Internship Report - Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Essay - 13 pages - Services marketing
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, recognize and support new filmmakers as well as enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art. An independent performing arts center, The Film Society hosts...
The Role of Black Artists in African American Culture
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout the Harlem Renaissance, blacks were creating new ways to identify themselves both individually and as a part of a new, developing culture within America. While some black writers used their work to identify their race as a separate entity, others used their writing to expose the social...
The Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society: a comparative study
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The Jeffersonian idea that liberty and equality would be best achieved by everyman pursuing his own interest and a federal government with greatly constrained powers is often seen as America's traditional political philosophy. During the 20th century, three periods of government activism...
Gender in American English: How women are socially muted through speech
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper will explore the theory that women as a minority group are socially muted through the prevalent use of masculine and male created language in American English to describe common activities at home, work place and in the society. The research was started with the question,...
Analyze what is meant by either 'international society' or 'international interdependence' and assess how significantly the concept challenges the idea of international anarchy
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
The English school of thought holds two contrasting visions when looking at the international society theory and how it challenges the concept of international anarchy. It was Hedley Bull whom firstly brought these two contrasts to light in 1962, which were the pluralist and the solidarist...
Negative effects of technology on society
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Although technology can be very helpful, as it helps our society advance, there are some damaging side effects. Technology is advancing computers, phones, transportation, medical studies, and many other things, but it also has negative effects. Technology is socially damaging because it...
With close reference to any two poems on this course, critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
One can find a great variety of themes in American poetry, whatever the period one is interested in: poems about love or about war, about the self or about nature, about reality or about dreams. But the common point of all these is that they convey a sense of American-ness - that...
Mass media and the influence of religion on American foreign policy
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The proverbial “man from mars” suddenly plunged onto the American continent would be amazed and confused at the spectacle before him. He would soon discover that in the world's most perceived secularized society it is not uncommon to justify national interests with...
Discussing the idea of America as E Pluribus Unum or E Pluribus Pluribus using Mexican-American immigrants as an example.
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
History has shown that America is made up of many people. The original people of this continent are the Native Americans. Then we have the English immigrants and Irish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Polish, Russian and immigrants of other countries. One by one they have integrated themselves...
The American History of Race & Gender in Literature
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Throughout the course of American history, the literature of the nation has served to reflect the social climate of the time in which it was written. Society's values in regards to both race and gender have thus been contextualized in history by American writers. In some...
Birds as trapped blacks in a white society in invisible man
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
Ralph Ellison was a huge proponent of symbolism. In a 1965 interview, he said that the purpose of his profession was to “seize upon the abiding American experience as they come up within my own part of the American nation, and project those patterns, those personality types,...
Asian American representation in American media: A study
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Asian American portrayals in American media have been historically stereotypical with damaging images and characters in the areas of advertising, film, and television. Various studies and groups have been conducted and formed to highlight and monitor the representations of Asian...
Native American's in United States of America
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
From the 1850's to the 1890's the Indian question became an issue of discord in America. The main query was what exactly was to be done with the Native Americans, whose time had far exceeded any time the new Americans had been in the United States. The Americans' qualm with...
Is the American dream a reality? If so, how far does Barrack Obama symbolize it?
Thesis - 15 pages - Journalism
The American Dream is a term that has been used to encompass the founding ideas that have existed since the birth of the United States. Its definition is broad and has been open to many interpretations, which have adapted and changed over the course of American history. Liberal...
The American reality: Life in the working class
Thesis - 19 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In 1848, as the spread of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution were forever changing the social, political and economic landscape in Europe and America, early social theorist Karl Marx defined the working-class as those “laborers who must sell themselves piecemeal… a commodity like...
African American families and military service
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Considering that African-Americans have been soldiers in every war that the U.S. has ever fought, it should be no surprise that sociologists take great interest in the relationship between the U.S. military and the African-American Family (Billingsley 1992). Following Allen's...
Society vs. desire
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In America there is the idea that a person can be whoever and/or whatever they want and still have the chance to succeed. This is part of the so-called “American Dream”. This idea is often a theme in the American novel. However, in the American novel, despite a...
Modern theories of culture and society: Marx's relevance
Thesis - 2 pages - Philosophy
Although Karl Marx's philosophies were formed in and about industrial Europe in the late 1800's, his fundamental ideas are still relevant to capitalist countries today, both on microscopic and macroscopic levels. The Marxist interpretations of how the capitalist system affects global trade, the...
The Improvement in American Economic Mobility
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Recently, America has become a very advanced technological society, greatly impacting the communication broadcasting of cultural and informational exchange on different media levels. With the widespread impact, the implications of social interaction, which is through class detachment,...
To what extent does the concept of civil society help in the explanation or justification of the process of democratization?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Renewed interest in civil society emerged in the late 1980s; it coincided with the resurgence of political democracy throughout the world. Indeed, it has been increased with the growing tendency towards democratization in Eastern Europe, and several Latin American countries, where...
Crime statistics in America and their impact on society
Case study - 2 pages - Criminal law
“Crime statistics” is a word heard on the news every day, but many American's don't know where they come from or what exactly that means. In this paper we will explain not only what this word means but also what it contains as well as the systems used to measure these statistics....
The role of American Government: Protecting Civil Liberties
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
This paper explores the idea that the American government's most important role is to protect civil liberties. Civil liberties are enjoyed every day by many citizens and include such freedoms as the right to bear arms, freedom of religion, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment....
Adverse identifications of women in earlier Americana
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Time is a term that is closely associated with change. Nothing remains the same over time. Progress and regress are presented in every aspect of life. Literature illustrates this on several occasions. This may be exemplified by observing Trifles by Susan Glaspell. Trifles illustrates adverse...
American Psycho: An analysis using the techniques of MacCabe and Macherey
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
The meaning of the film American Psycho has been much debated since its release. Is it a glorification of violence? a satire of the yuppie lifestyle of the eighties? a disturbing trip through psychosis? Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it is most often considered a...
Habits of the Heart Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Book review - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart Individualism and Commitment in American Life chronicles the history, definition and present condition of individualism in America, and how it has affected the lives of modern society. Bellah attempts to define individualism by mapping its...
The Criminalization of Our American Youths: Is Twenty-One an Unfair Drinking Age?
Essay - 2 pages - Civil law
Alcohol, a cheap easy way for many young American adults to enjoy a society which has cast selective freedoms which they fight and die for right out the window. An issue which has plagued young adults since its surfacing in 1984 under President Regan, should the legal drinking age...
Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In this post-World War II era, cited by Karl T. Compton's 1952 Popular Mechanics article, there was notable scientific optimism, revealing a vision of unparalleled progress. Compton's deterministic perspective on scientific development, as shown in his forecasts for 2002, gave a glimpse...
Justice and the jury: The role of twelve in society
Thesis - 3 pages - Civil law
The ethical standard of justice is a universal right that people in all levels of society are entitled to. In America, one way that the Constitution ensures justice is by naming the right citizens have to a trial by impartial jury. In criminal trials, juries are to decide the fate of one...
The Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and its impact on the American economy
Course material - 3 pages - Economy general
The nineteen sixties were a time of change in the world and especially in America, where Vietnam protests and demands for civil rights had taken off. In this time of change the sixties saw women in greater numbers demanding the same rights as men and one of those rights was the ability to join...
New Abortion Laws in Texas
Essay - 3 pages - Civil law
Abortion is the deliberate termination of pregnancy mainly carried out during the first seven weeks of pregnancy. Most women exhibit minimal or no effects of abortion though some may experience minor risk complications like damage to the womb, excessive bleeding, and infection of the uterus....
