Actually there is no ethnic war except when they are termed as such in order to disguise other warfare- economic, ideological, struggle for power or even covert operation or interference in other states affairs. 2. ... Around the second World War eethnics came to be used in the United States as a polite term referring to Jews, Italians, Irish and other peoples considered inferior to the dominant groups mainly from British descendent. ... a) Political Struggle for Power: Struggle for power remains as an important cause for atrocities and war. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Section 1: Question 2 Slave narratives such as The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl help readers try to experience and understand what life was like as a slave. ... Before the Civil War, slave narratives such as these were the first to use such dramatic personal experiences of African- Americans in a text. ... From that moment his understanding of the world changed. ... One important event occurred between Douglass and a particularly strict slave driver, named Mr. ... Douglass and Jacobs are two biracial people experiencing how it is to be divid...

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Our sense of identity, our values, our beliefs, our learning styles, our dialects, our modes of social interaction, our ways of being in the world -- these are important components of our culture. ... Noda unveils her anger on her parents and grandparents for not speaking up for their rights during the war. ... In this sentence Noda elaborates the suffering that her parents are put through during the war. ... Noda is frustrated because her face announces itself to the prejudice people. ... She feels that people are ignorant and they judge people by their looks. ...

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One injured negro is at the police station and is expected momentarily to die" ("Race War"). ... As tragic as the race riot was, people need to know and understand the details leading to such intense hatred among people of different races. ... New York Times 26 Oct. 1996, Sat. ed. 2 Feb. 2001 Blakey, Ellen Sue, et al. ... Tulsa Daily World 2 June 1921, Final ed. 20 Feb. 2001 . ... Tulsa: World Publishing, 1997. ...

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Racism and discrimination was part of every day life, it can be pretty similar to what Muslims have to go through since the catastrophe of September 11, 2001 that changed the world for ever. ... The use of music is important in "Accordion Crimes" since it introduces the problems in society; prejudice is explained by the description of different music. ... If people are very well educated, it doesn't necessary mean that they will be less racist. What is important is that for those problems to disappear, we need will power. ... It's also similar to the situation of the Japanese that we...

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His militant views that Western nations were inherently racist and that black people must join together to build their own society and value system had an important influence on black nationalist and black separatist movements of the 1950s and 1960s. ... Malcolm was sentenced to 8 years in prison while Sophia was only sentenced to 2 years because she was white. ... However, the Black Muslims predicted that in the near future a Great War would take place in which whites would be destroyed and black people would rule the world through the benevolence of Allah, their creator. ... As he did this, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Differences between "Rosie- and the Woman in "That Damned Fence- During the time of World War Two, there were hard working women taking over the jobs in industry that were usually held by men. ... The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. ... These people were jailed as if they were horrendous criminals. ... Chapter 2: Native American vs. ... In their society, one family was part of a larger and more important group. ...

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However, the government has not considered other important factors that make a terrorist. ... However, not one person was charged with a crime or found to have terrorist connections (Strossen 2). ... Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff agrees that if racial profiling were used to fight terrorism, terrorists would recruit people with more "benign appearances- to carry out future attacks (qtd. in Hall 2). ... Another Middle-Eastern man was kicked off his flight because he used his cell phone before take-off ("Airlines..."" 2). ... Many of the more than 1,200 people the government...

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However, to see freedom, a civil war, in which many African-Americans died, had to be fought. ... In October 1982, Reagan announced the War on Drugs. However, at the time less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. ... To justify the War on Drugs, the Reagan administration launched a media offensive. ... However, we chose the path of war. ...

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Because these groups exist, there is an inescapable trend throughout the world in which people are divided or ranked among themselves. ... ("Evolution- 2). ... Strengthen thy stakes and lengthen thy cords,- The world is a tent for the world's true lords! Break forth and spread over every place The world is a world for the Saxon Race! ... Someone could have been born and raised in slavery, brought into slavery through war, or placed into temporary slavery if one cannot pay a fine (Ross 2). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He is famous for his world-record success in the 1936 Olympics in the face of racial discrimination" (Whitehouse 1). ... "At that time, Germany was ruled by the powerful dictator Adolph Hitler, whose beliefs in racial supremacy and destructive actions led to World War II. ... It is extremely important to be knowledgeable of Jackie Robinson because he was the man that paved the way for professional sports as we know them today. ... "Teams had better interview these black candidates "in good faith," they say, and "with an open mind" (Nordlinger 2). ... Americans have to stop seeing things in...

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• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin's time in France was very important for his writing career and his personal life. ... While many people in the United States frowned upon both homosexuality and interracial dating, Baldwin found social freedom and privacy while in Europe. He also wrote three important works while in France. ... He was simply fed up with the disgustingly intollerable racial problems in the United States and in the world. ... Walter Meserve writes in The Black American Writer: Poetry and Drama, Vol. 2, Baldwin tries to use theatre as a pulpit for his ideas. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and paid really high prices for wheat and other grains. ... This made sense during that war when we were sending food to other countries. But, when the war ended, the U.S. unexpectedly stopped its policies to help farmers. ... It's important to keep in mind that during the war the government was paying farmers roughly $2 a bushel for wheat and after they government urged farmers to obtain debt the war ended and the government paid farmers only .67 cents a bushel. ... I think it takes the control of the word back to the peop...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. ... When the grip on the throat of the new Americans became too much, a rag tag group of militiamen stood up against the British for what they believed in and defeated one of the most powerful and expansive army's that the world has ever seen. ... Black American's heeded to his campaign slogan of "Yes We Can" and invested all of their time and energy into ensuring that Obama would be instated as the President of the free world. ... This paper w...

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After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, not much militant Black Nationalist activity stirred as a result of terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan and lack of political interest. ... He founded a chapter of UNIA in New York City and began publishing a newspaper called Negro World. ... He moved to Chicago and started Muslim Temple Number 2 and established his headquarters there. ... (Henderson, Errol A. 2) Hip-hop began in the early 70's. ... (Henderson, Errol A., 2) Meanwhile, J. ...

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She was one of the first African American women to run for public office in the United States, one of the first founders of the NAACP, and a respected journalist. 2) One of the themes that Giddings mentioned was the relationship between sexism and racism. Because both are motivated by similar economic, social, and psychological forces, it is only logical that those who sought to undermine Blacks were also the most virulent antifeminists 2." ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way t...

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Just as it had been done against Germany during World War I by America, England, and France all together, allowing these countries to have the peace they had already individually gained. ... The Negro World wasn't exclusive to just American blacks. ... "The Black Star Line was an important symbol of black potential, and a powerful propaganda and recruitment tool for Garvey and the U.N.I.A. " While all of the achievements that Garvey obtained through the U.N.I.A may have seemed extraordinary to the people of African descent, many governments across the globe who have witnessed the signific...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance spanned the 1920's and 'it was the period when the Negro was in vogue'.1 New York had become 'the capital of the black world'2 and Harlem was the site of black economic power and consciousness. ... In a letter to Frank Waldo he wrote 'my own life has been divided between two racial groups for the most part, ever since, I have lived between two worlds'9. ... To be', Alexander is trying to illustrate that Toomer felt that there should be no separations regardless of race, 'to prove to the world that the Negro race can be jus...

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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. ... Take the most recent tragedy that has split the racial divide in America, the Michael Brown case and the people of Ferguson, Missouri ensuing reaction. ... Media is historically known as the peoples informant, and historically media has been known to portray things in a style that attracts more readers attention and stirs up more peoples reactions because with more news becomes more business. ... (freedomoutpost.com) With numbers like th...

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• Grade Level: High School