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European Economy and the Black Death

it in some places before the Black Death or the wars suggests that the economic system itself was at fault" (Rempel). By the time ...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

History and Immigration of Blacks to the Pacific Northwest

"the annual level of legal immigration rose from around 300,000 to nearly one million....approximately 83 percent came...

Overview of the Black Plague

disease he was now apparently immune to. It is interesting and informative to note that Tuchman and Defoes work exist in very d...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

Coca Cola's Capital Structure

short-term loan. The most recent long-term financing decision was in 2003, when the company issued debt in the form of "lon...

Pacific Northwest Immigration of Blacks and History Lessons

South in the United States. Although neither Washington, Oregon, nor British Columbia were considered true advocates of slavery, ...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Puritanism of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Assimilation Barriers

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

1960s Black Female Writers

to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

Ibn Battuta and Mali Descriptions

he was child. He left home at the age of twenty one and in the year 1325 he would begin to satisfy his curiosities. He would jour...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Black Manhood

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...

The Cost of Participation of Black Americans in the Political Process

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

Chapters Eight and Nine of Teaching to Transgress by Belle Hooks

somewhat skeptical on the idea of "feminist studies" and "feminist thinking," as such studies and thinking tended to overshadow th...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

Examination of Black Holes

faith than on facts that can be observed and verified (Cowen 17). What exactly is a black hole? It isnt anything that can be see...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Louisiana Slavery

the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

Black Power Movement

also the same determination that caused such alarm in those who feared him. "[Malcolm X] stung our consciences and awakened our m...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

Double Consciousness and the First Chapter of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

the following: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes ...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...