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Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke

Lee, what the victims share is that they had little before Katrina and now have nothing (Samuels 94). It should be noted, howeve...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

The Reason for the Urban Underclass

(Wilson, 1987). Yet, he does not deny that the culture of poverty has a role in addition to social isolation (Wilson, 1987). It s...

American Revolution and Cultural Interactions

its many treasures. Not only were their cultures tremendous varied, so too were the various regions that they called home and the...

The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes

white police intrusion into the black community. Himes pictures Harlem as having a uniquely black character, which means that its ...

Forecasts for the Power Tool Industry

used predominantly for working with wood" (No surprise, 2005; p. 27). Professionals are relying more heavily on high-quality, bat...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

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...

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...

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...

Causes of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...

An Exploration of Anthropology by Andrea Lee

to parade as white folds illustrates how she wanted her kindred to be just as proud of their true racial roots as they were with t...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

Community Reactions in Times of Stress

lasting societal problems. Lewis notes, for example, that in the latter situation: "Social relations...

A Sociological Analysis of the Janet Jackson Incident

Jackson family that invites confrontation, paparazzi and law enforcement? In some ways it seems as if this situation, and the situ...

Race Relations/Jacksonville, FL

Then, you could go on to address the topic of race relations in Jacksonville from a broader perspective, which encompasses a brief...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

The Souls of Black Folk

work one can gain a sense of this condition: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking ...

The Black Angel

Anne Dodge memorial, 2007). But his works, like all great art, take on a life of their own that perhaps goes beyond what was reque...

The Motivation for Autobiography

is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men. There is another fact: Black men want to prove to white men, at a...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black...

Comparison: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks"

racism, this time not the violent confrontation of the KKK, but the institutionalized, systematic racism that is so much a part of...

The Little Rock Nine

Linda Brown who had to walk a great distance to arrive at the black school to which she was assigned. What came from the Supreme C...

Lead Poisoning and Asthma

Joseph, Havstad, Ownby, Peterson, et al (2005) explore lead poisoning as it relates to asthma. These researchers explore the hypo...

Alienation in "The Scarlet Letter"

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?

race, Snyder refers to Batson v. Kentucky, a case in 1986 that would not allow the practice of eliminating jurors due to race ("Co...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...