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to live in substandard housing. Dr. Anderson observes that discrimination is perpetuated because Whites have controlling ownershi...

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

is also something of a loner, not being part of the popular set at his school. These themes with regard to the definition of a mai...

hand is a condensed form of simile, or the simile without the use of the words "like" or "as" (1978). Both are comparisons but mos...

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

of classical mechanics (Bradley, 2002). From this point in history onward, scientists viewed the universe from a distinctly differ...

asks David directly whose son he is, when in the previous chapter, it appeared that David was Sauls favorite and the Saul was ver...

He writes that those promoting the need for greater emphasis in liberal arts fail to recognize that study of the hospitality indus...

having some sense of its beauty and understanding rub off on her. I did not argue with her or ask to see her superior. It was as i...

society, this history, into which he was born, stating "This was the culture from which i sprang. This was the terror from which I...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Kingdom until about the 1960s to refer to blacks. Clarence Major, who wrote Juba to Jive, noted that the term nigger has been a pa...

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

an "observant Jew," which means that he is at odds with his own culture because "observant Jews do not paint at all" (Potok 3). H...

possible, including the attainment of the American Dream. His childhood is in sharp contrast to that of his lifelong friend, Jenn...

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

steeped deeply in the Niger and Congo regions, and represented the folklore, cultures and traditions of these areas (Brown, 2002; ...

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

the homelands of the Native Americans. Similar occurrences have occurred all over the world between what Marger (52) chooses to c...

the storing of provisions. Those found abundantly under the sea in ancient shipwrecks have a narrow neck and were not designed to ...

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

the ship and all on board. The mariners were obviously of mixed nationalities because they all honored different gods.. Each man...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

white police intrusion into the black community. Himes pictures Harlem as having a uniquely black character, which means that its ...

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...