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August Wilson / Afro-American Playwright
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A 9 page discussion of the contemporary black playwright August Wilson and several of his works including but not limited to : 'The Piano Lesson' and 'Two Trains Running.'
Filename: Augustwi.wps
August Wilson's 'Fences'
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A 4 page overview of August Wilson's play 'Fences' with special consideration of the importance of Troy and the impact that this main character has on the development of themes like racial separation and struggle. This paper also looks at Troy's impact on his family and the way in which Wilson provides an insightful look into the culture and history of 1950's black America.
Filename: Fences.wps
August Wilson's 'Fences' # 2
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This 7 page paper examines how racial discrimination, African-American culture and family life were depicted during the 1950s in August Wilson's Pulitzer prize-winning play, 'Fences.' The paper provides an overview of the entire play, but focuses primarily upon Act I. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Fences2.wps
August Wilson's 'Fences' / Significance Of The Title
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A 5 page paper on this 1987 Pulitzer prizewinning play. The paper comments on the relationship between the title and the fences the characters erect around themselves, symbolized by the fence Troy Maxson builds on his property. It concludes that African Americans have interiorized three hundred years of racism and allowed it to warp the way they think of themselves, and building emotional fences is a form of self-defense. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Auwilson.wps
The Roots of Nonconformity in the Works of Willa Cather
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A nine page paper looking at Willa Cather's lesbianism as a reason for her nonconformist views. The paper asserts that due to the threat of being blackballed in the publishing industry, Cather was forced to hide her homosexuality, but her nonconformity shines through in her works. Bibliography lists seven sources.
Filename: KBcathr2.wps
The Trope Of Jazz / Blues In Black Literature & Poetry
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A 15 page research paper which explores the profound connection between blues and jazz and African-American literature and poetry. The writer relates how music was the only source of creativity allowed blacks during the slave era, and how this caused a rich musical heritage to be developed which has carried over into works of such writers as Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison. The 'Coltrane poems,' which were inspired by the work of the great jazz musician, John Coltrane, are also explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Litpoet.wps
Contributions Of African-Americans To Music & Art
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A 5 page research paper which examines the multiple contributions of black Americans beginning in the colonial period and giving a brief overview to the present. The writer's covers such topics as the Harlem Renaissance, African-American contributions to music (Joplin, Coltrane, etc.), and the works of contemporary novelist Toni Morrison. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: Afamart.wps
Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' vs. Douglass' 'Narrative Of The Life Of ...'
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A 5 page discussion of the two men, their backgrounds, their views of slavery and their approaches to obliterating it. Bibliography lists 3 primary sources including the books.
Filename: Thordoug.wps
The Movement Against Apartheid
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This 14 page paper presents a view of Apartheid and the movement against Apartheid in the 1980s and early
1990s. This paper considers the role that religion played in the movement against Apartheid in South Africa, as well as the roles of Steve Biko, Desmund Tutu, indigenous religions, and Nelson Mandella.
Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Religion And Slavery
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An 8 page paper rationalizing the existence of slavery through religion. In Antebellum times here in America, slavery was justified through religion in many ways. Even African American spokesmen often claimed that God sent slavery to the African American in order to teach them about suffering and truth. The white man used religion as an excuse mainly in the context that the African American was no more than an animal and as such was entrusted to them so that the they might teach the African American about religion and the path of righteousness. This is not to say that this reality was righteous, for it was not, but it was the excuse many used for the mistreatment and the enslavement of the African American. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Slavargu.wps
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