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Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal in Slavery by Nat Huggins

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and the American Dream

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

Second World War Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

American Perspectives on Christmas

when the U.S. hostages were being held in Iran, and that year only the top ornament was lit (American Christmas Traditions, Facts ...

Americans of the Nineteenth Century and Western Conquest

Her life journey coupled her with a man who became her husband and took her with him on his expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. What...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

Religious Roles of Native American Women

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

American Society in Three Literary Views

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

The Godfather and The Sopranos Italian American Stereotypes

that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...

Proposal Regarding Young Pregnant African American Females and Crack Cocaine

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

American West and Frontier Perceptions

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

Homeopathy and Latin American Folk Healers

the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. In many countries where modern medicine is trying to gain a foothold...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

A New Type of American Voting System

election officials; the fact that every election year millions of American citizens are effectively disqualified from the voting b...

American Imperialism and Vietnam

same. Because of this, the American people found it easy t believe that the South Vietnamese were, "or soon would be," just like ...

Federalism and Rights of Native Americans

Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...

American Popular Foods History

substances regarded as nutriments, its status as a foodstuff is somewhat ambiguous (2002). Water has actually been considered bo...

American Life Duality and the Tradition of John Locke

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

Modern Day American Life and The Application of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

American Universities, Colleges, Drug Abuse and Effects

their responsibilities. For example, the marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the nor...

American Youth Soccer Association's Financial Position

estimate likely is a highly conservative one. As public schools come under increasing budgetary constraints, many of those that h...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

Arguing Against a Living Wage Entitlement for Americans

are different. There have been cases of young adults living in middle class homes as single parents while collecting welfare. Obvi...