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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...

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...

Night Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...

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 ...

Richard Skolnik's I Am the American

relatives. It was the 1930s and change was in the air socially, politically, and internationally. Where they lived in Brooklyn Sko...

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...

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...

Richard Valantasis' The Gospel of Thomas

in these passages. Ostensibly, this is a saying of Jesus and part of his ministry. Therefore, if one substitutes the word light to...

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)...

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...

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...

Richard Bruce Winder's Mr. Polk's Army

much of that time was spent training them. By the time the training was completed, there was little time left to use the militia o...

'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 ...

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...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

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 ...

Anti Abortion's Normative Argument

all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...

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...

'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror' by Richard A. Clarke

of the Bush inner circle was as unaware of the existence of Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda as Americans were prior to 9/11, remarking, ...

Clarke County, Georgia's Lynching

his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wi...

Overview of Multicultural Theater

nature - the very truth of human nature - which is why it is often painful to accept. Indeed, Hansberrys work represents all that...

Richard T. LaPiere and 'Not Practicing What You Preach'

basis of the importance of measuring attitude when it comes to society and how people in it behave toward one another (Ellwood, 18...

1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education

The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Themes of Retribution and Sin

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

French Culture and Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

carried out. The man was sent home to France when he developed a stomach ailment and the woman was sent home when she became pregn...