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  • After the Glory: the Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans

    After the Glory: the Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans

    Behind the current Clinton scandal stands the specter of Watergate. That it should be there is understandable. The bungled burglary at the Democratic Party national headquarters occurred twenty-six years ago this past summer. Next August will see the twenty-fifth anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation as President of the United States. Watergate then is still very much a part of living memory, and living memory is the type of history most relevant to the general public

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Poe Vs. Hammett

    Poe Vs. Hammett

    It is my belief that although Poe’s Dupin, in The Purloined Letter, and Hammet’s Spade, in The Maltese Falcon both have very unique qualities, they both share very similar moral codes. These codes of morality, they would like to believe, have no bearing on the world or society around them. They both follow their own moral standards and do not follow what is expected of them. As Spade repeatedly suggests that honesty and loyalty are

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    Essay Length: 463 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Black Majority Book Review

    Black Majority Book Review

    Peter Wood’s Black Majority is a social history examining the cause and effects, both explicit and implicit, of the black majority that emerged in colonial South Carolina. His study spans the time period from the settlement of Carolina through the Stono Rebellion, which took place in 1739. He also takes into consideration and examines certain events that took place in the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670, as well as those that immediately followed,

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    Essay Length: 792 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Victor
  • Blacks Not on the Covers of Magazines

    Blacks Not on the Covers of Magazines

    Blacks Not On Covers of Magazines! Think about being at the grocery store at the check out line where the magazines are located. How often are African Americans or minority cover models showcased on the cover of magazines? Not often. This issue is what David Carr presents in his essay, ЃgOn Covers of many Magazines a Full Racial Palette Is Still Rare.Ѓh Carr feels that blacks and other minorities are not represented enough on magazine

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: regina
  • Black Death

    Black Death

    The book begins by describing village Sennely. He describes the people and some of their different roles. Very quickly, he goes into the occurrences that happened when the Black Death Struck. However, to my surprise, this book is not about the Plague. After talking about Sennely, Huppert promptly goes on to talk about the rest of Europe and the focuses in on different large cities. He goes into great detail when describing some of the

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    Essay Length: 472 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Discourses of Science and Art in Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

    The Discourses of Science and Art in Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

    Discourses in a novel often allow people in the know, to understand particular meaning within certain topics or issues. For instance, a discourse of Calculus in a novel would be relevant to those who study and know the subject. They would pick up on the meaning conveyed within this discourse, whereas people not familiar can only make uneducated guesses. In Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood, there are many discourses on offer. Atwood focuses on fictional,

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    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Minister's Black Vail as Art

    The Minister's Black Vail as Art

    Art Is Art Is Hawthorne When an author (artist) can make his emotions, thoughts, ambitions, and inner self materialize, he has reached the dearest form of art, and the artwork can never mean as much to anyone as it does the one who created it. The artist does not own nor can he interpret completely due to the ever growing life-like attributes that the art/literature has adopted. Therefore, Hawthorne himself could not put into words

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Color Complex - Persisting Effects on the Black Community

    Color Complex - Persisting Effects on the Black Community

    The “Color Complex” and It’s Persisting Effects on the Black Community As African Americans came to the United States the “color complex” was implemented upon them by their white captors. The “color complex” became a means for which white slave owners could divide and conquer their black slaves. With black slaves outnumbering whites on many southern colonies as well as in many of the Caribbean islands, such as Haiti, whites realized that they needed to

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Steve
  • Black English - Another Way to Classify Humans

    Black English - Another Way to Classify Humans

    Black English” Another Way to Classify Humans “To open your mouth … You have confessed your parents, your youth, your school, your salary, your self-esteem, and alas, your future ”. After reading the two essays, “From Outside, In” by Barbara Mellix and “If Black English Isn’t a Language Then Tell Me, What Is?” by James Balwin, I came to realize a few things one of them being that the way we speak, is a means

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois

    The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois

    The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois is a influential work in African American literature and is an American classic. In this book Dubois proposes that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." His concepts of life behind the veil of race and the resulting "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," have become touchstones for thinking about race in America .

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    Essay Length: 607 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Du Bois Stuff - Souls of Black Folk

    Du Bois Stuff - Souls of Black Folk

    3225 Book Review: W.E.B Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk". W.E.B. Du Bois analyses the life of African Americans at the turn of the 20th century. He evaluates the experiences of Black people after the Emancipation Proclamation, showing the wide range of frustrations and roadblocks that they faced. In his focus on education, Du Bois criticizes Booker T. Washington's contemporary's rejection of higher education and economic injustice experienced by lower classes. accommodationist stance toward

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Deliverance from Traditional Black Writings

    The Deliverance from Traditional Black Writings

    Oxherding Tale is a slave narrative that is unlike conventional black novels. Charles Johnson transforms the traditional black writings into a form of literature that provides meaning, existence, and freedom to blacks in literature. These traditional writings are what Johnson calls “protest novels” that relate to the hardships, racism, and the oppression placed on blacks (Johnson IX). Johnson feels that these novels are not focusing on significant points and should focus more on blacks experiencing

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Jon
  • Effects of the Crusades and the Black Deaths on Medieval Society

    Effects of the Crusades and the Black Deaths on Medieval Society

    What Effect did the Crusades and the Black Deaths have on Medieval European Society/ Did the Effects Differ According to Region? Before the Crusades began Europe was isolated in many regards, but especially to trade. However, in the beginning, the Crusades started as a way for nobles to get out their frustrations and to stop feuding against one another and "Pope Urban may well have believed that the Crusade[s] would reconcile and reunite Western and

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Audience Perception of the Stereotypical Black Image on Television

    Audience Perception of the Stereotypical Black Image on Television

    Audience Perception of the Stereotypical Black Image on Television In the introduction to the section on understanding social control in Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Paula Rothenberg states “The most effective forms of social control are always invisible”(507). One of the most prevalent forms of invisible social control the creation and perpetuation of stereotypes. Studies have shown that stereotypes can become so ingrained in the minds of those exposed to them that

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Black Death and English Higher Education

    The Black Death and English Higher Education

    The Effect of the Black Death on English Higher Education by: William J. Courtenay is a piece that was easily broken down and ciphered into a well written piece that discredits previous historians’ thoughts. Courtenay is a well known scholar on medieval history, and is C.S. Haskins Professor of Medieval history. His article is a predeceasing article to the book he wrote Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England. Courtenay’s thesis in the article is that

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: July
  • Black Holes

    Black Holes

    Black Holes Since their theoretical existence was first proposed in 1783 by English geologist John Michell, black holes have remained one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. In his paper to the Royal Society of England, Michell explained that a star approximately 500 times greater in diameter than our sun and of the same density would have an escape velocity (the speed at which an object must travel in order to break free from a body’s gravitational

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Just a Game of Cat and Mouse

    Just a Game of Cat and Mouse

    I stood there amazed, just waiting for blood to ruin this Hallmark moment. All around me the trees seemed to whisper, “Be still and watch.” As I was about to abandon this sacred scene, the beast slowly lifted the wounded baby and placed it at my feet. The big, yellow eyes that gazed up at me seemed to hold and emotion of caring. On this frigid evening, nature showed me that all creatures are capable

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Black Robe Movie Critique

    Black Robe Movie Critique

    Black Robe’ Movie Critique ‘Black Robe’ is the story of a young Jesuit Priest from France who embarks on a religious journey to convert, to Christianity, the Aboriginal tribes of New France. Set primarily in Ontario during the mid 1630’s, Father Lafargue travels from Quebec via the Ottawa River to the home of the Huron people in what is now referred to as the Simcoe Region of South Central Ontario. He is aided by

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Elia Kazan was wrong to ask Tennessee Williams to rewrite the third act of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. First, it significantly weakens Big Daddy's character when he returns to discuss elephants. Big Mama has already dealt with Gooper's proposal and does not require Big Daddy's assistance. He seems to provide little more than comic relief in this scene, and that is not what Williams constructed him to do. Big Daddy prods the

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Black Out

    Black Out

    I hear the alarm screaming at me from the other side of the room. Any other day I would not be happy to hear the alarm but today I really didn’t mind it too much. As I sit up in bed I hear someone coming up the stairs. I look over to see Morgan dragging up the stairs like a zombie. She has never been much of a morning person. Slowly she walks over and

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Black and Chinese Americans

    Black and Chinese Americans

    In the present day, people view America as a land where everyone can be seen equal to one another, but this was not always the case. In the 1800s black and Chinese Americans went through a ruthless period of discrimination, due to the white man’s ignorance. Even though the Chinese and blacks were singled out they both were treated differently but also had many similarities. Harsh treatment, long hours, and extremely low wages were

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Big Cats

    Big Cats

    Cats are native to every ~continent except Australia and Antartica. All cats are ~ mammals with fine ~fur coats that are often ~beautifully marked. They are ~ skilled hunters and killers with ~strong agile bodies, ~ acute senses, sharp teeth ~and large claws. Cats are ~intelligent and stealthy animals and ~many are very secretive. Although cats vary in different sizes ~domestic house cat to the huge Siberian Tiger, they all belong to the ~same

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • Blacks and Whites in Movies

    Blacks and Whites in Movies

    The object of this paper is to portray the role of African Americans and Whites in modern contemporary films. It is evident that there has been a great deal of effort in the integration of black people into American society. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has strived to undo the ties of segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans. The NAACP has used several strategies to overturn segregation rules and obtain

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • Black Slaves and Religion

    Black Slaves and Religion

    Black Slaves and Religion One of the first things that attracted the African American slaves to Christianity was a way of obtaining the salvation of theirs souls based on the Christian’s idea of a future reward in heaven or punishment in hell, which did not exist in their primary religion. The religious principles inherited from Africa sought purely physical salvation and excluded the salvation of the soul. However, they did believe in one supreme God,

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Artur
  • Poe’s “the Tell-Tale Heart”

    Poe’s “the Tell-Tale Heart”

    Name English 102 Research paper Date Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” In Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, the narrator murders the old man with whom he used to live, and he says that there was no motive behind the murder. The story revolves around the two main characters, the narrator and the old man. In the short story, Poe shows the madness and selfishness that the narrator portrays, and also shows how he starts

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Max

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