Health Beliefs of African Americans
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A 4 page research paper that discusses health beliefs, rites of passage and superstitions held by African Americans in regards to pregnancy, birth, puberty, menopause and death and dying. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Henry Giroux/Dangerous Minds
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A 6 page research paper/essay that comments on film reviewer Henry Giroux’s reaction to the film Dangerous Minds. The writer/tutor summarizes Giroux’s criticism, which addresses the misconceptions of the movie, and relates this to the social research of Lewis (2001). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Heroism and the Human Experience
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This is a 12 page paper discussing heroism, humanity including the examples given in the lives of Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jimmy Carter. Heroism has many different classical and modern definitions but the most acceptable and all inclusive are those definitions which include the fusion of mind and body. The mind of a hero can recognize basic human values which are being ignored and feels the need to defend them against adversity. The body of a hero is the action element which separates heroes from the rest of society. Heroes create positive actions in defence of basic human values despite the inaction of those around them. Modern day examples of real heroes can be seen in the lives of: Hiltgunt Zassenhaus who at the age of seventeen refused to raise her hand and speak “Heil Hitler” during the beginning of the Third Reich regime; Dietrich Bonhoeffer who also opposed the Nazi regime by protecting the Jews and conspiring to assassinate Hitler who eventually killed Bonhoeffer because of his involvement; and Jimmy Carter, who saw the injustices against African Americans in Georgia in 1962 despite legislation which ruled otherwise and decided to enter the political race to try and force humans to work together to attain a world of peace and justice. While theories of heroism are still being debated, Carl Jung believed that the psychological archetype of hero and warrior has always existed and always will exist in the collective unconscious of humans. The quality of the strength of individuals to overcome adversity and popular opinion continues in many aspects of culture and is used to inspire generations such as the inspirational messages found in Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet” in which he asks that writers always follow their inner feelings. Overall, heroism is found in many forms but mostly it is found in people who not only intellectually are able to recognize injustices in the world but also are able to take action to defend human values and morals. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Hip Hop and Modern Culture
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A 3 page paper which examines the influence that the Hip Hop generation has had on modern culture. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Hip Hop: Past, Present and Future
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A 13 page paper which examines the significance and position of Hip Hop music as it relates to the past, present and future. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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History in “Proud Shoes” by Murray and “Nisei Daughter” by Sone
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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the historical aspects found in “Proud Shoes” by Pauli Murray and “Nisei Daughter” by Monica Sone. No additional sources cited.
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History of African Americans: Freedom Rides
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A 6 page paper which discusses the history of the African American through the Freedom Rides. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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History of the Zoot Suit
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A 5 page paper which examines the history of the Zoot Suit, its significance and its continued influence on African-American popular culture. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Proposal
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A 5 page research paper that takes the form of a hypothetical proposal for initiating an HIV/AIDS prevention program for teens, age 11-18. The parameters of the proposed educational intervention are outlined in 4 pages, with a 1 page abstract. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Homicide Among Black Americans
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16 pages in length. Stereotypical, knee-jerk public opinions often accuse black Americans of being perpetrators in more homicides than white offenders. While statistics back up this claim to some extent, what is not as readily realized is that black Americans also represent the highest number of homicide victims between the two races. In the year 2000, a population of 6.1% white males between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four reflected a homicide victim rate of 10.0% and an offender rate of 17.3%, while a 1.1% black population of the same age group produced 14.8% victims and 27.4% offenders (FBI, 2002). There are a number of variables that comprise the reasons why young, black Americans are more vulnerable to homicide death than any other populations, including alcohol, firearm accessibility, drugs, poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination, cultural beliefs, gender oppression, as well as a growing concern over popular culture's preoccupation with violence stemming from "television and movie violence and the role it plays in initiating the idea that problems are solved through violence. For example, by age 16, an average child has witnessed approximately 16,000 murders on the television screen" (OSDH, 2003). Bibliography lists 21 sources.
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Housing and Racial Segregation
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A 4 page discussion of the historical development of the suburb and the racial segregation that it perpetuated. This paper argues that our governments itself played an incriminating role in this development. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Are Basic Elements Of The World-View Of A People Or Group Embodied In The Stories They Tell?
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6 pages in length. Basic elements of world-view are exhibited in many fashions, however, none are more vivid and palpable than those put forth through stories. That a writer can envelope his or her reading audience by way of the written word speaks to the power of authored communication and the manner by which it can easily portray the struggle of an entire people. Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men exposes myriad components of the author's world-view such as racism, poverty and cultural identity -- which is readily interchangeable as a representation of the overall black community -- however, a more subtle but just as important aspect of her perspective is that of being a powerful black woman amidst the oppression of an intolerant society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How Frederick Douglass Would Define Human Nature
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A 5 page paper which considers how Frederick Douglass would define human nature (something he failed to do in "My Bondage and My Freedom"), compare this definition with those offered by Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Black Codes, to determine why these authors make their respective claims about human nature and analyze what larger arguments are being made about the issue. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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How Long? How Long? African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the wya in which Belinda Robnett relates two specific themes in her book How Long? How Long? African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. These themes include the role that women played in the background of the Civil Rights Movement, and the conflicts that arose from trying to view the Civil Rights Movement from a feminist perspective. Robnett recognized that women were instrumental in many aspects of the Black Power Movement, but that they were not recognized as leaders of a movement that was lead by men and seemed inherently sexist. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Minorities Cope with Discrimination
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A 14 page paper which examines how minorities deal with discrimination. The paper discusses the history as well as current conditions of discrimination as it involves handling the problem. The paper also presents a hypothetical research that one could conduct in order to better ascertain how people cope with discrimination problems. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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How Race Affects the Use of Force by Police
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A 5 page overview of the question of whether a subject’s race influences the use of force by police. The conclusion is reached that while the precise relationship with a propensity for the use of force has not been definitively determined, there are specific relationships between race and the manner a subject is treated by the criminal justice system. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Hugo Black: From KKK to Civil Rights
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15 Pages. Hugo Black was born in Alabama in 1886. After getting a law degree he spent time practicing law and then Black, an active Democrat, was elected to the United States Senate in 1926. Black was known to be a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. The most interesting thing about this man elected to the Supreme Court was that he once was active in the Ku Klux Klan. Once on the Supreme Court Bench however, Black lost all racist and prejudiced views. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Human Rights and Social Welfare: Martin Luther King Jr.
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A 6 page paper which examines how Martin Luther King Jr. has influenced and contributed to the social welfare of people. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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I AM THE AMERICAN BY SKOLNIK
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This 4 page paper discusses the life and times of Earl Williams in Richard Skolnik's book, I am the American. Summary, highlights, and quotes offered. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast
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A 7 page paper which compares and contrasts Maya Angelou’s poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to the life and experiences of a white male teaching in a Black school. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Immanuel Kant and Martin Luther King Jr.
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A 3 page paper which examines how the work of Immanuel Kant influenced Martin Luther King Jr.. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Importance of Black History Month for African American Youth
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A 5 page paper which illustrates why Black History Month is important for the African Americna youth to learn and celebrate. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Infant Mortality Rates in Englewood, Chicago, IL: An Executive Summary
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This 20 page paper provides an overview of an executive summary of a project on infant mortality rates in Englewood, an area of Chicago, IL. This paper outlines the problem of infant mortality. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Institutional Racism Within Law Enforcement:
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This 4 page paper examines the problem of institutionalized racism, and how police officers specifically are affected. This paper highlights the many evidences of racism that continue to exist within law enforcement, despite claims to the contrary. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Interracial Friendships: It’s All Good
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There can be a true friendship between two people of a different race/ethnicity. Interracial friendships and marriages are like any other, based on common interests and goals. Look at this issue through historical and present narratives and research. Bibliography lists 10 sources. jvIntRac.rtf
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Interracial Relationships
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A 4 page review of the problem criticism of interracial relationships presents to those engaged in such relationships. This paper presents several solutions to that problem. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Interracial Relationships
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A 7 page paper that begins with the data regarding interracial marriages in the U.S. The major focus of this essay is white men with black women but it also includes information about the converse. The essay reports comments from other authors about the acceptance of interracial relationships. Statistical data included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Invisible Cultures
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Existence, like culture, is constructed from the experiences of the individual and is shaped by the physical, social, and political contexts of life as experienced by the group. This 5 page paper argues that Ralph Ellison in The Invisible Man, W. E. B. Du Bois in Spiritual Strivings, Leslie Marmon Silko in Ceremony and Amiri Baraka in Blues People each see the theme of invisibility from a cultural conflict based on subjugation, assimilation, appropriation, extermination and, or, dispossession. No additional sources are listed.
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Invisible Man
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A five page paper which looks at race and gender relationships in Ellison's 'Invisible Man', with particular reference to the protagonist's experience of the 'Woman Question' during his time with the Brotherhood. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Is Affirmative Action Constitutional?
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6 pages in length. The real life application of affirmative action is anything but what it was originally designed to address. Double standards are prevalent throughout educational institutions as minority groups have been instrumental in taking advantage of a system that was supposed to offset racial discrimination, not make it worse from the other direction. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Is Repatriation A Viable Alternative For African-Americans?
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7 pages in length. The writer discusses that while America may still house the greatest variety of peoples, there has been a renewed focus toward repatriation within the African-American community. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?
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This 8 page paper considers whether or not there is any evidence to support the idea that there are inequalities in the US criminal justice system. The basis of the system is discussed and the evidence for inequality due to lack of economic utility and poverty and discrimination due to racial prejudice are considered with the use of statistical evidence. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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Islamic Death Penalty
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Monshipouri & Motameni (2000) state there used to be two reasons for the death penalty in Islam, adultery and apostasy. With some pressure from world authorities and evolution of women’s rights in the Islamic world, adultery is rarely punishable by death, though this does not apply across all Muslim countries or factions. As Schabas (2000) writes.... 8 references jvIsllaw.rtf
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J.Anthony Lukas: Common Ground, A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. (1985)
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(5pp) Common Ground: covering a great deal more than its subtitle suggests, is a huge non-fiction study of Boston in the 1970's, when it was under the pressure of court-ordered busing to achieve school desegregation. The three families J. Anthony Lukas focuses on include only a handful of the hundreds of people in a multilayered account of the moral fabric of a city and the vastly different social universes of its neighborhoods. Eventually the turmoil surrounding the desegregation efforts is seen in the context of history, not just national history, or that of Boston, but the history of the little villages cities are made up of, and in many cases even the histories of individuals.
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Jamaica and the Music - mon!
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(6 pp.) According to an internet site labeled "fantasy tours," Jamaica is "eternal summer." So it only makes sense that it would have "hot music." But we also learn, "the island" "has rugged mountain ranges, with Blue Mountain Peak, the highest point, soaring 7,402 feet. It has miles of white beaches, bordered by the blue Caribbean. It has 120 rivers flowing from the mountains to the coast. And it has great central plains, fertile agricultural lands, towering cliffs, magnificent waterfalls, and dense tropical forests." What that tells us is our "hot music," still has a lot of varied cultural influences. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” -- Eulogy for his Father
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This 5 page report discusses writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) Notes of a Native Son and the ways in which it blends the most fundamental issues of race with the heartache of one father and son’s relationship. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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James H. Cone: Theologian
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An 11 page paper which examines the theological views of James H. Cone. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain’s “Democracy on Trial” and Cornel West’s “ Race Matters”
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A 9 page overview of the similarities and differences which exist between the ideologies of these two noted authors. While West attributes societal problems to our government, particularly the problems we are currently seeing in the African American community, Elshtain sees those problems as a result of individual choices. West sees advantages in a socialist system of government while Elshtain values the democratic system which is currently in place. No additional sources are listed.
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John Rawls, Justice & Affirmative Action
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A 6 page research paper that explores issues of economic distributive justice. Throughout its history, human societies have addressed issues of justice. While it is agreed that societies should be just, precisely what this means has been a matter of much debate. A particularly contentious sub-category of this argument has been in regards as to what constitutes economic justice, that is, "the proper distribution of social benefits and burdens" (Shaw and Barry, 2004, p. 105). In this regard, a variety of rival principles have been proposed. Examination of these various theories shows that the "Theory of Justice" outlined by John Rawls offers a comprehensive and fair framework for distributive economic justice. This is particularly evident when examined in light of affirmative action and equal employment opportunities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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John Singleton’s “Higher Learning” (1995)
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This 5 page report discusses the 1995 movie, “Higher Learning,” director John Singleton’s third movie, that offers a look into the lives and minds of a group of young people from different countries, races, and social background. They find themselves in integrated circumstances as all enroll in Columbus University. Students who are already dealing with the expectations of high performance in the classroom, on the track, or in front of their friends, are strained to the breaking point by each other’s prejudice, inexperience, and misunderstanding, as well as their own “coming of age” issues and stressors. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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John Stuart Mill and Charles R. Lawrence on Race
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This 5 page report discusses the viewpoints of the 19th century philosopher, John Stuart Mill who was certain that the highest normative principle is that, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness” and the modern writer and legal scholar, Charles R. Lawrence who believes that “racist speech is peculiarly deserving of curtailment.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane and My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
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This 5 page paper considers the experiences presented in Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane and My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan, and assesses the way in which each of the individuals presented viewed the white world relative to the prejudice in South Africa under Apartheid rule. This paper considers the importance or significance of the use of violence in both works and the impacts that violence had in perpetuating the status of both whites and blacks. No additional sources cited.
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King and Malcolm X/Uses of Rhetoric
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A 7 page essay that examines the persuasive rhetorical skills displayed in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet. The writer argues that where the two texts differ, naturally, concerns variations in style between the two authors, but also that the texts reflect the fact that King's text was a written reply to remarks made by black leaders in the Birmingham newspaper, while Malcolm X's text was a speech that was delivered to an assembled audience. No additional sources cited.
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King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement
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A 4 page exploration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s premise of non-violence. This paper observes the impact of this premise on the women’s movement. Biblography lists 4 sources.
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Korean Americans in Los Angeles
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A 3 page paper which examines the Korean American experience in Los Angeles, California. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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