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own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...

of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...

is writing his memoir is conversational, which indicates that he tailored his account to appeal to a broad audience. The tone is ...

to protest against a society that had not provided them with the same privileges as their white counterparts. While Antwone was yo...

baby boomer, you must have been born in any year from 1946 through 1964 which has been recognized as a period of increased birth r...

basic career goal is broad, I have a desire to implement new systems and new organizational tools as an element of business develo...

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

after entering into the orphanage, he states, "As the nigger of my class, I was in fact extremely popular-I suppose partly because...

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...

order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provide...

Kingston makes much of the idea of the oral tradition, and her inability to partake in it. The ability to use language is vital fo...

time at home with his wife and family. It is his father who will introduce young Pete to alcohol, and Hamill will write of it as ...

his own money, earned from doing odd jobs. With trepidation, Gregory describes waiting for his change to give, but the teacher doe...

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

belief in a strong and efficient National Government and Jeffersonian in their belief in the people as the ultimate authority, and...

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

This paper examines the corporate leadership climb of Jack Welch and the management techniques his autobiography provides with com...

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

period of time. It is this reality-based conception that is now being utilized in more of the films produced in the twentieth cent...

student in the 1920s she became a civil rights activist on the University of Georgias campus. Lumpkin shows in her book that p...

chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

century - this from a man who actually lived it. In fact, his account puts to rest any romantic notions one might harbor about su...

down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...