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Essay Instructions: The paper needs to be a summary/analysis of the newspaper artical by Nat Hentoff called NAACP wants Huck Finn expelled. Include the assumptions, thesis,support and conclusion. Take the stance that Huck Finn should not be expelled. What does Hentoff say? Agree or disagree. Use 3rd. person. Quote the artical. Avoid contradiction.

Essay Instructions: 2 pages
Roman Style, single space
Summarize it in one paragraph. Single space
Give your opinion of the article. Single space
Sources.


Thinking about diversity; race class, E gender


One of sociology?s pioneers in United State, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois saw sociology as a key to solving society?s problems, especially racial inequality. Du Bois earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University and established the Atlanta Sociological laboratory, one of the first centers of Sociological research in the United States. He helped his colleagues in sociology and people everywhere see the deep racial divisions in the United State. White people can simply be ?Americans? Du Bois explained, but African Americans have a ?double consciousness? reflecting their status as citizens who are never able to escape of their skin.

I his sociological classic The Philadelphia Negro: A social Study (1988), Du Bois explored Philadelphia?s African American community, identifying both the strengths and the weaknesses of people wrestling with overwhelming social problems on a day-to-day basis. He challenged the belief ?widespread at that time-that blacks were inferior to whites, and he blamed white prejudice for the problems African Americans faced. He also criticized successful people of color for being so eager to win white acceptance that they gave up all ties the black community, which needed their help.

Despite notable achievements, Du Bois gradually grew impatient with academic study, which he left was too detached from the everyday struggle of people of color, Du Bois wanted change. It was the hope of sparking public action against racial separation that led Du Bois, in 1909, to participate in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of colored People (NAACP), an organization that has been active in supporting racial equality for more that a century. As the editor of the organization?s magazine, Crisis, Du Bois worked tirelessly to challenge laws and social customs that deprived African Americans of the rights and opportunities enjoyed by the white majority.

Du Bois described race as the major problem facing the United States in the twentieth century. Early in his career, as a sociological researcher, he made enormous contributions to the study of racial inequality. Later, as an activist, he believed political reform might over come deep racial divisions. But by the end of his life, he had grown bitter believing that little had changed. At the age of ninety-three, Du Bois left the United States for African Nation of Ghana, where he died two years later.

Essay Instructions: To bursney111:
Here is what needed to be answered:Explain what led to your interest in your particular major and what career you ultimately wish to pursue. Include a description of your lif''s ambition, what you hope to accomplish or achieve i your lifetime and what position you hope to attain.

( This is to be answered one page. If all these questions can be answered on one page double spaced fine, if not single space but I must emphasize that it must be on one page.

The second question to be answered is:What do you consider to be your most significant contribution to your community? Explain in what three ways yu consider your contribution to be sisgnificant.

This too needs to be on one page single or double spaced as long as it is on one page. Also the paper can be 1 1/2" spaced . The same applies to the first question needed
to be answered .

As you know I am a high school senior , I plan to major in music productions and business. I live in southern California near the movie capitol of the world and major record companies. I intend to know how the money I make is being spent and the knowledge of what to do and the know how to finance the projects I am working on. Eventalyy I would like to be successful with more than one production, who know what the knowledge I learn at college it may lead me into film directing.

I am a member of NAACP Youth Council(YC).Several events I participated in in the outlying community. Even though I can ''t vote I still canvassed the neighborhoods and attended rallies to get out the vote. I assisted in sorting out the food collected for the homeless. I''m active in my youth ministry in feeding the hungry. Presently, the NAACP YC we are putting together a project in support of our troops fighting the war, we will be putting together care packages and sending them to "Any Male Serviceperson" or "Any Female Serviceperson". For the children in the community we plan to collect previously worn coats, to keep them warm. Yes, it does get cold in Southern California.

Essay Instructions: Here is an outline that I started. However, I found my starting out and thesis statement on a free site. This will give you a general idea of what I need to say. Please help!
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On June 11, 1963, in the wake of Governor George Wallace's stand against integration at the University of Alabama, President John F. Kennedy reported to the American people on the state of civil rights in the nation. He called on Congress to pass legislation dismantling the system of segregation and encouraged lawmakers to make a commitment "to the proposition that race has no place in American life or law."
Invoking the equality of all Americans before the law, Kennedy said: "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and it is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated."
1. A question of dignity

A. The civil-rights movement of the 1950s and the early 1960s arose to combat racist laws, racist institutions, and racist practices wherever they existed

1. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the civil-rights movement dealt a death blow to the system of segregation with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 soon followed, creating the basis for fully restoring the franchise to black Americans throughout the country.

B. The moral example of those who stood against the forces of racial injustice played a critical role in reshaping American attitudes toward race.
1. The Declaration of Independence: "[A]ll men are created equal" and are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."
2. Martin Luther King Jr., who said, the "image of God ... is universally shared in equal portions by all men. There is no graded scale of essential worth. Every human being has etched in his personality the indelible stamp of the Creator.... The worth of an individual does not lie in the measure of his intellect, his racial origin, or his social position. Human worth lies in relatedness to God. Whenever this is recognized, 'whiteness' and 'blackness' pass away as determinants in a relationship and 'son' and 'brother' are substituted."





2. An animating principle

A. This understanding of the dignity of the individual found concrete expression in a legal principle that was relentlessly pursued by the early civil-rights movement.

1. the first Justice John Harlan in his dissent to the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
2. The Color-Blind Constitution, identifies the centrality of the colorblind principle to the movement. Emory law professor Andrew Kull.

B. Fact illustrated by the example of Thurgood Marshall. (NAACP) black student denied admission to the University of Oklahoma?s segregated law school,

1. ?Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our Constitution and laws.?
2. Civil Rights Act, no American would be subject to discrimination.

3. Was this enough?

A. The Civil Rights Act was being considered, some voice questioned the adequacyof the principle of colorblind justice.

1. James Farmer, a founder of the Congress of Racial Equality, called for ?compensatory preferential treatment.?
2. Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, ?I don?t feel at all comfortable asking for any special treatment; I just want to be treated like everyone else.?

B. Congress debated the issues of racial preferences and proportional representation.

1. Result was adoption of Section 703 (j) of the Act.
2. Senators left no doubt about Congress intent [A] ny deliberate attempt to maintain a racial balance, whatever such a balance may be, would involve a violation of Title VII.









4. Led astray

A. Philadelphia Plan was adopted. This became the prototypical program of racial preferences for federal contractors.

1. In February 1970, the U.S. Department of Labor issued an order that the affirmative-action programs adopted by all government contractors must include "goals and timetables to which the contractor's good faith efforts must be directed to correct ... deficiencies" in the "utilization of minority groups."

2. Discrimination of a most flagrant kind is now practiced at the federal, state, and local levels

B. Evidence of racism can still be found in our country. American society is not yet colorblind.

1. Issues today is how we can best transcend the divisions of the past.
2. Racial preferences are frequently justified as a measure to help low-income blacks.