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Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

The Separatist Movement in Quebec

This research paper discusses the independence movement in Quebec, its history and origins, as well as the contemporary developmen...

Virginia and Cuba Slavery

In three pages this essay refers to Slavery in the Americas by Herbert Klein in a comparative analysis of how slavery was institut...

American Environmental Movement

In twelve pages this research paper examines the U.S. environmental movement in a history that utilizes First Along the River A B...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

The Evolution Of Women - Feminism

in terms of political and economic equality. We can also say that political feminism officially began with the suffragette movemen...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Contemporary Slavery/Impact of Slavery in U.S.

most commonly found form of modern slavery. In this form, individuals agree to use their capacity to perform work as a collateral ...

The Pursuit of Womens Right to Vote

The right to vote can be considered the most important liberty that is provided by the American system of government. Unfortunate...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

Perspective on Slavery

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

Civil War to Present Day Black Experience

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Liberation

really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...

Comparative Historical and Cultural Analysis of the Crow and Oglala Sioux and White America Interactions

In five pages the struggles of these groups caused in large part by invading Europeans are considered with emphasis on Frederick E...

Comparative Analysis of Voltaire's Candide, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In five pages this paper examines how society changed from individual acceptance to individual oppression in a comparative analysi...

XinJiang Separatist Movement

In twenty five pages this paper discusses China's human rights abuses in this overview of XinJiang's culture and history and descr...

Slavery Perspectives

In five pages various perspectives on slavery are considered in a comparative analysis of African Americans in the Colonial Era by...

Pre Slavery and Post Slavery America and Religion

would have been that of the native Americans, an earth based religion, centring on seeing the Earth as a whole and human kind only...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sexual Harassment

In five pages this paper presents the history of a sexual harassment case that was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and discusses w...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

US Founding Fathers' Hypocrisy Regarding Slavery

by convention. Although he agreed with the ignorant scientific view of his time, and suspected that blacks were inferior to whites...

Slavery Compromises and the Constitution of the United States

present, the convention achieved a consensus by avoiding certain controversial issues by reaching a compromise. There were differe...

Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

Champion of Civil Rights: W.E.B. Du Bois

to the early twentieth-century social mainstream. Acceptance, however, does not initiate social change, and therefore the Jamaica...

Brief History of American Civil Rights

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...