vision. But not everybody thinks the American Dream is a positive thing. Some people believe that the structure of society in the US prevents such an idealistic goal for everyone. Critics often point to examples of inequality rooted in class, race, religion and ethnicity that suggest that the...
Race and ethnicity are important concepts in both (1) and everyday life. When one says that he is an American, a Chinese, or a Nigerian, he identifies himself with a certain kind of (2). But is that a race or an ethnicity that he identifies with? There are actually different defini...
Native American Ethnicity: a View from the British Museum This article is a revised version of a plenary lecture, delivered at the Institute of Historical Research, during the 68th Anglo‐American Conference of Historians entitled 'Race and Ethnicity', 1 July 1999. The lecture followed the ...
These are all parts of most American public schools, no matter where they are.5. Each school serves a neighborhood, and each neighborhood is different. In some, the parents take an interest in what their children are doing at school.They give their time,their ideas,and and sometimes gifts ...
The idea of blood type influencing one’s personality isn’t restricted to Japan and may not have even originated there. According to an article in Scientific American magazine, ancient philosophers such as Hippocrates and Aristotle explored the notion of a person’spersonality based on different bl...
“These folks, they tried to cancel our venues, but they can never cancel our patriotism or our American spirit.” It’s not clear who MG meant by ‘these folks’. Communists, possibly, or the owners of the other venues, or the people of Anaheim and Riverside and Laguna Hills, or Cal...
Depression during sensitive periods of social development may have consequences that extend well beyond mental health, and far into adulthood. This study compared the social functioning of adults with adolescent-onset depression (ages 10–20) to those with adult-onset depression (ages 21+). Participa...
In the United States, the dominant language is English and while the economy of the world is progressively global, the study of foreign languages by American students continues to decline. It is seen as a backward slide. It can later lead to an inability of the country to vie economically....
It is also a good idea to apply for a minority scholarship if you are part of fully of a certain ethnicity. You will get to represent your culture and possibly win money -- what more could you ask for? Scholarships for Women As with the scholarships for minorities above, there are also...
It is possible that working part-time during the pandemic provided some of our participants with an essential mix of couple time and economic/insurance benefit. In support of this assertion, a recent study that considered couple functioning among first time mothers during the pandemic also demonstrat...