Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ... In virtually every ghetto there was a physical revolt. The most well noted is that of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland's capital. ... The Jews of the ghettos and of the camps fought against the odds to survive. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Therefore, gangster rap is a category that is a plague to Black society because of its ghetto endeavors and its root in Black culture. ... In his song Dear Momma, Tupac expresses his feelings on his mother and the life of a mother raising a child in the ghetto. ... The song Changes acts as a social critique of life as a young man in the ghetto and the need for change. ... Changes and Dear Momma are strong examples of his outlook of change and the need for optimism in the Ghetto. ... Dear Momma addressed the power of family to a young man raised in the ghetto. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin...

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• Grade Level: High School

1) A Terrible Tragedy The human tragedy of the Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. The adversity of this persecution influenced not only the European arena, but also peoples from all over the globe and their ideas. The impact caused b...

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"Mr. Officer, I want to see you layin' in a coffin, sir," from The Chronic and "F--- the police," from N.W.A., are few lyrics from the music genre "gangsta rap." This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought of concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they th...

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• Grade Level: High School

He cites statistics showing hospital admissions for asthma at six or more per thousand people in the South Bronx neighborhoods, and 1.8 per thousand statewide in New York. ... Kozol said in the discussion with the Children's Express New York Bureau, "Most black kids in America grow up and don't know any white people."(Children's News Express Bureau) Kozol stated in that same discussion that "New York City, which is one of the most racist cities in world, has dumped all its toxic industries in the neighborhoods where poor black and Latino children live. The ri...

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• Grade Level: High School

Life in the ghettos of the big industrialised cities was characterised by social discrimination and de facto se-gregation. ... The masses in the northern ghettos were frustrated and hopeless because of the social discrimination and de facto segregation they experienced daily. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In general, Harlem / New York, was the focal point of the Renaissance - everyone associated something on his own with Harlem. Most writers spent at least some time in Harlem, others like Langston Hughes or Claude McKay, described the New York ghetto life in their short stories; it simply provided a various number of setting for their stories. Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

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As rap music has emerged from ghettos, it too has played an extremely important role in the lives of American youth today. ... In the 1970's the young residents of the Bronx in New York introduced us to a new style of music called rhythm and poetry, or better known as Rap. ... Kelley, professor of history at New York University, said that rap singers have never celebrated gang violence ( gang-bangin"). ...

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Vonnegut recounts the events of his post-war life, including a stint as a student of anthropology at the University of Chicago, a job as a police reporter, and a public relations man for General Electric in Schenectady, New York. ... Born in 1922 in Ilium, New York, Billy grows up a funny-looking weakling. ... After returning home, Billy goes on a radio show in New York City to talk about his abduction by aliens in 1967. ... He is driving on his way to a Lions Club luncheon through Ilium's black ghetto, still smoldering from recent riots, and then through a section gutted for urban renewa...

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• Grade Level: High School

After learning about the Holocaust, I've asked myself many times how this could have happened. Why would anyone believe it's acceptable to massacre an entire people? This is my reasoning for writing my paper on how Christian theology influenced anti-Semitism. Much of the Holocaust appears to have it's beginning with Christian theology. I will begin my paper with the early writings of Christians and continue chronologically until after World War II. ...

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I can remember seeing Beat Street for the first time, and actually getting a glimpse of the some of New York's most famous B-boying crews on the big screen. ... "There was a meeting when Sugar Pop came to New York in like 1980. ... And then he called us up and said, Hey I got three friends coming to New York with Lionel Richie, they got a big hit record. ... Ghetto Superstars The movies propelled these local B-boys into an unimaginable stratosphere that Hip-Hop's forefathers could have never foreseen. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The infancy of the twentieth century set a perfect stage for public outcry for reform; with no set piece more prominent than that of the meat packing industry and conditions of poor wage-earning emigrant workers. As the country swirled around in the violent whirlpool of dishonesty, corruption, and t...

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Check your nearest overpopulated ghetto, they greet you with a pistol not trying to say hello, mad kids packed 'cos the neighbourhood's like that, want some shit that's fat catch a victim do a stick. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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Tupac Shakur: Wanted Dead or Alive??? Tupac Shakur is a controversial rapper, poet, and actor adored by many and hated by some. With his out spoken lyrics, he talked about real issues in the world, which are not the usual topics of many rappers. He always tried to give back to his community, and...

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• Grade Level: High School