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    The Black Plague One cold afternoon we were sitting inside the castle waiting for Brandon and Brian to get home from school when my husband told me that he thought things not going well and he needed to leave so he packed his things and left. When the kids got home I told them that there dad left us and he left us the castle. I was very sad the rest of the day my kids were only sixteen and fourteen and now I had to take care of them by myself. The kids all ways were in the library because

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    Aside from the history concerning the development of the Black Lives Matter Movement, this issue impacts people of varying identities differently. The first group of people I would like to examine is black women. Black women often believe the Black Lives Matter Movement is very male-centered. A number of women such as Yvette Smith, Tyisha Miller, Miriam Carey, and many others have been victims of police brutality. When these women were brutalized or even killed, their names weren’t raised, and they

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    To me the fall of blacks in America is a very important issue to me. How is the black community ending? One reason is black on black violence, another reason is not teaching our youth about their ancestors and last but not least, insecurities. I'll explain how. My first statement talks about black on black violence. This hurts our whole Community. Killing your own is like killing your family. We all have to stick together in this cruel wide world. Society wants us to portray The Stereotype they gave

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    The plague, better known as Black Death, was a horrible problem that reached Europe by way of sea in October of the year 1347. Twelve Genoese trading ships had landed after a long trip over the Black Sea. As the people came to the dock to meet the ships, they were horrified at what they saw. The ship was full of sailors who were dead or either very sick. They had fever, could not eat, and were suffering from pain. The strangest part was they had black boils all over them that were seeping blood and

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    In the year 1348 the world changed forever. The Black Death, which is another name for the Bubonic Plague, laid havoc on the entire world. “The plague chases the screaming without pity and does not accept a treasure for a ransom. Its engine is far-reaching. The plague enters into the house and swears it will not leave except with all of its inhabitants…” (Al-Wardi, #29, 113). The plague did not care if the people were rich, poor, white, black, Muslim or Catholic, it would kill whomever it could.

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    I wake up in the same pitch black shack that I have been living in since I was four years old. No light was ever shown. Ever since I was four I was treated differently. Everyone was separated by a tattoo with all different colors. Some people had a red tattoo,some blue and some were white but for me I was the color black. While my mom was pregnant with me she and my dad got into a car accident. They had to do an emergency C-section. The doctors said I was blessed to be alive but in reality I was

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    Black kitchen - 19 Designer Ideas for modern home Black is always in, but when it comes to kitchen equipment, has mixed feelings about it. A black kitchen can however look very chic. In a combination with white or wood a stylish contemporary kitchen is the result. It combines the dark colors with an optical effect of the narrower space. When combined with other colors of black correctly, the kitchen looks even greater. Explore these designer kitchens and be inspired, like the black color in your

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    2 December, 2015 Black Friday is flipping the Bird The biggest shopping day of the year is known as “Black Friday”. This is when loads of people all around the country gather around to shop store sales everywhere before Christmas time settles in. “Stores began to use the term in the 1970s because the day after Thanksgiving marked the start of the profitable holiday shopping season…” (Zillman). According to Amanda Nicholson this term may go back even earlier into the 1960s. Black Friday was how police

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    Black Athletes

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    Our young black males gaze at their televisions with eye’s widened full of admiration and awe at the images of professional black athletes living the dream of prosperity and idolism. In surfing the web, pictures, along with interviews and commentaries can be seen and read by the most impressionable minds. With research, I intend to sift through various resources to uncover the effects of the Medias’ portrayal of professional black athletes on the minds of young black athletes. I intend to sift

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    Black Homosexuals

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    Previous studies have found that black gays and lesbians adhere to the black middle-class politics of respectability in presenting and expressing their non-heterosexual identity, intimate relationships, and lifestyles (Moore 2011; McQueeney 2009) as a way of making their sexual identity visible while adhering to the norms of their racial communities. However, whether this adherence to the politics of respectability is truly generalizable to all individuals who identify as black and LGBT remains a question

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