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How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

Articles of Confederation

This essay pertains to the Articles of Confederation, which was the first government created by the newly minted United States aft...

George Washington and the Revolutionary War

as a great leader and notes the following: "Realism, strategic imagination, adaptability, and political savvy are all aspects of W...

The Introduction of Machines

This paper provides an overview of the American Industrial Revolution. There are three sources listed in the bibliography of this ...

A Radical, Social Upheaval, The American Revolution

This research paper assert that the American Revolution can be understood as a radical, social upheaval. Five pages in length, eig...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Robert Frost/Semi-Revolution

the kingdom of Bohemia from the Catholic Holy Roman emperor have now been discredited" ("Rosicrucian"). Nevertheless, Frost obviou...

American Economy and Racism

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Comparative Analysis of August Wilson's Play Fences and Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

African Americans and the Differing Views of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

In eight pages this paper examines whether the political activism espoused by Du Bois or the conciliatory model of Washington were...

Debating W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

Africana Studies and Diaspora

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

African American Females and Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

3 African American Authors on Class and Race in the U.S.

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

Thinking Big with Dr. Ben Carson

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

African American Education Throughout History

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

'Black English' in an English Dialect Study

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

Betty's Case and Cognitive Therapy

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

Issues Pertaining to the African American Experience

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

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...

Dakota and Uptown Brands of R.J. Reynolds and Ethics

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

Still Burning Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

Annotated Bibliography on Global Poverty

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...

Women and Slavery

United States that awaited many of them was certainly devastating and destructive, it may well have offered some more opportunitie...

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...