Twenty years later, Warner Bros revived the series as Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993-1996) set in modern day California with a plotline involving the police. ... Sometimes running from and sometimes working with the police authorities, Jake Lo eventually comes to recognize the importance of the American presence in China through the figure of his dead father who had been working for the U. ... Running from the law, Jian-Wa, like Lo and Caine, represents a fundamental dissatisfaction with the American justice system and frustration with the ineptness of police procedure, while, at...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Song of Solomon CHARACTERS: Macon "Milkman" Dead - the protagonist of the novel. He is a young African-American man who begins trying to escape from family ties and ends by embracing them. Macon Dead - Milkman's father. He is a landlord of poor housing. Pilate Dead - Macon's sister. She...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. He is still regarded mainly as the bl...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 also be known that homicidal deaths contribute to lowered life expectancy for African American males (Harper, 2009). ... They would much rather sweep this dirty, little secret under the rug. ...

• Word Count: 3203
• Approx Pages: 13
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