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Richard Wright Coming of Age in a White-Dominated South and Equipping Himself For Fighting Racism
by
Arthur Smith
This follows up on Black Boy (Richard Wright's) Development From Childhood Innocence And Daring Curiosity To Writing, the last article in the series on Richard Wright's development as a writer The family's extreme poverty forced them to be moving from one town to another first to Memphis, Tennessee when Richard was six years old, then after his father abandoned the family, leaving his mother to support them all alone, they moved to Jackson, Mississippi to live with relatives. Wright's entire life was fraught with such continual moving from one town to another and staying with relatives, orphanages amongst others. He experienced cleavages with family members and teachers, fighting incessantly with bullies, white street gangs, as much as against hunger. So when at the age of 15, Wright wrote his first story "The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre", and it was published in a local black newspaper, he had little support and encouragement from his family He had to develop a high level of motivation and daring, to go ahead forging notes with the signatures of whites to borrow books from the library for him to satisfy his unquenchable thirst for great literature, which in turn stimulated further literature from his own imagination.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Richard-Wright-Coming-of-Age-in-a-White-Dominated-South-and-Equipping-Himself-For-Fighting-Racism
id=1202889 - May 26, 2008
Ransford Slater Constitution of Sierra Leone - Obstacles to Constitutional Change
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Oliver Harding
Since the Blackhall Constitution of 1863 was unable to meet the expectations of the Settlers, the post 1863 period ushered in an ear of quest for a better form of representative and democratic government. However, several factors threatened the implementation of the 1924 Ransford Slater Constitution in Sierra Leone. The composition of the Legislative and Executive Councils, coupled with the implications of colonialism and racism, divide and rule, the Great War (1914-1918) and the Great Debate could be meaningfully regarded as obstacles to constitutional change.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Ransford-Slater-Constitution-of-Sierra-Leone---Obstacles-to-Constitutional-Change
id=1948722 - Feb 02, 2009
Police Brutatlity, Abuse, and Hatred of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Belgium
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Rickcord. N Ngambi
This article is about police brutality and abuse of asylum seekers and refugees in Belgium. These brutalities and abuses have been happening in the past such as the suffocation of Semira Adamu by 11 gendarmes. Since then the Belgian government has always pledged to protect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees to no avail. It is demanded that the international community should put an end to any kind of abuse and police brutality on refugees and asylum seekers, and consider the radical Flemish political party Vlaams Belang (Flemish interest), as a terrorist organization if they don't stop preaching hatred, racism, intolerance and their policy to flush all asylum seekers and refugees out of the Belgian soil. Furthermore it calls for a general regularization of rejected asylum seekers and equal job opportunities for everyone living in Belgium.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Police-Brutatlity,-Abuse,-and-Hatred-of-Asylum-Seekers-and-Refugees-in-Belgium
id=39280 - May 27, 2005
Race Relations in America
by
Todd Lester
America has made great improvements in the area of racial equality but there is more yet to do. The glass ceiling has been shattered, yet we still seem to be stumbling through a maze. We know where we started but where are we going? Here is one man's opinion of what it all means.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Race-Relations-in-America
id=3584446 - Jan 15, 2010
On the Rise of Social Complexity
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Jared Hobbs
World History attempts to offer a global perspective on the collective chronicles of the Earth's societies. This is necessary, for to view history from the perspective of any individual society is to peer through the lenses of subjective experience and thought. Science seeks an objective truth, not one riddled with misconceptions, erroneous impressions, and outright lies meant to serve the agenda of a particular group. While World History has been searching for the concrete answers, the realm of the abstract has "been the preserve mainly of mythologists, theologians, metaphysicians, and philosophers of history," as Bruce Mazlish has said.
http://ezinearticles.com/?On-the-Rise-of-Social-Complexity
id=4944684 - Aug 28, 2010
You Might Be A Disruptive Physician If - Avoiding the Disruptive Physician Label
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George F. Indest III
I have never read a Jeff Foxworthy book, and I have never watched more than a minute or two of one of his comedy routines, so my apologies to him in advance. However, I find his comedy routine about rednecks (or what I know of the little bit I have heard) to be a good vehicle for conveying what might be a joke to many, but should be taken very seriously, especially by one accused of being a disruptive physician.
http://ezinearticles.com/?You-Might-Be-A-Disruptive-Physician-If---Avoiding-the-Disruptive-Physician-Label
id=7290991 - Sep 18, 2012
An Autobiographical Note as an Introduction to Hungarian and Romanian Images in American Culture
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Richard Andrew Hall
Encounters with ethnonational images-in this case Hungarians and Romanians-of course, often predate one's intellectual capacity to recognize ethnic and national distinctions and to link people and fictional characters with ethnic and national groups. It is only in retrospect that we can recognize the connection. Because of the subject of this section and the role of personal memories, the approach is somewhat stream-of-consciousness.
http://ezinearticles.com/?An-Autobiographical-Note-as-an-Introduction-to-Hungarian-and-Romanian-Images-in-American-Culture
id=723420 - Sep 09, 2007
Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part I
by
Susan Klopfer
Birdia Keglar and Adeline Hamlet of Charleston, Mississippi lost their lives fighting for the right to vote. Their deaths have never been investigated by any law enforcement agency (local or federal) and their story is the focus of this three-part series celebrating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that soon will be considered for reauthorization.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Dying-to-Vote-in-Mississippi,-Part-I
id=100312 - Nov 21, 2005
Queer Eye for the Bible Guy
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Brandon Mendelson
"Bibleman" hates gay people and further bigotry promoted by the "Bibleman" TV show
http://ezinearticles.com/?Queer-Eye-for-the-Bible-Guy
id=197393 - May 13, 2006
The Patriotic Fool
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Mark C Griffiths
In recent years there has been a rise in patriotism around Europe and elsewhere. Many of these feelings have been spurred on by racists who claim that European culture is being eroded by the vast amount of immigrants that are being let in.
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Patriotic-Fool