With the racial divide in our country widening in loom of current events between what seems to be a matter of blacks against whites, it leaves me asking myself if we are all human, what is it that makes us see each other as different, or unequal? ... Lahiri uses Lilia as a human example of the implications of racism and how it is a problem in everyday settings for people whom are considered minorities. ... This socially constructed condition does not fade much because of the perpetual nature of humans to pass down beliefs and culture from one generation to the next. That tendency, along with t...

• Word Count: 3113
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Focuses on the ambivalent nature of Bigger Thomas is Native Son, and claims that the plot is centered on events and situations that have two sided. ... The white people and Communists in the book are also flat stereotypes, and have no capacity to understand blacks as human beings with a complex social structure. ...

• Word Count: 2755
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• Grade Level: High School

Life for Celia would continue from there on with consecutive sexual exploitation by her master causing her to feel uncertain about the nature of their relationship. ... Scientific and clinical assistance would also be needed to prove that the ashes were of a human being. ...

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Twain is controversial primarily due to the provocative and oftentimes incendiary nature of his depiction of African Americans. ... Challenging the existing mythology might only be achieved in a backhanded manner that minimized the threat to the dominant structure in all of its manifestations and through all of society's various human class and race strata. ... As Stanley Brodwin states in his essay "Blackness and the Adamic Myth,"" there is no escape for any human being since each generation builds on past sins and must continually pay the debts accrued. ... (Brodwin, pp. 336-337)...

• Word Count: 3141
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nevertheless her fictional elements are necessary because she cannot display direct bias against slavery like Douglass can with his personal accounts "instead, she uses it as a tool to protest human subjugation. ... He expresses the need to assert human rights as a dire issue. ... To break free from human captivity, Douglass believes that education is the answer. ...

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Through his works, Baldwin's arguments for civil rights transcend colour boundaries and stress the idea that "regardless of race or culture, we are all human beings, and should be treated as such" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 15). ... These ideas include "the fact that 'life is tragic'; the need to 'apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change'; the importance of discarding 'that collection of myths to which white Americans cling'; the reality that blacks may not rise to power 'but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chao...

• Word Count: 2618
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They had never seen a black person before and thought of them as lower human beings because they did all of the colonists' work for them. ... Although everyone has the freedom of speech, even if the majority disagrees with it, they do not have the freedom to do whatever they want to fellow human beings. ...

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The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the nature of the sea and its meaning. ... The word "shipmate" illustrates perfectly a relationship of the most enduring nature. ... "It's incredible", continues the Reverend, "how it was possible ...

• Word Count: 4160
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• Grade Level: High School

Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom we get to know in the form of an all-black voice teasing another black voice, namely the slave Jasper. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to a wide range of civil rights and human rights organizations, the expansion of racial profiling after the September 11 attacks appears to have contributed to a climate of discrimination that indirectly encourages hate crimes against certain minority groups and people who look like them by conveying the message that such discrimination is acceptable and helpful in fighting terrorism. ... What happened to the citizen's human rights? ... These facts clearly show that Diallo's human and civil rights were violated that night and that these four white police o...

• Word Count: 3114
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I first started reading, I thought she was racist but as I write this paper, I have come to realize that it was in her nature to write like this to teach the reader about the history of the South and what went on from the 17th century to the 1960's. ...

• Word Count: 2519
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Even in the 21st century, racial discrimination and stereotyping continues to exist. Most minorities experience racial discrimination. However, Black men are more likely to be victims of police violence, racial hate-crime violence and urban gang violence than any other major ethnic group; it should ...

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Much of African American literature is realistic in nature, meaning that it tends to be about their personal experiences, especially the later works; therefore, readers are able to experience firsthand the struggles that African American people faced on a daily basis. ...

• Word Count: 3543
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The 1830 publication of the "Book of Mormon" by Joseph Smith, officially established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that Smith, under divine guidance, translated a set of golden plates into the Book of Mormon. This was the first of several literary works that were said to contain proper doctrine of the beliefs and views of the Mormon religion. Throughout the development of the Church, several aspects of the Mormon religion have caused many of its members to be persecuted by outside parties. During the last half of the nineteen...

• Word Count: 3075
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the late twentieth century, South Africa was a country devoid of many of the freedoms that we in the United States take for granted. In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights...

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Some people are born to be certain things in life. Some are born to be doctors, some are born to be lawyers, some perhaps engineers or teachers. Some altogether different like Martin Luther King Jr. are born to be revolutionary leaders. Destined to fill the void of support for a race of people, who having been kicked in the teeth for so many years, were finally willing to rid their lives of oppression and to stand up and be counted, not just in the eyes of the law, but in the hearts of the people. It was never going to be easy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. Fox Butterfield was born in 1939 in Lancaster PA, graduating from Harvard University, Fox Butterfield became a famous journalist and author working with Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York. Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon...

• Word Count: 3198
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• Has Bibliography
• 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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Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and rep...

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• Grade Level: High School

Intro: Loneliness is a disease. It eats away at people slowly, gradually tearing them limb from limb. It is a virus that send some people insane, some turn senile, it sorts the strong characters from the weak and it can devastate lives. In the book "of Mice and Men" I am going to look at 3 differen...

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Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and rep...

• Word Count: 2542
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• Grade Level: High School

SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better d...

• Word Count: 4173
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• Grade Level: High School

Even modern day author Audrey Smedley points out that, "it is not without significance that many contemporary scholars have concluded that race is a relatively recent concept in human history" (Smedley 1999, 16). ... Looking back into history, it is determined that many languages used the word race to "categorize human beings". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because the people in power and wealth tend to promote people who agree with them or have some other common bond is no conspiracy, but human nature (www.acts17-11.com/conspire.html). ... Never in the bible are we encouraged to imagine that conspiracy is the grand explanation of history or the overarching issue of causality in human affairs. ...

• Word Count: 9660
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School