Category: African American Studies

  • Analysis of various forms of Anarchism

    Anarchism. It’s a subject of intense interest, especially among people of more liberal standpoints. There are those of the persuasion that says that human beings can exist without some appearance of a central governing body. This ideology says that human beings can police themselves and are fully capable of living without prejudice towards any other…

  • Corruption In Nigeria

    Corruption in Nigeria has been a great deal for the past couple of years. Reasons for corruption in many “Less Economically Developed Countries” has been described to be because “those who pay and receive bribes so they can expropriate the nation’s wealth, leaving little for its poorest citizen” (Agba 23). Other author such as Khan…

  • Affirmative Action is Racism

    Affirmative action refers to a collection of policies intended to promote access to education and employment for minorities and women. In an attempt to guarantee such opportunities, government enforced and voluntary programs impose an assortment of racial criteria on businesses, public offices and universities. Compliance with these programs can often cost hundreds of thousands of…

  • International Monetary Funds: Ghana

    The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It has received many loans from the IMF in order to make the country better. The IMF plays a really big role in Ghana, they implement policies which they think help Ghana. The IMF lowered the tariffs on imported food specifically rice, however that action…

  • Alternative Fuels: The Need for a Change

    The rising prices of gasoline and how many miles per gallon a vehicle can achieve are large concerns for today’s drivers. Automobile owners are also reconsidering the impacts of the pollution their vehicles are having on our environment. Automobile manufacturers have been scrambling for more fuel-efficient engines and diving into the development of alternatively fueled…

  • Abortion: Morally Permissible?

    Abortion could be within the top five serious issues facing society in the present day. In America, nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended and about 4 of 10 of these pregnancies are aborted. 22% of all pregnancies are aborted in the United States every year. It is evident that the moral issues facing abortion…

  • Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

    During the 18th America was dealing with independence from Europe and trying to establish them as a strong country. As far as government goes no a monarchal government was not in question. Many people saw great opportunity to step up and contribute ideas that will make America into the country of preference. One of these…

  • Coming of Age in Mississippi (The Story of Anne Moody)

    Coming of Age in Mississippi was an excellent autobiography about the unforgettable personnel story of a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody. In this story, Anne details the sights, smells and suffering growing up in a racist society and the daily risks she encountered to challenge it. This was an extremely accurate portrait of black…

  • Drugs, controlling the trafficking

    I believe the curtail of submissive drugs anywhere should become illegal. Drug trafficking involves negative criminal activity where ever it is. Drugs involves gangs and gang violence. The thought of allowing drugs filtrate near neighbors fowl represents in a negative manner. For example; drug use in America has filtrated havoc and hatred wherever evil lurks.

  • Africa, providing aid.

    I believe everyone in the world is entitled to clean air and water and a bill of good health in the pursuit of happiness. America is a first world country that has all of the above that matters in sustaining a good bill of health. Other countries like Kenya and Ethiopia do not have access…

  • HIspanic American Diversity

    The Hispanics are Americans with origins in Hispanic countries of Latin American or Spain, some ethnic groups include Mexican, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Venezuelan American. [adsense:336×280:1:1] Mexican American

  • Othello – Battle of Good vs. Evil

    I am not what I am.” What is Iago? — as distinct from what he is pretends to be — and what are his motives? In Shakespeare’s, Othello, the reader is presented the classic battle between the deceitful forces of evil and the innocence of good. It are these forces of evil that ultimately lead…

  • Transsexuals and those who choose gender re-assignment surgery

    With the help of modern medicine, many transsexuals throughout the country and globe are able to experience relief from the gender conflicts they experience. Becoming educated about transsexuals and the facts surrounding gender re-assignment surgery are key ingredients for tolerating and accepting this prevailing hamlet. According to the text, “medical estimates place… transgenderism at about…

  • Malcom X

    Malcolm X The Civil Rights Era was a time of hardships and oppression for minorities living in the United States. Minorities were treated unfairly and oppressed for the past 200 years which is why many of them wanted a change in the society they lived in. Throughout the course of the Civil Rights Movement many…

  • Influence of Women in the Yoruba Culture

    Soyinka’s play, Death and the King’s Horseman, is about a man who does not fulfill a tradition that has been carried on throughout his culture. When the King’s chief horseman, Elesin, does not complete his ritual suicide so that he can accompany the dead King to the other side, he breaks a tradition that has,…

  • Industrialisation in Post-Civil War America

    Industrialization can be briefly defined as: The development of social organizations, generally in nation-states in which large manufacturing enterprises loom large and in which adjunctive legal institutions supporting laissez-faire philosophies of market relationships and providential public and private services grow with tandem.

  • April 1865 The Month That Saved America

    Jay Winik, the author of April 1865 the Month that saved America, shows his writing genius when he writes this book. He has only written two books. Although he has written two books he writes like a veteran.

  • Role of Medical Staff

    The first important role for a medical staff is the administering medical service to patients. The selection of administering medical service to the patient is most important, because it could mean the difference in life or death. Patients go to the medical facilities because they are in need of medical attention. When administering medical help…

  • Nonviolence: Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of faith. Throughout the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s, Dr. King held onto his faith to attain justice for the American society. Every aspect of racism looked like an injustice that would never change; moreover, it looked as if good would not be able to triumph over…

  • The Great Black Way

    After the Civil War African-Americans were looking for more opportunities which led to a mass migration out of the South to the North and West where they would be able to find work and more easily integrate into the dominate white society (Horton and Horton, 228).

  • The Muhammad Ali Center

    As I walked into the Muhammad Ali Center I read a mission statement in bold black letters, it stated “To preserve and share the legacy and the ideals of Muhammad Ali, to promote, respect, honor, and understanding and to inspire adults and children everywhere, to be as great as they can be.

  • Existentialism Therapy

    Existential therapy is aimed at dealing with people and their existence and letting them have the freedom to make choices in shaping their life. This type of therapy tries to help the client improve their self-knowledge and then helps them to make their own decisions about life (Szasz, 2005). The therapist makes the client aware…

  • Night

    The memoir “Night” is just one of many memoirs written by Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust. Elie feels compelled to bear witness to the suffering that he experienced and observed in the concentration camps. In Night he narrates the experience of the deaths of his family members, the death of his adolescence, and the…

  • Karl Popper and Falsification

    Sir Karl Popper, challenging the status quo, inspiring generations to ponder on the meaning of science, the methods to find truth, is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Of particular importance to scientific methods of inquiry is the brawl between the development of theory and the criteria for science. In Popper’s…

  • Into the wild essay

    Our society today is mainly based on knowledge of our surroundings. When traveling to places you are not familiar with can be difficult, and can sometime even be dangerous. Our society has also been very materialistic and we tend to focus more on ourselves rather then the trillions of other people in our world. Christopher…