ways of handling things. In a group of different cultures where communication is most likely to happen, the diversity range will further. I describe my cultural background to be very helpful in defining who I am. I am African American descent. Both my parents are African Americans. I cherish the traditions that my family has passed down from generation to generation. I am thankful for my cultural background seeing that it made me who I am today. My values affect the way that I communicate with others
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Seven Year’s War Luis A Bazan March 27, 2011 HIS/115 Jeff Hanford I am an American citizen here in North America. Living here is very different. There are many things going on here and in all the colonies. There are numerous issues going on. There is a lot of settlement taking place with many different people. There are not only issues between the people who are settling but there are also many issues and differences between the natives that were here when we started migrating and settling
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lack of education, and prison policies were the reasons examined to explain the high cases of HIV/AIDS in the south. Populations at higher risk and why they are at higher risk were examined. These populations were: drug users, prisoners, African Americans, and women who experience domestic violence. HIV/AIDS in the Deep South HIV/AIDS at one time was considered a death sentence. There was not much information about the disease, much less a cure for the disease. However, there have been
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racism around the world and will create hope for new beginnings. He goes on to say that this President will prove to Americans as well as to people from all over the globe that they can look to hope that they too can acheive their dreams if they work hard enough. Hannaham claims that the Obama's Presidency will utimately help to erase the social disapproval against people of African descent such as slavery because others can point to Obama and his accomplishments and feel as if there is hope. While
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Shatika M. Gaines American Literature ANALYZING AND COMPARING PHILLIS WHEATLEY AND LANGSTON HUGHES February 25, 2012 ANALYZING AND COMPARING PHILLIS WHEATLEY AND LANGSTON HUGHES Abstract: The aim of this text is to analyze two completely different poets (Phillis Wheatley and Langston Hughes) who lived in several times, however who shared constant theme in the analyzed works. Our intention is to indicate how society has not developed when it concerns
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1. Summary: Skeeter has never wanted to be anything other than a writer. However, in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s, all a woman was ever supposed to be was a wife. Aibileen is a black maid who is in the process of raising her seventeenth white child. She never dreamt of being anything other than a maid, but she is tired of the poor treatment she has dealt with her whole life. Minny is probably the sassiest women in Mississippi and her sharp tongue has lost her yet another job. When Skeeter
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Strayer University, South Charlotte campus, Charlotte, NC. After the Civil War, black Americans encountered a new world of opportunities. After years of enslavement, or at least the perpetual threat of enslavement if they had already freed, African Americans confronted a new question: what does it mean to be free? What does one do after the bonds of slavery have been broken (pg. 275). African Americans in the South demonstrated their freedom in numerous ways, large and small. Many bought dogs
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The theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the story. Every story narrows a broad underlying idea, shapes it in a unique way, and makes the underlying idea concrete. That's how theme is created. In other words, the theme in a story is a representation of the idea behind the story. (Clugston, 2010) This paper will compare and contrast the theme of the stories Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer and The Welcome Table by Alice Walker. The first story which is Country Lovers which
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Unit Nine: Final Project Introduction The final project for this course calls for us to consider and share how one event from the 1960s has influenced our personal life, our career choice, and the global community. It also asks us to discuss how our own life would be different if one specific event of the 1960s had never occurred and how different the world would be if that same event had never occurred. As the mother of bi-racial twin girls and as relates to the Civil Rights Movement
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Living in Watervliet was an adjustment. From the moment we moved there, we realized we had to adjust our way (myself, wife and son) of thinking and the way we viewed people. The neighborhood was no longer the brown African American faces we had become accustom to, now the brown faces were that of people of Arab descent and a lot of white faces. Our first couple of days in the neighborhood, we were greeted with “hello” and “welcome to the neighborhood” by most, some even stopped by to drop off baked
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