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Essays 271 - 300

The Concept of Individualism

and what is the problem with it? Individualism is "the degree of individual or group orientation" (Bing, 2005). It "refers to the ...

Maya Angelou/Caged Bird

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

Common Ground Stood on by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

law is no law at all" (King, 2001). Dr. King also refers to the Bible and how Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Book of Daniel...

The United Nations: Overview

easing poverty and supporting economic development; agricultural development and fisheries; education; family planning; emergency ...

Harriet Jacobs/Slave Girl

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

Malcolm X and Richard Wright

of his entire life was dedicated to helping the race. Wright was a man simply seeking his own identity and he seemed to have no re...

The Depression in the United States and Roosevelt's Efforts at Relief

their customers lost their life savings because there was nothing protecting their money in the event of a defunct financial insti...

Antwone Fisher's 'Finding Fish'

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

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

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

Capitalism and How It was Saved by FDR

as many of his critics argued (Schlesinger, 1998). Before Roosevelt took office, the country had suffered a depression about eve...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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

The Prodigal Son in Augustine's Confessions

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

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

I Came a Stranger by Hilda Satt Polacheck

House. What may have poisoned the well for Polachecks initial impression is the fact that she unfairly compared the United States...

Conservative Overtones of the New Deal Social Policies

brinks of despair and back onto its feet. Conditions in the U.S. were so bad it was estimated that over 100,000 American citizens...

New Deal of FDR and its Importance

done created a stellar U.S. economy and a great deal of productivity. Of course, many of the measures were meant as temporary fixe...

Politics and the Influence of Radio During the Years 1920 to 1940

the airwaves these days. But for the times (and in examining the history), the radio rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s was quite str...

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

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

America and Changes Brought About by FDR's New Deal

place to sleep and food to eat. While the stereotypical liberal democrat may appear to be kinder, the Republican side defends its ...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

Overview of Professional Football Player Bill Goldberg

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

Debate on FDR's New Deal of the 1930s

Of course, the taxes which go to Social Security are not exactly set aside for the individual per se, but people are provided with...

Katherine Lumpkin's The Making of a Southerner

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

Book Report on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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

'Shame' from Dick Gregory's Autobiography

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

Teddy Roosevelt's Autobiography

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

Wartime US Presidents

authority in this area. While they are technically supposed to get Congressional approval to declare war, the facts show that over...

GE CEO Jack Welch and Lessons Learned from His Autobiography

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

Temple Grandin's Emergence

is now known to be neurological. The memory capacity of autistic children develops in a different way from others: in effect, they...

Nineteenth Century Social Relationships

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