In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... Donnell starts the essay with an immediate fishhook, "I"m cool like this:" (367) in order to firstly grab the reader's attention and secondly to make the initial point about just how cool he is. ... After the first sentence he starts all sentences with, "I" and then the next few sentences start with, "cooler" or "cool" (367). ... This helps the reader understand now what cool is actually meant to be because t...

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The following essay will examine certain aspects of the development of the highly heterogeneous "Black Power" movement in the United States; revealing a broader context of the struggle to obtain equal civil rights. ... As a somewhat arbitrary starting point, the year 1964 did not only witness the implementation of the Civil Rights Act in the United States, which put an official end to racial segregation - it also was the year that African American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, won the prestigious Noble Peace Prize. ... But unfortunately it would go beyond the scope of this essay to ...

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Racial and social justice was the root factor to start the American Civil Rights Movement, due to years of racial segregation such as the Jim Crow Segregation. ... The roots of the movement started in the 19th century however the peak of the movement was in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Several other students from all over used this example and started their own sit-ins. ... This assassination was seen as a turning point as it helped awaken the administration which pushed for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through congress. ... The civil rights movement has a great legacy as it produced legislations ...

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In 1903, Dubois published a collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, in which he strongly criticized Booker T. ... He says this because he believes that Washington is asking his fellow people to accept inferiority to the white race in order for them to help the African Americans and be able to interact with them socially, politically, and economically. ... He believes that they should not have to start from the bottom and work their way up for these rights, like Washington, but, instead, that they should receive their rights simply because they are entitled to them under the law. Finally...

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In her essay, Nussbaum questions the righteousness of having an extreme sense of national identity by saying, "As students here grow up, is it sufficient for them to learn that they are above all citizens of the United States but that they ought to respect the basic human rights of citizens of India, Bolivia, Nigeria, and Norway? ... They must be educated so they can learn to identify themselves through their own judgment, and in effect seek to help out in correcting the faults of democracy that they suffered while being slaves. ...

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