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Historiography of Northern Blacks During the U.S. Civil War

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

Book Report on Ann Sewell's Black Beauty

with any other horse, indicating he is a horse that is used to being treated nicely. Throughout the book Black Beauty is essenti...

Two Option Pricing Models, Compared and Contrasted

The model also facilitated the a revision on the more traditional financial measures that had been used, for example the viewing o...

White Masks in Jean Genet's The Blacks A Clown Show

historical pieces of information regarding how blacks were perceived in society. They were ridiculed and presented as children and...

Whites v. Blacks and Dropout Rate Disproportionment

2005). Despite the changes in college attendance levels noted above, black males are much less likely to graduate from co...

Edgar Allan Poe Major Motifs

In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

They embraced the spirit of "carpe diem," or "enjoy the moment," and Boccaccio was among this group (Chubb PG). Some experts hav...

Racial Oppression and the Black Response

In ten pages this paper discusses American racial oppression and the black response to it during the nineteenth and twentieth cent...

Theories on Eugenics and Black Children

and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Verm...

Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Chestnutt skilfully exposes the irony of these attitudes through the interaction between the various family members, where the dis...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Freudian Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

Olaudah Equiano

his time. Another intriguing aspect of the story illustrates how Equiano was not born into slavery, but rather born into a free...

'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...

Justice, Professional Football, and Minority Coaches

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

Healthcare Needs Assessment Assessed

approach, more specific health issue of the monitories may be ignored. The development of the report requires the of a range of ...

Louisiana Slavery

the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...

The Evolution of Black American English

a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

'On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored' by Marita Bonner and 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' by Zora Neale Hurston

what governs their overall behavior. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons ...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Uses of Black and White

come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. (Conrad Part I). This is a premonition of sorts about what he will eventually fi...

An Assessment on UK Health Needs

Associated with this s the need to identify markers of health inequality, which may then be cross referenced with the levels of et...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

Black Families in White America by Billingsley

the black family, which had brought them from their early salve days to the current condition that is admittedly less than stellar...

US Black Muslim History

West Africa were Muslims and some black Muslims contend that "Islam is part of the genetic memory of blacks" (1996, p.67). Yet, th...

July 1863 NY Draft Riots

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

Ibn Battuta and Mali Descriptions

he was child. He left home at the age of twenty one and in the year 1325 he would begin to satisfy his curiosities. He would jour...

'Makes Me Wanna Holler' by McCall and Academic Achievement

explains: " Two of my older brothers, Junnie and Dwight, went into the Army to get away (Billy left college after one year, but he...