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An Alien Life Form's Speculation on Mankind

This paper speculates how an alien life form would view earthlings if he or she visited the planet in the year ten-thousand A.D. a...

'Notion of Truth' According to Wittgenstein and Plato's 'Theory of Forms'

understand each of these elements through sensation, he finds himself challenged by the mutability of everything that exists: not...

The Man and The President Abraham Lincoln

In this paper the writer observes that 'Abraham Lincoln was able to shape the history of the African American. He is the very embl...

Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

How a Newspaper Reporter in the 1940s Might Perceive the American Dream

This paper consists of eight pages in which the writer in a narrative of a newspaper reporter reveals the American Dream as it was...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the American Patriarchy

In five pages this paper discusses how gender slavery is the byproduct of the American patriarchy with references made to this 186...

'Second American Revolution' in the Form of the Civil War and Reconstruction Period

This topic is argued in five pages with supporting evidence presented. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Nisei Daughter by Monica Stone, Stereotyping and Culture

victimization. If we could only understand one another, it is reasonable to assume that we would be able to work together within s...

Italian Immigrants Seeking the 'American Dream'

This first person narrative considers why an Italian family immigrated to the United States in terms of securing the 'American Dre...

Nineteenth Century South and Slavery

In five pages this paper examines narratives by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass in a consideration of nineteenth century sla...

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

Nick Carraway's Narrative in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

Antebellum Reform and Slavery

for historical purposes, psychological purposes, social purposes, and any other purposes one may desire to seek. One of the most p...

Customs and Habits that Form the American Character

he saw. After the poverty, political and religious strife and injustice he had seen in Europe, he saw the American as "the new man...

A Comparison of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and 'First Confessions' by Frank O'Connor

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Frederick Douglass, Successful Despite Slavery

been a slave and not due to his celebrity status among abolitionists for having endured slavery. In order to fully appreciate th...

Forming an American Identity

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

1960s' African American Political Activism

as H. Rap Brown in his political Autobiography "Die Nigger Die!", the speeches and writings of Malcolm X which included his 1964 s...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

Analyzing Frederick Douglass's Speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'

task before him. He maintained that any apparent ease he displayed was merely an illusion. Because of this opening, I believe th...

The Black Experience Captured in the Plays of August Wilson

Black experience in Chicago in the 1920s we see realistic dialogue and we see how the black musician is clearly being exploited by...

Proposal Regarding Young Pregnant African American Females and Crack Cocaine

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

Rehabilitation Setting and Collaborative Nursing

others, often in an intellectual focus. Cultural collaboration raises the value of this effort to that of individuals of one cult...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...