The Courageous Black Stallion! Here is a tale of an incredibly courageous black stallion. Down on Hopeful farm there is a guy named Alec Ramsay. One night he couldn't sleep because he knew something was wrong. He got up and went to the barn where on a desk there was a paper about th...

The external and internal conflicts are very evident in Wright's story Black boy. When the boy's father left, his internal problem of hunger became closely associated with his father. After the boy started doing household chores such as cleaning and shopping, that gave way to another int...

Trunble low-security prison, located in a backwater of Florida, is home to a trio of former lawyers. The self-styled Brethren, comprising a Federal Judge, a Justice of the Peace and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, arbitrate on behalf of the jail's inmates. Their daily meetings in the law libra...

Proposition 25 Prop 25 is a proposition which was put on the ballot by petition signatures Prop 25 provides for public financing of candidate and ballot measure campaign costs, the disclosure of top contributors and fund raising time restrictions. Results of this would be that it establishes co...

Hemp Legalization As I read over this article, I became more and more furious with the government. Ralph Nadar, the presidential candidate for the green party, talked about his plan to legalize the growth of commercial grade hemp, but the government showed how overbearing it is. One thing that...

While I was reading through the issues, there was two that really struck home with me that the two presidential candidates talked about. The first issue that they talked about was Drugs. President Bush believes that we need to be more aggressive in teaching drug education, providing treatment and e...

A very important element in American culture today is sports, especially amongst blacks. The struggle for blacks to participate in sports was a difficult encounter in the earlier 1900's. However, due to various black leaders, such as Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson, they have open many doors...

Shadows Black is white and white is black in the me you will never know. Words are mysteries you define. Years mask mistakes like mounds of snow. Up is down and down is up again in my clever game of charades. And with you I can forget ...

1. According to Henry Louis Gates, almost 50% of the Afro-American literary tradition was created when "it's authors and their black readers were either slaves or former slaves". 2. Slave narratives were produced for many reasons. One was to inform others of the hardships that slaves...

early in this elaquent novel.. a sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation where he finds one young white woman, about eighteen old black men, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who killed the cajun although each of the men is toting a shotgun, only one of them could hit a c...

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is a very mind-boggling story. It leaves the reader in a trance. The story has a lot of things going on, which is centered around this rich socialite, Ms. Emily Grierson. In her mind, she still believes her family to be rich and powerful. Ms. Emily loses a...

THE SPREAD OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE Many have been affected by the plague that has traveled from China - Europe. The plague was said to be carried by rats and fleas, say reasearchers. This plague is known in other places as The Black Death. It seems that the Black Death is a combi...

Henrick Ibsen once said that, " The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." A man with the greatest power and strength is the loneliest man. There is rarely anyone who can match his capability and ability. Even though the man receives respect from people around him andis ...

The American Alligator is one of the largest reptiles in the world weighing from 450 to 500 pounds. The length of an adult varies from 13 to 18 feet. The tail is about half of the length. The alligator and the crocodile are very similar in appearance but there is a difference. The crocodile has a di...

President Abraham Lincoln said in 1858, "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races." President Lincoln is widely believed to be the fabled liberator of the slaves. However, Lincoln showed time a...

Freshman Year I remember freshman year so well, And just about every bell. Good times were all around, as new friends were found. Every thing was so new, and we didn't have a clue We were all so little, And didn't know diddle. Classes we tough, And the schedules became rough....

Screaming Death When moving into a house you always believe that you will be safe from the outside world. Unfortunately, on July 17, 2000, my thoughts of being secure in a home completely changed. A reckless boy had driven his car into my house, driving through the kitchen and reaching my bedroom....

I look out in the night to see what was glowing so bright, Thy reflection turned to a light blue and I started to dream, Things that wouldn't be allowed to mean a thing, I knew nothing would be the same, Trying to step through something that clouded my brain, It held me so high I thought...

My Thoughts on the Confederate Flag In my opion I thin the flag should not be flow. Because think Of all the trouble that it has caused the southerners in the past. Most importantly because it affects people. Some people think its Racist. And since it was along time ago its not ver...

Columbia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Columbia in 1830. A fourty year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Columbian government escalated during the 1990s, under girded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swath...

A Charles Dickens Character As I walked in to the bar, I saw Arnold Brutus sitting at the table ordering his dinner. Dressed in faded blue jeans and tight black T-shirt that exposed his massive chest and arms, he yelled the waiter over. His booming, low voice seemed to shake the room as he roar...

One of the most devastating plagues that have left a mark in the modern times is the Black Death, which plagued Asia and Europe in 1345. This plague was something never seen before by Europeans and Asians. It distressed the entire populations of these continents for approximately twenty five percen...

It was his last semester of law school. Rudy Baylor was assigned to give free advice to a group of seniors. It is at that very time, and that very place, that Rudy encounters his first true clients. Dot and Buddy Black. They have been robbed by a powerful insurance company. A company with mil...

Victor Cannig's "The smuggler" is a fictional story of two well respected men on Small Island. Tasso and The Great Man are very similar expect for there physical appearance and mood. Tasso and The Great Man are both very clever and witty. They spoke their words with ease and smoot...

HARRIET TUBMAN Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave. She helped so many of her black people that she became known as "Moses of Her People." During the civil war she served the union army as a nurse, spy, cook, and scout. She was also conductor on the Underground Railroad. She was a very heroi...