Modernism is a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas. ... However, as time went on white people discovered their "whiteness", as Du Bois says, and proceeded to claim it as the perfect standard. Du Bois states, "The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing, -a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. ...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Modern Day Race Relations and Stereotypes: Three Kings Ever so often, a movie is made showing just how ignorant our society can be when dealing with race relations. ... The Gulf War setting makes this film perfect for examining America's view of Middle-Easterners. ...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In her poem "Ego Tripping" Nikki Giovanni is referring to herself as a supernatural being by referring to explaining her affiliation with Jesus, Allah, and perfect divinity Nikki Giovanni claimed herself to be Jesus after a self-transformation. ... Nikki Giovanni is trying to explain herself as a modern day martyr that has been blessed with a spiritual gift. ... She is stating that the original creation is so perfect, others can't compare. ... In her poem "Ego Tripping" Nikki Giovanni is referring to herself as a supernatural being by referring to ex...

• Word Count: 777
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And with people in the new modern world, which is very unlike the old world in witch Gandhi was living in. ... They simply did not have the mass production of today witch allows anyone, even with a poor job, to get ten times more things then in Gandhi's days, and the items that are made today will not be given up so easily due to an attachment to modern technology to live on. ... With a leader that wants to do this to a race the perfect thing to happen to speed this up is for them to do nothing at all. ... People today in the modern societies are not as willing to give up their valuables ...

• Word Count: 823
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"(277) The way the narrator portrays them makes them appear as a zenith of society, culture, and progress; the perfect model of civilization. ... When the young Native American travels to Wisconsin via train hopping, his act is seen as rather uncivilized; more modern and contemporary ways of travel would be by car not train hopping, and yet, he committed this "uncivilized" act as he does not want to conform with the ideals of society and civilization. ... When he travels from his natural and "uncivilized" world to that of a more modern and "civilized" one...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
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Racism is one of the most damaging forms of hatred that has existed for many decades in the United States and all over the world. There has been a lot of talk over the last few years over the question of racism. Some believe that racism is dead, while others believe that racism is not dead. The trut...

• Word Count: 1845
• Approx Pages: 7

I believe that by reading the selections we read throughout the course can help people in Modern America. ... Although we are not a completely perfect nation we have made huge strides over the past thirty or so years. ...

• Word Count: 762
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

American Values By Nicolaj Bundesen What are American Values? I decided to ask a few people as to what they thought it was. One person told me that the American dream was to be rich. Another person told me it was having a perfect family situation. The last person believed the Americ...

• Word Count: 938
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Betye Saar inspects her roots by looking at popular representations of the black female in America and incorporates her own ideas by turning the woman (Aunt Jamaima) into a warrior with modern western weapons in her hands. ...

• Word Count: 3101
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

March 22,2002 The weather is sizzling hot and tensions are slowly coming to a boil in this Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn neighborhood. Slowly but surely we see the heat melt away the barriers that were keeping anger from rising to the surface. The Blacks and the Hispanics own the streets the Korean...

• Word Count: 1074
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Her opinion of white people changing the bible is a very modern view for that time period and shows the depth of Shug's insight and wisdom. ... "all that Joseph said made perfect sense to me" (pg 160). ...

• Word Count: 945
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

" The younger brother, Emily saw her as "the most perfect girl in the world.... " He worked for a wealthy landlord, Philip Gridlestone, who was described as a "modern Nero, feared by the Negroes envied and hated by white farmers....

• Word Count: 1135
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Hoopster, by Alan Lawrence Sitomer takes place in a modern day neighborhood, where everyone gets along no matter who you are. ... To Andre the night was perfect nothing had gone wrong, but at that same time there was a racist remark made towards his date and him. ...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Fully in control of her sexuality, Nola is the jezebel set in more modern times. ... Nola is presented as a modern day jezebel, a young woman with a healthy sexual appetite. ... The rape scene is a perfect example of this. ...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Jim, "Is a Frenchman a man?" " "Yes,"" replies Huckleberry. "Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan he talk like a man? You answer me dat!"" (80). Believing that all men are the same, Jim simply cannot seem to understand the fact that all men do not speak the same language. Thomas Jefferson's idea of "...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate