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Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

Toni Morrison's Writings and the Use of Trauma

to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...

Gender Relations in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Sweat' and Their Eyes Were Watching God

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

Influences of African American Art on Matisse and Picasso

in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...

Ancient Cultural Development and Anthropomorphic Gods

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

Cervical or Breast Cancer and the High Incidences in African American Women

National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

Earth and Heaven According to Dante Alighieri and Augustine of Hippo

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

Historian and Journalist George Washington Williams

finally relented and approved him for combat (Franklin, 1977). He received a serious injury during the war and received an honora...

Paul K. Conkin's When All the Gods Trembled

human origins. He discusses the beliefs maintained by the three major Semitic religions and then discusses the role of Charles Dar...

Gods and Monsters and Its Message Regarding Society and Culture

sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Comparing Sermons of Samson Occom and Jonathan Edwards

Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...

Animal Cognition and Intelligence

Those misgivings largely fell away with Griffins studies into the communication systems of bees. He used that work to prove anima...

West African Families and Female Circumcision

regions, the "lips" of the vagina, the labia minora and labia major, are also cut. The most severe form of female circumcision is ...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

Significance of Slave Narratives

control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Neusner's Introduction to Judaism

job it is to perform certain sacred rituals, whereas in Judaism, the rabbi has no authority to perform rituals. Instead, Rabbis ar...

A Brief Description of Booker T. Washington

he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

ones, most notably Tuckers story about his brother Silas, also tell the stories of the history of racism in the South. Nonetheless...

Africans and Africa in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

that Africa has on the Europeans in the story. His argument, therefore, it that imperialism is wrong, not so much because of what ...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

Sub Saharan Gold Trade and Islam

of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

Transcultural Nursing

such as communication, space, and time are relevant to these cultural issues. Communication and culture are interrelated, and many...

Maya Angelou Gives an Eloquent Voice to This Generation

this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...