Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987) - Black people's conditions in the seventies
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Beloved is an American fiction novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987. Its story's plot is based on the notorious real adventure of Margaret Garner, an African American slave who succeeded into escaping to Ohio, murdering her last child rather than offering a new slave to the...
Can society overcome the harsh realities of everyday life over dream-like aspirations to live the perfect life?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Although Grace Metalious seems to mock the town and the people of Peyton Place in the novel, hypocrisy is a theme intended to draw the line between the ideal, seemingly perfect life Americans strive to live in and the reality of the life they face instead. When characters and their actions...
Religion and early American identity
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Trying to determine what the motives of the migrants to the new world were is a difficult quest because motivations were diverse depending on the colonies. The migrants could be motivated by economical considerations. They thought they could have a better life, to be richer in North America by...
Let's Talk About Girls: The Negative Impact of Feminism on Modern Society
Essay - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On June 28, 1998, Ally McBeal graced the cover of Time magazine; not in the name of television or Hollywood or fashion, but in the name of feminism. According to The American Century Dictionary, feminism is the advocacy of women's rights and sexual equality. So how does an upper-class...
How technology is responsible for digital divide in the society
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Digital divide refers to the technology gap between the poor and the middle and upper classes. The so-called “haves” and “have-nots” also have a race-ethnic constituent. Because a larger proportion of minorities are poor, compared with whites, a smaller percentage of...
Women in Cherokee society
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Cherokee are people who are rich in cultural identity and history. Their nation flourished in North America long before the European ancestors chose to settle here. Originally residents of the American southeast region, the Cherokee tribes resided throughout Georgia, North and South...
The Bastard - Erskine Caldwell (1929) - What was the writer's purpose with the expression of violence in this novel?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
'Where there is no human connection (...) there is no compassion. The isolated turn cruel in the forms of domestic and civil violence' here is a brief definition from the writer Susan Vreeland which perfectly matches the title character of Erskine Caldwell's crime novel The Bastard....
The American Declaration of Independence
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
On the 4th of July 1776, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress, the American Declaration of Independence, completing the Lee Resolution, that asserted the independence of the Thirteen Colonies. This Declaration proclaimed that the Thirteen British Colonies in North America were...
Walden or Life in the Woods, Excerpt - H. D. Thoreau (1854)
Text commentary - 4 pages - Literature
In the intricate labyrinth of literature that delves into the realm of human interaction with the natural world, few works have as much reverence and significance as Henry David Thoreau's "Walden or Life in the Woods." Written in the serene setting of Walden Pond, where Thoreau spent two...
A Lesson before dying - Ernest J. Gaines (1993) - Reader's response essay
Text commentary - 4 pages - Literature
'A Lesson Before Dying' is a touching novel created by Ernest J. Gaines, a remarkable African-American writer whose works illustrate the lives of the rural Southerners in the era of segregation. This novel is set in a small Louisiana town in the late 1940s where the topics of...
The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac (1959) - The role of jazz in the novel
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
"The Subterraneans" is a Jack Kerouac's novel written in the 50's (written in 1953 and published in 1958). This novella is not fictional, it deals with a very short romance that Jack Kerouac had with an African American woman, Alena Lee (New York, 1953). But it was bad form to have...
The American diplomacy around the protocol of Kyoto
Essay - 15 pages - Ecology & environment
During the past forty years, the issue of global warming has gradually been established as the priority of environmental debates to become a major issue in our society for the twenty-first century. The proliferation of conferences, books, and films on this subject reflect the growing...
Proposal on Ethnographic Study of Structural and Symbolic Violence
Dissertation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The difficulties of migrant workers in the USA form a remarkable example of both material and symbolic violence in structural as well as metaphorical ways. Usually, these workers are bypassed by discriminatory rules and policies and forced to endure the harsh effects of structural violence, which...
A sociological phenomenon : racism
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Racism is an issue that has been perpetuated within American society. Minorities of all races have been subjected to the effects of the phenomenon within our country. However, the most publicized occurrences are against African Americans. The actuated racism against this...
Reconstruction
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The postwar Civil War era, particularly Reconstruction, was a very changing period in American history. This paper considers the postwar period through a gendered lens that embraces the promise of Reconstruction, the failure of stubbornness, and how women's roles were articulated...
Immigration and Ethnic History
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The United States is said to be a nation of immigrants. This is because most people in trace their origins from other parts of the world. There are people who moved into the United States as slaves, specifically the African-Americans, while others migrated to the country in order to engage...
Democracy in Action: The Essential Role of Citizens in the United States
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
In a nation built on the ideals of freedom and democracy, the role of active and informed citizens cannot be overstated. The United States has thrived on the principles of civic involvement and participation since its founding. To sustain and strengthen the democratic fabric of the nation, it is...
Charlotte Forten Grimke: An American educational pioneer
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
“Charlotte belonged to the prominent member of the Forten-Purvis family. Her family were activists for Black causes and Charlotte proved to be just as influential an activist and leader of civil rights. Her parents were Robert Bridges and Mary Woods Forten. Her father and his brother in law,...
A study on the Native Americans
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Indigenous peoples have endured many hardships and damages inflicted on them over the years. They have dealt with attacks by foreign peoples, with forced removal from their own land and the development of reservations, with forced assimilation encouraged both by society and government...
Identity development of the African American adolescent
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
One definition of identity is who you are, what you do, and how you respond to the world around you. One develops this sense of self, an identity, during adolescence. Many contributing factors and variables affect this process to mold how an individual views him or herself. In addition to...
Civil Society NGOs & Private Sector Com-panies: Towards Cooperation?
Essay - 14 pages - Political science
In 2005, DuPont, an American chemical company and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an environmental advocacy group, engaged in a partnership aiming at ensuring responsible development of a new high-tech domain, nanoscale materials. The project was also aimed at communicating with the...
Community Health Assessment
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The first category to discuss is the county's demographic or local population. The population of Mecklenburg County is 861,189. The male citizens are 421, 933, while the female citizens are 439, 256. The media age of this county is 33.7. The population under five years is 70, 176. The...
Water and Power: A Californian Heist - Marina Zenovich (2017) - The Access to Clean Water in California
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - World geography
California, a state known for its sunny weather and lush agriculture, is facing a water crisis that threatens its very survival. "Water and Power: A Californian Heist" is a documentary that exposes the shocking truth behind this crisis, revealing how corporate greed and political corruption have...
Employee protection and economic liberalism in the US: does the search for a balance still make sense?
Essay - 6 pages - Labor law
American history, such as most countries nowadays in the world” history, has been through several periods of crucial changes, socially, economically and in general, politically. Very frequently, this also led to some changes in the legislation that was applied and evolved through most...
The Great Gatsby, Chapter III, Excerpt - Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
In this excerpt from Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the narrator, Nick Carraway, offers a reflective account of his life as a young bond salesman during a summer in New York. After having described the dazzling and opulent parties held at Jay Gatsby's mansion, Nick now...
Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
'Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness' is a quote by Allen Ginsberg that embodies the ideas that members of the literary and social 'beat generation' movement advocate. The later was created in the 1950s at the end of the Second World War, mainly by two young...
How School Shootings Affect Children Psychologically
Dissertation - 5 pages - Educational studies
Children's psychological well-being is severely affected by instances of school shootings. With these cases on the rise, there is a high likelihood that the trauma experienced by victims will affect not only their well-being, but also that of school communities' well-being'. Children...
'Right-to-Try' experimental drugs: an overview - Vijay Mahant (2020) - Public Health Ethics Issue
Text commentary - 3 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
In his article, Right-to-Try' experimental drugs: an overview, Vijay Mahant delves into the right to try (RTT) law on experimental drugs. Mahant, the founder of MediLite Diagnostika Inc., located in San Diego, has offered great insight regarding RTT, including its advocacy and criticism. The...
Healthcare Costs Issues in USA
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
The federal public health agency I have chosen for this project is the United States Department of Health & Human Services. In the health care field, a lot of time is needed to take care of patients effectively, in this crucial field time matters more than anywhere else because the lives of...
Who's in control: the politicians or the media?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
This paper will focus on the case of the United States. In the US, the coverage of most national news is in the hands of the "Big Media" (ABC, CNN, PBS, NBC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Garnett (which publishes various papers, including USA Today), The Washington Post (which...
