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The Black West by William Katz

simply slaves. They were not simply second rate human beings but have constantly played a very vital role in the history of the na...

Black Abolitionists by Benjamin Quarles

many different organizations, all the while also illustrating and supporting the truth that so many of the African Americans suppo...

Bob Marley and Redemption Song

stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...

Song 'My Name is Luka' by Suzanne Vega

want to accept glib explanations for the signs of abuse because they do not want to feel that they have to get involved in a domes...

Black Snow by Liu Heng

find it difficult to adjust. He has just gotten out of the prison camp and wanders the streets: "Ah, a good meal, of course. Now,...

Lyric Analysis of Tom Petty’s Song “Free Fallin’”

alike: "Shes a good girl, loves her mama Loves Jesus and America too Shes a good girl, crazy bout Elvis Loves horses and her boyfr...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

The Fall of the Song Empire

them into thinking That this place is the other one we knew in times of peace. There is, at first blush, some validity to the as...

Life and Song Cycle of Composer Franz Schubert

them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...

A Revies of Black Picket Fences by Mary Pattillo McCoy

the opportunities that were available to the African American in the 1960s, in terms of employment, have changed drastically in th...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

'In Memoriam' by Alfred Lord Tennyson and its 'Spring Songs'

sense that Tennyson may be speaking of songs of faith or the songs that he and his friend once shared but the poet clarifies that ...

Article Summaries on Cosmology and Black Holes

In five pages two articles about cosmology and black holes are reviewed....

Song's Chinatown

3 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of Cathy Song's poem Chinatown. This paper outlines the viewpoint of ...

Song Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore and its Relevance

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

'I Shot the Sheriff' by Bob Marley

is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...

'Canzoniere' by Petrarch

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

African American General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

In ten pages the many achievements of this celebrated U.S. general are discussed with his black military contributions also examin...

White and Black Culture in Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's book Beloved exposes the way in which white culture dictates black identity....

Is America Still America the Beautiful

This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...

"I'm Sexy and I Know It" - An Examination of Feminist Themes

more aware of themselves than they are of one another. Finally, at the behest of their leader, they begin to walk down the boardwa...

Issues of Old Testament Scripture

This paper is made up of three short papers, the topics of which are the social role, position of the prophets, the role of Hokmah...

Trekkies, Russell and Black Experience

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Credibility of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in Terms of the Black Experience

In 5 pages this paper argues that Douglass's literacy taints is portrayal of the black experience because of the Western ideology ...

Black Man's Experience in Langston Hughes' Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses how the black man's experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' poems. Four sources are ci...

U.S. and the Experience of the Latino and the Black

illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, as it was understood even in those days that knowledge is equivalent to power. On...