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Repression, Language, Resistance: An Analysis Of Jacksonian America through Foucauldian Lens
(Humanities, 2010-07-19)During the age of Andrew Jackson (1824-1845), the United States experienced a social and political sea change that would leave the country changed forever. As Jackson served his country first as general and ultimately as ... -
The Unheard Voice Of Immigrant Muslim Women in the United States post-9/11/2001
(Humanities, 2010-11-01)Immigrant Muslim women in the United States experience difficulties, as most immigrants do, with integration into a new society. In order to better depict the reality that these women are actually experiencing a lack of ... -
Weber's "Protestant Ethic" And His Critics
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)This thesis focuses on Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic” Thesis. In his thesis Weber claims after the Reformation, Calvinism created the needed work ethic to produce modern capitalism. His critic’s arguments against this ... -
What Myths Reveal About How Humans Think: A Cognitive Approach To Myth
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)This thesis has two main goals: (1) to argue that myths are natural products of human cognition; and (2) that structuralism, as introduced by Claude Levi-Strauss, provides an over-arching theory of myth when supplemented ...