150 African Am Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
The Literature Styles of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass lived a very hectic but fulfilling life; he wrote literature that had to do with his own past experiences, he used literacy as a means of power by raising his intelligence to the next level, and he didn't let any white slaveholders hold him back. Frederick Douglass gained intelli....
The Relationship between Men and Women
Some people would say that with all the obstacles that African Americans have endured, we couldnt take on the loyalty of love. African Americans were even defined by white people as chattel, an item of movable personal property, (Slavery and Womanhood, Davis 170); therefore, African Americans ....
African Americans Breaking Down Racial Barriers Through Athletics
In March 27, 2008, Fox News reports that the City of Eugene has hired a group called Blacks on Track to teach Olympic Trial volunteers, police, and hospitality workers how to talk to the visiting African Americans. Fox News states that Eugene is currently about 2% African American and that....
African Americans have struggled to gain equality
Throughout Americas history, men and women of the African American race have struggled to gain equality. Different tactics were used by civil rights activist to try to eliminate discrimination. Progress was made by increasing awareness of the civil rights movement with events like the March on W....
The Resurrected Loomis
The Resurrected Loomis
Joe Turners Come and Gone, a primarily historical play written by American playwright and poet August Wilson, depicts what life was like for African-Americans in the 1910s. Joe Turners Come and Gone deals with a time in American history when the sons and daughters of re....
1775-1900: The History of the Buffalo Soldier
Throughout American history, Afro-Americans have had to decide whether they belonged in the United States or if they should go elsewhere. Slavery no doubtfully had a great impact upon their decisions. However, despite their troubles African Americans have made a grand contribution and a great imp....
1920s
The 1920s were time of period in which the Americans turned to leisure activities. It was something that they wanted after World War I. In fact, In 1919 Americans spent $2.5 billion on leisure activities; by 1929 such expenditures topped $4.3 billion (Norton 670). New imaginative ....
2008 Presidental Campaign
2008 President Election
As the 2008 presidential campaign comes closer and closer, more and more presidential candidates continue to pop up. There are a handful of Democratic and Republican candidates that are definitely running, and many more possibl....
50 Reasons Why Teddy Roosevelt is Our Nations Greatest President
1. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to be under continuous watch by the Secret Service. This was not for his own protection, but rather for the protection of people who might make him angry.
2. Theodore Roosevelt was a progressive in terms of race relations. He was the first presid....
7up
Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc.
SQUIRT Brand
ٱ Soft Drink Industry
The soft drink industry in the United States is a highly profitably, but competitive market. In 2000 alone, consumers on average drank 53 gallons of soft drinks per person a year. There are three major companies that hold....
A Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
A Biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
To the many who admired him, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was, by strong-willed dedication and intellectual perseverance, an assailant of inequality and a guardian of liberty. A herald of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism (Hynes), he pa....
A Comparison of In Search of April Raintree and The Color Purple.
Developing self-identity is a challenge in a world full of prejudices. Over the last few centuries women have been struggling to break free of the traditional roles determined by society. Today, in Canada, women have an unprecedented level of freedom in choosing their career and lifestyle. It is eas....
A Conflict Perspective on the movie "Crash"
The controversial movie Crash is full of sociological concepts. Crash is consumed of issues dealing with race, social class, and gender. The movie centers around many different races and events entangled together at some point in a 24 hour period. Crash follows eight characters that all live in Los....
A Description of Some of the Cultural Differences between Black and White Americans
There are many obvious physical characteristics that have been proven to exist between black and white Americans. Extensive academic research shows that many significant cultural differences exist between the two groups as well. These cultural differences are the product of a myriad of vari....
A Fight for Freedom
Slavery and racial discrimination served as two considerable conflicts during the 1800s. A large portion of American Society treated many African Americans unfairly. However, in the mid 1800s African Americans finally set out to stand up for their freedom and equal rights. This long, violent ....
A model for Argumentative Writing: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther Kings, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, was a response to A Call of Unity written by eight clergymen denouncing his actions of protest in Alabama. The religious leaders argue his engagement in the civil-disobedient demonstration was untimely and unwise. Kings rebuttal i....
A Raisin in the Sun
What the Future Holds
Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun and I, Too by Langston Hughes possess several related aspects that send a familiar message. Both works of literature depict the lives of African Americans in the early 1900s. The play and poem describe struggles faced by these ....
A Road Less Traveled
The Road Less TraveledThe two main political parties in this century have contribute a great deal to the development of African-Americans. As America has develop so has African-Americans. Since politicians control everyday life, they can change history completely. In the upcoming state of America, A....
A Time for Justice
In this past week of African Americans Studies we watched a video entitled "A Time for Justice." This video covered a multitude of events that spanned from the 1950s to the 1960s. As the video opens with see the headstone of the grave of a young man name Jimmy Lee Johnson. A 26-year old de....
A Worn Path
The setting in the Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" plays a very important role in the make-up of this story. The story is based in the old south several years ago during the cold month of December. The main character is a very old, weak, poor, and tired African American woman. It is unclear ....
Abe Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862, became federal military policy on January 1, 1863, prompting Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to describe it as "a broad step a landmark in history" (Welles, vol. 1, p. 212). The edict transformed the Civi....
Abercrombie and Fitch Research
Research Purpose
The project that our group has chosen to explore is concerning the Abercrombie
and Fitch clothing company. More specifically, the recent issues and cases that have brought against them regarding racial hiring issues and the boundaries that they have chosen in promoting sex ....
abolishment of affirmative action
Now, Theres a Proposition!
"You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: 'now, you are free to go where you want, do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.' You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of ....
Abolition
A Stronger Resistance The abolitionist movement in the United States sought to eradicate slavery using a wide range of tactics and organizations. The antislavery movement mobilized many African Americans and some whites who sought to end the institution of slavery. Although both black and white abol....
abolition and prevention
Through the progression and evolution of the world and North America people have been doing things they knew were wrong but did nothing to stop it. Slavery in the new world was no different, colonists and settlers knew that rejecting the rights of all men and preventing freedom for a certain pop....
Abusing The Force
The fundamental purposes of law enforcement is the serve and protect the individuals of society. Rough treatment is often times afflicted upon unruly citizens as an alternative reform of discipline. Police abuse remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations of today. The se....
Affects of Affirmative Action on American Society
Affirmative Action: Does it positively affect our society?In the United States a process called Affirmative Action is used to help to overcome the affects of past societal discrimination by granting jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. The policy was implem....
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action was orginally designed to help minorities, but women-especially whitewomen-have made the greatest gains as a result of these programs”(Gross, 1996). Affirmative action is agrowing argument among our society. It is multifaceted and very often defined vaguely. Many peoplede....
affirmative action
Once upon a time, there were two people who went to an interview for
only one job position at the same company. The first person attended a
prestigious and highly academic university, had years of work experience in the
field and, in the mind of the employer, had the potential to make a posi....
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action can be described as a policy or program aimed at increasing the representation and opportunities of members of groups that have traditionally been discriminated against (Wikipedia 1). These groups can be characterized by race, gender, religion or ethnicity and are often refe....
Affirmative Action
Many upcoming high school graduates have aspirations of continuing his or her education at a major university. In order to become accepted into a college of ones choice, he or she must dedicate time and efforts to obtain the grades required. People have been taught that through ....
Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action
There are several everyday actions, which come to the majority of us as something we dont even give thought to its just the way it is. Take, for example, breathing: we just do it, natural to us as a means for living, its unquestionable. This is my thinking when it comes....
Affirmative action - A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing
Affirmative action is basically a policy or program giving special advantageous treatment to minorities to make sure they receive equal opportunity. After careful examination of the opinions on affirmative action given by Andrew Valls, Shelby Steele, and John Kekes, I have decided that I must nega....
Affirmative Actions Influence on College Athletics
Gender and race has become an area of discussion when regarding college admissions. I will be looking at affirmative action cases, problems and solutions, the financial and gender affects of Title IX and how both of these affects graduation rates and other statistics.
Affirmative action is the....
Africain Spirituals
It seems almost impossible to state when the first spirituals were created, most speculate that these songs flourished near the end of the 18th century and during the last few decades leading up to the end of legalized slavery in the 1860s. During this long period of active music making, Americans....
African America's Obstacles
African-American people have had to climb over many obstacles to gain the productive positions they hold today. We first dealt with slavery and being treated like an animal. After the slavery issue was abolished, we faced racial discrimination and hatred now known as oppression. African- American....
African American Father Myth
During the past decades the literature on African American fathers, although it is not extensive, has changed dramatically. In general, the accumulated body of knowledge on African American families prior to the mid-1980s largely ignored, distorted, or minimized the parenting role of African America....
African american in Sports throughout history
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN SPORTS
The history of the American sports changed when African Americans started to participate in different kinds of sports. Further more were honorable athletes but they had to face several problems. The African Americans were treated unfairly in sports because of their ....
African American Matriarchy and the Tangle of Pathology
The disparity between blacks and whites in America is a tangled, complicated chasm to fully understand. The issues behind the cause of the disparity are multifaceted and there is not a general consensus on the root of the cause. The tangle of pathology to the root of the so-called demise of the Af....
African Americans
During the time period of Immigration from the early 1700s to the mid 1900s, Africans experienced a lot of conflicts within different racial groups, especially within the Caucasian people. During this time period, most Africans were used as slaves, while the rest either bought their freedom, ran awa....
African Americans APUSH DAP
Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Henry McNeal Turner, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Frances E. W. Harper each presented different
strategies for African Americans of the late 1800s and early 1900s, all of which worked towards the goal of full and equal
manhood for all African Americans. When these i....
African Americans in Eurocentric Societies
America is known as the land of opportunity or a place where one can build something from nothing. It is a collaboration of profound ideas based on equality. These ideas formed the Declaration of Independence, where all men are created equal. However this equality was constructed upon European e....
african americans in the civil war
African Americans In The Civil War
The research topic is African Americans in the Civil War and the part they played. One of the resources that strike this topic is the movie Glory that is based on a certain black regiment that fought during the Civil War. The main things that are being looked....
african americans in the criminal justice system
Going back to the birth of America, law enforcement has shown more discrimination towards those people of color. In law enforcement the officers are suppose to treat all people no matter what race they might be with respect but that wasn't the case in the days of slavery up through into the lat....
African Americans In the South
As a social and economic institution, slavery originated in the times when humans began farming instead of hunting and gathering. Slave labor became commonplace in ancient Greece and Rome. Slaves were created through the capture of enemies, the birth of children to slave parents, and means of punish....
African Lit Response 6
Sula Peace is one of the main characters in the book, Sula by Toni Morrison, and Janie Starks is the main character in the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. One of the main characteristics that stand out about these two is that they are both strong women. There are also some ....
African Meeting House Research Paper
African Meeting House Research Paper
Established December 4, 1806, the African Meeting House, referred to in the larger community as the Black Faneuil Hall, is now the oldest standing African American church in the United States. The Meeting House is located on 8 Smith Court on Beacon Hill and i....
Against Capital punishment
Against Capital Punishment
At 8:00 p.m. it was nearing the end of John Evans last day on death row. He had spent most of the day with his minister and family, praying and talking of what was to come. At 8:20 he was walked from his cell down to the long hall to the execution room and strapped ....
Aging Employment and the Digital Divide.
Aging, Employment and Digital Divide
Aging has become one of the most controversial issues in the contemporary American society. This issue is especially significant taking into consideration technological advancements of the recent years. Even though computer-user rates are growing fastest among....
AIDS the Dibilitating Disease
Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, through mid-1994 more than 402,000 AIDS cases and more than 241,000 deaths have been reported in the United States alone. This is only the tip of the iceberg of HIV infection, however. It is estimated that nearly 1 million Americans had been infecte....
ali
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. later known as Muhammad Ali, was
a black boxer, and was proud of it. Many African Americans
were ashamed of their color, but Ali was different. He was
the first boxer to win the Heavyweight Championship 3
different times. He had a great personality and was ....
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
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A Great American moment in the history of the United States was when the fraternity of Alpha Phi Alpha was established. This a great moment because it made it possibly for young educated black men to join together and do great things for there community. This changed the world tremendously....
American Beauty vs Crash
American Beauty vs Crash
American Beauty and Crash are true representations of suburban and urban modern America. American Beauty is set in a suburban American city and shows the troubling images of the stereotypical rich, white, suburban life style. Crash is set in an urban American city and sho....
American Eduacation
Discuss some of the enduring challenges faced by common school reformers during the Nineteenth Century and how these challenges remain integral to public schooling today.
During the Nineteenth century, schools faced many challenges. One of the challenges that schools faced was religion. Many st....
American History X
The following is my analysis on the film; American History X. I chose this film because it undoubtedly makes you think a lot about your own personal views on how you think of people from different cultures other than yours. Many people are blind, unaware, misinformed, or just plain ignorant in the....
American HIstory X
I just saw the movie American History X for my part of my experiential hours and it directly correlates with our social issues class, race factors into ever part of the movie. Race based murder leads Derek into prison. American History X is about a young man, Derek, who has finally been paroled afte....
American Literature Authors Research Paper
American Literature Authors Research Paper
John Grisham
Speaking on behalf of John Grisham and his reading audience; Readers can no longer be neatly categorized as those who read great literature and those who read trash. Categories overlap. We should stand in awe of John Grishams gift, ....
Amistad
Amistad is a film that shows the beginning of slavery and how it all began. To my surprise, the African Americans started slavery themselves, because they traded themselves for guns, materials, food, and many other things.
Slaves were brought over on the ship, La Amistad from Cuba and tried to ....
An End to the Atlantic Slave Trade
Rhodes 1
An End to the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade represents the largest demographic passage of a people from one continent to another. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, European traders worked in partnership with coastal African chiefs exchanging manufactured goods for Afr....
An Examination of Southern Dialect
An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William FaulknerIn the writings of William Faulkner, the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world, which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi, where he is....
An Irish Immigrants Story
February 21, 2006
A Little Piece of My Irish History
June 24, 1839 John Aloysius Bresnahan was born in County Kerry, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States. John married an American and fathered six children.
John Bresnahan was only one of the 961,719 Irish born living in the Unit....
Analysis on Kings I've been to the mountaintop.
Not just to have an ordinary speech, but one that grasps people and pulls them in all you need to have is persuasion also known as Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Ethos refers to the speaker's credibility. There are three important characteristics: character, competence and charisma. Logos is evidence tha....
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson served as president from 1865 to 1869, and was the 17th president. Before serving as president he was elected into the house of representatives in 1835 then became a senator of Tennessee, then held military governorship of Tennessee, after it succeeded from the Union. After defeating ....
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
Martin Luther King Jr.
I may get a lot of arguments from this statement, but I believe Martin Luther King to be one of the greatest men to have ever lived. However, most Americans do not truly know who he was. There is a federal holiday, postage stamps, and historical reference in textbooks, y....
Assata Shakur
As a history major, I study a lot of so-called "revolutionaries." These people are mostly men who led massive armies and/or powerful governments. These men took over countries and created empires. And, while I absolutely appreciate their accomplishments, I don't feel as if they coincide wi....
Baldwin

American writer, noted for his novels on sexual and personal identity, and sharp essays on civil-rights struggle in the United States. Baldwin also wrote three plays, a children's storybook, and a book of short stories. He gained fame with his first novel, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (1....
Ballad of birmingham
Essay
In the poem Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall uses of irony to describes the events of the mothers decision, and also her concern for the welfare of her darling little child. It seems odd that this child would even know what a freedom march is, but this wou....
Bamboozled is Effective as Satire
Bamboozled is Effective as Satire
According to the New Columbia Encyclopedia, Satire is a term used or applied to any work of literature whose objective is ridicule or impact moral instructions, to denounce political or social abuses or to make display wit, to attack a political opponent or a li....
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 5th African American to run for president of the United States. He is one of the most charismatic people in the black race and at this point, one of the favorites. This article will describe Barack Obamas ethnic background, early years, education, political begin....
Barbie's Popularity and Influence on Body Image
Since 1959 Barbies have been in the hands and homes of young girls just wanting to play. These girls did not realize it at the time, but over the years the Barbie doll has influenced a certain body type among females. Her slender figure, long flowing hair, and (of course) multitude of careers put ....
Baseball: A mulitnational sport
BASEBALL: A MULTI-NATIONAL SPORT
Baseball is an extremely popular sport in many countries throughout the world. It is Americas favorite pastime and a lot of its current players are from foreign countries; most from Latin America. Baseball has been played in Latin American countries for many ....
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, this quote at the surface seems sensitive and deep but through the layers I realized it is wrong. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder beauty is the standards given, by media, society and peers for us as individuals to manufacture and seek.
What is t....
Becoming A Better Nation
Part I: The ProblemA. RacismAs an American citizen, it would be easy to say we should encourage both unity and diversity, but, in truth, it is almost impossible to implement such a great idea. Our nation would be a utopian society if we could implement both global or nation-wide unity while keeping ....
beloved
The Risks of Loving and Losing for African American
How would it feel if you had to lose the ones you loved and had them taken away? In the novel, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Baby Suggs, Sethe and Denver are characters in the novel had lost a loved one. Many African Americans lost loved ones in the ....
Benefits of Knowing your HIV status
HIV is a dangerous, life-threatening disease that attacks the human body and results in the formation of aids. HIV tampers with the bodys power to fight off bacteria, viruses and many other harmful diseases. Short term symptoms are rarely present in the beginning; however, by the time Aids devel....
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker was an astronomer, scientist, mathematician, surveyor, clock-maker, author, and social critic. Most notable about his accomplishments was that despite racial constraints and little formal education, he was a self-taught man. By the end of his life, his achievements were well-know....
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker was one the best-known black guy in early United States history. He was an astronomer, farmer, mathematician and surveyor. He contributed greatly to the rise of African Americans in science.Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731 near Baltimore. His grandmother taught him how to read an....
Betty Crocker and Her White Picket Fence
Betty Crocker and Her White Picket Fence
From the 1950s until the 1960s American women tried to portray an image that is best visualized by the television family The Happy Days. The immaculate clean house, a freshly painted white picket fence. A family with a perfect mother who is ha....
Bi-racial Struggles
From the Chapelle Show to rap singers and of course white supremacist groups, the word nigger or nigga (the slang version) is used so widely around the world. Many times they dont understand the affect or have any regards for anyone that it may offend. In instances such as the Chapelle Show ma....
Billie Holiday
Blue Notes
Often considered the greatest female jazz singer of all time, Billie Holiday was truly a motivational and inspirational woman of her time. Her very distinctive voice and personality on stage captivated the world around her. The documentation of Holidays life is known to be imprecise at....
Birth and Demolition of the Equal Right Amendment: Women Caused the Destruction of the ERA
INTRODUCTION
My paper begins with a brief examination of the historical link between Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). I will attempt to explain through a sequence of events how the ERA was defeated. I plan to support, my claim that men successfully defeated the ERA by creating a div....
Black and TV
Have u ever thought about African Americans invalid with television? If not in this report you will learn about how African Americans have influenced television. You will learn about television shows that have effected television and also just certain people that have effected television also. Comme....
Black Business
There are many reasons that blacks do not support black owned business. Black businesses are limited in numbers, and usually do not offer the same services as competitors. Other minorities such as Asians and Latinos have taken advantage of the many business opportunities in our communities. But to....
Black History Month
Black History Month
Black History Month is an educational time of month we dedicate to our African American ancestors who are recognized for their bravery, leadership, dedication, and strength to pave the way for African Americans today. Black History Month has been established since 1926, in wh....
Black Influencial People
Martin Luther King was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a Baptist minister, his mother a schoolteacher. Originally named Michael, he was later renamed Martin. He entered Morehouse College in 1944 and then went to Crozer Religious Seminary to undertake postgraduate study, r....
black like me
The book Black Like Me is an amazing book in the way John Howard Griffin writes in the form of a diary but although it is in diary form it is still a story. Griffin creates his narration in a way that it will move and touch the reader and help (in the most efficient way possible) them understand wha....
black soldiers
During the seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of the nineteenth Century Black people were slaves. The white people of North America used the Blacks for their own benefit. African Americans had no rights; they were seen as objects, which could be sold and bought. However the Civil War was a key turning....
Black vs. White
Black/White
It is a known fact that African Americans have faced racism through out American history and the white mans role in this phenomenon is usually antagonistic. Todays white America tends to watch discrimination, racial profiling, and racism from a distance and only approaches the s....
Blackboy
It goes without saying, then, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identity. African American author James Baldwin believed this. A passage in the autobiography Black Boy by African American writer Richard Write qualifie....
Blacks entering the aviation field
Becoming a pilot is not an easy thing for a person to come about. As a matter of fact, this process can be long and rather expensive then anyone could imagine. Being an African American especially make things worse, simply because a person has to deal with a lot of racial issues. They also h....
Blacks in the US - Famous people and organisations
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a still present racist organisation in the Southern United States.
It is also known as the Invisible Empire. The original Ku Klux Klan was established on
December, 24th 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee. The six founders were six officers who belonged to the Confedera....
blue print for equality - African Americans
Throughout history, African Americans have face discrimination un-justice treatment, brutal harassment, and un-equality of citizenship. Although that did happen, African Americans have prevail and over came these previous trails and tribulations that tried to keep them down. In the article Bluepri....
Booker T Washington
Booker T. Washington spoke at the Atlanta Exposition where his speech was received mainly by whites. Booker T Washington spoke about industry, work and education for black people explaining how around one-third of the population was African American. Washington felt that to be respected by differen....
Booker T. Washington vs. WEB Dubios
Booker T. Washington stated most of his childhood experiences in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on a tobacco farm, which, he always referred to as a "plantation." His mother was a cook, his father a white man from a nearby farm.
He went to school in Franklin County - not a....
Booter T Washington
Jake Campshure
Dr. Gray
Pols 353
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential African American leaders this country has ever seen. He fought against the odds, being a former slave, and delivered some of the most powerful speeches on how the black man is pictured in A....
Born Equal While Fighting for Equality
Since the beginning of time, women have been fighting for their rights and still continue to do so today. Women are fighting to be equal in the job market, politics, family life, and in social interaction. Women have the right to vote and work in the job market; however the fight for equal rights t....
Boston Massacre: The Beginning of Independence
Boston Massacre: The Beginning of Independence
Boston was a very uneasy town throughout the 1770's. This got worse as time went on, until it erupted into bloodshed. What was it that built up this hatred and what sparked this massacre?The Boston Massacre solved many problems for the Americans. For....
Both Sides of Capital Punishment
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with an intentional or criminal intent. In today's world, terrible crimes are being committed daily. Many believe that these criminals deserve one fate: death. Capital punishment, the death penalty, is the maximum sentence used in punishing peop....
Both sides of Capital Punishment
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with an intentional or criminal intent. In today's world, terrible crimes are being committed daily. Many believe that these criminals deserve one fate: death. Capital punishment, the death penalty, is the maximum sentence used in punishing peo....
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a worldwide problem found in men and women; however, women develop this disease more often (Breast 1). Also, skin color has some affects on breast cancer. Caucasian women develop breast cancer more often, yet African American women have a higher death rate from this disea....
Breast Milk Is the Best
Breast Milk Is the Best.
Mammals have adapted a special technique for nursing newborn offspring, which distinguishes them from other animal species. Without breast-milk from the mother, these newborns could not survive. Humans have ada....
Bud, Not Buddy book report
Bud, Not Buddy is about an African American boy who lived with his mother for six years and never knew who his father was. His name is Bud, but some people call him Buddy which he doesnt like. This story starts when he is sent to a foster home of the Amoses. The foster home is a family of three; ....
Can Violent Behavior Be Predicted
Human violence is fast becoming a global epidemic. All over the world, police face angry mobs, terrorists disrupt the Olympics, hijackers seize airplanes, and bombs wreck buildings. Violence in the United States grew even faster than inflation during the past year. Violent behavior can be predict....
Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment
Three quarters of the United States currently support capital punishment, and the pro-death penalty forces seem to be gaining momentum. Support for the death penalty has not always been so high. In 1966, for example, only forty-two percent of the population supported capital puni....
Carter G. Woodson
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
These are the words of Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, distinguished Black author, editor, publisher, and historian (December 1875 - April 1950). Carter G. ....
Case Assessment - Case of China Jose
Abstract
This case assessment reflects an eight-year-old adolescent female named China Jose, who displays behaviors related to ADHD and PTSD. Applied within this paper are current theories of counseling with children and adolescents. A plan will be developed for the improvement of cultural divers....
Catalysts For Change - An analysis of 'A Lesson Before Dying'
Catalysts for Change
The women that surround Grant in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines are all catalysts for his eventual change away from the bitterness and doubts. Without Miss Emma or Tante Lou, it seems natural to conclude that Grant would have stagnated in his despair and spent his lif....
Celebration of Multiculturalism
Celebration on Multiculturalism Reduces RacismRacism is a certain kind of prejudice, based on faulty reasoning and inflexible generalizations toward a specific group. The word prejudice comes from the Latin noun praejudicium, which means a judgment based on previous decisions formed before the facts....
Change in Status of Women and African Americans due to World War 1
In the years preceding World War One, the issue of womans suffrage was beginning to gain support through the actions of a variety of feminist activist groups such as the NAWSA, and the NWP. Through these groups women were voicing their opinions against the idea of separate spheres and the pred....
Child Care Options
Charmaine Raymore
Professor Sutton
English 101
21 Dec 2006
Child Care Options
In the United States an estimated 13 million children from birth to under age 6 whose parents are employed or goes to school are care for by someone else other than their biological parents (Scrivo 411). Most worki....
Childhood Obesity can be stopped
Obesity has become increasingly more prominent in American society. The Unites States has even been termed an overweight nation. Some twenty to thirty percent of American adults are now considered obese (Hwang 1999 and Hirsch et al 1997). With this in mind, Americans constantly look around themselve....
Childrens Books
Part I: Childrens Books
The first book that I will discuss is Albert and Lila by Rafik Shami. This book is about animals on a farm. Albert is a white pig and all of the other pigs are of different colors. As he is the only white pig on the farm the other do not want to be friends with him. Thi....
civil disobedience
American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau expressed a strong belief in a theory known as Civil Disobedience. This theory states that if a person knows intuitively that a law is unfair, they are enjoined to contravene that law. I firmly agree with Thoreaus ideas, due to the necessity of transgr....
Civil Rights Act of President Johnson
Lyndon Johnsons work for minorities began in 1928 when he obtained his first job as an elementary school teacher; it was, of course, at this time a segregated school attended by only Mexican Americans. Johnson had 28 pupils who he recalled were "mired in the slums", "lashed by prejudice" and "buri....
Civil Rights and the US Supreme Court
Civil Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court
Think of civil rights in the USA and the campaigns of leaders like Martin Luther King, Booker T. Washington, A. Philip Randolph and Malcolm X spring to mind, together with the organizations they headed up, such as the NAACP (the National Association for th....
Civil Rights Essay
Stephanie Rosenbaum
English-1302
2/26/05
Civil Rights Movement
Rights, equality, and justice, are all words that come to mind when you think of present day America. The liberty to create a wonderful life is the United States. Where opportunity is abundant and where everyone has hi....
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Right Movement
The 50s, 60s and 70s were a chaotic time in American society. Roles were constantly being redefined. Events like the war created mayhem in the lives of many individuals and everyone was scrambling to find his or her place in society. The same was profoundly true for blac....
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1965)
There have many different movements that American society has witnessed in its history. One of the most influential movements that had the most impact on American society is the Civil Rights Movement. There were many key actors that were dedicated to bringing c....
Civil Rights Movement
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his book Why We Cant Wait, quite correctly named the civil rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century the Third American Revolution. Though it is most often attributed to the 1960s the civil rights movement found its start in the decade before that,....
Civil Rights Movement Figures
In the 1930s the black people suffered terribly from segregation, then in 1941, America joined the Second World War, during the Second World War the black people had to fight the war in segregated units, they were kept separate from the white soldiers, also, black soldiers were not allowed to beco....
Classism through Interview and Analysis: being an African American male from a working class
Last week I interviewed a man who shared with me his life experience of being an African American male from a working class. Jack is forty years old. He is an auto-mechanic, but recently unemployed. He is divorced and does not have any children. All his life he lived in small city in a state of V....
Claude McKay
Through poems like If We Must Die, The Tropics in New York, America and Spring in New Hampshire, Claude McKay expressed the restraints still cast on African Americans in the early twentieth century. McKay gave a voice to those who did not have one at the time. Over the course of his life, McKay migr....
Coca Cola: An Ethical Analysis
Introduction
Coca-Cola was founded in 1866, by a pharmacist in Atlanta. It is distributed all around the world, and is more than 50% of the global sales. They also play an important role in education. Coca-Cola has a program in Singapore called Education on Wheels. This helps the children o....
Cold War
Abstract
The Cold War happened due to the differences between the United States and the USSR. Through the use of espionage an battle was waged over the spread of communism and anti-missile shields. The Cold War itself ended up being one of the longest running wars in the History of the United Sta....
Color purple
Purple is the symbol of royalty and wealth.
Purple represents wisdom and spiritually.
The book follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900s. It is the moving tale of a young black girl born into a male-dominated world, and tells the story of her gradual ....
Colt Power
The American economy has developed itself around athletic competition. People across the nation tune in and root for their favorite team each and every game. Sports are a billion dollar industry that not only captures the attention of people across the nation but many businesses and cities as they t....
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Before Emmett Tills murder, I had known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was a new fear known to me the fear of being killed just because I was black. This was the worst of my fears. I knew once I got food, the fear of starving to death would leave. I also was told th....
commentary on hurrican katrina
During times of devastation, a countrys ideal situation would be the uniting of the people and working forward. However, in the wake of the recent disaster of hurricane Katrina, that was hardly the case. Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. It was declared a level 5 hurrican....
Compare and Contrast the short story "Rear Window" and the movie "It had to be murder"
On comparing and contrasting Cornell Woolrich's short story "Rear Window" (originally "It Had To Be Murder") to Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation of the story, there are many differences amid the two. Major differences included Hitchcock's increased focus on the lives of the nei....
Comparison of the Movie Crash and August Wilson's Fences
Throughout many works of literature, and film, one of the most popular themes that directors, writers want to portray is discrimination. This theme is popular because in society, no matter what acts are taken to terminate this hatred, and mistreatment toward each other, that same history....
Comparison-literary dialect
Sarah Jensen
Am. Lit. Essay 2
Proud to be Black
A dialect is the variety of language associated with a particular place, social level, ethnic group, sex, age, and so on. Most of us have a normal way of using language that is an intersection of such dialects and that marks us as being, for ex....
Complexities of the Non-Complex Superhero
The introduction of Superman in the world of comics and into the United States ushered in the Golden Age of comics. During this time, many of the currently popular superheroes came to be. This may have been the Golden Age of comics for the white patriarchal society that America was, and still is, ....
Confederation and Constitution
After the American Revolution, a new government had to be established. The Constitution that was written took power away from the people. It led to rebellions from poor people and farmers.Daniel Shays, a former Revolutionary Army captain, led a rebellion with farmers, against laws which were not fai....
Constitution
When the Constitution was signed it helped unite America. As situations in America changed, many amendments were added to the Constitution to try and adapt to the changing times. Slavery is said to be the key issue that resulted in the Civil War and the Constitution allowed the issue to continue an....
Constitution
Well I guess if I'm honest with myself and with everyone who will read this I can honestly say I don't remember the last time I have read the entire constitution. I know I have, sometime in high school, not because I had to but because I had nothing else to do and started reading through my governme....
Constitutional Case Studies: Same-Sex Marriages
Constitutional Case Studies: Same-Sex Marriages
Same-sex marriage has been one of the most disputed topics since the 1950's and continues to reemerge even now. What makes this such a popular topic is due to several reasons. First, same-sex marriage is one of the hottest election issues debated b....
Constitutional Rights
D.W. Cashman
English 1010
September 25, 2006
Aaaaah...Constitutional Rights
We are going to take an imaginary trip to the United States of Doom. Within the United States of Doom there are no freedoms, rights, or privileges. As a citizen, the only right available is the right to urination. ....
Controversial response to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there has been much controversy surrounding it. The book was banned and much of society had a negative outlook on the type of book it was. Huck Finn's poor grammar and plot structure was evident in 1885. Looking ahead to more recent times the c....
Corporal Punishment
The term corporal punishment means the intentional infliction of pain on the body for purposes of punishment and includes slapping, hitting with objects, pinching, shaking and forcing to stand for long periods of time (Epoch 1). Family researchers define corporal punishment as " the use of physical ....
Corporate capitalists - The superrich make their money from the labor of other people.
The Corporate Capitalist, superrich according to Dr. Parenti is the very rich owning class which make their money from the labor of other people. The secret to their wealth is having others work hard for them. Dr. Parenti describes the corporate capitalist as having the highest power of any o....
Corporate Personhood Defined by the 14th Amendment
Corporate Personhood Controversy
There has been a long standing controversy over the issue of corporate personhood. The corporate personhood debate is based on questioning whether the subset of rights provided under the law to biological people should also be given to corporations as legal persons....
Crack Down on Gang Violence
Gangs are typically characterized by people collaborating together. There are examples of this dating all the way back to the bible, pirates and are currently very active in society and culture today. Pirates are an excellent example of gang violence in history. Pirates showed signs of group violenc....
Critical Analysis of the Rockpile by James Baldwin
The consistent themes in Baldwin's fiction, including personal identity, racial struggle, and the role of religion in daily life are present in "The Rockpile." Baldwin centers the story on the Rockpile, which represents stability and fixture but also a great temptation to the young protago....
cultural and socioeconomic factors related to schizophrenia
The diagnosis of schizophrenia is very controversial, often misused and often socially damaging to patients.(Sumrall) The cause of schizophrenia is not known. Scientists are not even sure if it is one disorder or several with different causes ,although there are many theories and a great deal of re....
Cultural Diversity in America
Race in America
Abstract:
Why is the valuing of cultural diversity important in America? Cultural diversity is considered facially neutral, and is to be practiced and viewed upon as culture-conscious instead of race-conscious, (Ramirez, Steven).
In order to value cultural diversity in Amer....
Death and the Kings Horseman
Africa is a continent rich in language, literature, and culture. Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, understands that Africa has both complex and dynamic societies. This continent is not primitive, simple or backwards as stereotypically perceived by many people all ....
Decades Essay - 1960s
The 1960s was a time of great change. There were advances in technology that greatly improved the lives of people. Similarly, significant events in history changed the world. In addition there were lots of important things happened in sports. There were also lots of advances in music.
Fir....
Defending Slavery: Economic analysis of Proslavery arguments
According to the several documents found in Paul Finkelman's Defending Slavery, many Americans did not want slavery to come to an end. Was it simply the issue of the cotton market that was a concern to Americans? If so, what was the reason for this? What roles did slaves fill in the economic struc....
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