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    African-Americans in the Media Have you ever wonder why African-American males are usually drug dealers‚ pimps‚ convicts‚ or even a father with multiple children and is a deadbeat father? Or why does an African-American female have to be man-less‚ on well-fare with multiple children with different baby daddies‚ or even sometimes on the screen shaking her ass? Well to me this is exactly how most movies‚ television shows‚ music‚ and magazines portray African-Americans. The media portrays African-Americans

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    Struggles of The Great Depression When the going gets tough‚ the tough gets going. When the stock market crashed‚ the American people were immediately affected. Unemployment rates were at an all time high‚ and some people did not even know where their next meal would come from. The Great Depression affected Americans everyday life but it especially affected farmers‚ everyday civilians‚ and even the President. Some Americans did not have jobs and some even starved‚ but there are endless ways that

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    The Great Depression The Great Depression was a sad time of worldwide poverty‚ but it ended well for most countries. According to Wikipedia.org‚ the official beginning of the Great Depression was the American stock market crash on Black Tuesday‚ October 1929. This started the economic depression for the rest of the world. Other contributing factors were a weak banking system in the U.S and the Dust Bowl‚ a massive drought in the Midwest. The Dust Bowl happened after the “overproduction of agricultural

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    Atlantic world‚ people were starting to settle in America and needed slaves to help. Explorers found out that they could use Africans as slaves. There were able to bring them over and sell and trade them. Most died and they brought over diseases. The Africans were the best idea for slaves at that time. When Christopher Columbus accidentally found America‚ there were Native Americans already there. The first thought of who to use for slavery was them. They thought it would be okay to use natives because

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    The Great Depression impacts on Americans The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression event during the 1930’s. It affected Americans greatly causing many to lose jobs and homes. Even the wealthy had a hard time during the depression as well. It was a very difficult time period to live in for everyone in the nation. The Great depression had a major impact on the Americans homes. An article by Tom DeGrace in stockpicksystems.com states “By 1934‚ nearly one-half of all residential loans

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    privilege that not all people could access. African-Americans have not always had an opportunity to receive a formal education‚ and African-American males have not had the same advantages as others. Although African-American males can access higher education today‚ their college completion rates have

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    understand how American intervention and occupation in European counties impacted women. As a result‚ scholars like Mary Louise Roberts focused on the relationship between American GI’s and females. What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France the romance‚ accusations of rape‚ racism‚ and prostitution amongst the American GI’s and French females. June 6‚ 1944‚ a day which

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    achievements in other fields of work. African Americans are represented as athletes even though there has been many more achievements in the culture. The young males are manipulated at a young age and base their lives off a career they have seen all their life‚ but will not be able to be successful as an athlete. Although the media tends to represent the African Americans in sports in a positive way‚ there overrepresentation causeses young African Americans to believe that is the only way to achieve

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    Religious and Ethnic Groups Paper Instructions Latter Day Saints (Mormons) Latter Days Saints also known as Mormons like most religions worships and read the Bible‚ however unlike some Christians they use the King James Version. However even more different from other Christians they have another book completely separate from the Bible that they read and worship as well it is called The Book of Mormon. They believe that a man Named Joseph Smith explored all the religions on earth at the time and

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    David T. Lai Mr. McCarthy American Literature Period 7 12 May 2003 How did The Great Depression influence the works of John Steinbeck? The purpose of this paper is to discover the role that the Great Depression played on the work of John Steinbeck. "I must go over to the interior valleys. There are about five thousand families starving to death over there‚ not just hungry but starving. The government is trying to feed them and get medical attention to them with the fascist groups of utilities

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