Through the examination of various sources and opinions, a wide array of positions on this critical topic can be found. ... In Source A, the drop in African Americans who are being admitted to California colleges is shown. ... Source D points out, "Schools and universities provided many of America's desegregation battlegrounds. ... Although she had good grades, she felt that the university had chosen to admit a less qualified minority student in her place. ... As presented in Source F, a handful of states are implementing this idea. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They were a cheap source of labour that was easily controlled. ... The reason the blacks were chosen is that they were far from home and their own societies and beliefs were not present in this New World that the white people ruled. ... This allowed the government and farmers to use the black people as a cheap source of labour. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It should also contain: definitions of unusual words or phrases related to the subject of the article, how to do it yourself, maps, graphs, and graphics, and information sources that list places you can obtain more detailed information on the subject(199). ... Other elements that should be considered when producing your product are page design, chosen articles, ads, and photography. ... These factors could include anything from the color of the cover page to the editors chosen to review the product. ...

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She has left her hair natural like Africans do, therefore, Beneatha considers herself to be better than the others, who have chosen to straighten their hair. ... Although Beneatha has chosen a career path, she is not sure what she would like to do in her spare time. ... By traveling to the direct source of all African culture, Beneatha will surely be able to resolve her battle for identity. ...

• Word Count: 1948
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• Grade Level: High School

His father, David, was a clergyman and a factory worker, and was the source of all of James Baldwin's fears. ... His best selling essay collection, Nobody Knows My Name, was chosen as one of the most outstanding books of the year. ...

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To do so, Morrison has chosen Pecola as her thematic representative; but in other seemingly unrelated episodes and scenes about various members of the community, she reminds the reader that the individual, the personal story, reveals but on product of a larger, more complex, more diffused social and historical schema. ... The narrator tells us that "No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. ...

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In his incisive book, Islam in the African American Experience, Richard Brent Turner takes the reader through the evolution of Islam in black America. First, he discusses the "old Islam" brought over with the slaves. Then turner describes how "new Islam" was formed out of Pan-Africanist and Black N...

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Albert King once stated: "The Blues its twelve-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization and trouble, which are always present, and always the result of others, pressing upon unfortunate and down trodden poor souls." The music wit...

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1.3) Contextual Introduction Born in Dakar in the year 1945, Mbaye is an artist Senegalise contemporary painter, sculptor and art teacher. He goes by the nickname "Tita" and used to be an assistant and then a professor of plastic arts at the Academy of Arts of Dakar and a graduate of the Arts Educat...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate