The need to supplant the term race with something less volatile and more scientifically accurate is crucial in fostering a more advanced biological picture of reality as well as a more cohesive social vocabulary. ... By incorporating such habits in our social vocabulary we have come to generalize by race a person's ethical character, psychological tendencies, intellectual aims, and so forth. ...

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Maya Angelou is a well-recognized American author, primarily from the period of the Civil Rights Movement, where she participated as an activist. According to Richard, Angelou was born in 1928 and died in 2004 (84). Throughout she had a long career that included different works from poetry, screenpl...

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I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. All lies and jest. Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. - Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1970 Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Sins Interpreting Mark Twain's work within our distinctly American cultural heritage has absorbed the careers of countless literary scholars. ...

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