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  • Eastern European Jews and Blacks

    Eastern European Jews and Blacks

    Eastern European Jews came to New York for a few reasons. One reason was due to the treatment that they received back in Eastern Europe. “In 1891 thousands of privileged Jews were expelled without warning from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev. Thousands more were deprived of their livelihoods as innkeepers and restaurateurs in 1897 when the liquor traffic became a government monopoly. Finally, coercion culminated in violence. The ‘spontaneous’ outbreaks of 1881, the massacre at

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: July
  • Chicago Black Sox Scandal

    Chicago Black Sox Scandal

    Chicago Black Sox Scandal The 1919 World Series is home to the most notorious scandal in baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds. Details of the scandal and the extent to which each man was involved have always been unclear. It was, however, front-page news across the country and, despite being acquitted of criminal charges, the players were banned from professional baseball for

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    Essay Length: 1,618 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: July
  • Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Hills like White Elephants - Symbolism

    Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" relies on symbolism to carry the theme of either choosing to live selfishly and dealing with the results, or choosing a more difficult and selfless path and reveling in the rewards. The symbolic materials and the symbolic characters aid the reader's understanding of the subtle theme of this story. The hills symbolize two different decisions that the pregnant girl in our story is faced with. Both hills

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Janna
  • Hills like White Elephants

    Hills like White Elephants

    ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S "HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS" is, if taken literally, a story in which little actually "happens": a couple has drinks at a train station in Spain and argues about something rather vague. A useful approach to such an enigmatic text is to examine the very language of which it is made. The story is, after all, a textual artifact, one that historically has been subjected to intensely close reading. Yet a particular reading of

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Black Code

    Black Code

    Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations. After the American Civil War the Radical Republicans advocated the passing of the Civil Rights Bill, legislation

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Fatih
  • The Black Cat

    The Black Cat

    The Black Cat, like most of Poe’s works, is twisted and in a sense, quite horrific. This short story, displays the competence of the human mind and it very own deterioration, without being able to bring it to a standstill. The narrator is completely aware of his deterioration, and in some instances of the story recognizes the transformation. The narrator tries to overcome the changes, but is unable to reverse his complete and total

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Monika
  • 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. In

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Anna
  • Black Liberation Theology

    Black Liberation Theology

    Black Liberation Theology can be defined as the relationship that blacks have with god in their struggle to end oppression. It sees god as a god of history and the liberator of the oppressed from bondage. Black Liberation theology views God and Christianity as a gospel relevant to blacks who struggle daily under the oppression of whites. Because of slavery, blacks concept of God was totally different from the masters who enslaved them. White Christians

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Janna
  • Ernest Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants.

    Ernest Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants.

    Ernest Hemingway is an incredible writer often known for what he leaves out of stories and not for what the story tells. His main emphasis in Hills Like White Elephants seems to be symbolism. Webster's dictionary defines symbolism as the art or practice of using symbols. Hemingway was a master at investing the things that he wrote about with a symbolic meaning. He expresses invisible or intangible ideas in a way that makes you feel

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Analysis of the Black Church: Black Theology and Racial Empowerment

    Analysis of the Black Church: Black Theology and Racial Empowerment

    Since the arrival of African Americans in this country blacks have always had differing experiences. Consequently, African-Americans have had to forge a self-identity out of what has been passed on to them as fact about their true selves. History has wrought oppression and subjugation to this particular race of people and as a result, certain institutions were formed in order aid African-Americans, culturally, spiritually and economically. The African-American Church has served of one such institution.

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    Essay Length: 1,751 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Black Virgin

    Black Virgin

    A Black Madonna or Black Virgin is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark or black skin. This name applies in particular to European statues or pictures of a Madonna which are of special interest because her dark face and hands is thought by some to be the true color. In this specialised sense "Black Madonna" does not apply to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as explicitly black

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Man in Black

    Man in Black

    MAN IN BLACK BY JOHNNY CASH The interpretation of Man in Black as seen by Johnny Cash, is to make a statement to the world why you never see bright colors on his back. He was making a statement about the variety of people that are struggling in life in some way. For example, people that are poor, beaten down, hopeless, hungry, prisoners that have long paid their crime, for those who have never heard

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Victor
  • Black Humor

    Black Humor

    Black Humor One of the most underappreciated and unrecognized forms of comedy is black humor. Black humor often deals with events that are not often associated with other forms of comedy, such as war, murder, insanity and death. The main reason that this form of comedy is so underappreciated is that it requires some thinking on the part of the audience and many people are not willing to do that. The types of humor that

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Edward
  • White Fang

    White Fang

    Title: White Fang Author: Jack London Publisher: Signet Classic, Published in 1991 Main Characters: One Eye was the father of White Fang, leader of a wolf pack, cunning and fearless. White Fang was half wolf, half dog. He was born in the wild but raised by Indians, had the wit and strength of a wolf and loyalty of a dog. Kiche was the mother of White Fang. She was a smart dog and had much

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Snow White

    Snow White

    Snow White is one of the most popular and traditional fairy tales in the world. Although, today, Disney version is known most, but, as you know, the original version was written by Grimm Brothers. Through many of revisions, now there are significant differences between them when comparing them, which might let us say that the conclusion of the story is not about “happy ending”, but about “revenge” when we read the original version. First of

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Black Wall Street

    The Black Wall Street

    The Game was born and raised in the first birthplace of gangsta rap, Compton, California. He received his nickname from his grandmother, who said he was always "game" for anything. His half brother grew up in a different neighborhood and was an active member of the Cedar Block Piru Bloods. As their relationship grew, The Game became a member of the Cedar Block Pirus as well, all while living in a Crip neighborhood. The Game

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Black Flower

    The Black Flower

    “The Black Flower” Bushrod Carter, a member of the Cumberland Rifles in the Army of Tennessee, along with his friends Virgil C. Johnson and Jack Bishop went through trials and tribulations and endured many fears as they were on the front line of the battle in the Battle of Franklin. He and his friends spent countless hours together sharing their thoughts and fears. They often wondered why they were there, but they kept on fighting,

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • Richard Wright: Author of Black Boy

    Richard Wright: Author of Black Boy

    "Richard Wright: Author of Black Boy" Richard Wright's "Black Boy" depicts the different observations of the South and the North. In the South, Wright faces pre-depression and racism. In the North, Wright faces the conflicts from the Communist party. At the end of Black Boy, Wright quotes "What had I got out of living in the city? What had I got out of living in the South?"(Wright 452) Wright's thought of the South was that

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Black Is Beautiful

    Black Is Beautiful

    Black is Beautiful When you hear the word black what comes to mind? Some individuals think of it as a color. Other may think of it as depressing, dismal, wicked, evil, or just a sign of hatred. My definition is the total opposite. The essence of the word black displays a strong feeling of prosperity, deliverance and all the characteristics of what us; the black people have overcome for many decades. Words can't even describe

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Steve
  • White Collar Crime

    White Collar Crime

    White Collar crime is an quickly arising topic in the field of criminal justice. It has just recently been made all the more popular with the high profile court cases of companies like Enron and Martha Stewart. In the course text book, Controversies in White Collar Crime by Gary W. Potter, author of the book Thinking About Crime Professor James Q. Wilson, “dismisses the importance of white collar crime…”. He argues four different points of

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: regina
  • Review of Black Life on the Mississippi

    Review of Black Life on the Mississippi

    Black Life on the Mississippi By Thomas C. Buchanan Reviewed By Andy Evans Black Life on the Mississippi builds on an impressive and imaginative body of primary sources. A number of slave narratives, most prominently the recollections of William Wells Brown, and WPA ex-slave interviews provide an inside view of life on the Mississippi. Buchanan also employs newspapers, drawing especially useful information from runaway slave advertisements. Plantation records explain the role that slave work

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Anger in the White Stocking

    Anger in the White Stocking

    Anger in the Work of D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence was probably a very angry man. His writings are full of extremely intense feelings of anger and hate which do not seem to belong. This anger is usually connected to love, but can be classified by what other emotions it is also linked to. For example, in "Second Best," there is no real reason for Anne to feel great fury, yet she does towards

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mike
  • Black Death

    Black Death

    Black Death The people at the Messina Harbor , a port in Northeast Sicily , stood and watched as a Genoese fleet made its way to dock..(Gottfried 141-144). The people standing ashore could by no means conceive of the horror found on board of these ships. The crew had a disease the like of which no one had seen before in the history of western civilization. The harbor masters looked on in complete awe and

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Harlem Renaissance - a Black Cultural Revolution

    The Harlem Renaissance - a Black Cultural Revolution

    The Harlem Renaissance- A Black Cultural Revolution James Weldon Johnson once said that “Harlem is indeed the great Mecca for the sight-seer; the pleasure seeker, the curious, the adventurous, the enterprising, the ambitious and the talented of the whole Negro world.”(“Harlem Renaissance”) When one thinks of the Harlem Renaissance, one thinks of the great explosion of creativity bursting from the talented minds of African-Americans in the 1920s. Although principally thought of as an African-American literary

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: regina
  • The White House

    The White House

    The White House The White House has undergone four major phases of construction with its beginnings in 1792 and subsequent reconstruction in 1817 and renovations in 1902 and 1948-1952 (The White House-construction: website). In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially named the President’s residence the “White House” (The White House-name: website). The White House is the oldest known government building and has undergone many changes including styles, rooms, and outward appearance. It all started in 1792

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Jack

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