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Huck, Emma & Asher Lev/Misfits

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

Banned Books In California: K-12

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Kurtz, as one of the main indictments against imperialism. As this suggests, while granted that there is a much to praise in Conra...

I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You

type is, at its heart, an examination of the way we attend to, bring order to, and make decisions about our awareness. If this is ...

Systemic Racism

foundation for those white men with power and money. Feagin (2000) states, "This was not just a political gathering with the purpo...

Henry Ford as He Appears in Doctorow's Ragtime

to society is well known and many see this as admirable. Yet, there are some critics. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is the b...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

Racist Text Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

to his inferior status. Tom laments, "That ar hurt me more than sellin, it did. Mebbe it might have been natural for him, but t ...

Death, Racism, and T.J. Hickey

between police and Aborigines when they can die at the hands of law enforcement without ever having been physically touched. This...

American Society, Abortion, Socialization, and the Development of Racist and Sexist Attitudes

in todays world; however, as much as humanity has moved away from racism, there has been more of a detrimental impact through soci...

Racism Defined

multicultural society does not look like anything we are going to achieve soon, given the grim social reality we currently face wi...

Racism and Cognitive Dissonance

into a state of psychological dissonance, which, in turn, produces an unpleasant tension (Rudolph, 2003). According to Festinger, ...

Race Concept and its History

that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...

Literature Review on Coping with Social Prejudice

patterns that were shown (Link, 2002). Between the ages of three and six there are some interesting attitudes. These may be seen a...

Opposition to Teaching Ebonics in the Classroom

is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech becomes blurred when such ...

The Media and Racist Language

This researech paper discusses and offers examples of how the media utilizes racist language. This five page paper has four source...

Diversifying a Naval Construction Force

In five pages an essay considers why diversifying a Naval Construction Force is importance in order to encourage team unity as a w...

Woodrow Wilson's Designs on D.W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation'

In an argumentative essay consisting of 6 pages it is asserted that Wilson believed this racist film would serve to combat imperia...

Racism and David Hume

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

Glasser's 1997 Article 'Not Half, Not Some' Reviewed

In five pages this 1997 Phi Delta Kappan article regarding multiculturalism and its impact upon education is reviewed. One source...

Black Leaders Contrasting Analysis

This paper contains five pages and contrasts the racist positions of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Jesse Jackson....

Racist Description of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

in the United States, and North and South could not solve their disputes over the slave issue. Abolitionist took a powerfully re...

Racist Retaliation for 9/11

This research paper puts the retaliation that has been instigated by misguided Americans indiscriminantly against people of Arab d...

Technology as a Non Racist Tool in the Fight Against Terrorism

In the twenty first century we are faced with a definite challenge in regard to how to go about balancing our...

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

More Discussion Questions for Huck Finn

drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the se...

Discussion Questions for Huck Finn

to be Hucks fault in two key ways. Practically speaking, Huck is at fault because he put the dead snake in Jims bed that eventuall...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

Protagonists’ Voyages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...