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"Life on the Color Line", 2008.
An analysis of "Life on the Color Line" by Gregory H. Williams
1,379 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The paper looks at "Life on the Color Line" by Gregory H. Williams, which is an autobiographical story of a man who found himself trapped between two different racial worlds. The paper describes how Williams, a white man with one-quarter black heritage, decides to consciously attempt to embrace a black racial identity. The paper addresses the question of race construction, how certain people might live the life of one given race or another based upon different influencing factors. Finally, this analysis considers how Williams' life might have been different in sports and education had he been fully accepted as white.
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"Growing up in suburban Virginia in the 1950s, Gregory and his brother Michael find themselves at the mercy of their troubled and abusive father, who despite having achieved a respectable amount of success as a businessman and owner of a roadside cafe, repeatedly sabotages his life and that of his family due to his alcoholism and related dysfunctional behavior. Though taken for a dark-skinned "Italian," by the time their father's businesses fail, Mike and Greg discover to their shock that their father has been deceiving them all their lives, and is in fact half-black: the product of a white Kentucky man and his black mistress. (Their mother, who was also white, obviously was in on the deception, but by the time of the move to Muncie, Indiana, she had already left.)"
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The Southern Color Lines, 2002.
Describes how segregation and racism was broken down in the South. Includes the influence of presidential elections.
1,906 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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Over nearly half a century since the American Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, the segregation and racism, defined by the color lines, have been broken down in the South. The paper defines the color lines of the South. It shows that the Outer Color Line was designed to keep blacks from enjoying any of the same rights white people did even though they were citizens. The Intermediate Color Line, based on economics, was drawn to further prevent blacks from shrugging their status as second class citizens. Finally, the paper shows that the Inner Color Line was a line drawn so that even if equality could be reached and the only difference in the two groups was skin color, blacks and whites could still not intermingle. The paper discusses how the lines were broken down by the Civil Rights Movement over a period of 20 years. Finally, the paper discusses the role presidential elections played in removing these lines from the American South's society. A graph is included in the paper.
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"Based solely on the color of their skin, a sharp line was drawn between two groups of people. On one side of this, those with white skin were placed. On the other, people with black skin could be found. This line, one drawn to show the superiority of whites, was separated into three lines for blacks. The first line, or the outer line, was a thickly drawn line designed to keep blacks the second class citizens in the nation. The intermediate line was drawn to keep whites and blacks from intermingling. Finally, an inner line was drawn to show that even if skin color was the only separation, blacks and whites could not have friendships. In the 1950s and 1960s, these lines began to crumble when the Civil Rights Movement took them head on."
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"Love Across the Color Lines", 2005.
A critical analysis of "Love Across the Color Line" by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper attempts to evenhandedly cover both the possibility of abuse in the relationship from both sides as well as the ability of Alice and Channing Lewis to cross sociocultural racial boundaries.
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""Love Across the Color Lines" is a project that captures the interracial romance between Alice Hanley and Channing Lewis in the early 1900's. Horowitz, a genuine historian, shows intellectual honesty in her analysis of these letters, objectively chronicling both the ups and the downs of Channing and Alice's relationship to each other and the society that they lived in. Although their story was not without it's hurdles, the relationship is a unique and touching example of love across racial boundaries."
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Plate Tectonics, Fault Lines and Fault Line Movement, 2006.
An analysis of how plate tectonics have and will affect the California coast.
2,275 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper studies how plate tectonics and fault line movement are impacting the shape of the California coastline. The paper begins with a discussion of how plate tectonics have changed the earth's surface, including through earthquakes. Then the paper turns to one of the most famous major fault lines, the San Andreas fault. The paper examines its historical, current and future influence on California, such as the major earthquakes of the 1800s and 1900s. The paper concludes with a discussion of other fault lines, including active and inactive ones.
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"Plate tectonics is responsible for the building of mountain ranges, the separation of continents through creation of new crust when the seafloor spreads as new lithospheric material pushes out of rifts on the ocean floor, and for earthquakes and volcanic activity (including the creation of volcanic islands and mountain ranges). The regions where the action of plate tectonics is most discernible is where adjoining tectonic plates are most active: pressing into each other, sliding over or under each other, sliding past each other. This activity usually takes place at a geologic pace--that is, so slowly that it escapes the notice of short-lived creatures such as human beings. Humans are unlikely to see mountain ranges forming or continents drifting apart. When two great tectonic plates, such as the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, move relative to each other along the Pacific coast at an average rate of 2 inches a year, who would notice? But the these gigantic plates do not move only by drifting or creeping at such an imperceptible pace. As they mash into each other, portions of their adjoining edges get hung up or frozen in place for years at a time, even for centuries or thousands of years. The pressure on these junctures finally gives way as much larger movements which humans perceive (can hardly ignore!) as earthquakes."
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Duccio's and Giotto's "Nativity", 2007.
An analysis of Duccio and Giotto's different techniques of subject matter, spacing, color and lines in their depictions of "Nativity."
1,401 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the subtleties of Duccio's and Giotto's paintings, "Nativity." The paper focuses on how each artist paints the same image, Christ's birth in a manger, but uses different artistic techniques to convey different meanings to the viewer. It discusses their subject matter, spacing, color and line usage and compares how these techniques are used differently by each artist.
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"In Nativity, Duccio and Giotto are clearly depicting identical subject matter, however the statement each makes is different. Giotto instills in the viewer a sense of peace and serenity, while Duccio creates a busy, frenetic atmosphere. Certainly both artists had the same deference for the Baby Jesus and certainly both accepted him as the Messiah. Nativity is a perfect example of how artists can portray the same scene while evoking a completely different response from the viewer. Giotto conveys to the viewer that the arrival of Jesus on Earth is a relief to all who believe. A consequent sense of tranquility and repose is imposed upon the viewer. Duccio on the other hand has chosen to focus on the magnitude of the Messiah's arrival. Duccio's uses of artistic techniques convey to the viewer that this is indeed the most significant event in human history. While depicting the same subject matter, Giotto and Duccio evoke different responses from the viewer. This is done through the use of different artistic techniques, such as the use of subject matter, spacing, color, and lines."
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Racism and Life in the American South, 2002.
A look at how the books, Gregory Howard Williams "Life On The Color Line" and Anne Moody's "Coming Of Age In Mississippi" mirror racism in the American South.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This essay will relate how the books by Gregory Howard Williams "Life on the Color Line" and Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi" relate to the actual lifestyle of African American's in living in a real world in America. The topics to be covered will include poverty, segregation, and discrimination and relate how these topics are connected in both books. By comparing both books, we can how these books truly mirror the real experience of the black situation on racism in America by African Americans themselves.
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"Black Is My Favorite Color", 2002.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper explains why, despite his sincere efforts, Lime failed to bridge the gap across the color line. The conclusion is that his sincerity is undeveloped, and other circumstances play a role in his attitude, as well.
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Color in Graphic Design, 2005.
This paper is a literature review studying the effect of color, primarily in print media, on the way people feel when they see an advertisement or some other kind of information in the media.
29,980 words (approx. 119.9 pages), 53 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper explains that there is evidence that color, especially the viewer's favorite colors, plays an important role in graphic design, especially print media and advertising. The author points out that color has symbolic meaning, which differ culturally: in western societies, white is seen as the traditional color for weddings but, in the Chinese culture, white is used for funerals; and, in America, red is often associated with rage or anger but in China red is used for happiness. The paper relates (1) the importance of graphic designers to study the role of color, how it makes people feel and why this is so significant and (2) the need for more research to understand this phenomena.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Background
Statement of the Problem
Research Questions and Hypotheses
Research Questions
Hypotheses
Importance of the Study
Significance of the Study
Rationale for the Study
Definition of Terms
Limitations of the Study
Validity and Uniqueness of the Data
Summary
Review of Related Literature
Literature on Color in Print Media
History of the Psychology of Color
What Is Your Favorite Color?
The Perception of Color
Color in Graphic Design
Case Study: British Telecom
Case Study: British Gas
Case Study: MacDonald's
Summary of the Literature Review
Methodology
Research Design and Rationale
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Summary
Analysis of the Data
Summary, Recommendations, and Conclusion
Summary
Recommendations
Conclusion
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"The favorite color that an individual has is considered to say a great deal about them. It is important here to look at the most popular colors briefly and what they say about individuals. Black is considered to be a color of power and authority. It is also very popular and fashionable because many people that wear black look thinner. Black is considered to be timeless and very stylish, but it also implies submissionFor example, priests wear black to signify that they are submissive to God There are those in fashion that indicate women who were black imply that they are submissive to men but many black outfits are also utilized for aloofness or evil, such as those traditionally worn by villains in many television shows and movies."
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Leisure and Life Satisfaction, 2005.
A study on the recreation and leisure habits of Korean college students and how this aspect of their lives interrelates to their general life satisfaction.
8,120 words (approx. 32.5 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 174.95
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This study researches and examines specifically the relationship that exists between leisure time and life satisfaction experienced among Korean college students. This study asks the questions (1) What are the degrees of leisure participation, leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction of male and female college students in Korea?; (2) What are the differences of leisure participation and life satisfaction of college of college students in Korea in relation to specific factors that impact this relationship?; and (3) How, if indeed it is, is the individual's self-esteem interrelated to leisure time and life satisfaction of college students in Korea? The method of this study is through conduction of review of available peer reviewed literature. Findings of this study show that it is the perception of the student in relation to accomplishment, time management skills and other relating factors of self-perception that greatly influence the enjoyment of leisure time by the college aged student in Korea more so than any other cultural, societal, governmental, health-related, financial, or any other known factor that causes an impact on leisure and as well that the self-perception of the student which colors the experience of leisure colors the experience of satisfaction in life as well.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Key Terms
Limitations of the Study
Need for the Study
Variables Related to Life Satisfaction & Theoretical Framework
Literature Review
Findings of the Study
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"Colleges in Korea consist of 16 national and public colleges and 142 private colleges. Since establishment of the first in 1979 the number has grown to 158 and total enrollment is stated to be 591,594 as of the year ending 2003. College in Korea has the express stated purpose of producing "middle-level technicians equipped with a solid base in both theories and practical skills. Their specialized courses are grouped into technical, agricultural, fishery, nursing, sanitation, home economics, social practice, arts and athletics." Of all students enrolled 96 percent of the students are enrolled in private schools. College admission quota represents 39.7 percent of all higher education in Korea as of 2003. "
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Classifications and Categories: Racial, Sexual, and Twained, 2006.
A look at Michael Omi and Howard Winant's book "Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s" and Siobhan Somerville's book "Queering the Color Line".
1,591 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses and summarizes Omi and Winant's book on racial differentiation and Somerville's book on sexual categorization. The paper explains that Michael Omi and Howard Winant's work defines racialization while Siobhan Somerville's work take this racial differentiation one step further into gender.
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"In order to differentiate the meaningful from the meaningless, human beings establish categories to limit the overwhelming amount of information with which we are constantly bombarded. While categories are necessary and useful, they also result in stereotyping and profiling. In Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s, Michael Omi and Howard Winant describe the process of racialization that provides categories of difference that have an enormous impact on our daily lives and on our society as a whole. Siobhan Somerville takes this racial differentiation to another level in Queering the Color Line and looks at the slotting of homosexuals in the pigeonhole of racialization or scientific racism."
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Two Kinds of Color, 2002.
Explores the distinction between phenomenal and physical color, using the views of philosophers.
4,634 words (approx. 18.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper advances the argument that the colors we consciously experience are not the same as whatever colors may exist in the external world/ This means that even if color is a real physical property of things in the world, the colors objects ?actually? have are not the same as the colors we experience them as having. This is not to say that things we see as being red may actually be blue, but rather that red, blue, and all of the other colors that comprise human color experience do not exist outside of that experience, regardless of whether there is an objective property of color in the world. This paper uses considerations put forward by George Berkeley and John Locke as well as current philosophers, neuroscientists and physicists. It approaches the topic from both a scientific standpoint as well as a philosophical one, though more emphasis is put on the latter.
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"Berkeley simply extends this argument to additionally cover Locke?s primary qualities, which he argues are likewise only known to us through our senses and perceptions. If colors, smells, tastes, etc., do not exist objectively in the world because they are not independent of the senses, then, by Berkeley?s reasoning, nothing can exist independently of perception because our knowledge of everything in the world ? including the primary qualities, which are the basic entities of all objects ? also stems entirely from our senses. Berkeley?s argument is largely based on the false reasoning that physical things in the world could not possible cause ideas in us , so his conclusion is easy to shrug off. But there is something very intriguing in the points he makes leading up to that misstep: We are indeed limited in our knowledge of the world by our inability to observe external things independent of our senses."
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"The Color of Water", 2002.
A review of James McBride's book "The Color of Water".
1,091 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines James McBride's book "The Color of Water" and how the leaving of home by both Ruth (the author's mother) and James (the author) is an event full of mixed causes, motivations and effects. It analyzes how both are leaving unpleasant home and family environments and how both are frightened and hopeful about finding a new and better life. It evaluates how Ruth's own leaving home and her forcing her children to leave the nest, were vital parts of their success later in life and how the life lessons learned by James were difficult since he easily could have succumbed to a life of crime, but he and her other children proved her right by living independent and successful lives.
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"In fact, it was one of Ruth's habits to push her children out of the nest as soon as possible, to allow them and/or force them to learn to live independent and self-sufficient lives. Ruth herself had experienced the repression and oppression of a dysfunctional family, and she had fled that family despite the fact that her mother needed her. She had seen for herself that one can be trapped by family obligations and that one can lose one's own life by trying to fulfill those obligations. In addition, she must have sensed in some way that she would not be able to save her mother from her father, and that she would likely lose her own self in the process of trying. She saw that one must save oneself and that the way to save oneself is to get away from the family life which would otherwise drain one's spirit sooner or later."
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?The Color of Water?, 2002.
A review of the book "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother" by James McBride.
944 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper examines writer and musician James McBride's memoir "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother". It looks at how James McBride was born of an interracial marriage between a white, Jewish mother and a Black, Christian father and how some of his negative life experiences included racism, poverty, segregation and a substandard education. It discusses how while he experienced many prejudices, he has also experienced many good and positive things within his life and how his priorities in life included his home and family and these factors were very positive influences upon his life.
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"The famous writer and musician, James McBride, tells the story of a conversation with his mother: He asks her the question, "Am I Black or White?" She replied, "You're a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!" McBride?s mother, Ruthie Shilsky McBride Jordan, instilled within her children two values. One was respect for education and the other was religious belief. What makes this story inspiring is that she succeeded against strong odds. They were raising her family in all-black lower-income neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, where opportunities for her children to get into major trouble abounded. An orthodox Jew born in Poland and raised in the South, Ruthie's early life included her abusive father, an itinerant rabbi who ran a grocery store where he exploited his black customers. "
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Past Prejudice and Life Satisfaction, 2005.
This paper discusses the relationship between past prejudice, racism and discrimination and life satisfaction in African-Americans.
10,005 words (approx. 40.0 pages), 47 sources, APA, $ 202.95
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This paper explains that racism has long term effects, which can impact directly the life satisfaction of African-Americans; life satisfaction is an assessment of overall conditions of existence as derived from a comparison of an individual's aspirations to his or her actual achievements. The author identifies six main types of discrimination: 1) Historical/persistent prejudice, 2) social paranoia, 3) persistent prejudice pain, 4) discrimination denials, 5) historical fear, and 6) historical bias. This paper explains that, throughout history, the color of a person's skin and other physical characteristics provided a means for easy classification.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prevalence
What is Prejudice?
Slavery
Racial Inequalities
Is It Genetic or a Learned Behavior?
Long-Term Effects of Prejudice
The O.J. Simpson Trial
The Burning of Black Churches
Six Types of Discrimination
Life Satisfaction
Adult Life Satisfaction - Terms and Concepts
African Americans and Life Satisfaction
Relationship between Black Identity Development and Life Satisfaction
Research Question
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"The American justice system prides itself for being color blind, yet more than half of the prison population is made up of black men or women, accounting for one million individuals in prison. African Americans make up only fourteen percent of all drug users in America, yet constitute thirty-five percent of all drug arrests, fifty-five percent of all drug convictions, and seventy-five percent of all drug admissions for drug offences. Statistically, more than eight out of every ten African Americans males will be arrested at some point in their lives. The pattern of racial bias in these statistics has been confirmed by the research of the US Commission on Civil Rights. Marable (2000) believes that racial stereotypes among African Americans as violent, aggressive, hostile, and short-tempered influence white judgments about crime. It is commonly believed that judges are inclined to give black and Latino defendants more severe judgments of guilt and lengthier prison sentences than whites who commit identical crimes."
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