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Black Elk's Religion, 2006.
A look at the life of Native American, Black Elk, and his strong Christian beliefs.
1,190 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper takes a look at the life and beliefs of Black Elk, member of the Oglala Sioux nation. According to the paper, Black Elk had many visions, the first of which he experienced at age nine. The paper goes on to discuss how Black Elk provided leadership in the acceptance of Christianity for a peaceful coexistence with the dominant society, while at the same time remaining a Lakota traditionalist at heart.
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"Black Elk shared his vision with the entire tribe, which then carefully enacted each detail (Wink 2000). They gathered sixteen horses: four black horses which represented the west, four white horses for the north, four sorrels for the east, and four buckskins for the south, and all with riders painted accordingly (Wink 2000). Then they began dancing, wheeling from one quadrant of the sacred circle to the next, drawing everyone into the circle until all were within the center (Wink 2000). A stick was planted in the earth that would flower as a sign of life and hope for the Sioux tribe (Wink 2000)."
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"Black Elk Speaks", 2005.
An analysis of the book "Black Elk Speaks" by John Neihardt and Black Elk.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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In this paper, Neihardt provides a different historical perspective of pioneer history through the perspective of Black Elk, a Native American. The paper examines how this anthropological dictation not only provides evidence of the genocide and racism that Europeans forced upon the Indians, but also how much more noble and moral Black Elk was though his tradition and honor of treaties. The writer proposes that by getting another perspective to the often-biased American history of how Native Americans are seen, the story of Black Elk resonates the truth of happened during pioneering expansion from the voice of the defeated.
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"In this book review one can analyze the various anthropological dictations of the Native American, Black Elk, who was 'interviewed' by the European John Neihardt. By examining various aspects of the expansionist policy of the Europeans who moved into the Dakota tribal region, one can realize an Indian perspective of how they were treated in the ensuing wars. In essence, Neihardt acts as a anthropological investigator that discovers the non-European point of view of the "Indian" Wars' with Black Elk. The purpose of the John Neihardt's book Black Elk Speaks is to give validity to the Native American side of the story when westward expansion was at is peak in the Dakota regions of the Old West. Neihardt's mission is to convey a different story of early pioneer European expansion than those found in American history books."
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"Black Elk Speaks", 2004.
This paper examines "Black Elk Speaks" by John Neihardt and the central theme of the book.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper analyzes the central theme of "Black Elk Speaks," while also considering its most significant images. The paper explains how Black Elk speaks not only for himself but for the fate of his tribe and also discusses his failure to achieve peace for his nation.
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"In the book "Black Elk Speaks" John Neihardt tells the story of a Lakota Sioux holy man and how his visionary experiences impacted both his Native American nation and the world in general. Indeed the book is not simply Black Elk's personal story or biography but instead serves as an examination of the fate of his tribe as well."
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"Black Elk Speaks" by John Neihardt, 2002.
The life of Nicholas Black Elk, a religious elder, as told to the author.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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Life of Nicholas Black Elk, a religioius elder, as told to the author. History of the Plains Indians of the late 19th Century. Describes the tribe's belief system. Black Elk's relating how the spirit voices came to him. Sanctioning of his vision. Need to bring his message of the unity of the planet to the world.
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" Black Elk Speaks (2000) is more than a history of the plains Indians of the latter 19th century. Black Elk was a religious elder of a people that has historically relied on the oral tradition. So this recounting of his life and his vision can be seen as a sacred text that has been preserved on paper instead of committed to memory. As Black Elk begins to relate his life and his vision to John Neihardt, he calls upon the Spirit of the World to keep him true (2), and then he reaffirms the authority of his vision, his tribe's belief system, and his belief that somehow, this vision can still be fulfilled.
When Black Elk was five years old he heard the spirit voices and saw the two messengers who flew down from the sky (14-15). He knew that this was not a dream, but a vision that came from the One Spirit. From that time he would occasionally hear the..."
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"Black Elk Speaks", 2002.
Review of the novel "Black Elk Speaks" from the perspective of Christianity with an emphasis on the influence Christianity has had on the Lakota Sioux.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 80.95
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The characters in John Neihardt's "Black Elk Speaks" cross a multitude of literary representations, symbols and metaphors. Although one can say that each of these characters or representations are unique to the Lakota Sioux, and indeed represent what is unique about Native American heritage in general, This paper will focus more on how these representations and characters reflect the Christian influence upon the Lakota Sioux. Throughout "Black Elk Speaks", many Christian parallels may be found and this paper will highlight several of them.
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The Life of Black Elk, 2002.
A look into the life of Black Elk (1863?1950) - a Native American religious leader of the Oglala Lakota band of the Sioux tribe.
1,878 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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By examining the life of Black Elk, this paper provides a brief historical tour of the life of a typical Native American being confronted with the advancing white pioneers attempting to move Westward. It explores the events of various battles that took place between the pioneers and the Native Americans and the involvement that Black Elk had in each of these. It focuses specifically on the saga of the Sioux tribe.
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"According to the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia (2002), Black Elk (1863?1950) was a Native American religious leader of the Oglala Lakota band of the Sioux tribe. Black Elk, who at the age of 17 had a vision of the Lakota people rising up and freeing their lands from the white settlers, tried to find ways of reconciling his people?s traditions with Christianity and the encroaching reality of white dominance. This vision was a famous one among the Sioux in which the Powers of the World told Black Elk of a ?fearful road, a road of troubles and of war. On this road you shall walk, and from it you shall have the power to destroy a people?s foes? (Neihardt, p. 29). Reality, unfortunately, would prove to be quite different. The whites were eventually successful in obliterating the Native Americans? way of life and subjugating the peoples."
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Black Elk and Russell Means, 2004.
This paper contrasts issues confronting Black Elk and Russell Means.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 63.95
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This paper offers a comparison and contrast of issues confronting Black Elk and Russell Means. The writer examines the rhetoric of both Native American leaders. The writer also discusses Oglala Sioux, the Wounded Knee massacre of 19th Century and the A.I.M. takeover of the site in 20th Century.
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'Shades of Black - Conrad Black, his Rise and Fall', 2006.
A discussion and review of Richard Siklos's well written biography of Conrad Black's career, "Shades of Black - Conrad Black, his Rise and Fall".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews "Shades of Black: Conrad Black - His Rise and Fall", Richard Siklos's well written biography of Conrad Black's career and dramatic collapse after 2002. The paper explains that Siklos interviewed more than 200 persons before a 1995 edition of which this volume is a revised expansion featuring another 50 interviews. Siklos also spent hours speaking to Black, indirectly attempting to account for his extravagance and need to impress others, atop his drive for power. Much is revealed through Siklos's notes on Black's wife, the former Barbara Amiel. The paper reports that Siklos leads the reader through a summary of Black's family background, his youth in north Toronto's Bride Path area, his expulsion from Upper Canada College, and later, Trinity College School, before Thornton Hall, Toronto.
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James Cone: Black Theology and the Black Christ, 2006.
An analysis of the term theology and the essential concepts of "Black Theology" as it pertains to James Cone's idea of a "Black Christ".
4,374 words (approx. 17.5 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 115.95
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This paper examines how James Cone believes that if blacks, particularly African-Americans, don't wake up and change the traditional American image of Jesus, they will probably never grasp the true philosophy and mission of Jesus. It discusses how African-Americans must see Jesus as a black man that endured the struggle and how it is the duty of black preachers, pastors and theologians to advocate black theology, which includes the black image of Jesus, for the sake and survival of the African-American experience.
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"When one begins to think about God, questions arise as one lacks significant knowledge of God. When one begins to engage in such a dialogue, or entertains such questions, one has clearly entered the community of theology. The articles states: "The attempt to think about God leads immediately to a host of related question which are included under the term theology. First, there is the question of mans relationship to God, the ultimate source of things? Then we must ask about revelation to God, that is, how does man know what God is like? If God must reveal himself where and how is he revealed?" These are prospective questions that man can't escape when thinking about God or in dialogue about God. "
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Buffalo Bill, 2006.
This literary study analyzes the similarities and differences in the descriptions of Buffalo Bill in "Black Elk Speaks" by Black Elk and "Green Grass, Running Water" by Thomas King.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper discusses Thomas King's novel "Green Grass, Running Water" and how it offers a modern socio economic view of Buffalo Bill as an exploiter of Native Americans. The paper compares King's view of Buffalo Bill to that of Black Elk's view in "Black Elk Speaks" which presents a picture of the historical Buffalo Bill that is more humane in how he remembers his adventures with the traveling Wild West show.
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"By understanding the intertextual references that King makes within his more modern depiction of Buffalo Bill, one can see how he is similar to Black Elk's explanations of how this famous western character interacted with Native Americans. In contrast, the Black Elk helps forge this intertextual message in portraying the reality of Indians in connection with the historical Buffalo Bill in opposition to King's modern view of Indians. In essence, a compare and contrast of these two narratives will be examined to discover how Buffalo Bill is represented in both modern and historical perspectives."
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Economic and Emotional Truths, 2002.
A comparative analysis of the books ?Observations on Marxism and the Lakota Tradition? by Frank Black Elk and "Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years" by Jimmie Durham.
1,055 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses how both the books ?Observations on Marxism and the Lakota Tradition? by Frank Black Elk and "Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years" by Jimmie Durham critically examine the historical Native American tradition in America from a contemporary Native American perspective. It examines how Frank Black Elk examines his heritage with a critical economic and political eye, as well as attempts to discuss his personal search for his identity as a Native American man today. Jimmie Durham, in contrast, is much more concerned with the social and psychological terms of historical and ethnic ?memory? of all Native Americans. It shows how Durham defines himself, not against an ideology or against European society, but in contrast to individuals whom he never know, yet he still sees as an intrinsic part of his past. It looks at how Durham attempts to reconstruct the lives of Native Americans from long past, while Elk is more concerned with reconstructing his own sense of self.
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"In contrast, the Native American author Jimmie Durham views his past and his connection with Native American heroes in a far more unbroken fashion. He views his connection with the dead and even the defeated as a living tradition, rather than the dead Native Americans as part of the past. ?For us, history is always personal. (I remember the Trail of Tears and Sequoia?s efforts as though I had been there.) History is directly involved with our families and our generations; tied with sacred white cotton string to the sweet and intense memories of our brother or sister is the desperate and intense hope of each generation to change this history.? (Durham 171-2). Durham views his identity as a Native American, despite the currently marginal status of his people, as a viable source of identification. He portrays the supposed split between the culture of the living and the dead as simply yet another manifestation of white ideology and anathema to Native American culture."
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Black Entrepreneurship, 2007.
This paper discusses the books 'Black Wealth Through Black Entrepreneurship' by Robert Wallace and 'Black Entrepreneurship in America' by Shelly Green and Paul Pryde.
1,159 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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In this essay, the writer examines two books addressing the topic of black entrepreneurship, Robert Wallace's 'Black Wealth Through Black Entrepreneurship' and Shelly Green and Paul Pryde's 'Black Entrepreneurship in America'. The writer notes that both volumes examine the relative lack of wealth in the black community, despite the removal of legal restrictions on black participation in the business area, such as limitations on ownership, hiring and promotion discrimination, and discrimination in lending and capital provision to minority entrepreneurs. The writer discusses that each book analyzes the specific influences on the black community, and possibly the culture, which contribute to this lack of entrepreneurship and capital ownership.
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"Green and Pryde's book more directly addresses the issue, specifically examining social criteria necessary for a business class to be created and the lack of these phenomena in the black community. The need for resources is a major factor in the creation of a business class and in the encouragement of entrepreneurship among a community, and although the black communities tend to have fewer financial resources than their white counterparts, Green and Pryde note that they are far from impoverished as a class. They note that new economic activity tends to spring up where resources, especially money, are available to support it, but in spite of this, the black community has not seen such a spurt of new business ventures. The black community, say Green and Pryde, is not nearly as poor as its cultural mythology and popular culture would have it believe."
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Black Women and Feminism, 2006.
This paper reviews and discusses the historic oppression of black women as well as the existing gap between white and black women as detailed in Bell Hooks' "Ain't I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism."
1,320 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explores author Bell Hooks' theoretical perspective on blacks and feminism. Hooks claims that the major cause of oppression to black women came from many sources including white women interested in their own personal gain at the expense of black women and the black men interested in keeping them as second class citizens. This paper discusses the exploitation of women during the slave trade as one of the pioneering ways in the continuing devaluation of black women. The writer contends that Hooks' novel contains relevant research and subsequent evidence that clearly details why a gap still exists between black and white women. The writer of this paper stresses Hooks' desire for all women to bond together and for the struggle for equality to end.
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"In her research of the exploitation of slaves, Hooks' expertly does not focus on the sexual atrocities committed upon black women. She in fact details the effect brutalizing black women has on the black man, white man, and the white woman. Hooks explores the possibilities of the potential personal gain from dehumanizing black women, some of which include stereotypes/jealousy of the sexuality of a black woman, and "demasculating" the black man (psychological removal of his masculinity) in relation to exploiting 'his' woman. Bell Hooks' research into the hypocrisy of the feminist movement as it relates to white woman is the principal reason why many African American women, myself included, do not want any active participation with the women's movement."
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The Black Death, 2006.
This paper explores the spread and impact of the black plague in "Black Death" by Phillip Ziegler.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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The paper looks at the basis of the Black Death as defined by Ziegler and offers a cause and effect of the bubonic plague during the 14th century. By realizing how fleas carrying deadly parasites found their way to Europe on the bodies of rats, one can realize the subtle and dangerous nature of this plague. The paper explains that without proper medical knowledge to stop the spread of the disease, it becomes apparent as to why large populations near seaports died from infestation.
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"This historical study will discover the various causes of the spread of the black plague and how it decimated European populations. By realizing the growing problems of disease carried by rats and fleas, the bubonic plague was carried by these vermin into European ports via sea trade. By realizing the massive lack of medical knowledge to prevent the spread of the disease, Ziegler helps to define why this plague became an epidemic that threatened the very survival of European culture. In essence, this study will analyze the causes and results of this devastating "black death," which spread across Europe during the 14th century."
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Black Masculinity, 2004.
A discussion of black masculinity and black male identity.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses black masculinity in terms of class and educational achievement.
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