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    “In what way was Mary Dalton responsible for her own death?” The growing racial tension and racial oppression in the 1930s, induced by the prior institution of slavery in the United States, caused many African Americans to not only feel inferior to the white population but it also imbedded a strong sense of fear and guilt in the African American community. This same societal oppression that led to the feeling of inferiority, in the pre-civil rights time, was reproduced in Richard Wright’s novel…

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    The Jim Crow laws has had a serious, influence on the u.s. supported what proportion damage than smart it did throughout its time. The Jim Crow laws were in favor of White race over black in state and native laws within the u. s. enacted between 1876 and 1965. This successively caused a lot of damage than smart as a result of black folks had numerous restrictions on what they will do whereas living within the USA. The Jim Crow laws were supported segregation of public faculties, public places,…

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    Over 14.2 million people in the world are suffering from some form of labor trafficking ("Labor Trafficking"). Labor trafficking is when individuals provide some sort of labor or services, through the use of force. Most of the victims are being manipulated, lied to, threatened, or given an unfair pay. The victims are put into poor working conditions and have a hard time getting out. Of the 14.2 million people in forced labor seventy three percent are adults and the other twenty seven percent are…

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    Brown’s novel, Clotel was made into four versions to reflect the events happening in a fourteen year span. Each version was carefully constructed to expose the true evils of slavery. Clotel, also known as Clotelle, Isabella, and Miralda, is the protagonist in the story tragically dies, but not before allowing the reader to understand the hardships of being a mulatto (white-slave), a woman in bondage, and a mistress to a white man. Unlike Brown’s later novels, his 1853 version of Clotel…

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    For a while now I’ve been meaning to share my thoughts and opinions with the world around me, but each time my fingers skim the surface of my laptop my heart rate speeds up, my throat tightens, my palms begin to sweat and all I can think about is the possibility that I might be the only person feeling the way I do. With that said, as I sit and share my thoughts in my dimly lit room, I do so with no intentions of offending anyone who might read this. To be honest, I do not expect many to read the…

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    About 110,489,000 of Americas are on welfare today. 39% of those individuals are black and 39% of the individuals are white (Statistic brain 2016). However society and media doesn’t portray, show, or talk about the 39% of whites on welfare. Americans perception of welfare dependency is viewed as a black cultural trait, not realizing the welfare program systematically excluded black people for most of its history (Roberts 1999: 204). And if it wasn’t for the civil rights movement Blacks wouldn’t…

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    When I say complications of abortion, I’m sure the first thing that comes to your mind is probably all the things that could go wrong while getting an abortion. Well it is actually the complete opposite. There is more than one complication that comes with abortion. Abortion is a complicated issue in today’s world religiously and ethically. People have problems with abortion all over the world today. Whether it be that they are for abortion or they are against abortion, bottom line is that it is…

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    White privilege is an inherent advantage, that is unearned and unacknowledged, yet practiced by whites regularly. White people typically earn more money and have more assets than other races. Fortunate individuals continue to fail to realize there is still inequality. They usually rise well above the poverty line, and live relatively economically sound lives. This is true for Brock Turner, a white male former swimmer and student at Stanford University. On January 18, 2015, just after one in the…

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    I logged into Unturned on the beautiful, tropical island of Hawaii. The sun was already coming up, smiling from its nap. I'm the only one at the outpost my team has found to reuse as a checkpoint. The rest of the unit is either on patrol duty or scavenging for supplies, since we've only received one airdrop from H.Q. all month, I fear that the eastern raiders have sabotaged our supply line. I was tasked to finish the new wall to create two lines of defense. The new wall would be on the outside…

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    Frederick Douglass in the narrative, The Life of Frederick Douglass, asserts that the enslavement of human beings is immoral and that slavery should be abolished. Douglass supports his argument by informing the reader of the conditions of slavery, displaying the illogical reasoning behind slavery, and exhibiting the opportunities available for freedmen. The author’s purpose is to advocate for the abolition of slavery in order to spread awareness of the injustice of slavery to abolitionists and…

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