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"Let America be America Again", 2006.
An analysis of the poem "Let America be America Again" by Langston Hughes.
1,067 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper takes a look at Langston Hughes' poem "Let America be America Again". The paper focuses primarily on the theme of hope and protest that are prevalent throughout the poem. According to the paper, Hughes emphasizes the conflict he sees for African-Americans and, at the same time, he visualizes hope for them.
From the Paper
"Here we see how the poet is reaching for hope that he has not yet seen but believes is possible. This passage reveals how America can be the dream that his people long for without tyranny and the notion that one man can crush another. Here, we see how the poet longs for every man to get along and believes that it can happen at some point in history. This is also evident when the poet writes, "opportunity is real, and life is free,/Equality is in the air we breathe" (13-14). He writes, "I am the young man, full of strength and hope,/Tangled in that ancient endless chain/Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!" (26-8). This is an interesting passage because it unites the hope the poet believes in and the underlying reason for protest of why it does not exist. Again, we see that the poet clings to hope because he realizes how important it is to the human psyche. "
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Diversity, 2006.
A discussion regarding diversity in the world of business.
1,567 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper takes a look at the concept of diversity in business. According to the paper, diversity is an essential facet of any organization. The paper discusses the idea that globalization of operations has created an environment where cultural differences and differences in opinions need to be understood and addressed in order to achieve success. The paper goes on to discuss the different areas of diversity and how they effect the success of an organization.
Outline:
Age Diversity in Organizations
Sexual Orientation and Its Impact on Diversity
Religious Diversity
Geographical Differences
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"The concept that the U.S. is a melting pot of different cultures and points of view while very true also is faced with the fact that many immigrants tend to retain almost passionate adherence to the religious beliefs of their country of origin. This is especially observed among Indians, Chinese and Japanese who have been able to hold onto their religious beliefs and the cultural traditions even though they might have lived in the U.S. for many years. (Saji, 2004) Religion also influences the ethical and moral beliefs in determining right and wrong and should be in conflict with the employee in the workplace. For example, conservative Catholics could undergo tremendous challenges in their beliefs and opinions if they were working for an abortion clinic. It is important therefore, that individuals also understand the influence of their religion and the effectiveness with which they need to undertake their tasks and responsibilities in the workplace. "
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Women in Indian History, 2006.
A review of the portrayal of women in India's myths, legends and epics as strong and independent characters.
5,935 words (approx. 23.7 pages), 24 sources, MLA, $ 141.95
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This paper takes a look at the role that women have played in India and Indian history. According to the paper, recent studies that examined role portrayals of Indian women in magazine ads found that they are stereotypically portrayed as dependent upon men. The paper discusses how despite the stereotype that women in India were totally passive to their fate, there are many examples of women throughout India's history that present Indian women as strong and independent.
Outline:
Powerful Hindu Goddesses
Ganga and her Decent From Heaven
Durga's Victory over Mahisa
Kali- Victory over Raktabija
The Indian Epics
Mahabharata and Draupadi
The Vedic Period
Indian Women in Politics
Nur Jehan
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"Throughout Sita's speech in Book II, Chapter 27, we find an outspoken and independent Sita directly defying her husband's wishes as she insists on keeping her wifely vows, even though it will mean her banishment as well and possible death as well. She could have taken the choice offered by her husband and stayed with his brother in safety and out of harm's way. However, her insistence on keeping her vowels, even if it meant putting our life in danger, is an unparalleled act of bravery. She refuses to be seduced when held captive and eventually takes her own life after being continually rejected. This is not the act of a weak woman. The fact that she could speak so outright against are husband also shows her status as an equal rather than a subordinate. "
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"Crash", 2006.
A review of the film "Crash" starring Matt Dillon and Sandra Bullock.
3,378 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper discusses how the film "Crash" is more than just a collision of cultures. The paper also takes a look at reasons for "Crash" winning an Oscar for "Best Picture", some believing that it was due to the film's theme of a realistic urban clash of racial conflict and community chaos.
According to the paper, this film clearly grabbed the issue of racial intolerance and cultural stereotyping by the neck, and shook it.
Outline:
Introduction
The Characters in the Movie
The Nuts and Bolts of the Movie -- Lighting
The Nuts and Bolts of the Movie -- Direction
The Nuts and Bolts of the Movie - Music
The Nuts and Bolts of the Movie - Script
The Nuts and Bolts of the Movie - Cinematography
The Nuts and Bolts of the Movie - Action
The Nuts and Bolts of this Movie - Editing
The Nuts and Bolts of this Movie - Casting
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"Dillon is a total prejudiced, hateful jerk towards the couple he stops and towards a black woman who works for the HMO that his father is a member of, and yet Dillon is very kind to his suffering father; "we understand why he explodes at the HMO worker," Ebert writes. Dillon "victimizes others by exercising his power, and is impotent when it comes to helping his father." But then Haggis maneuvers the story so "the plot turns ironically on itself," Ebert continues; both Dillon's character and the young cop who despises Dillon wind up saving the lives of the black couple (a TV director and his wife) who were stopped (and harassed) without justification earlier in the film. "Is this just manipulative storytelling?" Ebert wonders."
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Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, 2006.
A review and comparison of the poems "I, too, sing America" by Langston Hughes and "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.
1,592 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper takes a look at Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes' "I, too, sing America". According to the paper, both poems address the beauty of the many voices of Americans and express a feeling of optimism, while also reflecting the variety of the voices and a feeling of joy.
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"Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" is typical of his style in that it employs free verse and has an effusive spirit. The situation is that of a speaker who observes and listens to the "varied carols" of Americans. The speaker expresses delight at the voices of mechanics, carpenters, masons, boatmen, deck-hands, shoemakers, hatters, wood-cutters, ploughboys, mothers, and wives. Many of these images reflect the activity and bustle of a burgeoning America in 1860. There are obvious building and growth images in the work of "the carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam" and "the mason singing his as he makes ready for work." The mothers and wives, too, are building the future with their "delicious singing." The pervasive spirit of hopefulness in the poem is like beautiful music to the listener."
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"Code of the Street" by Elijah Anderson, 2006.
A review of Elijah Anderson's book, "Code of the Street".
817 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper takes a look at "Code of the Street" by Elijah Anderson and discusses Anderson's analysis of the two types of families that exist in the streets; the decent type of family and the street family. The paper reviews the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the reasons for a family becoming either a decent family or a street family and looks at how eachy type of family copes with the situation it is in.
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"Street families, and the attitudes they are known for, are formed and developed as a result of one basic reality that American society, and even other societies, have failed to find solution to: poverty. The inescapable reality of not having the money to support one's self and his/her family is, as Anderson explicated, a reality that must be cope with by being "tough." That is, one's morale is preserved by being branded as "tough" rather than poor; in most street families, this is a better and more powerful description of themselves that they could live by. Indeed, as the author's study on America's streets proved, being tough meant being feared by other people, and being feared comes the power of being able to assert one's control over another--in the case of the street families, they "rule" the streets because they are capable of bringing violence in the streets, the only reason that makes decent families fear street families."
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Southern Literature, 2006.
A review of the impact that Southern literature has had on American culture.
1,948 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper takes a look at the literature that has emanated from the Southern states of the USA. According to the paper, the genre of Southern literature is divided into Old South and New South. The paper goes on to discuss the differences between the two.
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"The South would develop as it did because of the nature of the land, the climate, the sorts of agricultural products that could be grown, and the need for a certain level of labor that was answered by the slave system. Much of America was shaped by its sense of the frontier, and in the South the frontier played an important role. More properly, it was the idea of the frontier that shaped American society. American history involves a mixture of histories, cultures, and national backgrounds brought together in what was truly the New World when it was discovered by European settlers. At the time, there were several Indian tribes in North America and the larger civilization of the Aztecs in South America. The settlers from Europe brought their culture with them, and they only broke away from that culture slowly over a period of time as they created something new. With the advent of slavery in the plantation economy of the South, blacks from Africa were brought to the Americas and introduced elements of their culture. These different forces mixed and interacted over time to become the underpinnings of American history and what would become a distinctive American culture."
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"The Declining Significance of Race", 2007.
A review of the continued relevance of the issues related in "The Declining Significance of Race" by William Wilson.
2,144 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper examines "The Declining Significance of Race" by William Wilson. It evaluates which of Wilson's points remain relevant in examining race and class relations today. It then examines the book's weaknesses, such as the presentation of African-Americans as a monolithic culture. In the conclusion, the paper finds that Wilson's book remains an insightful starting point, however it also suggests that more studies remain to be done regarding how social stratification by race, gender and class continue to be relevant.
Table of Contents:
Wilson's Thesis
Sociology Of Minority Group Relations
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"Additionally, recasting "minority group" in class-based terms opens new opportunities for addressing poverty. Instead of recycling race-based policies that benefit those who are already economically-secure, anti-poverty programs should look towards helping those who are economically-disadvantaged, regardless of their race. Wilson's suggestions included WPA-style work programs. To these suggestions, this paper also recommends daycare programs in poor neighborhoods, after-school and mentorship programs for older children and funding clinics for low-income urban residents. These combined programs would go a long way towards providing an economically-poor minority with resources to help them improve their life chances."
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The Spanish Explorers, 2007.
A discussion regarding the impact of the Spanish explorers on the native populations of the West Indies and Mexico.
871 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper takes a look at the Spanish explorers Christopher Columbus, Bartolome' de las Casas and Bernal Diaz Del Castillo. The paper discusses the differences in attitudes of the three different explorers with regard to the native populations of the countries they discovered. The paper further discusses the impact of these Spanish explorers on the native populations of the West Indies and Mexico.
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"Unfortunately, it was the innocent and gullible attitude that would be the downfall of the Taino. Columbus wrote home to Spain and explained how useful this tribe would be due to their work ethic, caring, and cooperativeness. Columbus and his crew soon found ways to take advantage of the Taino's generosity. Many women of the Taino tribe were abducted by Columbus' soldiers. On a more formal level when Columbus returned for his second voyage the real mistreatment of the Taino began. About 1200 tribe members were sent to Spain where they were sold off as slaves. Those in the new world began working in mines and on plantations. Columbus began demanding a tribute of gold from each adult Taino; death or mutilation was the punishment for not complying. The population of Taino quickly began to deteriorate due to mistreatment and disease."
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Louis Wirth's "The Ghetto", 2006.
This paper analyzes Louis Wirth's "The Ghetto", a classic sociological study written in 1928 about the Jewish ghetto.
1,915 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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This paper explains that Louis Wirth, in his book "The Ghetto", studies the Jewish ghetto throughout history in different countries and cities, especially Frankfort, Germany, and the Chicago ghetto of the 1920s. The author points out that Wirth's examination of the ghetto in Chicago suggests that this ghetto was more a matter of economics because the rents were the lowest in the ghetto area as compared to other areas. The paper relates that, although this sociological study is in some ways outdated because it was written before the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel, the book remains valuable because it reveals the history and form of the Jewish ghetto, which is applicable to other similar ethnic communities, and a technique for studying present day ghettos.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Ghetto
Conclusion
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"Wirth also makes it seem that the changing of laws that allowed the Jews to leave the ghetto would have had a different effect in a different type of community, though in truth, it is not surprising that many of the Jews remained in the communities they knew and had built over a long period of time rather than exit to seek an unknown existence in the larger society. This attitude is reminiscent of that expressed by many blacks in the 1960s when it was made to seem that black children would be able to learn and adapt more readily if they were seated next to white children in school."
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Aging in Ethnic Cultures, 2006.
This paper discusses the problems of the elderly from ethnic cultures, especially immigrants.
2,430 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 74.95
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This paper explains that the elderly Asian immigrant culture and other older people from immigrant and refugee groups are very traumatized and vulnerable because they not only face the struggle of aging but also psychological problems such as family disintegration and loss, marriage dissolution, racial prejudice and discrimination. The author points out that the problems of the elderly immigrant Latino population are similar to the problems faced by older Asians. The paper relates that elderly African-Americans are faced with the legacy of racism and the belief that blacks somehow are carriers of more disease than whites, which has prevented many elderly black patients from getting the care they deserve. The paper has many quotations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Asian and Latino Elderly People
Dementia
African-American Elderly and Issues Surrounding their Care
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"As to Puerto Rican immigrants in Spanish Harlem (New York City), an article in the University of Maryland publication, suggests that the elderly Puerto Ricans say that though they are concerned with crime in their neighborhoods, and loneliness, "health is their number one concern." When an elderly Puerto Rican in Spanish Harlem is disabled and cannot leave home, "a group of women comes to visit to help them say prayers." Many Puerto Rican immigrants "cope" with loneliness "by playing dominoes on the sidewalk, erecting small altars in their homes, visiting spiritualists, or listening to Latin music.""
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The Local Music Scene, 2006.
This paper is an ethnography of a local music scene.
3,585 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 100.95
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This paper is original ethnographic research, which describes the music scene in Houston and relates it to sociological theories. The author points out that, by focusing on the similarities between people and their values and cultural expressions, a consensus theorist would find much to discuss when analyzing the urban dance club scene; however, interactionist theory applies even more readily to the club scene than consensus theory because of the more intense focus on small group populations and because the patrons of a club gather together for basically the same purpose. The paper relates that postmodernists are able to analyze club culture by studying the impact that diversity and globalization have had on the global spread of musical styles, the blurred distinction between media-informed images of youth behavior and the value system shared by club goers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Ethnography
The Music
The Artists
The Fans
Sociological Observations and Analysis
Conclusion
Methodology
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"Hip-hop is itself subdivided into numerous genres, each with its own flavor, style, and mood. At dance clubs like Crome, hip-hop tunes retain the warm, fun vibe of rap music while pumping out more regular beat patterns than some of the more soulful or underground artists use. Moreover, modern hip-hop is often infused with world beat samples, derived from Middle Eastern or Eastern European scales that add a distinct sound. When a live MC is in the house, the hip-hop comes alive, hearkening back to the heyday of the genre as a coalescing of looped samples, turntable mixing, scratching, and MC-ing."
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Grandparent Caregivers, 2007.
An analysis of the effects of caregiving on grandparents of minority groups.
3,285 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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This research examines differences in physical and mental health status between minority-group grandparents raising grandchildren and those who are not involved in this care-giving role. The discussion builds on earlier studies of grandparent caregivers, using a national data set, but it is unique in that it explores the physical and mental health of the growing sub-population of minority-group grandparents who are raising grandchildren.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Review of the Literature
Methods
Results
Discussion
Implications for Research and Practice
Conclusion
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"Minority caregivers will be significantly more likely than their non care-giving peers to have limitations in four of the five activities of daily living (ADL) investigated . Caregivers will have more problems moving around inside the house and doing day-to-day tasks. The levels of limitation will be quite substantial, with 29 percent of caregivers reporting "a lot of limitation" climbing a flight of stairs and two of five caregivers indicating that they will have a lot of limitation walking six blocks. Approximately two-thirds of caregivers will have at least one limitation, and the mean number of limitations will too. No significant differences will be found between Minority caregivers and non-caregivers with respect to self-reported health status or with their reported ability to bathe, dress, and provide other personal care."
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Mormonism, 2007.
A discussion of the history and religious identities of Mormonism since the death of its founder in 1844.
5,025 words (approx. 20.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 126.95
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This paper discusses Mormonism, particularly following the death of its founder Joseph Smith in 1844, as this created a struggle for succession which brought about a change of traditions. The paper, therefore, explores the ways in which Mormonism has changed since 1844. The paper then looks at a convoluted intersection of four competing, but closely related religious identities and two of the most contested places that are associated with these identities.
From the Paper
"There are just two important points that must be considered concerning the name that the church had before 1844. The first is that there were various changes made, principally in response to the revelations. One of the ways to interpret the changes is to think that the church was looking for an identity of its own within the larger religious setting of America. Second, precise details of the changes are contested (Olsen & Dallen, 2002). Critically and specifically, there is debate among the Mormon churches that concerns the precise name that was being used during the time that Smith was murdered (Raento & Watson, 2000). The issue of the name during 1844 is considered to be critical, because the different groups are attempting to lay claim to the idea that each one of them is the one true church (Shipps, 2000). When they do that, they see the use of the name that was used in 1844 as very desirable. It has also been noted that many of the groups that have survived into present day still maintain, for various reasons, that they are in fact the true successor to the church, or that they are a small fragment of the church, which has been seen to continue without any kind of interruption (Olsen & Dallen, 2002)."
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Ethnic Literary Analysis, 2007.
This paper provides an African-American and ethnic literary analysis of the Novel 'Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave' by Aphra Behn and the Essay "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston.
2,048 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This article discusses two works containing either African or African-American themes, Aphra Behn's novel 'Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave' (1633) and Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels to be Colored Me" (1928). The writer notes that when compared against one another, they reveal considerable differences in the perspectives of their authors: In the first case, a 17th century white Englishwoman; and in the second, a late 19th and early 20th century African-American woman folklorist descended from slaves. In this essay, using African American and ethnic literary analysis of both works, the writer explores and analyzes similarities and distinctions in the ways that both authors deal with the subjects of American or African-American identity and black-white relationships, within their respective literary works.
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"Other key characters in the novel, again drawn from an obviously white European narrative perspective, include Oroonoko's treacherous grandfather the King of the tribe, who also lusts after his grandson's love interest Imoinda, thereby reinforcing two familiar African stereotypes: overweening lust and inter-tribal rivalry and treachery, even against one's own flesh and blood. Within Aphra Behn's portrait of the African environment inhabited at first by Oroonoko and Imoinda, then, family ties are brittle, and being sold into slavery is, by implication, less heart-rending than it might be for those with stronger family ties."
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