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    The Evolution of Black Hair Ms. Miller Social Studies 8 March 2012 Table of Contents Abstract page 3 Evolution of Black Hair page 4-7 Slavery page 4-5 Relaxers page 5-6 Civil Rights Era and Black Power Movements page 6 Transitioning and Natural Hair

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    Black Boy-Oppression

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    *Black Boy Essay: Oppression Growing up as a Negro in the South in the early 1900’s is not that easy‚ some people suffer different forms of oppression. In this case‚ it happens in the autobiography called Black Boy written by Richard Wright. The novel is set in the early part of the 1900’s‚ somewhere in Deep South. Richard Wright‚ who is the main character‚ is also the protagonist. The antagonist is no one person specifically‚ it takes many different forms called "oppression" in general. The main

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    Black Like Me

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    Black Like Me Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a Multicultural story set in the south around the late 1950’s in first person point of view about John Griffin in 1959 in the deep south of the east coast‚ who is a novelist that decides to get his skin temporarily darkened medically to black. What Griffin hopes to achieve is enough information about the relationships between blacks and whites to write a book about it.The overall main obstacle is society‚ and the racial divide in the south

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    Black Death Impact

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    number of victims and lasting social impacts‚ these vicious diseases have become widely known throughout society. Two of these ruthless diseases are the Black Death and AIDS. Despite these incidents having occurred over six-hundred years apart‚ they swept over the world very similarly‚ leaving millions of people infected‚ or dead. The Black Death was a plague caused by the bacteria known as Yersinia Pestis. Rats and other rodents are the primary source of the bacteria‚ making fleas which bite

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    Black Humor in America

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    Black Humor One of the most underappreciated and unrecognized forms of comedy is black humor. Black humor often deals with events that are not often associated with other forms of comedy‚ such as war‚ murder‚ insanity and death. The main reason that this form of comedy is so underappreciated is that it requires some thinking on the part of the audience and many people are not willing to do that. The types of humor that are popular today do not require much thinking and can be characterized

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    The analysis of Traditional‚ Hegemony and Black masculinity the requirement for power is absolute. Power “is not a thing‚ but a relation.” (michel-foucault.com). Power is created by some entity generating a condition that overpowers another individual or group. The power creation generates different types of power. Sovereign power is the obedience to the law central authority (michel-foucault.com). There is a Sovereign powers display in every visual media piece. The sovereign power displayed in

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    Black holes do not exist—at least‚ not as we know them‚ says renowned physicist Stephen Hawking‚ potentially provoking a rethink of one of space’s most mysterious objects. A new study from Hawking also says that black holes may not possess "firewalls‚" destructive belts of radiation that some researchers have proposed would incinerate anything that passes through them but others scientists deem an impossibility. (Editor’s note: Watch for our feature "The Truth About Black Holes" in the March

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    Essay on Black Boy

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    Black Boy Richard Wright wrote Black Boy which is a biography about his life in the south. He was born September 4th 1908 in Mississippi. He was raised in the turbulent times in the south where race relations were very tense. He has written several books besides Black Boy‚ such as Uncle Tom’s Children‚ Native Son‚ and The Outsider. Black Boy was published in 1945 and was received with open arms from the black community but however it saw a great opposition in the south. They believed that it

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    Like Black Smoke

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    The article "Like Black Smoke" and the article "A World Turned Upside Down" both mainly discuss about a horrible and deadly diseas called the bubonic plague. Like "A World Turned Upside Down" the author is mainly describing how black death swept through and has effected Europe and changed everything in the old times. In the article "Like Black Smoke" the author is telling how the black death spread‚ where it came from‚ and where it traveled. "Like Black Smoke" was to explain how the

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    The Souls of Black Folk

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    “The Souls of Black Folk” W. E. B. Du Bois‚ the author of “The Souls of Black Folk‚” had one goal in mind: to describe the conditions and prejudices that blacks encountered in the early twentieth century. Du Bois was convinced that race would be a fundamental problem that would plague the rest of the century. Du Bois was a prominent leader of the black community in the twentieth century along with a contemporary by the name of Booker T. Washington. However‚ their view point on how to tackle the

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