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The Color Purple

The main theme this essay will be focusing on is the distinction between the "real" outcome of economic achievement as described in by the lynching of Celie's father, and its "alternative" economic view presented at the end of the novel depicting Celie's happiness and entrepreneurial success. We ...

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Native Son: Bigger

Who can forget the fires blazing over local buildings during the Los Angeles Riots? Unfortunately the whole event does not seem as if it was too far off in the past. Although today we live in a nation, which has abolished slavery, the gap between the whites and the blacks during the early stages ...

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Huckleberry Finn

The narrator (later identified as ) begins Chapter One by stating that the reader may know of him from another book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by "Mr. Mark Twain," but it "ain't t no matter" if you have not. According to Huck, Twain mostly told the truth, with some "stretchers" thrown in, ...

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Freedom For The Slave: Who Decides & Why?

? The issue that I have decided to write about is the freedom of the Slaves. The slaves acquired freedom at different intervals through out their captivity. Some slaves acquired freedom early in the height of the slave trade at the end of there indentured servitude. Other slaves found freedom ...

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The Civil War

was mainly started because of the issue of slavery. The South wanted the right to have slavery in the West, but the North didn't want it to spread to the West. Since they couldn't agree they became very angry and started the war between the states. CONFEDERATE STATES OF 1861 In 1860, on December ...

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Anthem 2

In the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand writes about the future dark ages. Anthem takes place in city of a technologically backwards collectivist society, where mankind is born in the home of the infants and dies in the home of the useless. Just imagine, being born in to a life of slavery having no freedom, ...

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Proposal For Reparations Of African Americans

Due to the fact that many African-Americans cannot trace their genealogy back more than three generations, It would be extremely difficult to distinguish between those who are descended from Freemen and those descended from Slaves. Therefore, although it should have some impact on reparations, we ...

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James Buchanan

was born in April 23, 1791 in a cabin in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. James father came to America as a Scotch-Irish in 1783. At the age of six his family moved to Mercersberg PA. where his father would open a general store . James was the second of eleven in his family. James was able to go to school ...

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Joshua Larwence Chamberlin

My name is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; I am going to tell you a brief history on what the United States was like before I was born. In 1788 the United States became an independent nation. It was made up of thirteen states and owned several territories on the western side of the Mississippi River. ...

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Fillmore

Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth president of the United States of America, came of a family of English stock, which had early settled in New England. His father, Nathaniel, in 1795, made a clearing within the limits of what is now the town of Summerhill, Cayuga county, New York, and there Millard ...

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1863 Was A Pivotal Year in American History

1863 was a pivotal year in American history. Many important decisions and events took place, had they not; America today would be quite different. When Lincoln was elected as president, he had no thought whatsoever of freeing slaves because he said he had no constitutional right to do that. ...

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Gay Marriage

The idea of gay marriage is frowned upon in today's society. Many people are not comfortable with this practice because it does not abide by the social standard set by society over the years. Prohibiting this concept is simply a deprivation of a person's civil rights. Legalizing gay marriage ...

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The Case Against Affirmative Action

The Case Against Affirmative Action Louis P. Pojman In this essay I set forth nine arguments against Strong Affirmative Action, which I define as preferential treatment, discriminating in favor of members of under-represented groups, which have been treated unjustly in the past, against ...

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The Civil War

On a damp November afternoon in 1863, Abraham Lincoln -then president of the United States of three years- gave a speech to dedicate a battlefield of the Civil Wars as a memorial for the soldiers killed there in July of 1863. It was basic, routine US President stuff. Little did anyone attending ...

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Huck Finn

The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been disputably called “one of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture” (Lionel Trilling 327) and I am one of the opposition to this thought. The question one must ask when reading Huck Finn is “Why ...

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The Growing Need For The Aware

We as Americans need to become more sensitive to our use of language because with the increasing number of ethnic groups in the country one has to be cautious as to how they should define a certain group. Political correctness is a type of medium that helps us come to respect and communicate with ...

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KKK

E-mail: woodmisty@hotmail.com Despite the civil rights amendments being passed over 40 years ago, racism continues to thrive in America. A good example of this is the southern-based organization called the Ku Klux Klan. Immediately following the Civil War, this group came about during the ...

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Olaudah Equiano

was an African American that fell into slavery. He was forced like many other African Americans during the 17th and 18th century. In the short story about , it tells about his life and what he went through being a slave. The Narrative has some similar things that we went over in class. I am ...

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The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)

The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998) The Women's Rights Movement was and continues to be one of the most incredible and inspirational series of events to occur in United States history. One of the more credible aspects of these events happens to be the bold, intelligent pioneers that paved the ...

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The Ku Klux Klan

"" actually consists of dozens of separate organizations, each with varying goals, tactics, and quality of leadership. The original Klan, which is not to be confused with the groups calling themselves by that name today, was organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the winter of 1865 to 1866, by ...

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