To know that two opposing sides generate a war via alleged interests or views is highly important. ... This also holds to be true for African Americans during World War II. World War II was basically about one world superpower trying to dominate a continent, by any means necessary. ... From the Civil War up until World War II, African Americans fought with inadequate weaponry and in segregated units. ... African American roles: People at home. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To know that two opposing sides generate a war via alleged interests or views is highly important. ... This also holds to be true for African Americans during World War II. World War II was basically about one world superpower trying to dominate a continent, by any means necessary. ... From the Civil War up until World War II, African Americans fought with inadequate weaponry and in segregated units. ... African American roles: People at home. ...

• Word Count: 1502
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Section 1: Question 2 Slave narratives such as The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl help readers try to experience and understand what life was like as a slave. ... Before the Civil War, slave narratives such as these were the first to use such dramatic personal experiences of African- Americans in a text. ... From that moment his understanding of the world changed. ... One important event occurred between Douglass and a particularly strict slave driver, named Mr. ... Douglass and Jacobs are two biracial people experiencing how it is to be divid...

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Players are remembered for their missed shots, letting their team down when needed most, and most important their weaknesses. ... The Romas, one of the greatest female ball clubs of all time, played against male and female teams, never lost a game for six years after World War 2 (1939-1945). ... Coaches' efforts to encourage a strong sense of self worth, respectability, and self-confidence in young people they mentored on the court extended the educational missions of institutions and the work of parents and families, despite the negativity and racism that surrounded and shaped the lives ...

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Cynthia Davis notes that, "All of Morrison's characters exist in a world defined by its blackness and by the surrounding white society that both violates and denies it (Davis 217)." ... The ill treatment of blacks is brought into the novel's present day with the story of Shadrack, a World War I veteran and shell shock victim. ... By immersing the reader in the black community, Morrison makes "white ignorance of that concrete, vivid and diverse world even more striking (Davis 217)." ... Sula comes from a house of "throbbing disorder constantly awry," while Nel sitting in front of her ...

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Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in America. ... Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a b...

• Word Count: 3701
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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or de...

• Word Count: 3529
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate