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McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

King Philip's War by Jill Lepore

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...

Spoken English and its Sociocultural Components

In eight pages this paper examines how language development is influenced by culture and society in a consideration of its effects...

England and African Immigration

even two decades ago and London has changed completely. It is a challenge for both immigrants and natives to accommodate each othe...

English Versification Development

In five pages this research paper offers a brief English versification history beginning with Beowulf's Old English and continuing...

Standard English Influenced by Black English

This paper consists of five pages and examines how Black English has damaged standard English's structure. Seven sources are cite...

A History of the English Language

This paper examines four different variations of the English language, ranging from Old English to current English. This eight pa...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

African Culture and Ideology and Its Impact Upon African Americans Past and Present

In this paper consisting of six pages the 'Africanness' thread that continues to link contemporary African Americans to their past...

Issues in Ethnomusicology, Agawu and McClary

(Agawu, 1992, p. 246). At this point, Agawu states that the purpose of his essay is to critique ethnomusicology writing that has f...

Analysis of Two Essays on American Culture

when an a more appropriate question would be "whether they had fun" (Ecenbarger). This fits with the overall cultural focus on, no...

Social Stereotyping and the Black Americans

12 pages and 9 sources. This paper considers the fact that stereotyping in the United States is common and that the stereotyping ...

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

Teen Obesity

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

The Harlem Renaissance and the Literature of Black America

of Education, which occurred a month after his death. Locke is considered to be an intellectual. He had no illusions about color...

Trespassing My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege by Gwendolyn M. Parker

been one of the smartest children in a class, the teachers now refused to acknowledge her raised hand in answer to one of their qu...

Humanity and the Origin of Racial Prejudice

In nine pages this paper considers where prejudice among the races originated and compares the bias that Asian Americans and Afric...

The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...

African Americans Historiography

In six pages this research paper considers African Americans' historiography. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...

'Wh in Situ' Chines and English Movements

Chinese and English wh movements are contrasted and compared in a paper consisting of ten pages....

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

The Relationship of African-American Men to Conflict Theory

The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...

People's History

In five pages history as seen through the eyes of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and factory workers is glimpsed in a...

Global Commonality of the English Language

were able to teach through the medium of Welsh and Welsh cultural texts were promulgated....

Slavery Reparations and African Americans

times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...

U.S. Race Relations and Sports

his firm resolution until his lifes end (Faulkner, 1995). The turning point in Robinsons life was when his mother uprooted him an...

Films Chinatown and Raisin in the Sun and Ethnicity

element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...

William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington on Race

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...