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Papers On More Historical Figures & Their Works
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Huck Finn is Not a Racist Book
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A 4 page essay that argues that Huck Finn is not a racist book. It has become a perennial issue that books, even classics, that contain “’racially offensive’” words should be banned from high school curricula and Mark Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn is always a target of such campaigns (Bertin 18). The irony in this situation is the idea that Mark Twain’s novel could be viewed as anything other than a humanistic classic that stands up for the rights of individuals, particularly blacks, in the face of a societal context that legitimized and tolerated gross racial injustice. Examination of Twain’s classic shows that it is most definitively not racist, but is rather a manifesto against racism, injustice and the glorification of the past. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khhfnot.rtf
Human Rights and Social Welfare: Martin Luther King Jr.
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A 6 page paper which examines how Martin Luther King Jr. has influenced and contributed to the social welfare of people. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAmjk3.rtf
Humans and Nature
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A 7 page paper which discusses how no matter how distant society removes itself from nature, it still has a concern for the wilderness and the rural. The paper utilizes three essays/stories in this examination. The essays/stories are Zora Neale Hurston’s How it Feels to be Colored Me, Flannery O’Connor’s The Life you Save May Be Your Own, and Jack London’s To Build a Fire. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RA3ssw.rtf
I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.
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A 5 page review of the book by Michael Eric Dyson. Discusses Dyson's portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr's life and accomplishments. Delineates the theme and purpose of the book, its significant findings, conclusions, and the importance of Dyson's sources. Concludes that the author sometimes goes overboard in excusing the more reprehensible of King's actions such as the plagiarizing of much of his academic writing, cheating on his wife, and succumbing to sexism. While it is easy enough to accept Dyson's premise that King's accomplishments outweigh his indiscretions, Dyson takes the stance that King's more reprehensible actions are not his fault but a circumstance of his time, a fault of government and white society. Never-the-less, "I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King Jr." is certainly worth reading to get an alternate view of a man we all thought we knew but whose true complexities far outweigh our memories of him. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPmlkRev.wps
Jacob Lawrence: His Life and Works
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A 6 page paper which provides a look at the
life and works of the African American artist Jacob Lawrence. Bibliography lists 5
sources.
Filename: RAjcblwr.rtf
Jacobs and Douglass: Slavery
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A 5 page paper which examines the similarities in the lives of the wives of slaveholders as presented by Harriet Ann Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAdugjc1.rtf
James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” -- Eulogy for his Father
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This 5 page report discusses writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) Notes of a Native Son and the ways in which it blends the most fundamental issues of race with the heartache of one father and son’s relationship. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWnatson.rtf
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