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A Book Review of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

under surveillance. The government does all they can to frustrate the story, sending them erroneous leads which go nowhere. In fac...

Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and the Identity of Esperanza

also knows that she cannot abandon all that she is or all that she has experienced. We watch as she confronts her strengths and ...

The Theme of Identity in Derek Walcott's Omeros

the chariot that Hector bought. . . . Each row was a divan of furred leopardskin. . . . te...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

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...

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...

Social Identity and Personal Identity

the basis of obvious characteristics such as race. Interaction with other groups is not even a prerequisite for such categorizati...

Class, Race, Sexuality, and Identity

embraced and coddled when they are hurt. A boy may be given masculine toys and a girl given dolls. If a boy wants to play with dol...

Depiction of Women in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

realities that Celie is born into and must grow up with. She is poor and must essentially raise children that are not hers, give u...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Black Hills' Land Claim of the Oglala Sioux

of its treaties with Native Americans. According to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, a treaty the United States entered into with the ...

Struggles for Equality in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

being Thomas Jefferson) gathered to write their objections down on paper. Among the objections were what were termed "self eviden...

Black English in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

Mental Health Counselor

clients may just skip appointments. The mental health counselor is often part of a team working with a client. For this reason, i...

Black American Women and Interlocking Oppression

words, when it comes to oppression, people are not necessarily held back due only to their gender, or their color, but a combinati...

An Ungrateful Nation - Blacks after the Second World War

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

Popular American Culture and Recent Trends

the tip of the iceberg. Aaron Gross (1996) asks: "Should the state be required to support as well as legally grant rights and priv...

Human Behavior, Hormones, and the Controversy over Biological Psychology and Environmental Influence

human embryos start out as females; they become males when (if) the Y chromosome, which is inherited from the father, is added (Vi...

Hormones, Human Behavior and the Controversy over Biological Psychology and Environmental Influence

The relationship between hormones, behavior and gender identity is explores in this three page paper. It also touches on the contr...

Military Budget and Politics

enough money to keep the military strong. In embarking on this significant issue, it pays to first examine the present budget. Is...

The Vietnam War and the U.S. Defeat

In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...

Politics of Latin America

perspectives may well have something to offer the worker. With populism the worker can, hopefully, possess more of a voice and mor...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education

The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...

Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, American Identity and Education

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...

'Black English' in an English Dialect Study

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

Literature of Early Africa and Identity

how Africa had been at some point before its development. While the old works cited above do provide a sense of identity for the p...

1790 American Politics and the Factors That Shaped It

control. When they did so, however, they were left in a tenuous state. Although much of the old system of...

Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

In eight pages questions are answered relevant to this text on France and include comparisons between French politics and American...