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King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

The Course of African Americans Through the History of the United States

injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Libertarian Manifesto of John Hospers

In four pages this report examines the Manifesto 'Each human being has the right to live his life as he chooses, compatibly with t...

How Did the New Left Lead to the Rise of the New Right?

support one another, and as a result, there was great social change. Perhaps the greatest success of the New Left was the Brown v....

The Equal Pay Act of 1963

system of seniority (Wikipedia, 2006). In essence it is the ideal of "equal pay for equal work." In relationship to what th...

Improving Human Rights and International Efforts

to the survival of international law, for without this controlling entity there would be no sense of responsibility. With no modi...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Continuity in the Culture of African Americans

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...

Culture and Child Abuse

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Marva Collins Model for Discipline

She also advocates the use of proverbs and poetry, as students to copy and memorize them, as these inspirational tools deliver "cu...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

The Condition of Education for Black Americans

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

Black American Feminism

7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...

The Strengths of African American Families

7 pages ad 4 sources. This paper outlines the basic principles presented in Robert Bernard Hill's The Strengths of African Americ...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

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...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...