Drug related homocide is the number one cause of death among African Americans between 15-24 years of age (Haynes et al.... Haynes et al. state that children from non-mainstream, poor, or culturally different backgrounds can experience difficulty in schools were mainstream is valued. ... Haynes et al. states that an atmosphere of trust and bonding amongst students and between students and staff is needed in order for a healthy school environment to promote resistance to substance abuse. ... The drug culture however, can offer an escape route into peer acceptance, power that offers prestige, ...

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Soos believes the Bureau was a success because "fair treatment for the freedmen was not always realised20" and thus effective equality was gained as it "retained the right to overturn discriminatory decisions of the state and local courts.21" Jewitt backs up Soos as he states it "was successfulin helping blacks receive payment for work.22" However, Tindall et al, directly disagree with Soos, instead believing the bureau failed due to "the failure to gras1p the intensity of white intransigence and racial prejudice23" and later going on to blame congress a...

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So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, DuBois becomes more psychoanalytical and chooses to investigate at more length (and with more artistic and personal freedom in his writing) what it means to be black, what it means to be white, what it means to be free, et al, rather than adopting one stance very early on and hammering it home over and over, as Washington does. ...

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