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Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

African American Life of Frederick Douglass

by and watch what he had worked for his whole life dissipate in front of his eyes. Douglass was not the typical African...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Civil Rights Activist Al Sharpton's Life and Achievements

age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...

Yankton Sioux Zitkala Sa and Christianity's Impacts

non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...

Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

Meanings of Racial and Ethnic Histories

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

A Review of An Hour Before Daylight

and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

American Life Prior to the First World War and Following the Second World War

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Films My Darling Clementine, Manhattan, and Identity

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...

The Contribution to American History and Jewish American History by Henry Kissinger

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

Life and Presidency of George W. Bush

the Texas Rangers baseball franchise and he served as managing general partner until his gubernatorial bid in 1994 (History Centra...

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry

scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there ...

Writings of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper focuses mostly on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in a consideration of the African American ...

In His Own Write - A Creative Look at George Gershwin

In six pages George Gershwin's own vantage point is applied to the American composer's life and musical theater contributions. Th...

The Institution of Slavery and its Impact on American Life

In five pages the ways in which the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass reflect slavery in America are exa...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Fences by August Wilson 2

Troy and his son Cory. August Wilson establishes an impression of the 53-year-old Troy Maxson early in Act I, writing that he ...

Comparing and Contrasting Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington

The writer compares and contrasts the lives and work of Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington, and the prejudice they faced beca...

American Life As Influenced by the Immigration of Germans

In five pages this paper discusses how German immigration has had a profound impact on many parts of life in America including lag...

Nutrition Issues of Mexican Americans

In five pages this paper examines the problems Mexicans experience in American life adaptivity with a consideration of lifestyles,...

Family and History of the American South

with his own family and for any hired help -- or slaves (Glazer, 1992). Much of this Southern tradition continues today. The ster...

Life and Contributions of Ida B. Wells

In five pages this paper considers the life and activism of Ida B. Wells on behalf of African American oppression. Six sources ar...