The author describes the customs and clothing of these trailblazers, and also emphasizes that they all were well educated. ... The author makes it known that he believes that Pan-Africanism bridged the gap between "old Islam" and "new Islam" in America. ... Turner writes about Blyden in such great detail because he realizes how essential he was in laying the groundwork for new American Islam. The author wants to show us that Blyden's sentiments would carry over into the twentieth century, when Pan-Africanist would attempt to use West African Islam as a model for black communities in Ame...

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They both refer to great writers such as Zora Neale Hurston or Phillis Wheatley. ... They both admire many literary greats such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Jane Austen, but they appreciate these authors' works more than they can identify with them. ... Walker states that: Therefore we must pull out of ourselves and look at and identify with our lives the living creativity some of our great-grandmothers were not allowed to know. ... Some of these women had the potential to be great writers. ... Walker, in her essay, makes reference to her ...

• Word Count: 3271
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• Grade Level: High School

The Authors An important contribution concerning the meaning of Middle Passage is given by several authors such as Edward Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Edouard Glissant, Derek Walcott. ... The heat of these horrid places was so great and the odour so offensive that it was quite impossible to enter them, even had there been room. ...

• Word Count: 4160
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• Grade Level: High School

In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or havi...

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Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. ... Native Americans, immigrants from all over the world, women...they are all able to stand up and be counted, but one group especially has had a great impact on American music: African-Americans. ... However, since many American composers were busy trying to emulate the great European composers in hopes of finding their own identities, they were almost completely blinded to what was happening in their own backyards. ...

• Word Count: 4261
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• Grade Level: High School

The attitudes that the viewer's hold on the social commentaries are formed in part by the context that the author creates but also from their own context in the form of past experiences and knowledge of other texts. ... The significance of this scene is great. ...

• Word Count: 2667
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. ...

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Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. African American literature, has its origins in the 18th century, has helped African Americans to find their voice in a country where laws were set against them. The pos...

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This Afrikaner myth is exemplified in Hard Right written by van Rooyen when he says, "Africa's poor record on democracy, human and minority rights was always a source of great anxiety to South African whites. ... Other authors such as Noer point to similar interpretations when he states, "The American civil rights movement of the early 1960s was such an internal matter. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on th...

• Word Count: 9660
• Approx Pages: 39
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School