By paying the factory workers as little as possible and producing as much product as possible the business workers were never worried about where they stood in society because everyone besides them were unable to break past the walls between the classes Owners of major corporations would disagree with Eugene Debs" opinion that the capitalist system is "incapable" of meeting the needs of the people in society for many reasons. ... Big business owners became quickly focused on mass production at the fastest pace possible, by paying the workers as little as possible. ... Jane Addams was a fort...

• Word Count: 2825
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This movement was led mainly by women, "That this was a grassroots struggle organized largely by local women-with the most charismatic leader being a woman-does not fit with prevalent conceptions of what the black freedom struggle looked like." ... Black schools were overcrowded, badly equipped, received very little funding and had outdated curriculums. ... Felicia Kornbluh's Black Buying Power: Welfare Rights, Consumerism, and Northern Protest demonstrates how the women's grassroots activism in the South heavily impacted a vast majority of underprivileged black women who were involv...

• Word Count: 1231
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A lot of stereotypes existed about African American women, about their behavior, family organization, or their abilities. These stereotypes demoralized African American women's position in the mainstream society and portrayed African American women as non-human beings. African American women writers helped with the setback of these stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). ... Along with emasculated came the loss of their power to protect their women....

• Word Count: 5084
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The short story shows with humor, but little traceable compassion from the writer's part, how blind Dee's fixation with trying to claim her heritage makes her towards seeing the truth of the African American experience and how she only accepts what she has read about it. ... Cash argues that the real history, the real story of quilting is about kinship across generations between African American women as well as mutual cooperation with the aim of being self-reliant and capable of self-help. ... They are resources in reconstructing the cultural and political past of African American w...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the law, Caine picked up where The Fugitive (1963-67) left off and added a topical resonance with the televised resistance to the war in Vietnam by living like a pacifist, draft-dodger as well as fighting guerilla-style like a Viet Cong, and, in all respects, getting the better of his Anglo-American opponents, while being white himself. ... Thus, Vani...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women have been treated inferior to men, throughout much of American history. Today sexism is being supported and unknowingly encouraged by both men and women through benevolent sexism. ... When the individuals who are victim to this prejudice and racism actually observe these unearned disadvantages take place they see little hope for improvement. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black women were viewed as sex symbols; they were believed to promote promiscuity and were forced to sexually please their owners. ... True empathy might help our country move forward, but simple words on a document that sound far from personal will make little impact. ...

• Word Count: 2862
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While setting up clinics, schools and social groups, the church also served as employments agents for anyone willing to hire African American men and women. ... Due to ethical tensions caused by WWI and the likes of Henry Ford, "little Jerusalem's " grew in the Detroit area. ...

• Word Count: 932
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Obama manages to give a reasonable speech that strongly focuses on his ethos and a little on pathos to properly respond to the criticism against his relationship to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and also uses this as a basis for pinpointing America's current issues, using several rhetorical devices, especially antithesis, to emphasize his arguments. ... In this part, Obama relied on pathos to send his message, by saying America's issues are it's crumbling schools that steal children's education, the countless people who can't get proper medical help without health care, t...

• Word Count: 787
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She made it a point to highlight the ideological differences between the north and the south because she wanted to make the argument as much about ideas and as little about skin color as possible. She talked thankfully about white women of the North coming and teaching blacks during reconstruction. "From every nook and corner of the North, brave young white women answered the call .. and went to the south to carry light and truth to the benighted blacks". ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the largest and most important political movements at the time was the push for women's rights. The Seneca Falls movement was at the forefront of this reform and led to the efforts towards women's suffrage. We see changes first begin to occur in 1870 in the Wyoming Territory, the first place women are legally allowed to vote. ... A little over a decade later the Pacific railway was also completed, successfully connecting the east and west coast. ...

• Word Count: 2011
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The little of her remaining sense of identity continues to quaver as Shakespeare makes no reference to her name in Othello's and Brabantio's speeches, depicting her as a possession which is fought over by men. ... Further affirmation is also given as she ironically asks Emilia whether "there be women" who betrays their "husbands in such gross kinds". ... This reiterates the significant sense of duty that Othello abides by, but is seemingly overlooked by Nelson as his characters illustrated little or no nobility. ...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Once hip hop became popular, critics attributed it to the destruction of the Black community, gang and drug related violence, demeaning of women, and the overall destruction of America's values....

• Word Count: 2443
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People who are fond of creating generalizations are those who wish to fit the story into a neat, little box. ... He is far more concerned with class status in relation to black people and makes this apparent in the type of men and women he befriends. ...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage, Walker articulates what has since become two central themes in her writing: the importance of the quilt in her work and the creation of African American Southern women as subjects in their own right. ...

• Word Count: 905
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A concrete example of C Wright Mills sociological imagination is the underdevelopment of African American. When I say underdevelopment i mean whether it is poverty, unemployment, education, and began exploited. You go as far as back in the 1820 up 1940s were blacks were exploited in so many ways. Th...

• Word Count: 1119
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Further supporting the idea that society's expectations and social stigmas complicate a person's search for identity, the poem by Mary Oliver, Morning, talks about a woman who falls victim to the social standards of women her age and the sense of loneliness and longing she feels because of it. ... Whether the woman in the poem is truly in her old age is unknown, but from the text, the reader gets a sense that she is locked away in her house with nothing more to keep her busy than envying the luxurious and simple life of her cat, since popular to social beliefs, older women have cats ...

• Word Count: 2322
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I think Staples has every right to be bitter, although intentionally frightening people for his own amusement is a little over the top. ... Instead, it is recreating the degrading stereotype of black men and women from the past. ...

• Word Count: 1531
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This poet was not alone though as Black art suffered greatly them in America and these people tried to fuse as little Black and as much American as possible into their craft in a bid to be given a chance to fit into the Caucasian standard of what was consider American. ... As Jacobs said, "slavery is bad for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 1861). ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" Historically there have been many people and organizations that have stood up against racial profiling despite the fact that so little progress has been made. ... Profiling happens to both women and men, affects all age groups, is used against people from all socio-economic backgrounds and occurs in rural, suburban and urban areas. ...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more ac...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People of a European descent may never be aware of any stereotypical opinions portrayed by Europeans, yet a large portion of what the general public in America learn contains stereotypical opinions about other cultures. A person living in the United States should not help but notice the slandering ...

• Word Count: 1724
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate