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    Black Liberation Theology

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    Black Liberation Theology can be defined as the relationship that blacks have with god in their struggle to end oppression. It sees god as a god of history and the liberator of the oppressed from bondage. Black Liberation theology views God and Christianity as a gospel relevant to blacks who struggle daily under the oppression of whites. Because of slavery‚ blacks concept of God was totally different from the masters who enslaved them. White Christians saw god as more of a spiritual savior‚ the

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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 Hole Theory

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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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    Black Hawk Helicopter

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    The Black Hawk Helicopter The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has played an evolutionary role in the United States military‚ specifically the Army‚ but is also used in many other American government organizations. The Black Hawk is four bladed twin-engine utility helicopter with an amazing history and multiple capabilities. To begin‚ the UH-60 Black Hawk has an extraordinary history in our military. It all started in 1972 when Sikorsky Aircraft submitted the S-70 design to the United States

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    The Black Widow Spider

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    25 November 2013 The Black Widow Spider What is a black widow spider? Black widows are notorious spiders identified by the colored‚ hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens. It is very small‚ females are about 15 mm and the males are only 7 mm‚ not including the legs. Its venom is 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s. The most dangerous for humans is the American black widow spider. These spiders are found in many areas of the world‚ but are found mostly in the Western Hemisphere‚ particularly

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    Black History Month

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    Since 1976 Black History Month has been a remembrance of the events in the history of the African American movement. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in the month of February‚ and the United Kingdom in the month of October. In the U.S.‚ Black History Month is also referred to as African-American History Month. Black History Month actually started as Negro History Week in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. The goal of Black History Week was to educate the American people about

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    Black Elk Summary

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    Black Elk talks‚ about a personal story‚ that has different characteristics of several genders. biography‚ testimony‚ and history. However‚ the black elk is contains of 25 chapters‚ which discovered black elk’s early life. The story draws the black elk as a savior and glorified man that has all the power‚ which ensured to him since he was young. It recorded the shift of the Sioux nation from previous reservation to reservation culture‚because of their engagement in the war of Little Bighorn. Black

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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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