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  • Rules of the Black Panther Party

    Rules of the Black Panther Party

    Rules of the Black Panther Party Every member of the Black Panther Party throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this party. Central Committee members, Central Staffs, and Local Staffs, including all captains subordinated to either national, state, and local leadership of the Black Panther Party will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other disciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national

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    Essay Length: 699 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction

    War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction

    Ariel Ashcraft Alice Eagly Psychology of Gender October 17, 2003 War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction One of the oldest debates in psychology is the nature versus nurture debate. Its roots extend far beyond the nineteenth century psychologists such as Freud and Skinner into the beginnings of scientific thought. Even Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato addressed the issue of how personality is formed. Today, a relative consensus has been reached that nature and

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    Essay Length: 2,942 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Black Beauty

    Black Beauty

    This book is for those who love animals. Everybody can enjoy reading this, but people who love animals will be especially moved by this book. This is the story about a horse named Black Beauty. He was a wise, brave, fine horse. He had a lot of hard experiences. He could understand men's words and feelings. He was sold several times, and had various kinds of masters. Some people treated him very well, others did

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    Essay Length: 691 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: regina
  • Black Southerners

    Black Southerners

    This book is surely an interesting one but in some places one feels that the author should have gone into a bit more depth. At times while reading the book I had to look a certain aspect of black history on the internet. This at first is not a problem but afterwards the frustration kind of builds up. The book mainly discusses the rise of the 'peculiar institution' from the start of U.S. colonization to

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    Essay Length: 695 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Artur
  • Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cat

    Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cat

    The narrator’s first cat’s name Pluto is that of the Roman God of the underworld. Pluto contributes to a strong sense of Hell and may even symbolize the Devil himself. Onyx cats have long been connected to bad luck and misfortune. The narrator’s wife even joking mentions that black cats are said to be witches in guise. From this one can assume that a horrible thing will be bestowed upon the narrator, though one might

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    Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Anna
  • Black Hole

    Black Hole

    As cosmic events go, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae rank among the most spectacular, but nobody has sought to forge a link between the two ЎV until now. After three decades of study of their possible origins, researchers have concocted more than 150 theoretical models, but only a handful can come close to describing the true magnitude of the bursts. There are two leading theories ЎV the Ў§collapsarЎЁ theory and the Ў§supranovaЎЁ theory. According to

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Jackie Robinson - the Black Messiah of Baseball

    Jackie Robinson - the Black Messiah of Baseball

    English Skills 1 May 16, 2007 The Black Messiah of Baseball Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children. Robinson grew up in an area of poverty, and he also became affiliated with a neighborhood gang in his youth. (2) He was persuaded by his friend named Carl Anderson to abandon the gang. In 1935, Robinson enrolled into John Muir High School. There he

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Jack
  • Resilancey in Black Woman

    Resilancey in Black Woman

    RESILANCEY IN BLACK WOMAN The act of resistance and defiance is one of the most used human reactions that we as Americans often use this to express ourselves in society today. These reactions are also used when some one fee3ls that they are being treated unfairly or in an unjust manner. America is supposed to be a land of equal value and opportunity when it comes to being human. Obviously this is not the

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    Essay Length: 1,126 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Why Black Churches Oppose Gay Marriage

    Why Black Churches Oppose Gay Marriage

    The topic that Keith Boykin brings up is the issue that the Black community, black ministers and churches specifically, do not support same sex marriages. He addresses the hypocrisy he sees in this, as the black community was once the group fighting for equality. According to Boykin, blacks don’t support gay marriage rights for two reasons. Blacks only see images and representations from the gay white community, so they don’t feel like it involves them.

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Steve
  • Apa Guidelines Violated in Miss Evers’ Boys

    Apa Guidelines Violated in Miss Evers’ Boys

    In the film Miss Evers’ Boys, several of the now-existing APA guidelines are violated to the extreme . The movie, which illustrates the Tuskegee Study conducted by a group of southern doctors in 1932, tells the story of a group of African-American men who are being unknowingly studied to see if untreated syphilis reacts the same way in African-Americans that it does in white men. At first, treatment is given to them but once

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    Essay Length: 620 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: July
  • The Black Cat

    The Black Cat

    In the short story "The Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe uses gruesome detail and diction to establish his rule of one effect and the death of one major character. One of Poe's rules for 19th Century Poetry is that writing should exhibit one effect or one purpose, which is to scare the reader. Poe uses diction and detail to put disturbing images into people's head. In "The Black Cat" the narrator declines from sanity to

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Victor
  • Black & Decker

    Black & Decker

    Issue / Task: Joseph Galli, vice president of sales and marketing for Black and Decker has to decide which one of three marketing plans to use. Either plan need to take market share, in the Professional Tradesmen segment, away from current leader Makita. Black and Decker's strength in the consumer end did not benefit the Professional-Tradesmen segment. Some trades people viewed all Black and Decker products as in home only products and in some cases

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    Essay Length: 855 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • A Comparison and Contrast of the Search for an Identity in This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolfe, and Limbo, by A. Manette Ansay

    A Comparison and Contrast of the Search for an Identity in This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolfe, and Limbo, by A. Manette Ansay

    A Comparison and Contrast of the Search for an Identity in This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolfe, and Limbo, by A. Manette Ansay At a glance, both protagonists (Jack, from This Boy’s Life, and Anne, from Limbo) appear to have very little in common. Jack, the only child of a single mother, is desperately attempting to develop his identity while he lives an unstable life in which he is constantly uprooted and moved form city

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Classism in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

    Classism in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

    As Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom indicates, an issue such as classism is not merely an ideology, but a way that differentiates the classes on a social and economic scale. Classism is reflected in the play where the people on the top feel they are naturally superior to those on the bottom, especially displayed through the set-up of the recording studio. Irvin and Sturdyvant are at the top of the economic scale and are characterized as

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    Essay Length: 1,212 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • Hip Hop and Black Women

    Hip Hop and Black Women

    Hip-hop is the latest expressive manifestation of the past and current experience as well as the collective consciousness of African-American and Latino-American youth. But more than any music of the past, it also expresses mainstream American ideas that have now been internalized and embedded into the psyches of American people of color over time. A part of the learned mainstream American culture is sexism and misogyny. Hip-hop culture is frequently condemned for its misogynistic exploitation

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Black Misportrayals

    Black Misportrayals

    I watch television and listen to the radio on a daily basis and am shocked by the portrayal of black America. Media makes it seem as if the black population is fine and content with the image that is constantly being displayed for the rest of the world. The most shocking thing is that the controllers of the black image aren’t black people of even from the black community. The oppression of black people

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    Essay Length: 601 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Top
  • American Black Literature Study of the Short Story " the Witness"

    American Black Literature Study of the Short Story " the Witness"

    The short story “the witness’ deals with the sheer feral malevolence of a gang of bright young boys who use their gift of manipulation for wicked effect. Their low disposition in life, “all we got is the crumbs, the leftovers, whatever the fat cats don’t want and cannot use” (Petry 1892) is no excuse for the assault of Woodruff and the rape of Nellie. Rape is an unthinkable act of cruelty and injustice as it

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    Essay Length: 441 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Plot,character and Thought: Master Harold and the Boys

    Plot,character and Thought: Master Harold and the Boys

    Plot,Character and Thought: Master Harold and the Boys Aristotles Poetics have been used as a guide for understanding theater for many years, they have survived the test of time and change. Aristotle argued in his Poetics that a play wasn’t just a lie which was what his teacher Plato had oversimplified. A play was not just a lie, it was an imitation of life which we as humans get pleasure from. This Vicarious Experince as

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Is Violence the Answer? the Black Panther Party

    Is Violence the Answer? the Black Panther Party

    Is Violence the Answer?: The Black Panther Party Organized in the 1960s at the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party emerged as a revolutionist group pioneering a strategy of militancy. The Party’s aims were to eliminate the discrimination challenging African-Americans in America since the time of slavery, and to protect their communities from police brutality. Inspired by contemporary radical leaders such as Malcolm X, the party recognized that in order

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    Essay Length: 1,779 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Artur
  • Black Wall Street: The True Story

    Black Wall Street: The True Story

    Black Wall Street: The True Story 1. If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they're wrong -- plain and simple. That's because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly years ago. Many people in high places would like to forget that

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    Essay Length: 363 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Max
  • Boys in the Hood

    Boys in the Hood

    One of the main influences in youth is trying to be cool and fit in. In the movie being cool meant that you had to act like a gangster to fit in. Another influence would be murder. In the film they get introduced to guns and murder at a young age. They're so used to it that when they see a dead body lying in the grass they're not even shocked. They’ve seen it

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Top
  • Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

    Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

    Critical Reflection “ Uplifting the Race” Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century Uplifting the Race is a rather confusing yet stimulating study that goes over the rising idea and interests in the evolution of "racial uplift" ideology from the turn and through the twentieth century. In the first part of the book, Gaines analyzes the black elite obsession with racial uplift ideology and the tensions it produced among black intellectuals. Gaines

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    Essay Length: 1,216 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Tell Tale Heart and the Black Cat

    Tell Tale Heart and the Black Cat

    Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The two short stories that I have chosen by Edgar Allan Poe are The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. These two stories in particular have many things in common as far as technique goes, but they do have some significant differences between the two. In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the readers attention

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • Paul Street Boys

    Paul Street Boys

    In the book Paul Street Boys one of the main characters, Nemecsek, who is a member of the Paul Street gang, could definitely be considered a Christ-figure, despite his status as an underdog. A Christ figure is a literary device, a particular way of shaping an important character in a novel. He (or she) may not match in every instance to the biblical image of Jesus, but bears enough of the characteristics to suggest the

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    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Max
  • Damn Canadians-Trailer Park Boys

    Damn Canadians-Trailer Park Boys

    The film Trailer Park Boys The movie “Trailer Park Boys,” directed by Mike Clattenburg is about two men that get kicked out from jail days before the guard/inmate ball hockey final. Ricky, Julian and Bubbles return to Sunnyvale trailer park with a plan for “The Big Dirty”, the biggest heist of their long criminal history: a dimwitted scheme to steal vast quantities of change, when it occurs to Julian that coins are untraceable. Meanwhile, Ricky

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Jack

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