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Essays 211 - 240
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...
a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...
in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...
African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...
and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...
can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...
future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...
a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...
making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...
beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...
the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...
Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...
the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...
source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...
on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...
a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...
enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...
of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...
the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...
nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...
photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...
community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...
pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...