Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. ... We can be held responsible, however, for what we do and believe, for how we dress and what we eat, for whom we love and how we love, for how we worship God or Nature and how we deal out government. ... We have the free will to decide what our own conception of "the good-life" is. However, our culture is in no way free from cultural criticism. ... If we were to constantly question all of our cultural aspects, it would question our society'...

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Once the slaves were freed and given the promise of equality, they discovered that racism and intolerance kept them from achieving any sort of equal standing with white Americans. ... The 13th amendment had ended slavery and now there were millions of free blacks in the southern states who were in control of their own lives, or so they were told. ... This way, white plantation owners could assert their superiority over blacks and maintain the same social positions that had been in place before the civil war. Racism kept the newly freed black farmers from gaining hold of opportunity and economi...

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Before the affirmative action law was put into place, on television there were only Caucasian actors and news anchors. Also before the Affirmative Action Law, schools were segregated between Caucasians and other minorities, minorities made up most of the lower class, and most every employer, whether they admitted it or not would hire a Caucasian instead a minority, no matter what the credentials; which was completely out of line. ... Slavery was as common as football on Sundays in the fall, before it was abolished. ... On the very first day of school, I met a Latino student and we began to tal...

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Then one year we came across a booth where an artist was drawing caricatures. ... It seemed fun and harmless, so we decided to spend the $15 and give it a try. ... The stereotype of Mammy started in the 1830's, thirty years before the Civil War (Robinson 51). ... Once they became a Mammy, they lost who they were before. ... In Robinson's article, he quotes Randall's book again, "She who ain't free not to love, ain't free to love" (66). ...

• Word Count: 2170
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Watson reasoned on her own and in her will freed Jim. ... Huck's second reactions were based on what he experienced. ... But we've got them on our hands, and we got to remember what they are, and make allowances. ... Huck's actions were based on what he felt was right. ... He wants to find his lost family and to free them. ...

• Word Count: 2477
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The fruits of this prosperity were very evident in the lives of the people – new cars, suburban houses, and other consumer goods- all of these were made available to more people than ever before. However, the 1950's were also an era of great conflict, as people realized that the freedom that they so painstakingly fought for has only been attained by a privileged few, that freedom was nothing but a speech made by masters who broke off their chains but not the ridicule and shame that comes with it; that even with them freed from their contracts, they are as bound to it, still, as thou...

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Before his tragic death, he spoke one of the most important speeches in history, the I Have a Dream speech. ... Is it because we are said to be weak, educationally impaired or is it because of the difference in body parts? ... Although women were discriminated against, they were not the only ones. ... In the very first paragraph of King's speech, he references to "five score years ago" which is when Abraham Lincoln enforced the Emancipation Proclamation that declared all people held as slaves, within the rebellious states, were free (King 1). The Emancipation Proclamation, as K...

• Word Count: 1861
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Racism and Sexism are a major issue today as it was before. ... She likes how the pants feel and how they were comfortable. She didn't care if they were for men or not. ... Celie went through a struggle to turn into an independent, free women. ... Do we know how to appreciate life or are we just letting life pass us by? ...

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Centuries later, even after the Civil War (the war that was so called fought to "free slaves" but in actuality was fought over power and control by two separate factions of the ruling class) Africans were still resisting. Ironically, Black men were enthusiastic to fight in the Civil War. ... " On the contrary, in the same document, the women wrote to the mayor of the city stating, "We have agreed and are willing to pay $25 or $50 for licenses as protection, so we can control the washing for the city. We can afford to pay these licenses, and will do it before we will be defe...

• Word Count: 1964
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• Grade Level: High School

They sent them to live on reservations, when Indians were used to free roam and no rules or boundaries. The white men did come from the city where it was loud and were not appreciative of the Indians' way of life. It has been known that the white men drove the Indians away because they thought they were savages. ... He says that we may not think we owe them anything but if it were us, we would loathe the generations before us for not protecting and caring for the environment we would inherit. ... The white men had no regard for people that were already living on the land so why would the...

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Today we know this sand as the Sahara Desert. ... On the other side of the Sahara were many great cultures that were isolated from the rest of the world. ... Liberia Liberia is a West Africa nation originally founded by freed slaves from the American South between 1820 and 1865. ... Tolbert, was the grandson of freed American slaves. ... The British outlawed slavery twenty-three years before the United States. ...

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Before the boycott, "[a]lmost daily some black man, women, or child had had an unpleasant experience on the bus" [20]. ... The bus operators were horrible. ... Rainy days were the worst. ... The WPC did, however, make attempts before the boycott to better the condition on the Montgomery buses for black passengers. ... Often these services were rendered free of charge. ...

• Word Count: 1946
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We see this main focus through the plays read this semester. ... Much the same, a lot of people, in the past, were not happy about integration, yet were unaware of the impact of each race to the other. ... By that, meaning the whites needed the blacks in order to keep their lives organized and crazy-free and the blacks needed the whites to help keep their lives suitable by working. ... "We practiced reading and writing and discussed the news sent to us by the abolitionists... ... It is uplifting to see someone with a troubled past end up a better person than before. ...

• Word Count: 1924
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The laws" intent was to afford underprivileged minority groups" equal opportunities for employment that were available to the white male. ... We are now seeing more women, white and black primarily, black men and even the American native Indian in the American workplace. Although this has attributed to the overall growth in achieving a more diverse workplace, it is not the free ticket for minorities to enter into the workplace in any area of work. Certain standards must be met before affirmative action can ever play a role in determining who is hired. ... The law school is ____ up to for...

• Word Count: 1980
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The immigrants were ready to let go of their ties to Ireland, "choose between Ireland and South Carolina, we say South Carolina forever". ... Ignatiev gave other examples where the Catholic Church was influential in convincing the immigrants that loyalty to America came before loyalty to Ireland. ... The Democratic Party also seemed more sympathetic to the Irish's concern that free blacks would take their jobs. ... The Irish-based labor unions at first fought amongst themselves and other whites such as the Germans but once the freed blacks began to look for work, they became a threa...

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Malcolm-X Term Paper They were black men who had a dream, but never lived to see it fulfilled. ... The children were all placed in foster homes. ... But once we all realize that we have a common enemy, then we unite-on the basis of what we have in common. ... El-Shabazz created his own organization called Muslim Mosque Inc., which was a group that was totally free of the old Nation of Islam's ideas. ... Unlike before, Malik wanted whites to join his newly founded organization. ...

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"In A Raisin in the Sun", Lorraine Hansberry wants to portray segregation "the self-enforced separation of the whites and the blacks in housing neighborhoods that were legal and widespread throughout the Southern and Northern states of America. ... She tells her mother that "A Raisin in the Sun" is a play that tells the truth about people, Negroes and life and I think it will help a lot of people to understand how we are just as complicated and mixed up as they are " (Adams 1). ... The time setting of the play is just before the big thrust of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in t...

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It mattered so much to me because ultimately, if I could free myself from the restrictions imposed on me, then I could be anything I wanted. ... I do however know that Mexico got his independence from Spain, but before that Mexico was founded of Tenochtitlan by Aztec civilization. ... Some were a lighter skin and others darker. ... While being in middle school, I had friends who were white. We never thought about the fact we were from different races. ...

• Word Count: 1963
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• Grade Level: High School

This is an example of him being assaulted before he gave in to the double role. ... He and a few of his friends were playing "war" with the white boys from across the railroad tracks. ... And they were absolutely right in clouding me with the broken milk bottle," (591). ... "The middle-class values by which we were raised. . . urge us toward participation in the American mainstream. . . toward a strong identification with the society. . . these values are almost rules for how to prosper in a democratic, free-enterprise society," (688). ... We a...

• Word Count: 1958
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Playing on his slave's ignorance, a white slave owner gives the freed slave not the promised valley "Bottom" land, but hilly land that he claims is "the bottom of heaven (Morrison 5)." ... After even the skinniest of immigrants is chosen before him, Jude finds the need for another person to recognize him and his manhood and to share in the pain a racist society has burdened him with. ... Early in life Sula and Nel discover their status as the Other, understanding that "they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden them (52)." ... The bargeman's im...

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The black single mother agrees to do the housework and take care of the children so the white single mother can be free to pursue business ventures. ... This caricature is used to posit proof that blacks were contented, even happy, with their societal position. ... The first time we are introduced to Annie, she is looking after Susie. ... Deeper than that, she cannot recognize her black self in the white image displayed before her. ... In conclusion, while there were ...

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That's what makes the book to put it so excellent, cause obviusly as we can by example see in Jay Leno's Jaywalk the average american is not well informed about the state of the world or the state of the society which they live in. ... So to the whole world america outward image is the land of the free, everybody got a chance to be let's say the next Tom cruise or Bill gates, okay who would you rather be. ... Before reading this book you could say I was somewhat of a Clinton fan, not so much anymore. ... And to, im going to use a big word here, contemplate the situation of socie...

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