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  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,640 Words / 7 Pages
    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
  • 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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    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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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Max
  • 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
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,496 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Wendy
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,018 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • 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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    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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    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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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • 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 Boy Plot Summary

    Black Boy Plot Summary

    Black Boy by Richard Wright is a novel and autobiography all in one. Black boy takes us thought the young life of Richard Wright, who is both the author and the main character. Richard goes though many hardships growing up. The book is set in the early 1900’s in the American south. Richards mother raises Richard in the harsh environment after Richard’s father abandons them. Richards’s main goal is to make it to the north.

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Vika
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Poe Black Cat

    Poe Black Cat

    In Poe’s “The Black Cat”, what is the significance of the black cat? The black cat has always been considered a symbol of bad luck and evil, and in this story the cat seems to represent the bad luck present in the narrators life. The cat does not seem to be responsible for the bad luck, but is always present when things go wrong, and a lot of time is on the receiving end of

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    Essay Length: 1,065 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Stenly

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