sociological theory. Aguste Comte is the French sociologist who founded sociology in 1836. The Enlightenment was a time period of development and change in philosophical‚ where the thinkers sought to analyze empirical research. Emile Durkheim introduced values consensus‚ believing that most members of society share the same ideas and norms. In addition‚ they will follow those norms in society for the need to maintain order. Karl Marx viewed members and different groups in society as a conflict‚ because
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Mending wall Robert frost Throughout the history of man‚ separation has been a part to their lives in one fashion or another. Man has faced separation from their god‚ from their community‚ from their loved ones and from their dreams and desires. Recognizing this continuing condition‚ writers throughout time have written about such separation that people have experienced. In fact‚ separation seems to be the central theme in many literary pieces of work. Robert Frost gave us the poem‚ “Mending
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E.B. Du Bois‚ Booker T. Washington‚ and Marcus Garvey’s endeavors helped to accomplish great things for African Americans. Booker T. Washington was an educator and activist‚ who was recommended as headmaster at a new school by Samuel Armstrong and in that was put in charge of the Tuskegee Negro Normal Institute. Washington became nationally known following a publicized speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in 1895‚ where he expressed his attitude toward the w whites’
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D from Harvard University‚ who was a professor at Atlanta University. His name is W.E.B. Du Bois. He disagreed with Booker T. Washington about what he request the blacks not fight for their civil right. He said‚ “The Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly ask that black people give up‚ at least for the present…”
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Civil rights context 14th Amendment: The 14th amendment in the constitution of the United States of America was adopted in 1868 after the civil war (1861-65). It was formed after the 13th amendment abolishing slavery. The 14th amendment was produced to give all citizens of America equal access to the law this was for black and white citizens. This amendment was used to displace the poor law enforcement of the post war south. This gave the covering of the rights of the constitution for all people
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The divisions inside the African‐American people group on how best to accomplish correspondence were reflected in the unique methods of insight of two men: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. (Documents‚ 49). The organizer of the Tuskegee Institute (1882)‚ a farming and professional preparing school in Alabama‚ Washington trusted that blacks ought to focus on financial self‐improvement as opposed to on requesting social uniformity
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For Toni Morrison‚ art cannot be effective without it being political. All good art has been political and the black artist has a responsibility to the black community. In her works‚ she aims at capturing "the something that defines what makes a book ’black.’ And that has nothing to do with whether the people in the books are black or not." She thinks that one characteristic of black writers is a quality of hunger and disturbance that never ends. Her novels "bear witness" to the experience of the
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Life and Thought in American Literature: 1865-Present Discussion: Romanticism & Realism * All writing is always and already a political act. * All writing is an attempt to persuade or move the reader to see or believe in a point of view or to act the way the writer wants you to. To change the reader’s reality. * Who is the writer? * Who is the audience? * A grocery list is a political act is because it is written to persuade you to ignore all other items in the grocery
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In the early history of the civil rights movement two men‚ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois‚ offered solutions to the cold discrimination of blacks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Washington taking the more incremental progressive approach was detested by Du Bois who took the radical approach of immediate and total equality both politically and economically. And although both views were needed for progress Washington’s "don’t rock the boat" approach seemed to be the most
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Power is a respected quality in which most American citizens spend their entire working career acquiring. This includes African Americans‚ who have been striving for social equality through power since the abolishment of slavery in 1833. Several theories and ideologies began to surface trying to end the racial segregation of the African American race. Among the most popular and effective ideologies was the ‘educated elite’. Aspirations to become elite‚ if not equal‚ were demonstrated through a higher
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