This time my report is on a famous woman. ... Mae is famous because she was the first African American to travel into space. ... After about 6 years of training and hard work she received a notice reveling that on September 12,1992 she and the other crewmembers will be sent on a mission to space. Mae got reedy as fast as possible and when the day came Mae boarded the spacecraft called the Endeavor and latter that day may earned a place in history for being the first African American to ever endure in space. ... In conclusion Mae was a really talented person and she really had an affect on my...

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Her obvious fear of him even though she has no logical personal reason to fear him makes him realize that he has "the ability to alter public space in ugly ways."" ... In "A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space- Brent Staples eloquently conveys what it feels like to be subjected every day to racism and prejudice. ... "A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space- opened my eyes to the realities of racism. ... "A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space."" ... "A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space- opened my eyes to the realities of racism. ...

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In his analysis of a slave ship, in 1829, the Reverend Robert Walsh pointed out that "The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18 and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls, into the second the men and boys". ... The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and were stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day". ... Men, women and children were crammed into every available space, denied ade...

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Magazine called "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space". In "Black Men and Public Spaces ", Brent Staples is in his early twenties and is faced with the crime of being a black man in the 1970's. ... Having moved to New york, and growing accustomed to being perceived as a threat, Staples learned to properly give people their space and to intimidate them less as he walks the streets. ... It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into-the ability to alter public space in ugly ways. ... It's distu...

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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress." - Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs didn't have an ideal life she was born a slave and experienced many tragedies in her life. ... While shes children were living in a nice comfortable house while Harriet lived in a crawl space for 7 years. ... From here comfortable home with her family to living in a crawl space for 7 years and only exercising at night. ...

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(November 22, 1942-) was the first African-American in space. A NASA astronaut, he flew aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle mission STS-8 as a mission specialist. ... He later flew on other space missions, including STS-61A (in 1985), STS-39 (in 1991), and STS-53 (in 1992). In total, Bluford logged over 688 hours in space. ...

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She is also forbidden to indulge in her favorite pastime, writing, as her husband, says "that with imaginative power and habit of story-making, nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendencies" (79). ... She begins to creep along on the floor, "and my shoulder just fits in that smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way" (89). ... The big windows fool no one; they aren't big enough to make space out of no space. (256) Despite the fact that Sonny's brother kno...

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She is also forbidden to indulge in her favorite pastime, writing, as her husband, says "that with imaginative power and habit of story-making, nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendencies" (79). ... She begins to creep along on the floor, "and my shoulder just fits in that smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way" (89). ... The big windows fool no one; they aren't big enough to make space out of no space. (256) Despite the fact that Sonny's brother kno...

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The song says, "The Bloods, and The Crips and the KKK/ But if you only love your own race/Then you only leave space to discriminate/And to discriminate only generates hate. ... As my guidance counselor and Fr. ... During free periods sometimes we sit together and other times we do not, that is why when I go down to the lunchroom with my friends I usually try and sit with everyone else on the table. ...

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In his "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space," he explains how people see him, especially at night, as a criminal instead of a real person. ... "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," this is a very powerful statement because not only were adults rude to African Americans, so were children (King 3). ... In Brent Staples' "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space," he...

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"My People" is perhaps one of the easiest poems in which one can identify the respect Hughes holds for the African American race. ... /Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people." ... The night sky which is like the backdrop of space is equivalent to the face of a Negro. ... The poem states: My old mule, He's got a grin on his face, He's been a mule so long He's forgot about his race. ... /Not my dream alone, but our dream. / Not my world alone, / But your world and my world, / Belonging to all the hands who build." ...

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Reading her essay has inspired my feelings and thought on his candidacy and presidency as well. ... This brings me back to my idea of the different dynamic of Obama's blackness. It is not my argument that Obama is any less black than any other black person in American but that his heritage and upbringing allows him to see his blackness differently. ... Here again I agree with Kaplan as she voices my biggest disappointment in The Nation's first Black President, "He has shown himself to be more a manager than leader, more married to the status quo than his rhetoric had us believe Too o...

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Giving some space to Douglass" parentage and early upbringing, Chesnutt focuses on key episodes related to Douglass" struggle from slavery to freedom, his sojourn with the abolitionists, and his rise to the famous orator and astute politician of with which history gives him credit. ... As a contemporary of Douglass, Chesnutt presents the reader with a portrait of the abolitionist based mainly on Douglass" three autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892) and other available ma...

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My siblings and I would go out and play in the street, because we didn't have the luxury of a backyard. ... I remember many days sitting on the stoop and wandering why is my block different from the others. ... Pop's, who is my grandfather, came from Jacksonville, Florida. ... I asked my grandfather why did he leave the south? ... According to Historian Gilbert Osofsky, "Largelyl within the space of a single decade, Harlem was transformed from a potentially ideal community to a neighborhood called "deplorable", "unspeakable", "incredible". ...

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As a jazz musician, my personal experience with the theory of the blues and improvisation allows me to observe the release and tension technique within Toni Morrison's work. ... Judith Thurman writes, ""Beloved" meanders through time, sometimes circling back, other times moving vertically, spirally out of time and down into space." ... "I made it up and sang it to my children. Nobody knows that song but me and my children." ...

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I remember one time going to work with my mom I think in Evanston, Ill. ... She was a brave lady to sit on a bus full of angry, mead hateful whites who attached her personal space and she did not move. ... In my school we never good new books for school. ...

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Neo-Racism When I walk around my campus, specifically when I wonder around the HUB (a common area for us college kids to eat, relax, study), it is hard for me to not notice the color line separating my peers. ... My problem isn't within the fact that each of the groups mentioned consist of people primarily of one race, my issue lies within the statements made by my peers that are in those groups. ... To clarify my point, I will state it's okay to have different societies that are primarily one race, as long as that society respects and values the differences of other races and are ab...

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"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing.... Being a black writer meant you needed to be good at squeezing your black perspective through a narrow space where the white outlook connected with your own....

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The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. ... In my opinion the Greensboro sit-ins were the starting line for the entire Civil Rights Movement. ... In my opinion James Meredith opened the doors of higher education for African American students in more than just the literal sense. ... In my opinion the March of Washin...

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Hence, Walker has discovered that they find their freedom and independence here: And yet, it is to my mother - and all of our mothers who were not famous - that I went in search of the Secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated but vibrant, creative spirit that the black woman has inherited, and that pops out in wild and and unlikely places to this day (Walker, 1996: 2319). ...

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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...

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