Category: African American Studies
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Education Cannot Compensate for Society
‘Those who govern are prisoners of a reassuring young entourage of young, white, middle-class technocrats who often know almost nothing about the everyday lives of their fellow citizens and have no oc
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“Them Ther is Fighin Words”
“Nigger”. It’s the first word that appears on Barry Noreen’s Gazette article, Use Fighting Words, and You Should Expect a Fight, but instead, it’s written as n—-.
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Intercultural Communication
The success of personal and professional relationships depends on the effectiveness of intercultural communication.
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Second-hand Smoke
Imagine yourself sitting down to dinner at a restaurant and eating with your spouse, friend or significant other, when all of a sudden all you can smell is smoke.
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Biography of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave who was known as the “Moses of her people.” Over the course of ten years at her own risk, she led many slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
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African Yoruba Drumming
There are many things that set Yoruba drumming and Shona mbira music apart from one another. Most plainly of which is the sound that each produces.
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Biography Margaret Garner: The Modern Medea
Margaret Garner was a slave, murderer, and loving mother, whose love was so great for her children that she would rather see them die than go back to a life of slavery. The trial that proceeded afterwards gained national attention and was a focus point for many abolitionists and the anti-slavery movement. To fully understand…
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The Life of Nat Turner: The Fires of Jubilee
The fires of Jubilee takes place in the 19th century. It’s about an extraordinary man who who lived during this time and all the struggles he faced. It shows why he made the decisions he did while slavery was going on in the world.
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Global Warming and Carbon Credits
Global warming refers to the recent increase in the Earth’s temperature. The effects of this climate change are already being felt around the world. Scientists predict that temperatures will rise up to 6°C further over the next century. This may cause rises in sea level, extre,e weather events such as hurricanes and heat waves, and…
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Camera Corps – Corporate Biorgraphy
En route to Norway for this year’s World Ice Hockey Championships, Laurie Frost is thinking about Sydney, Australia in the year 2000. Frost’s company, London-based Camera Corps, is the turnkey supplier of the over 350 specialty camera systems that will be used at the Sydney Olympics.
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Antebellum Slave Families: The Two Parent Household
The power of master over slave encroached on nearly every aspect of slave life including personal relationships. Marriages, while not legally recognized, sometimes occurred with the blessing of the master. Some occurred without his knowledge. Either way, slaves married and had families but what were the reasons to marry when separation loomed imminent? Why would…
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Biography of George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was born into slavery January of 1860 on the Moses Carver plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri.
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The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance remains one of the most momentous artistic engagements in the history of African-Americans. Harlem, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan, became the international capital of African American culture. African – American painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, and novelists joined in a remarkable artistic outpouring. Some critics at the time attacked this work as isolationist…
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President Obama’s March 2008 Speech on Race
In March 2008 Barack Obama spoke to the nation. His purpose of the speech was to address the public about race. From the beginning of his Speech, Obama started off with a historical quote from the Gettysburg address, “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” During his speech one of the…
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Mozart’s use of themes and motifs in the key of C Major
Mozart’s String Quartet #19, K. 465, Piano Concerto # 21, K. 467, and his Symphony #41, K. 551, are all in the pleasant key of C major. K. 465 was written in 1785 and is the last quartet in a set of six quartets dedicated to Haydn. K. 467 was also written in 1785 and…
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How does religious belief influence our understanding of gender?
Gender is a system of social relations, learned ways of acting and how we visualise image representations, all learned through our culture intertwined to create our gender identity. Different countries worldwide have different teachings and ideologies upon gender, shaping the individual and creating gendered barriers, illustrating what is ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ within a particular society.…
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LAW – English Legal System
‘The law’ may be used to describe a scientific fact (e.g. the law of gravity), a particular system (e.g. the law of England) or a recognized legal area (e.g. the law of contract). Nevertheless, more generally, it connotes a series of rules (each called ‘a law’) that governs people’s behaviour. These rules may sometimes be…
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Applying Kambon’s Theory
I begin this paper with the beginnings of the life of the person that I am evaluating. The person in question is a twenty one year old lesbian African American woman. This Woman was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She lives a stable life with her siblings and loved ones at her side. Although the first…
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, the historical poet of the Harlem Renaissance expresses his outlook of life through his poetry. The themes of his poetry range from sexuality to inner city power struggles. He uses his love of music to connect with the reader. The blues based sounds,popular at the time,are evident in his work. This is especially…
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Individuality in Sula
Individuals are often living a routine-based life, living their lives day to day without showing their true color because society represses individuality. In Sula, by Toni Morrison, Nel is also repressed as an individual and is never allowed to show to the Bottom community who she really is. She became an individual only when she…
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A Look at Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks
Two historical figures that I think are very important are Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. These historical figures have many things in common, but they also have their differences. One main thing they had in common was that they were both brave enough to take some actions to change the way of living…
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“An Image of Africa” by Chinua Achebe
In his essay, “An Image of Africa”, Chinua Achebe, famous Nigerian novelist and author of Things Fall Apart, gives a respectable argument critical of certain aspects in Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. Through the isolation and destructive over-analysis of single sentences and sections, Achebe clearly and effectively asserts his prospect of Conrad as a…
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The Last Shot, character analysis
In every four character story, each of those characters usually has a very unique personality, but are still compatible for them to be a group of close friends. Tchaka is the one most likely to be successful; Corey is smart, talented, however corrupt; Stephon is naive; Russell is known to be the most unpredictable. Each…
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Liberal Studies Writing Task- School drug testing in Hong Kong
Liberal Studies Writing Task- School drug testing ‘Public opinion concerning the implementation of the school drug testing scheme was ignored by the HKSAR Government.’ To what extent do you agree with the statement? Explain your answer with the aid of three examples.
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Good management characteristics of Planning & Leading
Traditionally, the term “management” refers to the activities (and often the group of people) involved in the four general functions: planning, organising, leading and controlling of resources. The four functions recur throughout the organisation and are highly integrated to achieve a certain organisational goal in an effective and efficient manner (Samson & Daft, 2009). Emerging…