Cash argues that the real history, the real story of quilting is about kinship across generations between African American women as well as mutual cooperation with the aim of being self-reliant and capable of self-help. ... He explains that tradition depends on identification and the transmission of that tradition by the given person to later generations, (6). ... " (171-172) He points out that the quilts connect the present generation to prior ones and as such represent the African American past. ... To Maggie and Mama, heritage is something that remains forever subordinate to living tra...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In saying that, there is no doubt that past actions directly impact on the future. ... When trying to conceive how generations of American scholars and politicians were able to allow something as evil as slavery to take place, it is important to understand this simple fact. ... When trying to conceive how generations of American scholars and politicians were able to allow something as evil as slavery to take place, it is important to understand this fact. ...

• Word Count: 1706
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Well, this was the goal of the Bantu educational system, they were getting that kind of education which was designed to bring blacks under the control of whites in the future, namely working for them. ...

• Word Count: 2834
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Basketball is an ageless game thought and learned from generation to generation, from father to son, father to daughter, etc. ... Not knowing what the future holds, she went on to become one of the greatest women ball players of all time. ... After World War 2, a hopeful black public focused much of its attention on a new generation of racial pioneers, barrier breakers such as Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson, and Wilma Rudolph. ...

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The struggle that American women endured from the Seneca Falls Convention to the passing of the nineteenth Amendment spanned two generations. ... Child labor condemned an enormous amount of children to a future of illiteracy, poverty, and prolonged agony. ... The transformation in society between 1880 and 1920 change the entire future of the United States. ...

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Although both of them would collide when it came to their ideologies, and suggestions on what the African American communities should do to overcome the tyranny of oppression that came about from the racial resentment in America and an unjust system; they both aimed for the same ambitions: Racial integration, equality, and building a sustainable, and accepting society were future generations of African Americans can live in peace without discrimination and contribute to society, where they can fully function and operate as equals to those of light skin, both financially and socially. ...

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Slaves were promised a mule and 40 acres and they didn't live to receive it nor did generations following; because the American government has yet to live up to its word. ... Past and future African American will continue to profit huge corporations and continue remain to be manipulated by Fortune 500 Corporations. ...

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. The people of society were classified in different ways and the differences between the classes defined the way that each saw ...

• Word Count: 2825
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The racist illness of the past has trickled down into our generation which is evident in poverty rates as well as conviction rates amongst African Americans in comparison with Caucasians for similar crimes. ... They believe African American males from the ghetto are the wrong doers in this country and that is a result of the slave trade because, as mentioned earlier, the mental illness of racism has managed to trickle down over the generations. ... Aside from being educated, students need to also be engineered to function in a democracy by learning the democratic values that will keep our na...

• Word Count: 2862
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate