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Perceptions of the Glass Ceiling and the Importance of Choosing the Right Role Model
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This research centers around the importance of correct role models as a contingent for optimum effects on those seeking meaningful examples of determining success. Specifically, the research asks the question: ...
Christopher Columbus: An Analysis of Myth Creation and Longevity in Early America
(2013-11-25)
What is it about Christopher Columbus that elicits such varied reactions from the American public? Why is an Italian-born and Spanish-backed explorer who never set foot on American soil so integral to American culture ...
El Panamericanismo de persecución: Examining the Struggles of Oppressed Populations and Minorities in Latin America and the Caribbean Through the Lens of Literature Since the 19th Century
This thesis will attempt to explore the struggles of oppressed populations and minorities throughout Latin America and the islands of the Caribbean via the modality of Pan-American literature. Ibero-American works such ...
Racially Biased Textbooks in Detroit
Detroit’s public schools were using textbooks in the 1960s that were racially biased towards whites and against minorities. Two of the textbooks, A History of the United States [to 1876] and The American Nation: A History ...
“Places of Such Towering Misery”: The History of the Institutionalization of Disabled People and Deinstitutionalization
Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of disabled people (or people considered to be disabled by society) in America were institutionalized. Institutionalization is the process of placing disabled people in ...