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- 1981: The Color Purple - The Struggl
- ... an implicit belief, not an explicit one, and it is so large a theory that it is woven into all of our ideas about history, both within Europe and without. . . (Blaut pg. 6-7). African-American people have had to climb over many obstacles to get to their position today. First, was the selling of their people into slavery. Then, they endured slavery itself, being treated like an animal. After slavery was abolished, Colored people still had to deal with racial discrimination and hatred. If this sounds rough, black women had it worse. African-American women had to deal with all the previously mentioned things, but they were women too! Females were oppressed almost as bad as the blacks. White women were not able to vote until the 1920. Therefore ... nothing more at all. It can be broken down" (Shakuer). This excerpt from "Affirmation" is an example of the feelings of hatred for the Whites. However, this quotation also shows the fight in the African-American race let alone its women. If the South could have kept education away from the blacks. Then ides as the one above would have never been published. Lack of education was a way the ...
- 1982: Alvarez Shows Language is A Tremendous Difference In Everyone's Lives In His Story
- ... had a very traditional father. He allowed nothing but what was the social norm. His social norms became hers. When she moved to the U.S., she was completely naive when it came to the American culture. Yolanda was raised in the way that the use of drugs and alcohol were totally unheard of. Pre-marital sex was something that was taboo, and strictly reinforced. She had grown up with very ... thoughts of letting Rudy develop on his own. He learned English much the same way Yolanda learned Spanish. He was taught by his parents. He also absorbed the culture around him and he learned the American way of doing things. Rudy had quite a bit of freedom. He could have come and gone as he pleased. He had no restrictions, and was allowed to grow freely. With that opportunity Rudolf Brodermann ... her off. She thought it was supposed to be very romantic, and everything would be set just right. Eventually she overcame the barriers, and made love to men. Rudy was not one of them his American overconfidence, and frustration turned her off. The way they communicated about sex, and love was a major difference in languages. Yolanda had acquired the idea that sex was an act of love, and should ...
- 1983: Animal Farm - George Orwell
- ... he had a hatred of Communism, he was a socialist. Orwell died at the age of forty-seven of a lung problem, leaving behind several unfinished works. Animal Farm is a parody of the Communist revolution in Russia, and as a result its themes are the evils of totalitarianism and selfishness, and also the importance of hard work. Animal Farm tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, but from a viewpoint slightly more comical: that of a farm in England. The story begins in a barn, where a boar on the farm named Old Major has gathered the other animals ... farm. Not long after, he dies, but the animals keep his ideas of Animalism (which is essentially Communism) alive and the pigs, who are the most clever animals on the farm, begin to plan a revolution. One day, the workers on the farm forget to feed the animals, and so some of the more powerful horses break down the door to the barn where the feed is stored, and the ...
- 1984: Who Is Trying To Deceive You?
- ... strong statement. It reads, It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This statement is most likely directed at the African-American population. It is a statement that is used to give them confidence and excitement. It is a form of Ad Populum, because it is appealing to the supposed prejudices and emotions of a group. They ... at the white population, it is trying to show that they are serious in their claims and not waiting around for a change. A specific section of the speech is aimed at both the African-American population as well as the white population, but in two different ways. It holds a warning for the African-American people to not be bitter and filled with hate. Dr. King seems to be asking them to be responsible and adult about the changes that they are hoping will happen when the segregation ends, ...
- 1985: Animal Farm: Political Issues
- ... since 1917(Meyers 103). Orwell uses actual historical events to construct Animal Farm, but rearranges them to fit his plot. Manor Farm is Russia, Mr. Jones the Tsar, the pigs the Bolsheviks who led the revolution. The humans represent the ruling class, the animals the workers and the peasants. Old Major, the inspiration of the rebellion, is a combination of Marx, the chief theorist and Lenin, the actual leader(Meyers 105). Old Major dies before the rebellion just as Lenin did in the Russian revolution. In actuality Stalin and Trotsky argue over power after Lenin's death, which Orwell satirizes in Napolean and Snowball. In Animal Farm, Orwell immediately establishes the Soviet political allegory as Old Major (Marx/Lenin) describes ... of the decay of communist notions of a perfect state, but also as Orwell's more general comment on the decline of true liberty and equality in the west (Gardner 99). The progress of the revolution from a common idealism to a state system of leader, police, and workers happens rather rapidly. The animals take over the farm and the pigs ( Bolsheviks ) emerge as natural organizers. The pigs rduce the ...
- 1986: Langston Hughes
- African American Voices.Conneticutt:The Millbrook Press, 1995 Adventures in American Literature. Chicago: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980 Langston Hughes. We Too Sing America. G. Casey Cassidy.Online. Yale New Haven Teachers Institute. 1998 Langston Hughes. The Influence of Musical Folk Traditions in the Poetry of ... Nicolαs Guill. Kathryn Gray.online. Yale New Haven Teachers Institute.1998 Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes.online. Biography Online.1997 Langston Hughes.Hughes Life and Career .Arnold Rampersad.online. Oxford University Press. 1997 The New Modern American and British Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939 Langston Hughes was one of the first black men to express the spirit of blues and jazz into words. An African American Hughes became ...
- 1987: Click Vs. Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Mp3
- ... are of near CD quality, from each others hard drives. This infringed copyright laws and provided a very real threat to both musicians and record companies alike. In response Napster was sued by the American heavy metal band Metallica, and then taken to court by The Recording Industry Association of America; where they were subsequently ordered to cease operating. Despite this verdict, many similar companies such as Grokster and Kazaa ... laws and regulations. The bulk of the legal disputes, however, have taken place in the United States, where Napster and the RIAA were based. The following is an extract from the U.S. constitution regarding American copyright laws: The Congress shall have power
to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. The ... industry is essentially an oligopoly, as five global entertainment conglomerates dominate sales and distribution all over the world. These companies have a notoriously unethical reputation and a turbulent relationship with the artists they promote. The American rock star Courtney Love is currently in the midst of a legal battle with her record label (Universal) claiming she has been cheated out of substantial royalties. She claims that the music industry is ...
- 1988: History Of Rap
- ... Rap started in the mid-1970s in the South Bronx area of New York City. The birth of rap is, in many ways, like the birth of rock and roll. Both originated in the African American community and both were first recorded by small, independent record labels and marketed towards, mostly to a black audience. And in both cases, the new style soon attracted white musicians that began performing it. For rock and roll it was a white American from Mississippi, Elvis Presley. For rap it was a young white group from New York, the Beastie Boys. Their release (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) (1986) was one of the first two ... black youth. Earlier artists were celebrated as cultural heroes and their older recordings were reissued and repopularized. During the mid-1980s, rap moved from the verges of hip-hop culture to the mainstream of the American music industry as white musicians began to accept the new style. In 1986 a rap record reached the top ten on the Billboard pop charts with (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) ...
- 1989: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "Top Secret" is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named "AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology ... declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of these two forms could have evolved into the other. According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS ...
- 1990: Citizen Soldiers: A Comparison
- ... and Europe, by taking first person accounts of the war and combining them with military facts surrounding World War II. Ambrose's war novel is based upon the numerous letters, stories, and interviews of the American soldiers who fought in World War II. The reader is taken from the D-Day invasion of Normandy, to the eventual surrender by the Nazis, and all in between. While there is little in the ... base of operations on the Normandy coast. However, all in all the Normandy campaign had been a stunning success. By early September 1944 all but a fraction of France had been liberated, including Paris. The American and British/Canadian forces had occupied Belgium and part of The Netherlands and had reached the German frontier. They had, however, outrun their logistic support and lacked the strength to launch a culminating offensive. The ... froze, it was disastrous. Men even resorted to urinating on their guns to get them to function again. The Allied forces closed in on the Germans slowly but surely, and in March of '45 the American forces crossed the Rhine, the river separating France and Germany. The crossing of the Rhine symbolized the end of the war, or at least it was near. The Americans were too strong and too ...
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