Randall uses many different techniques, such as plot, setting, language, point of view, characters and theme, to show the reader that during this time period African Americans were not safe, no matter how innocent and in the most sacred of places. Randall uses language to make the death of the young girl at the end of the poem more tragic. ... The language that Dudley uses throughout the poem helps develop the setting. ... This is a result of the effects of point of view and language. ... The theme of the story is conveyed through each technique, language, plot, setting, point of view, and ...

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African American music has been called "( ) the musical Lingua Franca of the world [because] everyone listens to African American music and relates to it."... Around 1650 unified songs began to develop in the slave communities (mainly due to their learning of the English language). ... The next era of African American music was called, "Classical African American Music (1860s -1950s)." ... This music did a great deal for the African American community. ... Lastly, African American music leads to the establishment of various schools, for African Americans, that offered degrees in the arts and t...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. ... The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. ... For Africans the slave ship is a hell over the water. ... "Their complexions, differing so much from ours, their long hair and the language they spoke, which was different from any I had ever heard, united to confirm me in this belief. ... ...

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Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. ... About 7 million Africans survived the olocaust Atlantic slave-trade". About 50 % of the kidnapped Africans died during the journey. The first Africans were brought to the USA in 1619. Africans were kidnapped (often by other tribes, in Africa slavery had existed before the white man entered Africa), treated like animals or even worse, and brought to the USA in chains. ...

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Most women between the ages of 25 to 44 are in childbearing years, and thirty to fifty percent of them (blacks) are misdiagnosed because of cultural barriers, language, trust, and values between doctor an patient (NMHA 2). ... However, only one third of African Americans would take medication if the doctor prescribed it for them (NMHA 2). The rate of depression African American women is 50% higher among white women although, 25% of blacks account for mental health needs, blacks make up only 11-12 % of national populations. ... The African American woman of today is much more likely to go ...

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Walker and Marshall write about an identity that they have found with African-American women of the past. ... In her essay, Marshall identifies with her mother and the African-American tradition that her mother expressed. Marshall describes the kitchen setting she was exposed to as a child: They were women in whom the need for self-expression was strong, and since language was the only vehicle readily available to them they made of it an art form that- in keeping with the African tradition in which art and life are one - was an integral p...

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This is the language of the colonizer, the language of power and superiority.This scene with Mr. ... They exist somewhere between the English language and culture and their own African and Nigerian traditions. ... Language is important here. ... This directs us to watch out for language. ... It is as if both Clara and Obi's language of the heart is the language of home. ...

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Kung were a very studied group including their language, culture, and economic organization. ... They also speak several languages, use store bought clothing, food, electronics, and inoculations. ... Among the many cultures in Africa, one of the most well known cultures would be the !... The Kung San are hunting and gathering people living in southern Africa. !Kung are a varied people in terms of looks and language, and include people living Angola, Botswana, Zambia, and Namibia. ...

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I will discuss examples of tattooing, cicatrization, body piercing, and other forms of body ornamentation and manipulation among Pacific Islanders, Africans, Native Americans (Mandan, Cheyenne, and Sioux), and Japanese. ... A form of body ornamentation common among the dark-skinned people of Africa is called cicatrization. ...

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Hughes was considered one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement of the 1920s that saw a surge of African American cultural expression in poetry, art, literature, and more across the urban Northeast and Midwest. ... The narrator, an African American, meets an African. ... But the poem demonstrates that these practices could also provide artists in the African diaspora with an indispensable means of understanding, and thereby resisting, that system of exploitation (qtd. in Moglen 1). ... He is contrasting the flatness of his language with the prettiness ...

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The band was spreading its exciting new style of orchestral modern Jazz, mixed with a healthy dose of blues and swing, all over the country and was beginning to spill over into Europe; and the critics the critics were raving about this daring and innovative group that was translating the speedy Be-Bop language into a big band style that people could dance to, understand, and enjoy. ... Right there lurking within the framework of tunes like Pickin the Cabbage and Night In Tunisia was the apposition between a four-four swing beat and a Latin or African rhythm. The next logical step for Dizzy it ...

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the geographical concepts of Brazil such as the culture, history and its importance, language, trade, etc and how they compare to those of the United States. ... To work the estates, the owners used slaves from Africa. Today there is still an African tradition in Brazil. ... The majority of Brazilians are of European or African descent. ... There is a mixture of tradional African beliefs and Catholicism. ...

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He never had a unified army of one race or language; his army consisted of all the enemies of Rome and followers of Hannibal. ... There were peoples of many races, and many languages. ... Then the cavalry, after decimating their Roman counterparts, enveloped the Roman rear, while the good African infantrymen attacked the flanks and the Galls and Spaniards held the center admirably. ...

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Many colored people call themselves African American. I talked to a man in a coffee shop once that used the term African-American to describe him. ... I asked a friend of mine why he called himself black instead of African American. ... So he was not sure his ancestry came from Africa. ... My great, great, great grandfather was from Denmark but he would never teach his children the language because he believed that they should only speak Engli...

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Much later on an unknown number of Africans migrated from Mecca to Ile Ife. At this point the Eastern Africans and Western Africans synergized. ... In the U.S. chattel type slavery was the means where the language and culture was whipped and beat out of the African captives. ... In recent years, availability of attainable air travel has enabled African Americans to go back to the essence from which this great culture derived (Africa) and gather the information needed to teach and assist others. ... (Source 1) The Yoruba speak a common language called Yoruba (Yooba) but with a lot of variati...

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English was the language to be learned by thousands of new immigrants such as the Germans, Mediterraneans, Eastern Europeans, Asians, and Africans (although for hundreds of years, Africans were not really counted as citizens). ... In 1885, he founded the United Transatlantic Society to expedite blacks to Africa. ... Its purpose was to promote self-help programs for blacks, African independence struggles, back-to-Africa plans, and racial pride. ... It is a conduit for African-American culture to a greater extent even than jazz. ... It rendered itself the most conductive source of the African-Am...

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Looking back into history, it is determined that many languages used the word race to "categorize human beings". ... This story not only gives insight on other races but of the African race the one in which we are more concerned. There is a biblical story that states Ham, the second son of Noah, was the ancestor of the African race, which is agreed upon by many scholars. ... The idea of Ham's succeeding generations being cursed is an important factor because it gives an explanation of the African race. ...

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Cuba is a country in the Caribbean islands which its geography impacts the environment in many different ways. Cuba is the most westward island in the Caribbean with its neighbors such as Dominican Republic and Haiti. Cuba is also listed as the largest country in the Caribbean and has a population over 11 million people. It's similar in size to the state of Pennsylvania and its 90 miles away from the coast of Florida. Cuba has around 200 rivers in which the Cauto is the longest river which flows from the east to the Caribbean Sea. ...

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R.) was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. ... The reason for this is because his songs are written in not one language but a number of them. ... The one language he used most ofte! n in his texts and songs was the Elvin language; this language of his own creation is so beautifully written and so exquisite to the ear, it simply embraces the heart mind and soul. ... Frodo Baggins is also an elf-friend, knowledgeable in their language and admires their songs immensely, which they greatly respect. ...

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When Rhythm and Blues music first began, essentially all of the artists were African American, as was the audience receiving the music. ... Originating as a musical style performed by African Americans for African American audiences, Rhythm and Blues music, throughout the 1950's and 1970's, was seized by the white-dominated music industry, stripped of its original values and sound, and distributed to popular mainstream artists of the times. ... African Americans working on plantation fields used music as a way of communicating with each other and as a forcible form of expression. ...

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The reader is struck by the colloquial, black-southern language of the text, as well as the graphic scenes of sexual abuse. ... Soon Nettie begins working for a missionary family (the same family which adopted Olivia and Adam, Celie's two children) which is preparing to leave for Africa. ...

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That means the largest category of immigrants to Canada were from a group that had to have established education and work experience credentials, official language proficiency, required funds and medical and security clearance. ...

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Its goal was to send the free slaves to Liberia, Africa. ... He often wrote in corse and blunt language that left no room to be misunderstood. ... Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass, (1818-1895), was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. ... Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman was an African American whose daring rescues helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom. ... Douglass, an eloquent ex-slave from Maryland, was the leading African American spokesperson of the time. ...

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Invasion Of Africa In 257 the Romans decided that if they wanted to end the war they would have to invade the Carthaginian homeland in Africa, and organized a huge invasion force of 230 warships and 100 transports. Both the Roman consuls led this fleet, and after defeating the Carthaginian fleet in Sicily they forced their way through to Africa. The Romans made it to Africa in late summer. ... The Romans failed to press home their advantage the next year, and went on a pointless raid of the African coast east of Carthage. ...

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The main languages are English and Chichewa. ... In other parts of Africa they use camels, cows and donkeys to plow with but not here. ... So it is not possible to mortgage real estate in Malawi and most other sub-Saharan African countries as well. ...

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