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Essays 1981 - 2010

Black Power Movement

also the same determination that caused such alarm in those who feared him. "[Malcolm X] stung our consciences and awakened our m...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Assimilation Barriers

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

Puritanism of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

1960s Black Female Writers

to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman from 1977 to 1980

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

Chapters Eight and Nine of Teaching to Transgress by Belle Hooks

somewhat skeptical on the idea of "feminist studies" and "feminist thinking," as such studies and thinking tended to overshadow th...

Double Consciousness and the First Chapter of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

the following: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes ...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Gifted Education Programs and Students

In five pages this paper examines students and gifted education programs in a consideration of disproportionate representation of ...

Ethnic and Racial Construction Of 'Caribbeanness'

In ten pages the texts I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys are referred to in a disc...

European Society and Black Death

In six pages black death or bubonic plague is considered in terms of epidemiology and the societal effects Europe suffered as a re...

Marijuana and the Advantages of Legalization

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses how legalizing marijuana would carry with it the advantages of crime reduction, pri...

Reviewing A Long Kiss Goodnight Film

In six pages the 1996 film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Shane Black and costarring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson is di...

Elder's Play Ceremonies of Dark Old Men

In a paper consisting of seven pages this 1969 play about a black family that offers hope despite social decline is examined. Fiv...

Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice

In five pages this paper analyzes Eldridge Cleaver's autobiography in terms of how it portrays 1960s' 'Black Power.' Five sourc...

August Wilson's Race Reversal of Romeo and Juliet

work seems to mirror much of his own life struggles, as well as his journey to accepting himself and, perhaps, his father who aban...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

A Review of Monster

A 5 page discussion of the novel by Walter Dean Myers. This book recaps the problems encountered by a sixteen year old black yout...

An Analysis of Two Hawthorne Stories

This paper analyzes two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, and The Minister's Black Veil. This five page ...