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Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African-American Population of Houston, Texas

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Wealth Inequalities in American Society

while another might only have a Bic lighter and a camp fire. The blue collar worker category, in turn, also has its share...

The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

Phillis Wheatley

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

Slave Life in the South before the Civil War

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

The Roosevelt Administration and the Black Cabinet

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Civic Participation According to Schudson

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

Second World War Fashion and Social Trends

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry

scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there ...

Revolutionary Mathematician Solomon Lefschetz

In five pages Russian American Solomon Lefschetz is featured in this overview of his life and U.S. mathematical accomplishments. ...

Nutrition Issues of Mexican Americans

In five pages this paper examines the problems Mexicans experience in American life adaptivity with a consideration of lifestyles,...

Family and History of the American South

with his own family and for any hired help -- or slaves (Glazer, 1992). Much of this Southern tradition continues today. The ster...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

African American Imagery in the Nineteenth Century

or by those whose paintings are still recalled and researched. It indicates that although some struggles to free African Americans...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Achievements

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

A Fictional Young Mexican Living in Texas During the 19th Century

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

Life's Big Questions

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

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...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Films My Darling Clementine, Manhattan, and Identity

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...

The Contribution to American History and Jewish American History by Henry Kissinger

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

Life and Presidency of George W. Bush

the Texas Rangers baseball franchise and he served as managing general partner until his gubernatorial bid in 1994 (History Centra...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...