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  • The Black Death: From a Dark Past to a New Light

    The Black Death: From a Dark Past to a New Light

    Italian Renaissance Professor Piciche The Black Death: From a Dark Past to a New Light It is impossible to discuss Europe's history without mentioning the Plague of 1348, also known as the Black Death. The Black Death reached Italian shores in the spring of 1348. The presence of such a plague was enormously devastating making its mark in unprecedented numbers in recorded history. According to records, it is estimated to have killed a third of

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Observation of a 5 Year Old Boy

    The Observation of a 5 Year Old Boy

    The Observation of a 5 Year Old Boy Date: 3/19/04 Time observation started: 1:40 pm Time observation ended: 1:55 pm Name of child: Daiki Age of child: 5.6 Setting: The setting took place in a play area/corner in the classroom of the school where Daiki attends. Daiki is playing with power rangers and there are also other children present, playing in the same play area. Observation: Daiki is sitting in a play area with a

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    Essay Length: 1,265 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Anna
  • Reconstructing the Black Woman

    Reconstructing the Black Woman

    Harriet Jacobs, as a black female slave, was able to successfully narrate her life story with earnest honesty while documenting the honorable and the shameful events from her past. Free black women from her time period had also published autobiographies about their own personal struggles as black women remaining virtuous, and maintaining a true Christian womanhood through the social adversities they faced daily. However, Jacobs chose to take a more honorable route by confessing all

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    Essay Length: 1,652 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Black Women Clubs of Denver

    Black Women Clubs of Denver

    In this study you asked us to look more closely at the plight of African American women of the west and their impact on the community in which they lived. I found that most of the articles assigned were of little help in achieving this objective, in that a large amount of the articles did not give much mention of the effects of these women on their communities. However, I was able to find little

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • About a Boy

    About a Boy

    Chapter Plot, Characters, Setting ... 1 Marcus, a 12-year-old boy is introduced, who lives alone with his mother Fiona in London. They have just moved from Cambridge. His parents are separated and Fiona has just split up with her ex-boyfriend. The reader is informed about Marcus’ life before and after the separation. 2 Will Freeman is a 36-year-old single who lives in London. He isn’t really grown-up yet and he doesn’t have to work, because

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    Essay Length: 342 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Steve
  • Black Hawk Down Movie Review

    Black Hawk Down Movie Review

    In the early 90’s, the united states sent a large number of Army Rangers and Delta Force troops to Mogadishu, Somalia. The reason they sent these troops was to put down the militia of Muhammad Farah Aidid. Over 1000 Somalia militia died in the battle and only 19 American troops died. Black Hawk Down correctly portrayed the events that happened at the battle of Mogadishu. Throughout the movie, soldiers say that they should not be

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    Essay Length: 875 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey Black Beauty

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey Black Beauty

    MY REVIEW OF RE:CV: --------------------- Resident Evil Code Veronica for the Dreamcast has everything a Dreamcast owner could want in a game: Wonderful graphics, superb sound quality, an awesome storyline, and over 30 hours of gameplay to boot. Resident Evil Code Veronica (RE:CV) is the best survival horror game on the mass market, and everyone who owns a Dreamcast should own it. And so should everyone else. Graphics-10/10 The visuals in RE:CV are the some

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Black like Me

    Black like Me

    John Howard Griffin, both author of Black Like Me and prominent journalist, sets out to discover what life was really like as a black man in the Deep South. He darkened his skin, using sunlamps and medication, in order to study just that. He was most likely not ready for what he was about to embark upon, including harsh discrimination and denied civil rights. Griffin encounters many racial barriers that exist between whites and

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    Essay Length: 631 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jon
  • Black Mirror by Gail Jones

    Black Mirror by Gail Jones

    Black Mirror by Gail Jones How does the narrative construct the character and her childhood world as complex? The complexity of the character in �Black Mirror’ is constructed through the use of conventions to depict the conflict between her inner self and society. �Black Mirror’ is about a young girl, Anna, and her journey from childhood to adulthood, from the familiar to the unfamiliar respectively. The setting, plot line and the town’s environment help in

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    Essay Length: 592 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jack
  • Th Word Nigga and Who Is offensive Towards Blacks

    Th Word Nigga and Who Is offensive Towards Blacks

    The word “Nigga” and why it doesn’t offend me. From what I was taught this word “Nigga” came from way back in the day. You see that’s what a slave owner used to call us. But to me that is not a name like Susan and Joseph this word has a real meaning. But, if you look for “Nigger” in the dictionary it says it’s Slang: Extremely disparaging and Offensive. A person of any race

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    Essay Length: 295 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Thom Mayne: Architectural Bad Boy

    Thom Mayne: Architectural Bad Boy

    Brigham Young University Thom Mayne: Architectural Bad Boy March 10, 2006 He is referred to as a "Bad Boy", a "Maverick", and a "Loose Cannon" in today's architectural world. His methods are unorthodox, highly progressive, and revolutionary. Thom Mayne and his California-based architectural firm Morphosis have infiltrated the building scene to wow critics and scholars alike with his cutting-edge designs and uncanny sense of aesthetic function. Thom Mayne was recently named in 2005 as the

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    Essay Length: 1,493 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Janna
  • Dutch Boy Paints Marketing Plan for Puerto Rico

    Dutch Boy Paints Marketing Plan for Puerto Rico

    Table of Contents I. Executive Summary 3 II. Marketing Plan 4 A. Situation Analysis 4 B. Environmental Analysis 8 C. Objectives 10 D. Marketing Strategy 11 E. Action Programs 18 F. Budgeting 22 G. Resources 25 H. Controls 25 I. Contingency Planning 27 III. Information Sources 28 IV. Appendix 29 I. Executive Summary Founded in 1907, Dutch Boy continues to be an industry leader in delivering innovative and high-quality products and packaging solutions, and

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Black Death: Nature's Way of Saying We Are Doing It Wrong

    The Black Death: Nature's Way of Saying We Are Doing It Wrong

    The Black Death: Nature’s Way of Saying We Are Doing It Wrong Throughout the known world, the human race has been inhabited by disease. For centuries, groups of people have struggled to adapt and create balances between themselves and diseases. Disease not only affects the populations of large areas, but creates wars, puts pressure on global resources, and causes many groups of people to lose sight of their beliefs in the hopes that there will

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Monika
  • Black Holes

    Black Holes

    Black Holes A black hole is the velocity necessary to take one away from one’s own gravitational force. For example, the escape velocity of earth is equal to 11 km/s. anything that wants to escape earth's gravitational force or pull must go at least 11 km/s, no matter what the thing is . The escape velocity of an object depends on how compact it is; that is, the ratio of its mass to radius. A

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jon
  • Racist Attitudes and Their Influences in Master Harold and the Boys

    Racist Attitudes and Their Influences in Master Harold and the Boys

    Racist Attitudes and Their Influences in ?Master Harold? ? and the boys We have all heard the saying that the rich keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer. This somewhat describes South Africa in the 1950s. During this time in Africa, the white people kept getting more powerful while the black population kept getting weaker. South Africa?s apartheid system gave powerful odds to the whites and created a racist society. In ?Master Harold?

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Speech on Black Panthers

    Speech on Black Panthers

    The purpose of the speech I will give today is to make you folks trust government less, any government. (tell them about Canada) I. How much do you guys know about the civil rights era? Well today I will tell you some startling news about the black panthers, one of the people that gave their life for the cause, and Cointelpro, the FBI program that killed him. II. I am not an expert, but

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Black Death

    Black Death

    The Tragedy of the Black Death Imagine yourself alone on a street corner, coughing up bloody mucous each time you exhale. You are gasping for a full breath of air, but realizing that is not possible, you give up your fight to stay alive. You're thinking, why is this happening to me? That is how the victims of the Black Death felt. The Black Death had many different effects on the people of the Middle

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    Essay Length: 1,997 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Stereotypes of Black Men

    Stereotypes of Black Men

    Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture examines popular culture's reliance on long-standing stereotypes of black men as animalistic, hypersexual, dangerous criminals, whose bodies, dress, actions, attitudes, and language both repel and attract white audiences. Author Linda G. Tucker studies this trope in the images of well-known African American men in four cultural venues: contemporary literature, black-focused films, sports commentary, and rap music. am in my third year as a professor at

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    Essay Length: 526 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Lost Boy

    The Lost Boy

    The Lost Boy David Peltzer, the author of “The Lost Boy”, tells his story from the time he left his alcoholic and abusive parents, through his experiences in five foster homes, juvenile detention, and eventually the Air Force. He was a defiant, rebellious boy who, despite his background and personality, managed to have a few close friends. David was brought up by a mother who was later labeled as a manic depressive and an abusive

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Blacks and Jews

    Blacks and Jews

    Trees and tolerance are flourishing along Eastern Parkway - once a barren boundary between the blacks and Jews of Crown Heights. When the community erupted in riots seven years ago, Eastern Parkway was the line in the sand between Orthodox Jews who lived in detached houses to the south and blacks in turn-of-the-century row houses to the north. But today, the newly beautified parkway is a symbol of recovering race relations citywide. Crown Heights Community

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Max
  • The Black Panther Tank Battalion

    The Black Panther Tank Battalion

    The 'Black Panther' Tank Battalion The 761st 'Black Panther' Tank Battalion was the first African-American armored unit to see combat. Before and during mobilization for World War II, officials in Washington, D.C., debated whether or not African-American soldiers should be used in armored units. Many military men and politicians believed that blacks did not have the brains, quickness or moral stamina to fight in a war. Referring to his World War I experiences, Colonel James

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Black Poetry

    Black Poetry

    Blake Poetry Verily I say unto you, Whoseover shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. [S Luke, 18 (17)] The words are those of Jesus, who was neither unaware of reality, nor indifferent to suffering. The childlike innocence referred to above is a state of purity and not of ignorance. Such is the vision of Blake in his childlike Songs of Innocence. It would be

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Black Holes

    Black Holes

    BLACK HOLES Pre-writing: 1) Two stars, the one bigger than the other, from which the bigger one fuses hydrogen fuel at a faster rate. 2) The big star loses completely its hydrogen and becomes a red giant and makes the other star bigger. 3) The star, which was big at the beginning, explodes as a supernova. 4) Three solar masses of matter remain and it is then the first face of the construction of the

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Chiago Black Sox

    Chiago Black Sox

    SportsCenter Flashback: The Chicago Black Sox banned from baseball The 1919 Chicago White Sox had Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, superb pitchers. And slick-fielding Chick Gandil at first base and workhorse Buck Weaver at third. And outfielder Shoeless Joe Jackson. The White Sox were, to put it simply, the best team money could buy. And it got bought. Led by Gandil, who rounded up Cicotte, Williams, Weaver, Jackson, shortstop Swede Risberg, outfielder Oscar Happy Felsch

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    Essay Length: 965 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Max
  • From Boys to Men

    From Boys to Men

    Initiation means acceptance. The movement from one stage of life to another can happen in many forms, from a child's gentle baptism to a tribal hazing. It can take weeks for the initiation of Savic boys. For the boys to become a true Savic man they need to go through the process of "crocodile cuts." It happens once a year but doesn't happen to only one age group. Boys from as young as 13 to

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Tasha

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