Western Religion In his book, "Western Ways of Being Religious," (Kessler, 1999) the author Gary E. Kessler identifies the theological, philosophical and societal ramifications of the evolution of religion in the West. Christianity, Judaism and Isla Continue Reading...
Turner's Sitting In and Nikki Giovanni's The Collected Poems, as well as the movie, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, demonstrate the way the black civil rights movement changed during the 1960s? What significant changes do they show? What was causing t Continue Reading...
Male Without Female In the classic films of the 1940s and 1950s, filmmakers tended to use very strict representations of gender in their characters. Women could be either virgins or tramps and men could be either heroes or villains. There was very l Continue Reading...
Locust Nathanial West's novel The Day of the Locust is a dark story about Hollywood and its corrupting influences. Tod Hackett, the protagonist is a set designer recruited out of Yale to work for a West Coast film studio. The first half of the nove Continue Reading...
Passage to India David Lean's A Passage to India (1984) was based on E.M. Forsters's 1924 novel of the same name, and examines the themes of racism, sexuality and colonialism in British India of the 1920s, which is already seething with discontent Continue Reading...
Henrietta Lacks As human beings, each person is born with certain inalienable rights. This is the basis for the American constitution and should include rights to the body as well as the spirit. The case of Henrietta Lacks was a milestone for medica Continue Reading...
Romeo and Juliet and Atonement Romeo and Juliet has always been one of William Shakespeare's most popular and successful plays, even though critics have sometimes dismissed it as an immature or sentimental work. In that respect, Atonement is not sen Continue Reading...
While one must admire Tobar's commitment to understanding the totality of the immigrant experience, Tobar's infiltration of this underground economy was certainly not as ground-breaking as when white journalist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin Continue Reading...
ORWELL George Orwell 1984 Eerie parallels with today's online economy of words and knowledge George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 functions as a satire of many of the excesses of 20th century communism, such as everyday citizens' communal, monoton Continue Reading...
Quality is the essence of the output. In judging the performance of a teacher, one does not ask how many students there can be in his or her class. Instead, one asks how many students learn anything -- and that is a quality question. In appraising t Continue Reading...
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business The age of television began in the 1950's when the majority of Americans were finally able to have power brought directly to their houses and have a television Continue Reading...
The biosphere consists of all living organisms on the planet. The atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere function collectively to provide he environment which sustains the biosphere. These four spheres interact to create ecological systems. These e Continue Reading...
Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences and Their Impact on Recidivism There is much controversy regarding mandatory sentencing and its impact on the American society throughout recent times. In many ways, prisons are used as a means to control cri Continue Reading...
Environmental Psychology: Securing its Future" by Harold M. Proshansky Relatively young field, is it secure? Epistemology: study or theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge How did field begin, where is it going? Environmental Psychology: Y Continue Reading...
Ethical dilemmas surrounding DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders Ethical dilemmas surrounding Do Not Resuscitate orders In carrying out their duties, health care givers face many ethical issues that sometimes affect their personal lives. These require Continue Reading...
But even May admits that images such as the bomb shelter do not always convey an accurate picture of reality, given that few Americans built such shelters in their homes, although the images of the media might suggest differently, and the way people Continue Reading...
Women had joined the workforce long before the 1950s, with dual incomes being as necessary for many families during the Depression and even through the 1940s as they are today (Coontz 2000). In fact, the emphasis that was brought to the cohesion and Continue Reading...
North Korea In the film Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005), Korea is portrayed as the naive and innocent victim of foreign imperialists and ideologies that divide the country in half and then destroy it. Symbolically, the village of Dongmakgol high up in Continue Reading...
It was not unusual for Shed to have this mix between his feminine and masculine sides. That is not negative or wrong. For example, in the article "How we find ourselves," Wilson (1996, p.303) relates that today this concept of shaman or two-spirit s Continue Reading...
Racial Democracy Struggles for racial democracy in Sunflower County in the 1980 substantially differed in many aspects from freedom struggles that were there in the 1950's and 1960's. Civil rights movements in the 1980 were not a monolithic entity. Continue Reading...
GI Bill do? It provided health care to wounded veterans of World War II. It allowed American veterans of World War II to go to college free and to obtain low-interest mortgages. It gave American veterans a pension so that they would not have to w Continue Reading...
1950s, attempts to integrate fundamental human rights into EU treaties met with little success. Many commentators observe that the reason for the failure of these attempts is the fact that the EU was viewed primarily as an economic union, and as a r Continue Reading...
If the satellite had successfully entered orbit, this would have put the United States more than a year ahead of the Soviets in the endeavor, which added In fact, this was not the only rocket and satellite project that many United States scientists Continue Reading...
Warriors don't cry: A searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals. Specifically it will discuss the thesis, themes, and ideas of the book, and include a critique. This book is much more than a memoir Continue Reading...
Hal Moore's We Were Soldiers Once, And Young We Were Soldiers Once, And We Were Young, is an extremely authentic narration of one of the most critical battles in the Vietnam War: the battle of the Ira Drang Valley. It is largely written as a first h Continue Reading...
Angela knows she cannot change this social perception of gender roles, and gives the first name that comes to mind because she realizes that she is in the position of sentencing that man to death, and probably tries to save the man who had actually Continue Reading...
American Dreams: ReviewThe thesis of Brands American Dreams, a book about the post-war era and beyond, is that the Dream at the heart of the American experience did not find fulfillment in the euphoric sense of victory following the conclusion of WWI Continue Reading...
Citizen -- A Review & Analysis It is without question that race relations and the treatment of minorities, black people in particular, has progressed and advanced significantly over the existence of the United States. Slavery was abolished nearl Continue Reading...
"White's canonization is part of a larger cultural shift, which saw the development of many kinds of institutions and critiques aimed at making Australia culturally richer and more autonomous" (During, 1996). Therefore, the changing way that he port Continue Reading...
Holocaust Politics Totalitarianism's Controversial Notions The human social animal's capacity for collective tyranny and violence in Hannah Arendt's seminal work Since the publication of her 1951 work on The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Aren Continue Reading...
Cardsmax Humanistic Theory Humanistic learning theory as explained by Lipscomb, & Ishmael (2009 p. 174) emphasizes feeling, experience, self-awareness, personal growth, and individual / psychic optimization. Learning, from this perspective, is Continue Reading...
McCarthyism and the Anti-Communist MovementIntroductionMcCarthyism is often synonymous with Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist campaign in the 1950s, but as Ellen Schrecker and Phillip Deery argue in The Age of McCarthyism 3d Edition, this term Continue Reading...
China's New Guard Susan Lawrence in her article The New Guard: Five Younger Officials Make their way to the Top profiles five leaders on the twenty-two man Chinese Politburo and examines their potential leadership capacity in the years to come. Thes Continue Reading...
As, they have been focused on implementing select aspects of the strategy. While it is ignoring, key provisions of this criteria. Once this occurs, it means that they will not be effective in meeting TQM ideas. Compare how well company 2 positioned Continue Reading...
This is significant, because it shows how such a policy, could help to refocus the industry and improve the amount of information that consumers have available to them. (McDonald's Second Quarter Rises 2010) Clearly, the proposal to increase fast f Continue Reading...
This became an age in which visionary thinkers said, "see, we told you so," and were able to garner additional support from not only the activist type, but the regular citizen. Talking Points Malthusian dynamics (overpopulation and resource alloca Continue Reading...
