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  • 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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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: regina
  • Based on Our Reading and Drama, Evaluate and Analyse the Ways in Which Miller Creates Dramatic Tension for His Audience: Look Specifically at His Chosen Period, the Play's Setting in Brooklyn, New York and the Carbones'tenement Flat.Analyse the Tensions W

    Based on Our Reading and Drama, Evaluate and Analyse the Ways in Which Miller Creates Dramatic Tension for His Audience: Look Specifically at His Chosen Period, the Play's Setting in Brooklyn, New York and the Carbones'tenement Flat.Analyse the Tensions W

    Based on our reading and drama, evaluate and analyse the ways in which Miller creates dramatic tension for his audience: look specifically at his chosen period, the play’s setting in Brooklyn, New York and the Carbones’ tenement flat. Analyse the tensions which Miller introduces to the central character dynamics and look closely at the dramatic techniques he uses in the final scene of act 1. How successful do you feel Miller is in creating tension

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Vika
  • 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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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Institution of Slavery's Corruption of the White Slaveholder

    The Institution of Slavery's Corruption of the White Slaveholder

    In Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, one of the major themes is how the institution of slavery has an effect on the moral health of the slaveholder. The power slaveholders have over their slaves is great, as well as corrupting. Douglass uses this theme to point out that the institution of slavery is bad for everyone involved, not just the slaves. Throughout the narrative, Douglass uses several of

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: regina
  • 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: December 4, 2009 By: regina
  • 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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    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
  • Envy, Beauty, and Snow White

    Envy, Beauty, and Snow White

    Envy, Beauty, and Snow White Few people can grow up within today’s society without knowing the tale of Snow White. From the Grimm Brothers to Disney, it has been told and retold to children throughout the ages. However, what is often overlooked are the true meanings within the story. Fairytales typically have underlying messages that can be found written between the lines, generally in terms of the key themes. Snow White discusses the themes of

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Mike
  • 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
  • How Does William Golding Create the Tensions in the Spire?

    How Does William Golding Create the Tensions in the Spire?

    Jordan Ashwood 12JD ‘The Spire’ Essay “The Spire is a novel full of tensions” Explore the ways that Golding achieves these tensions and what they bring to the novel ‘The Spire’ revolves around Jocelin and his quest to have a spire built on the cathedral. Through his blind faith, Jocelin accepts the cost that this building is having on the cathedral and the people that inhabit the cathedral. Tension is built throughout this novel in

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Mike
  • White Oleander

    White Oleander

    White Oleander, a dramatic fiction by Janet Fitch, was published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston. The story is about a mother and daughter, Ingred and Astrid have a very unusual relationship. Ingred loves her daughter but never asks her what she thinks so therefore doesn't know her daughter too well. Such as she does not know of her daughter's yearning for a father. Ingred makes it very clear that she will not

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Wendy
  • 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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    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
  • Feeding Behavior of Great White

    Feeding Behavior of Great White

    This essay will take a particular case study, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and attempt to provide a brief background on its history and forces of creation. The park impacts on human and non-human species alike will also be discussed. The latter part of this essay will focus on a few challenges the park faces in the future. History/Forces of Creation/Goals Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was created on 1 August 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson making

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Top
  • White Mans Image

    White Mans Image

    This program is part of the PBS series American Experience. In this episode, a critical eye is cast on the early efforts by Congress to "civilize" Native Americans. This homogenization process required the removal of Native American children from their homes and placing them in special Indian schools. Forced to stay for years at a time without returning home, children were required to eschew their own language and culture and learn instead the ways of

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Victor
  • 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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    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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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High School

    Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identity in High School

    Shades of White is an ethnographic study of two high schools. One, "Valley Groves High School," was suburban, and the "whitest" high school in the region. Here the student body was comprised of non-Hispanic whites (83 percent), Hispanics (7 percent), Asians (5 percent), Filipinos (2 percent), and African Americans (2 percent). The other, "Clavey High," was metropolitan and more thoroughly multiracial--African American (54 percent), Asian American (23 percent), white (12 percent), Hispanic (8 percent), Filipino

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jon
  • 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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    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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    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
  • Summarize and Discuss the Tensions Apparent in Contemporary Cultural and Communications Policy Debates. Include a Case Study Analysis of a Specific Policy Statement, Which Names and Discusses the Specific Rhetorical Frameworks Informing the Author's State

    Summarize and Discuss the Tensions Apparent in Contemporary Cultural and Communications Policy Debates. Include a Case Study Analysis of a Specific Policy Statement, Which Names and Discusses the Specific Rhetorical Frameworks Informing the Author's State

    First and foremost there are several approaches to the defining what is media policy. It is defined by Garnham as ‘the study of the ways in which public authorities shape, or try to shape, the structures and practices of the media…the study of the reasons for these policies, both in the sense of the reasons given by policy makers for their policies…in the sense of the economic, social, political and cultural forces to which the

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Bred
  • 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

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