They are later asked to leave by a bisexual female prostitute who expresses a similar statement of their uselessness. ... Throughout the text, Du Bois successfully uses water to express Jim's loneliness and misery resulting from racial discrimination. The similar sensation of loneliness that the Spacers experience is expressed in Aye and Gomorrah through the plot, wherein the description of Spacers' rude behaviors and troublemaking speaks to their inner loneliness and longing for companionship in an atmosphere of sexual prejudice. ... Again, their aggressive reaction is aimed at eli...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the positivist view that had drawn direction for the aims of law from social phenomenon rather than a moral compass. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to...

• Word Count: 2706
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We younger negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame....We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves."... Some common themes and aims that were used in the writings included alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience, advancement of the black race, and exploration of self-identity. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They often expressed their contempt for the black upstarts who, in their view, possessed neither morals nor manners. ... We all live in America it is our aim to get ahead; we must come together and work out our differences as best we can. ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the 1960's, affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination, was created in order to help benefit minority groups in several areas of society. Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. One idea behind affirmati...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some officials expressed surprise and concern that rents were as high in slum areas as they were in regular rental areas. Following its tour, the committee announced that eliminating slums in the black sections of Miami was its major aim. ...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The black codes were aimed at stopping the movement of equality in the "de jure" sense, demonstrated by the vagrancy laws which saw homeless unemployed black Americans arrested and fined. ... Whilst the Black Codes stopped African-Americans gaining effective equality the Freedmen's Bureau aimed at generating effective equality in both the "de jure" and "de facto" sense. ...

• Word Count: 3529
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate