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- 2081: Middle Class Blacks' Burden
- ... of a lesser standard. It is no wonder that many people think African Americans perform inadequately even though these African Americans produce a high quality satisfaction. The people that doubt the work of an African American can obviously be seeing only the skin color. Lenita McClain states, "I am burdened daily with showing whites that blacks are people." Shelby Steele asks, "After all, since when had white Americans taken note of ... seems that some financially unstable African Americans consider middle and upper class African Americans to be ignorant of black culture. Discussing this issue, McClain says that some lower class blacks think, "We have forsaken the revolution, we are told, we have sold out." Being treated in such a way must surely aggravate or maybe depress an African American who has worked tirelessly for their status. Steele says that many think, "…that the purest black was the poorest black." Perhaps some lower class blacks have been taught, all their lives, that African Americans ...
- 2082: World Cultures: Comparing China and the United States
- ... illegal substance. The US has always been a Democratic-Republic, that was the reason why the United States was formed. China though has not always been communist. In 1949 Mao Se Dung started the Communist revolution and changed China to a Communist country and it has been Communist ever since then. There are no social classes in a Communist society everyone is equal and on the same level, because everyone is ... and poor on the bottom. The largest class is the middle class. Because of the type of economy that we have in the US small families are preferred. Entertainment is a big part of the American culture. Television is the most common form of entertainment. Almost every single home in America has a television. Americans love sports, sporting events draw huge crowds and millions of people watch them on TV. During the super bowl one billion people watch it. The most popular American sports are Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey. One of the biggest sports in China is ping pong. Not many people own their own ping pong tables, but they can play ping pong in local ...
- 2083: History Of Feminism And Femini
- ... the “weaker sex” a “ group that could not take care of themselves and without the help of men, women would experience their peril”8 During the mid to late 18 th century the French and American revolutions, presented new radical ideological changes. The most predominate thought was that all human beings possessed certain inalienable rights and freedoms.The Enlightenment philosopher Condorcet in 1787 , published a treatise on the rights of women. He stated that women had the same “natural” rights as men. During the French revolution of 1789, women were extremely active in the fight against the feudal regime. In 1791 Olympe de Gouges published a declaration on rights of women. She was beheaded in 1793 , for her activism. There after ... group. President Kennedy in 1963, following the advice of Esther Peterson, convened a Commission on the Status of Women, naming Eleanor Roosevelt as its chair. The official report documented widespread discrimination in all aspects of American life, and made 24 recommendations for guaranteeing equal treatment. The most noticeable changes and reforms, were the equal pay act of 1963; civil rights act of 1964, the formation of NOW, and the publication ...
- 2084: Biography of Aaron Montgomery Ward
- ... Montgomery Ward Aaron Montgomery Ward was born on February 17, 1844, in Chatham, New Jersey, to a family whose ancestors had served as officers in the French and Indian Wars as well as in the American Revolution. He was named after General G. Aaron Montgomery Ward, a general in George Wahington's Army. When Aaron was nine, his father, Sylvester Ward, moved the family to Niles, Michigan. Aaron's schooling ended when ... Montgomery Ward catalog's place in history was assured when the Grolier Club, a high respected club of book readers in New York, exhibited it in 1946 alongside Webster's Dictionary as one of 100 American books chosen for their influence on life and culture of the people. Aaron Montgomery Ward died, of pulmonary edema, on December 8, 1913, at the age of 69. He had an adopted daughter, Marjorie ( ...
- 2085: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... born in 1742 and died in 1807 (Barnett et al. 938). Brant, or Thayendanega, was educated at Wheelock s Indian school in Connecticut. He served the British in the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. Being a Mohawk Chief, Brant was subject to much racially motivated discrimination. Discrimination, though most author would like you to believe otherwise, is never one sided. Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization, looks at the reactions ... Brant, Joseph. Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization. Literature for Composition. New York: Sylvan Barnet, 1996: 938-940. Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc, 1997. Douglass, Frederick. Academic American Encyclopedia. 1998 ed: 248-249. King, Martin Luther, Jr. I Have a Dream. Readings for Writers. Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998: 18-21. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Resourceful Reader. Ed. Suzanne Strobeck Webb. ...
- 2086: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- ... beloved Mentor in youth, and my most affectionate friend through life. In 1767, he led me into the practice of the law at the bar of the General court, at which I continued until the revolution shut up the courts of justice. [For a sketch of the life & character of Mr. Wythe see my letter of Aug. 31. 20. to Mr. John Saunderson] In 1769, I became a member of the legislature by the choice of the county in which I live, & continued in that until it was closed by the revolution. I made one effort in that body for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, which was rejected: and indeed, during the regal government, nothing liberal could expect success. Our minds were circumscribed within narrow ... alliance with those to whom alone as yet we had cast our eyes: That France & Spain had reason to be jealous of that rising power which would one day certainly strip them of all their American possessions: That it was more likely they should form a connection with the British court, who, if they should find themselves unable otherwise to extricate themselves from their difficulties, would agree to a partition ...
- 2087: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... how wonderfully Hemingway can portray the dark side of human nature, there are some good aspects of these two subjects. Although it is frowned upon, violence can be used to force good situations. Take the American Revolution. The colonists learned that if they violently revolt against the overbearing English, they can bring liberty to their homes. The same is true with over-the-top courage. The tale of William Wallace in the ... Press, 1963. 65-70. Tanner, Stephen L. "Hemingway’s Islands." Southwest Review. Winster: Southern Methodist University Press, 1976. 74-84. Tanner, Tony. "Ernest Hemingway’s Unhurried Sensations." The Wave of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. 228-57. Villapiano, Gavino. Interview. Off-Camera Conversation with my Father. By Nicholas Gavino Villapiano. New Jersey: 1999. 1-2 Wain, John. "The Conflict of Forms in Contemporary ...
- 2088: Guerilla Warfare
- ... and South America, from the slave revolts against the Portuguese and Dutch in Brazil in the 17th century to the ranger raids behind Union lines led by the Confederate solider John Singleton Mosby during the American Civil War. In early 19th century Latin America, guerrilla actions such as those led by the South American patriot Simon Bolivar and the Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo Costilla were instrumental in throwing off the Spanish yoke. In its most general sense, guerrilla tactics involves the combination of methods used to carry out any ... c.Tactics that enhance the development of the urban guerrilla are those that wear down, demoralize, and harass enemy forces. In this way tactics allow the urban guerrilla forces to survive and expand until the revolution can establish rural guerrilla warfare, which plays the decisive role in a revolutionary war. In my opinion guerrilla warfare is essential for any country that is under political stress; in a country where the ...
- 2089: Plan and Purpose (Creation) or Time and Chance (Evolution)?
- ... one species, members of one species may become so genetically different that they will be regarded as separate species. A good example of rapid natural selection, according to Darwin, occurred in Britain during the Industrial Revolution (the 1800s) with a dark, or melanic variety of the peppered moth. The peppered moth rests on tree trunks by day. Its pale dappled wings are well camouflaged against the light-colored lichens that grow ... stars in the constellation Taurus. From Pleiades, the Ancient Greeks tell a similar tale in which the seven daughters of Atlas were turned into a group of stars. The Mi’kmaq Indians and the North American Huron Indians also tell a similar story. The Havisupi Indians share a tale in which they explain how they believe the Grand Canyon was formed. Before there were people, there was a good god and ... because everything had been devastated. Perhaps, many centuries ago, all these people originally had the same skin color, shared the same language, and originated from the same place. The Australian Aborigines, the Indians, the North American Huron Natives, the Havisupi Indians, the Europeans, and the Greeks all have similar ideas about creation and the flood which point to a common origin and ancestor. Ancestors from all races took related stories ...
- 2090: The Function of Profanity in Modern English
- ... become dominant. The 'lower' physical faculties of copulation, defecation and urination have come very much to the fore as referents in swearing. Therefore it seems appropriate to choose a set of 'four-letter words' in American English, known by american linguists as the "Big Six," which range from mildly to extremely taboo and also cover these 'contemporary' topics in swearing. They are: fart, piss, shit, fuck, cock and cunt. The first two are of Anglo ... years ago, any more requires the label. Unfortunately, this significantly reduces the potential audience and can possibly mean that performers never receive the artistic credit they deserve. However, not all musicians have ignored the recent revolution in acceptable language. Indeed, there are entire genres of music that seem to thrive on it. For example, from the early 1970s the popular music world has been augmented by the genre of 'rap', ...
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