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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...

1960s Black Female Writers

to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...

Article Summary of Chris Hood's 'Early Suppression Fast Response Sprinkler System'

illustrating the dangers and costs of a fire thus stressing the need for great fire safety measures. Hood (2004) then moves on ...

A Shopping Mall Observational Study

bags and a large, leather handbag. This girl was about 55 and weighed maybe about 120 pounds. Her hair was shoulder length and her...

Strategy and SWOT Analysis of Harley Davidson

reduced. However, there are also a number of weaknesses. Weaknesses; The company has a good reputation, but it is also operating ...

The Cost of Participation of Black Americans in the Political Process

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

Black Power Movement

also the same determination that caused such alarm in those who feared him. "[Malcolm X] stung our consciences and awakened our m...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

Book Review of The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John C. Maxwell

Throughout the book, in fact, the key goal of Maxwell isnt necessarily how to grow and develop leadership, but rather, how to grow...

Overview of the Armenians

Armenian people preferred to ignore what happened to them decades ago since they now live in the United States. But the author tra...

John Leslie Livingston and Theodore Grossman's Edited Text The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting Third Edition

While the book is certainly comprehensive in most ways, it has a couple of problems. First, as with all "compilation" type of book...

European Economy and the Black Death

it in some places before the Black Death or the wars suggests that the economic system itself was at fault" (Rempel). By the time ...

Example of a National Heritage Grant Proposal

used to study this particular family, because this goes to show that extended family doesnt necessarily have to be made up of bloo...

Pacific Northwest Immigration of Blacks and History Lessons

South in the United States. Although neither Washington, Oregon, nor British Columbia were considered true advocates of slavery, ...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Chapters 1 through 13 Summarized

disgrace. This chapter also describes some of the local customs and reveals an economy based on yam farming. It concludes with O...

History and Immigration of Blacks to the Pacific Northwest

"the annual level of legal immigration rose from around 300,000 to nearly one million....approximately 83 percent came...

Bossidy's Execution Getting Things Done

potential is never fulfilled. But dont most companies have some kind of a people process? According to this book, yes and no. The ...

Overview of the Black Plague

disease he was now apparently immune to. It is interesting and informative to note that Tuchman and Defoes work exist in very d...

Examination of Black Holes

faith than on facts that can be observed and verified (Cowen 17). What exactly is a black hole? It isnt anything that can be see...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Health Care Policymaking

the 1990s, there was a focus keeping kids health (Mechanic et al, 2005). To accomplish this, local health care institutions initia...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Bennett: "Before the Mayflower"

North and South" (Bennett). Bennett pays a good deal of attention to detail, explaining the position of Blacks in ancient civili...