... 1300 colonels or naval officers of similar rank worked for civilian agencies. Defense spending linked to moderate expansions of welfare-state at home based upon the imperatives of fighting the Cold War abroad. "Military Keynesianism- in which major producers of consumer durables were also major weapons contractors: "what enhanced the home was not unrelated to what protected the ... global peripheries and rim lands of Asia, Africa and Latin America. FORGING THE LIBERAL CONSENSUS #3 Cultural Basis: Affluence, Domesticity, Normalization Suburbanization: Maximizing economic rewards and psych...

• Word Count: 3629
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , Texas Ranger in which the Shanghai detective teams up with the Texas lawman in order to cleanse American society, and, by implication, the television screen, of racism. As Sheldon Lu notes in his analysis of the teaming of Chinese martial artist Sammo Hung and karate champion Chuck Norris in this double episode: Their heroic acts successfully protect America and what it ... , mirrors, and self-reflection. The source of evil in the story takes root in photography, the exploitation of the photographed subject, and the superficiality of images. As John Thornton Caldwell notes, the associat...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , has Latin origins and is derived from the word identitas; the word is formed from idem meaning same according to Clark (1947: 187). The psychologist, Jean Phinney (1987:10), further notes that there are "widely discrepant definitions and measures of ethnic identity, which makes generalizations and comparisons across studies difficult and ambiguous". Combining the definitions and interpretations of identity and ethnicity ... ...

• Word Count: 3101
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... in the American south and South Africa created a rare case of reciprocity between domestic and foreign policy. Just as the internal "red scare"" of the early 1950's and the global Cold War reinforced reinforced each other in their common battle against communism, the civil rights movement and the demand for black rights in Africa became two aspects of the objective of ... ending racism (Noer, Cold War and Black Liberation, 126) As America continued to pull away from South Africa economically, educationally and as general allies, as seen in South Africa's involvement in WWII despite the ...

• Word Count: 3701
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... differences between white and black feminists. Hurtado makes a strong emphasis of this relationship, "White women's relationship to white men as daughters, wives, or sisters gives them an "economic cushion"." She notes that as information comes out about women gaining on men in areas of occupation or education it needs to be better defined as white women gaining on to white men ... ...

• Word Count: 537
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... hand, that they have disassociated from race. This growing number of blacks that do not identify with race are more conservative, and less likely to vote liberal, and Tate also notes that race identification is becoming a strong rival of party and ideological identifications as a source of black policy positions (Tate 1994: 46). With a divide such as this within the African-American ... ...

• Word Count: 3336
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... conscious of what is going on. Yet there are those who love their heritage, but until they realize they are oppressing themselves, feel ashamed for loving themselves. For example, in "Notes Fragmented Daughter" by Elena Tajima, Elena spent her life being mistaken as Chinese or Korean or some type of Asian, and never wanted to say who she really was, until ... ...

• Word Count: 1183
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... best approach for gaining access to the personal experiences of the students. Two members of the research team were present at each focus group and individual meetings. One researcher took notes while the other asked open-ended questions of the students. The researchers then collected the data, analyzed it and emerged with a basic theme. They found that black students did indeed ... ...

• Word Count: 978
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... keep her quiet. In conjunction with African American women, Chicana women have also been fighting for their right to speak out in their culture. In the poem by Bernice Zamora, "Notes from a Chicana "Coed"", Zamora discusses how her husband wants her to "write (poems) about social reality, about "the gringo who oppresses you, Babe"" instead of her struggles within her culture ... ...

• Word Count: 846
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... that once there is an improvement in social integration of Black and white America, then will there be a change in governmental policies. Aside from social integration, like DuBois, Proctor also notes that Blacks need to acquire intellectual, economic, and political power in order to progress. Intellectual in the sense that without education what Proctor calls a crisis' grows and as he states ... ...

• Word Count: 1371
• Approx Pages: 5
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... coming in contact with him. Staples cites from two essays in which the authors are both intensely uncomfortable in the presence of black men on certain streets and Staples also notes that he often notices the "hunch posture" (256) that one of the authors describes in his essay. Staples describes the area in which he grew up and the developmental behavior ... ...

• Word Count: 1531
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... the crowd and be destructive when in a larger group, things like racism are able to exist in a society. In passage twelve of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr. notes " groups tend to be more immoral than individuals." This is true since the notion of there being a certain strength in numbers, is also very legitimate. Relating this passage to Lao ... ...

• Word Count: 1251
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... word "frankly" ingratiates King with the reader. Still, King contends that the new mayor will continue to resist desegregation unless he faces "pressure from devotees of civil rights." King sarcastically notes that "Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily." Using ethical appeal to support this observation, King cites Reinhold Niebuhr's stance that "groups ... ...

• Word Count: 4137
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the fall, Dill returns to his family in the North and Scout enters the first grade. Scout and Jem begin to discover mysterious objects, designed to intrigue children, hidden in a tree on the Radley property. When Tom Robinson, an African-American man, is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Atticus is appointed as the defense attorney. Mayella and her shiftless father, Bob ... ...

• Word Count: 2287
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... the book help understand the plight of African Americans. She says, "My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped". Angelou symbolizes black girls growing in America; her rape description is overwhelming and represents suffering of the blacks. Angelou went from being a victim ... ...

• Word Count: 649
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... from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall!...And if the negro cannot stand ... ...

• Word Count: 2129
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... cannot easily be explained. However, Meredith Phillips suggests that socioeconomic factors in a parent's income can seemingly have no apparent impact on a students test scores. Rather an examination of a child's family tree or the educational history must take place instead. This same gap was present when testing scores were cross culturally ranked as well. Recent research revealed that not only were these ... ...

• Word Count: 1715
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... 1920 full extension of segregation was exercised, not only in public transportation and schools, but in hospitals, churches, and jails as well. Furthermore, lynching, the inhumane hanging of a person from a tree branch, was a very common means of punishment, primarily among blacks and their allies, throughout the eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and the first half of the twentieth-century. In 1909, the National Association ... ...

• Word Count: 1230
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... he lives was a difficult task, not made any easier by his drunk, lying, exaggerating father or the intolerable racism that exists within the community.. Blacky's father is a bully, a liar, a drunk, a cold person and most of all - an exaggerator. When Gary finds himself "barracking for the Poms", it is evident that Gary is rejecting his father and whatever he represents, not wanting ... ...

• Word Count: 1283
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... Americans, and so on. In the years after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire, a dizzying prosperity spread through the United States, while a tense, prolonged, and dangerous global Cold War against the Soviet empire and Maoist China took shape. The competition with the Soviets gave an added boost to the technological and scientific revolution; and American universities expanded immensely ... ...

• Word Count: 905
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... , but being thankful for the gift of life is definitely something worth expressing. In agreeing with Chief Black Hawk, I believe that the white men were not only immoral, but rather cold-hearted. IT is not as if the whites came in and mass murdered the whole Native American race, but I belief that it was a horrible, deceitful form of giving thanks This ... ...

• Word Count: 298
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... shown by shot construction because as previously mentioned when Ali is seen training he does it out in the open always talking to the locals whereas Foreman is seen in cold, dark, indoor places not talking at all apart to his American coach. This again accompanied by the fact that the viewers see Ali getting all the support conveys the issue ... ...

• Word Count: 2667
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... shot of Sara into a full shot of the train track barriers coming down and making way for the oncoming train. This idea is reinforced by a contrast of the dark and cold city night sky of Chicago and Sara's warm and brightly lit hometown. Sara's shock and uncertainty created by the death of her mother and the awaiting life in Chicago is ... ...

• Word Count: 1058
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... rights" (1947). Not seeking social equality, but seeking legal equality, which he thought was every Americans basic right. Truman felt equality was vital to maintain Americas moral standing in the cold war, and minimized the propaganda opportunities for the Soviet Union. His civil rights achievements were limited by resistance in congress, although legal cases like "Henderson v US" made it unlawful to ... ...

• Word Count: 2522
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... business. Discrimination in the educational system, financial institutions and the workplace are all still present and represent a substantial barrier to black enterprise. However, the blame cannot be solely placed on a cold, unforgiving society. Blacks have often failed to achieve in education themselves, and when they do have the ability to start businesses, they often institute poor business practices, which lead to ... ...

• Word Count: 3093
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate