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Humanity and the Origin of Racial Prejudice

In nine pages this paper considers where prejudice among the races originated and compares the bias that Asian Americans and Afric...

Paul Laurence Dunbar's 19th Century Poetic Persona

In eight pages this research paper considers the persona that ensnared late 19th century African American poet Paul Laurence Dunba...

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

Minority Group Plights and U.S. Assimiliation

In eight pages the plight of the African Americans, Latinos, and Asians in terms of assimilation and immigration are considered. ...

Contemporary Family and the Father's Role

In ten pages this paper discusses the growing roles of fathers in modern families with distinctions between gay and African Americ...

Tunisia and Islam

In twelve pages this research paper discusses Tunisia with an emphasis upon Islam's regional significance and the role it has play...

The Creation Gods in Greek and African Mythology

In a research paper containing eight pages the supreme or creation African mythological gods are contrasted and compared with Zeus...

Using Vernacular to Reflect Self Image in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

An Analysis of the Film, The African Queen

This paper examines the film, The African Queen, and discusses the relationship between movie's co-stars, Humphrey Bogart and Kath...

Sub Saharan Regional Music

In six pages this research paper examines Nigeria and Cameroon in a consideration of the tradition laden music in these African re...

Teen Pregnancy and African Americans II

In five pages this paper examines how the African American community is affected by teenage pregnancy in a consideration of associ...

Comparison of Caucasian and African American Men Rates of Prostate Cancer

In nine pages this paper compares the incidence rates between Caucasian and African American men regarding prostate cancer. Five ...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

percent, while rates among black women increase 1 percent, says the National Cancer Institute). Although White women are more li...

African American Women, Environmental Impacts, and Breast Cancer

In five pages environmental factors such as carcinogens exposure are discussed as they relate to the high breast cancer mortality ...

Civil Rights and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages this paper imagines what might have been had President Abraham Lincoln lived and directed the U.S. Reconstruction ef...

Discrimination in the American Military and Its End During World War II

Point would be the training site for the 51st and 52nd Defense Battalions. Ironically, these combat units never actually saw comba...

Fatherhood in Master Harold . . . and the Boys by Athol Fugard

In a paper consisting of five pages the representation of fatherhood in the play by the South African playwright focuses upon a co...

Kingship and Society in Sundiata

In three pages this African literary epic is examined in terms of its themes of kingship and society with topics including artisti...

The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

Literature as the Continental Mirror of Africa's Struggles

In a paper consisting of three pages the African struggles are examined within the context of Buchi Emecheta's 'The Joys of Mother...

The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...

'African Time' in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Clack or 'African time' is conceptually defined within the context of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston in a pape...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the Ghosts of Slavery

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these literary works regarding the lasting impressions of the slave experience up...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Biographies of 3 Influential African Americans Lorraine Hansberry, Anne Moody, and Gordon Parks

were taught to value honor, education, equality, and the importance of telling the truth. Parks childhood instilled in him a fierc...

Fences by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the differences and similarities of these plays are discussed in an examination of whether Wilson's work is an Afric...

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

In five pages this book is considered in terms of the slave trade and the African Americans' factual and historical accounts conta...

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

In two pages this paper discusses the themes of self identity and Black culture as they pertain to African American men as reflect...

The Impact of World War II on Literature

first novel, Tales of the South Pacific (Macmillan, 1947) (Meador 14). This book, which was based on actual World War II experienc...

An Examination of African Sleeping Sickness and its Causes

responsible for the slower moving form (Ghaffar, 2005). It is this slower moving form which predominates in western and central ...