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    Louis Farrakhan Louis Farrakhan was born May 11‚ 1933 as Louis Eugene Walcott (Louis Farrakhan Bibliography). He was born in the Bronx‚ New York but raised near Boston (Louis Farrakhan Bibliography). He was raised by his mother who came to the United States from Kitts located in the islands of the Caribbean (Louis Farrakhan Bibliography). In Farrakhan’s early years he wanted to be a teacher and he was awarded a scholarship to Winston – Salem Teacher’s college that he did attend for 2 years (Louis

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    The W.E.B. Du Bois’s social theory was built around the race and racial inequality in America. He claimed that whites were biologically differently from the blacks‚ especially in terms of intelligence‚ capacity of hard work and on their abilities. He also believed

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    blacks deserved. Despite their differences two speakers would help to change the situation for their fellow African Americans from 1877 to 1915. Booker T. Washington was stronger on living in the moment‚ and making good then‚ when he could. W.E.B. Du Bois‚ wanted to make sure the future was acceptful of blacks. Body Paragraph 1: Topic sentence: Education within the white society was much more prominent than in the black society. -In 1890‚ 60% of the whites‚ 5-19 years old attended school and

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    WOMEN In the middle to late 1800s‚ diversity swept across the United States of America. What is diversity? Diversity implies a wide variety in gender‚ race‚ culture‚ ethnicity‚ age‚ and other characteristics of certain groups ("Diversity‚" 2006). Diversity is present in every possible aspect of life. It does not matter where one goes or what one does in America‚ no two people look or act exactly the same. America has been and still is known as a nation of freedom and diversity. Today‚ America

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    | | | REGINALD JONES | 9/30/2010 | | America can never hide its dirty secret‚ but they will toil continuously to conceal this. Slavery is indeed the most atrocious act in American history. Just stating the facts is horrible‚ and this so dearly infuriates me to say this‚ but humans was brutally forced into armadas and compelled to capitulate what little rights of life they actually had. Families were interspersed‚ religion was lost‚ native glots were cut‚ and most importantly their

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    implied reader and the actual reader. The implied reader is “assumed and created by the work itself” whereas‚ the actual reader brings his/her own experiences to the text and thus each reader takes away a different message from a text (MacMannus‚ para 1). Du Bois’s narrative‚ “A Mild Suggestion”‚ attempts to ensure a certain response‚ from the reader‚ by including a description of the passengers’ reactions to the colored man’s story‚ but to some degree‚ the effects on the reader vary depending on the experiences

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    To what extent did Booker T. Washington offer a strategy for blacks to combat racial inequality? ‚ seen trh ‚ compared to other activist leaders‚ however was first endorsed by Booker spire to be something and combating the biggest racial boundary much racial equality as in which is combating racial inequality at the I would regard ‘the age of washington’ not so much as a celebration and his indirect combating of the major racial inequalities of the time‚ I belive Booker T Washington

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    W. E. B. Du Bois introduced a term called Double Consciousness with the purpose of defining a person whose individuality is divided into multiple facets. “Double Consciousness” reveals the divisions within American society‚ and functions as a theoretical instrument that allows for a full understanding of those separations. Du Bois coined the term in 1897‚ in his article entitled Strivings of the Negro People‚ published in the Atlantic Monthly. Later‚ the article was slightly revised‚ to be republished

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    The Beginning The first business that John Jardine (Old Jock) set himself was to cut pine timber for markets. After a time‚ he engaged a Halifax firm to build him a ship to get the lumber to Britain. He must have turned in quite the profit‚ he soon established his own ship yard‚ with a foreman named Neilson‚ who he brought over from the old country‚ and in 1819 this pioneer of the industry in Kent County launched his first ship‚ the ELLEN DOUGLAS. This ship yard was established at a point on

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    The Positive Aspect of Slavery Booker T. Washington is a historic figure during the time of slavery. Washington found that his path was not determined by his current situation yet‚ by his own aspirations. During one of the most dynamic times in history‚ Booker was determined to find a transformation for African-Americans. Atypically‚ his critics claimed he would keep the colored people down and he would slow down improvements. Booker had many accomplishments‚ such as writing a narrative about his

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