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    the duration of the ride, the somewhat prolific founder talked about how the African-American people would one day shape America and this man's fate. He even went as far as to say, “ I had a feeling that your people were somehow connected with my destiny. That what happened to you was connected with what would happen to me…” (41) In this, he foreshadows a shift of power (From the White populace of America to the African-American people) which later proves to be true. But in this he finds despair…

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    Shake It Off Summary

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    by a Greek bust; Grecian society heavily relied on rules that reinforced unattainable ideal features of men. The black man was visualized through a character with “‘scientific’ representations” that included “stereotypes and derogatory images of African Americans” with “an abnormally pronounced brow, protruding lips and teeth, and a back-sloping forehead” . Even more shocking, the monkey appears more human than any other portrait in the study with portrait-style composition and wiry hair.…

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    The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic, intellectual and literary movement that helped shape African American culture. It gave African Americans a voice to express themselves through a variety of means. Authors like Langston Hughes and W.E.B Dubois, musicians like Billie Holiday, and artists like Lois Mailou Jones and Aaron Douglas, were some of the most influential people during this movement. Before the new movement black artists rarely concerned themselves subject matters that included their…

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    Europeans and the contracts This resulted in varied reactions from African leaders and people themselves. Some reactions were violent or called for violence, and others were those of giving in, submitting, or. During Europe’s Scramble for Africa, some Africans reacted by submitting, giving in, or peacefully resigning whether as an immediate result or last resort. For example, in Document 1, the British had made a contract for African chiefs to sign to give away their land “willingly” and…

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    Voodoo And Obeah

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    The topic of my presentation is on how Voodoo and Obeah are used to empower the characters in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. I choose this topic because I found it to be essential when analyzing Wide Sargasso Sea. Having A full understanding of Obeah allows the reader to truly understand the characters of Christophine and Antoinette. Personally, I find the topic of magic and Voodoo to be very interesting as it is something humans will never truly understand. There is a lot of room for subtopics…

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    painting, and sculpture”—proved the new ear of achievements for African Americans that were “hardly more than a half-century removed from slavery and enmeshed in the chains of a dehumanizing segregation.” Hence, the Harlem Renaissance was also called The New Negro Movement as this marked the birth of African American artists— “the foundations for the representation of their people in the modern world, with a complexity and a self-knowledge that have proven durable even as the African American…

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    outcome of paternalism on Kenya. Racial discrimination between the privileged white minority and Africans ascended because of the manipulation of the British government, as resident native ordinances were dismantled resulting in the inability for African laborers to be successful. The unfortunate situation of Kenya overturned in 1926 when the Laborites returned to power in Britain. They protected Africans rights to land and represented them on the legislative council. British paternalism in…

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    Nature of the native is written by Thomas Hardy who is a writer of nature and reality. He plots the story in an elaborately described landscape. His interest in nature scenes shows that he has spent his childhood close to nature. His closeness to nature makes him able to write on it. In the novel ''Return of The Native'' Hardy described a nature as Edgon Heath which is an antagonist to human beings. Heath is a character that influences other characters. It also has control on the lives of people…

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    1:1--- After considering the four roles of the artist that author Henry Sayre notes; I believe that the most important role for Andy Warhol 1963 is to make a visual record of the people, places and events or their time and place. I believe that Warhol was making a records of a specific time in the events of May 1963 Birmingham, Alabama when the police employee dog to attacks and fires hoses against the demonstrators led by martin Luther King Jr. I believe he used the red, white and blue colors…

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    President Thomas Jefferson, was the first Secretary of State, the Minister of Finance, the Governor of Virginia and Congressman, before being elected as president in the 1800s. He contributed to the American society in various ways, by doing many significant and beneficial things. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and was fond of equality, freedom and justice for all citizens and everyone. He never gave up and kept trying. Even during his "retirement" years, he did not…

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