They endured horrific acts of abuse; racism against African-Americans was a justified way of life during the slave era. ... For blacks in the United States, health care disparities can cause premature deaths, deteriorated quality of life, loss or elimination of economic opportunities, giving the notions of oppression and injustice. ... Since the early 17th century, discrimination of African Americans has been an immanent part of daily life. ...

• Word Count: 533
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Coming of Age in Mississippi, by Anne Moody was an autobiography that gave a jolting account of what life was like for each of them growing up. ... To better understand the influence in the process of dynamic interactions between individuals and multiple levels of organization involved in human life (Lerner, 1995), one could look at the developmental process of Anne Moody from Bronfenbrenner's perspective, which focuses on the Model of Ecology of Human Development. ... There were certain adverse economic conditions and social issues that affected the dynamics of the family ...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Much of African American literature is realistic in nature, meaning that it tends to be about their personal experiences, especially the later works; therefore, readers are able to experience firsthand the struggles that African American people faced on a daily basis. ... African Americans continued losing their ways of life as soon as they were boarding onto the slave trade vessels and brought over to the United States. ...

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Brown provides readers with narratives of daily life on the plantations, at slave auctions and during the dark hours of individual pain but what makes his narratives so unique is his constant reference to all these situations in the paradoxical realm of democracy and religion. ...

• Word Count: 541
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This statement of protecting and serving the community sometimes is tested to its utmost when police officers are put in what they consider to be a life or death situation. ... Law enforcement is put in direct personal contact with citizens on a regularly daily basis, and without proper training the results could be catastrophic for all concerned. ... And it's this devaluation of black life, especially by white people in authority that is underlying sense of black outrage when it happens; unjustified, callous, and without basic reason or logic. ...

• Word Count: 1138
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Morrison portrays their everyday struggles and in doing so exposes white ignorance of black culture and ways of life. ... Instead she focuses her narrative on the black community where the white is the Other and contact between the two races has little effect on daily life. ... As the novel progresses, the line between life and death slowly blurs. ... Life and death are intertwined, one inextricably linked to the other, as can be seen when Sula passes away. ... Death is not the end of life as it traditionally considered in American society, but rather is a continuum of it. ...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

.* Howard has to deal with the objective world on a daily basis, because like she stated: no matter how light you are to the rest of your family, you're the darkest person there and they say you're black. ... All of her life, she was categorized as everything other than biracial, and it took her nineteen years to mellow and realize that some people might refer to her as being Black or White because of innocent ignorance. ...

• Word Count: 930
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although defeating the enemy was the 54th's regiment first and major priority, they had another challenge to deal and overcome on a daily basis. ... Although these men had a hard time trying to live a proper life in which there wasn't any higher or lesser individual, as time progressed, these soldiers began to inhabit their differences and judge themselves equals. ... "They have risked their lives to save their life, my life, they have given their freedom." ...

• Word Count: 1546
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This list could hardly every be exhausted because segregation was present in every aspect of human life. ... In the late summer of 1944, a precursor of white and black cooperation appeared in the Miami Daily News announcing the city's first multiracial group specifically organized to address problems between whites and blacks relating to housing, health and recreation. ...

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

Due to this history, black people are still often subject to discrimination on a daily basis, which is why affirmative action can be reassuring for them. ... Using skin color to determine one's possible contribution to the diversity of a student body is discriminatory, because everyone has different experiences in life. ...

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

According to Meyers, "Individual slave women resisted slavery on a daily basis in various, seemingly small ways, which overtime were more effective in weakening the power of the owners.... Therefore, regardless of her autobiography being depicted as propaganda, her book inevitably played a role in the resistance of slavery in the Caribbean as it introduced real life scenarios of the harsh reality of slavery to the public without the means of violence. ...

• Word Count: 1917
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Interview: The Daily Show) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been banning the book since 2005, along with three other works by Grisham, on the grounds of it containing "content that could be deemed as 'inflammatory' in the prison system"("National Library Week...... Revealingly, no further explaination as to why this phenomenon of de-facto segregation exists is ever given in the novel, it is simply accepted as a part of everyday life. ...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate