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    My ethnic groups are Maasai from Kenya and Zulu from South Africa. Maasai is the smallest ethnic group in Kenya, they make up only 0.7% of the population, but they are the most well-known tribe in Kenya. Zulu is the largest ethnic group in South Africa, which make up approximately 22% percent of the population. Furthermore, the Maasai and the Zulu are two different ethnic groups in two different countries, however, there some similarities in them. This paper will focus on the culture and…

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    ends of the Earth, but their paths of agony for civil rights in South Africa and the United States countersect as two of the twentieth century’s most important achievements in advancing human rights and liberty. As the holiday commemorating Dr. King approaches, it is a compelling time to think the contributions of both of these exemplary leaders. Dr. King was invited to speak at universities and religious organizations in South Africa in 1966, but the authority scum to grant him an entry visa.…

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    Topic: Contact theory: South Africa is a context embedded with a history of segregation, separation and racial discrimination which were enforced by the Apartheid system. Therefore, it is only important that the current social psychologists are invested in finding ways to establish integration between Black and White people who were previously segregated, With the domination of Black people by White people. However, even though measures such as increased…

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    The Book and Real Events Attention getter (McCabe #). In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee took events that happened in real life to create the book. The events it connects tom are the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and all the racism. One of the connections in the novel is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws are a set of laws the made the whites superior to the blacks. Some people thought that they needed the laws because they believed that blacks should not be equal and that they are not…

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    In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Segregation is believed to be an effective way of living. First, Segregation is believed to be an effective way of living. When Scout asks Jem what a mixed child is and Jem responds it's the children who are half black and half white. “Jem I asked, “what’s a mixed child ?” “Half White, half colored. “They don't belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have em because because their half white; white folks won't have em because they're colored, so they're just in…

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    Rhetorical Analysis: Exploring Devices that Forge Connections between Unity and Cultures Published in 1996, James McBride reflects back on the lives of himself and his mother growing up in the Bronx, and the vast number of experiences that shaped both their lives. McBride poignantly reflects on the differences that unified his family, allowing McBride to successfully intertwine the two cultures as one by highlighting the differences between the two, and bringing the two together to convey that…

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    The first example to America’s real history is the presence of Jim Crow in the novel. Jim Crow is a set of laws against blacks, which made blacks less than whites. The towns back then needed Jim Crow laws to keep blacks and whites away from each other. Examples of these laws were that the blacks had separated bathrooms. Another example is if a white man of women talks to a black person the black person must remain polite and never make a reference to them as being less then you. Most punishments…

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    Nat Turner Analysis

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    Both of these writers used and was influenced by their religion in their writings. Both Nat Turner and Malcolm X expressed or demonstrated a willingness to take violent action in the cause of liberation or justice for African-Americans. Both of their writings tilted Malcolm X and The Confessions of Nat Turner, are writings that explain their views and purposes of the lives they were living. Upon their writings they both had co-authors for example, in The Confessions of Nat Turner, it was written…

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    The academic journal article up for reading and discussion for this week is titled Blood Terrain: Freedwomen, Sexuality, and Violence During Reconstruction by Catherine Clinton. In this brief twenty page work, Clinton narrows her focus on the history of the Reconstruction era to the undersold experience of black freedwomen who underwent monstrous and routine sexual abuse and rape by white southerners. My initial impression of this article is that it succinctly captures the rotten history of…

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    Malcolm X held a hatred toward white people due to the negative impact they had on his life. Malcolmʻs family was abused by the power of white people. He later was scarred by witnessing numerous amount of cruel acts done by them in his early childhood. In his early adulthood he decided to rebel against the government system and find illegal ways to obtain money. Over the years Malcolm concludes that the Declaration of Independence does not apply to people with colored skin. He does not…

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