During the 1600s to the early 1700s, the majority of the music was mainly instrumental accompanied by dancing and chanting. ... The enslavers were at first "concerned about the gathering of crowds of slaves and ( ) took action as early as 1695 ( )." ... A reason for Ragtime's popularity was that it was classical music with an "upbeat" feel; therefore, it appealed to both conservative and new aged music lovers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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A black middle class had developed following the American Civil War (1861-1865), increasing education and employment opportunities with a new sense of racial pride (Collier, 1985). ... Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. ... With these early works as the foundation, three events between 1924 and 1926 launched the Harlem Renaissance. ... Audience of the Harlem Renaissance Almost everything seemed possible in the early 1920s. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle cla...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To solve this problem we must start early, we must preparing girls early to have the ability and skill to play baseball amongst their male counterparts.  ... Joseph Trog, "any age disparity in bone strength was negligible between the ages of ages of eight and twelve, and if anything, girl's bones tend to be more resistant to breakage than boys."(Ring, 2009, p. 123) If girls are allowed to begin training at an early age there should not be any reason why girls and women should be prohibited from competing and playing amongst men. ... "The real difference in sizes and strength show up by ...

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According to our own governmental reports 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white, and the "typical" cocaine user is a white middle class suburbanite. ... Profiling is not limited to race; other characteristics such as age and dress are also used as "warning signals" by police officers. ... Young minority males get the wrong message at an early age from law enforcement officials, causing a distrust of the police, and reduced willingness to cooperate with the police. ... For example, California's former Governor Pete...

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• Grade Level: High School

Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. ... Another women by the name of Claudette Colvin who was the age of 15 in high school was also handcuffed and taken to jail. ... The civil rights movement also started the rise of a black power movement towards the middle of the 1960's. ... It has rejected middle class values because they contribute to the indifference toward the disinherited youth of the black ghetto. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Interestingly enough, reports show that the prevention of treatment and early diagnosis is hampered not by the availability of treatment and prevention dramatically, but rather the widespread of conspiracy theories concerning HIV/AIDS that tend to negate established medical norms for communal conceptions of self-healing commonly found in South Africans. ...

• Word Count: 9660
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• Grade Level: High School

His later life as a vocal person did not happen by mere chance but was instilled into him at a very young age through a whole family line of preachers: "Of course I was religious. ... He grew up in the middle of the Great Depression, and from a very young age it became a great concern to him, particularly when he saw the people standing in the breadlines. ... Another early experience of discrimination would come about with his father. ... What ensued in his early adolescent life was in fact a deep hatred of white people and everything they stood for. ...

• Word Count: 3793
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• Grade Level: High School