The author refers to the night club as a place that sees a multitude people of the same suffering, especially racism; they gather for a consolation and experiencing good time. ... The night club is majorly perceived as a private place where the victims of racism find a rest. Malcolm saw a difference between the night club and the external racism among the whites. ... As a result, the night club has turned out to be a place where the blacks experience comfort. Although a large number of the blacks frequent the night club, a few of them understand the relationship between their survival and the...

• Word Count: 3645
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography

Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." Marlow and his shipmates, including the narrator whose descriptions of the scene fill the few breaks in Marlow's stories, loll on the deck waiting for the tides of the Thames River to change. To entertain his compatriots, Marlow begins to tal...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

That night of Saturday, June 23, 1855 at approximately ten o"clock, Newsom left his bedroom and went into Celia's cabin. ... Knowing that Robert's night visit to her cabin is not only a probable sexual violation, but also a threat to her life, she stabs a stick through his head and kills him. ...

• Word Count: 2545
• Approx Pages: 10

On the night of February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx. ... These facts clearly show that Diallo's human and civil rights were violated that night and that these four white police o...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Being from Canada and coming down to the South, I honestly didn't know what to expect. You hear stories about how bad racism is and the rich history the South has. As soon as I got down here I could already tell that it was going to be a lot different. Racism is everywhere I go down here and I can't...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Kweisi Mfume, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was pulled over while driving the interstate at night and alone, the police initially thought he had stolen the car he was driving. ...

• Word Count: 2664
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. You"ll also ...

• Word Count: 3405
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. Walke...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. He is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's Challenges to segregation and racial discrimi...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

• Word Count: 4144
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography

After moving to Lansing, right after the sixth child was born, their house burned to the ground one night with the entire family inside, the fire was started by people who wanted Earl Little out of town. ...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. When the grip on the throat of the new Americans became too muc...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26