After scientists extract DNA from his bones they found that this boy originated from Asia. ... They extracted DNA from the boy's upper arm and the results amazed everyone. This DNA work accomplished in the boy has been the oldest completed genome of a human sequence. ... " (Michael Waters, 2013) The first inhabitants of North America were the direct ancestors of Native American, says Professor Willerslev and continues: We can see that the Clovis boy shares about 1/3 of his genes with the 24,000 years old child from Mal'ta at the Siberian Lake Baikal who we have analyzed previou...

• Word Count: 2012
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The black community is represented first by the Finch's maid, Calpurnia. ... One thing that impressed me about Reverend Skyes was that he never described himself or his congregation with the word "nigger/s". ... Lastly, Tom Robinson is the married, handicapped character that attended Purchase Church since he was a boy and worked for Mr. ... It came down to the word of the "poor-white trash" Ewell family against an upstanding black citizen. ... Bush - refused an invitation to visit Jasper to speak about the racial murder because he did not want to offend the Christian Coalition and othe...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In Malcolm X's speech "The Black Revolution," he is addressing to a group of white liberals about the oppression blacks have gone through and what it will take to provide racial equality. ... All throughout his speech, Malcolm X continuously talks about a bloody revolution that is to take place in America, which sticks to the minds of his listeners. ... Malcolm X says that all of the people in the world care about the injustice the black people are going through in America. X is falsely reporting that his people care enough to rise with the African-Americans in this revolution that Mal...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the two-year period from January 1995 to December 1997, 70% of the drivers stopped and searched by the police were black, while only 17.5% of overall drivers " as well as overall speeders " were black.6 To look at similar case in Volusia County , Florida, in 1992, nearly 70% of those stopped on a particular Interstate highway in central Florida were black or Hispanic, although only 5% of the drivers on that highway were black or Hispanic. ... The car filled with young black men was stopped by the police several times; the white group was not stopped once, despite observing polic...

• Word Count: 2471
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the word "crime" is mentioned anywhere, a gun will be among the nearest things the brain will start thinking about. ... However, about 30,000 United States citizens are recorded to die from gunshots on a yearly basis. ... On 27th February 2012, T.J Lane who was a seventeen year old school boy walked with a .22 caliber pistol in his bag to his school, Chardon High School situated outside Cleveland. ... Handguns are readily found in the black markets, and hence criminals will forever poses guns even with strict gun control measures. ... The black markets should also be investigate...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

"The books are full of black curves, dots like the eggs the boll-weevil lays each monsoon in furniture-cracks in Ludhiana. ... This little boy did not understand what the teacher was saying and this was not his fault. ... Every Immigrant who comes whether they are black, white, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, or a mixture of many things, they will all be put through some type of questioning by people, themselves, their peers, or the ones they love about who is an American? ...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Our argument lasted for about fifteen minutes because she felt she had a legit reason to put me into the Vietnamese category. ... She responded with, "Most of them have slanted eyes, jet black hair and thin lips." ... Another categorizing confusion is the black people in the United States, why are they called African-American when most of them are just simply American? ... He was a young Latino boy who grew up with a majority of White kids. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They have believed misguided upbringing and their social environments bring it about. ... This organization is a black lesbian organization located in Johannesburg, South Africa started in 2003. FEW is responsible for building and developing consciousness and leadership among black lesbians. ... Many Asian cultures are known to be strict about many of their cultured customs. ... On the other hand, black lesbianism is used more so to describe women with middle class and Eurocentric features. ...

• Word Count: 2418
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - American writer, known for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poetry. ... William Carlos Williams- The American writer avoided artificiality and sentimentality in his work by producing clear, direct verse about common, everyday subjects. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin, though controversial in his own time due to his homosexual writings, became a leading black commentator on the suffering and abuse of his people in the United States, which he believed symbolized universal conflicts. ... It was only when Baldwin began writing about his own personal experiences did he become an accomplished writer. ... He felt as though he was "too black" as well as isolated, and all of these insecurities constituted for his leaving Switzerland after only two weeks (Als 141). ... His most famous novel, Got Tell It on the Mountain published in 1953, is an unus...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There are about five hundred tribes remaining in the United States today (Harvey 11). ... One example is the narrative of Black Elk called Wasichus in the Hills; it tells the story of a Sioux holly man (Riley 97-106). ... It describes the experiences of his friends at a Presbyterian Mission School in Bellevue, Nebraska and shows the nature of an Indian boy (Riley 117-133). ... Walters, a Pawnee-Otoe, called "I am of the Earth", talks about Mother Earth. ... This includes short stories about her people. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

DEAD MAN WALKING Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a Catholic nun who exemplifies the compassion of Jesus in her work with death row prisoners. While teaching in a Louisiana ghetto, she begins corresponding with Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), who has be...

• Word Count: 2281
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

As scheduled, the Enola Gay took off of the Tinian runway at 2:45 am, sharp, and began its course over the Black Sea. About 15 minutes later, the final assemblies of the bomb were made. ... Exactly 60 seconds after the activation, the world's first atomic bomb, ironically nicknamed Little Boy, began its fall towards the ground. ...

• Word Count: 2436
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School