. In Crane's often anthologized short story "The Open Boat", the careful reader can detect Crane's careful mixing of..."
Compares economic success in Korea with failure in Latin Amer. Govt. & politics, export-industrialization vs. import-substitution economies, leadership, foreign investment, dependency theory.
6,075 words (approx. 24.3 pages), 17 sources, 1996, $ 135.95
From the Paper "Much of the academic discussion about the political economy of development has turned upon the contrast between East Asia and Latin America. East Asian growth, embodied especially in the case of South Korea, has been dynamic and powerful and is seen largely as the result of the development of an export-industrialization economy. Latin American growth, on the other hand, has been sluggish and is seen largely as the result of the development of an import-substitution economy. Yet, both South Korea and the Latin American countries had begun as relatively undeveloped areas of the globe in the mid-1900s and were subject to many of.the same external influences--namely, American military and economic intervention--attempting to shape the future political and economic courses of these regions. The question that arises is why have South Korea and other East Asian
From the Paper "This research examines critical issues for human resource management (HRM) in relation to the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The focus of this examination is on the threats and opportunities, both internal and external, confronting Canadian and American companies in the wake of the implementation of NAFTA.
Background
International business failures are often the result of poor human resources management and a lack of understanding of the cultural differences between the home and foreign countries ..."
Compares insights into Japanese culture, value systems, roles of Japanese & Amer. women, ethnocentrism, ethics, modernization. "The Chrysanthemum & The Sword" ( Ruth Benedict ) & "The Japanese Mind" (Robert C Christopher )
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, 1996, $ 47.95
From the Paper "This research paper summarizes the insights into the roots of Japanese culture, its value systems and its outward manifestations which are contained in Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Robert C. Christopher's The Japanese Mind. It also compares and contrasts the roles and patterns of conduct of Japanese women, as depicted in these books, and of American women. Both authors provide an in depth explanation of the unique features of Japanese culture and its seeming contradictions. As a cultural anthropologist, Benedict searches for cultural patterns which have evolved over Japan's long history. She is at her best in probing the inner workings of Japanese society. As a journalist, Christopher uses history to buttress his observations of contemporary Japanese life, including the post-..."
From the Paper "The purpose of this research is to examine The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan, comparing the mother's and daughter's experiences and how those experiences mold their outlook, from a cultural and historical perspective. The plan of the research will be to set forth the narrative context in which the experiences of mother and daughter unfold in the novel, and then to discuss the cultural and historical elements that inform Tan's strategy of characterization.
To understand the cultural and historical features that control the action of The Kitchen God's Wife, it is important to realize the importance of the setting of the novel as a whole. Contemporary Northern California, chiefly San Francisco, provides the environment in which the story within a story can be told about the history of an extended Chinese-American family. The..."
From the Paper "Andrew Hacker, in Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, paints a picture of a society dominated by the injustices of racism. The book is a far from hopeful portrait of the current racial situation in the United States. It is a work buttressed not only by great insight, but by pertinent and startling statistics revealing the direct and destructive effects of racism in the areas of "household income, family arrangements, child-support payments, criminal victimization, educational attainment, and fertility expectations" (233). In every instance, blacks are shown by Hacker to suffer greatly as a result of that racism.
Neither does the book offer much optimism with respect to the future of relationships between the races nor with respect to the maltreatment of blacks by overt and covert means in the..."
From the Paper Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz in their book The Kingdom of Matthias write about a historical event that may not be well-known to most Americans. They tell the story of the self-proclaimed prophet Matthias and the "kingdom" he created based on his religious beliefs, related to the Second Great Awakening of religious fervor in American history. This nineteenth-century movement had numerous effects, including the creation of a variety of new cults and movements, such as that of them Mormons. Matthias lived in the first half of the nineteenth century as the United States was beginning to move away culturally from European roots and to build a uniquely American society. The book by Johnson and Wilentz details the nature of the man who led the movement, the nature of his followers, and the reaction of American society to his attempts to create a kingdom of his own..."
From the Paper "Most colonial furniture was the product of the settlers' practical need for the basics of existence. On their arrival the first colonists had to cope with the problems of survival and the difficulties of the voyage had allowed them to bring very few of their possessions along. At first they were unable to concern themselves with any but the most basic uses of "time and precious human resources" and furniture makers' skills were needed elsewhere. But they did carry with them their "deeply embedded habits, customs and tastes" and the "old forms and the tools needed to make them were reproduced virtually unchanged and persisted long after they had been abandoned 'back home'" and were to be the basis of new, specifically American versions of European furniture styles. Within the broad field of colonial furniture styles it is possible to select a few topics that..."
