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    California, a state loved for its fabulous warm weather and vast doors of opportunities. The state captivates people by its beauty, but also the chance to a prosperous future. A quality of lifestyle CA promises, its vast landscapes, a place where big industries have grown, and Hollywood where the brightest stars shine. These are a few points that make California great. There are plenty who immigrate to this state, most seeking that long cherish dream. A dream fueled by desire in order to surpass

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    others while the men play and watch football and design cars. It may seem like I’m oversimplifying the situation but that isn’t the case. There is no transition between childhood and adulthood like Kay Hymowitz claims in her essay “Child-Man in the Promised Land”. The idea of an extended adolescence is ridiculous and insulting to me and any male who has read it. The notion that young men are instead now “child-men” because simply they are not choosing to get married or take life seriously is an outright

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    In Search of the Promised Land Coauthors John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger attempt to depict what slave life was like in their book In Search of the Promised Land. In this book, Franklin and Schweninger recall a slave family’s life based on research done to uncover the life of the Thomas-Rapier family. Sally Thomas, the mother, recalls her family’s adventures of traveling around the United States in search of a promised land that African Americans could be free from poverty and injustice.

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    The Israelites Finally Go into the Promised Land. After the death of Moses, God charged Joshua with the responsibility of leading the Israelites into the promised land. Three times God tells Joshua to be strong and courageous. God also tells him to obey, study, and meditate on the law. Joshua sent out two spies to Jericho and they stayed in the house of Rahab the prostitute. She hid them from soldiers looking for them and helped them escape. She believed that God was the true god and asked to be

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    In Claude Brown’s “Man Child in a Promised Land” (1940), Claude Brown is an African American novelist who creatively represents the coming of age through a young boy named Sonny. Brown introduces the main character named Sonny who grows up in the tough streets of Harlem and experiences the coming of age while undergoing an abusive household. The Protagonist lacks a strong mother due to domestic abuse from his father. The Mother of a boy named Sonny is the definition of African American Women who

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    In Gish Jen’s novel Mona in the Promised Land, the secondary characters emphasize the struggle one faces in keeping their identity while also maintaining one’s loyalty to their family and social group. Specifically, Mona’s best friend Barbara Gugelstein faces an identity crisis as multiple personas clash to take control within her life. In the early stages of the novel, the reader notices that Barbara strives to give off the impression that she is a typical teenage girl, which translates to knowing

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    instinctively made to work together. Whether they want basic human interaction or not, there is a need for it which has been programmed into them but can be easily reprogrammed because of anti-socialism, greed, pride and arrogance. In the article,”The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991),” the author, Lemann Nicholas who was a writer at this time, explains deeply,”Blacks have been flocking to cities since after the Civil War looking for better jobs and some political

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    stems a larger question: how did these child-men come to exist? Hymowitz supports that it was caused by the bombardment of influences that we see on a daily basis in the media, along with other influences as well, in her article “Child-man in the Promised Land”. She feels as though child-men aren't given the incentive to grow up and so, in turn, they stay in a prolonged state of adolescence. The media now markets products that support

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    Impact of the Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movements refer to the movements in 1950’s to 1960’s against the racial discrimination of African Americans. As mentioned in class and in the book The Promised Land by Nichlos Lemann, civil rights movement has impacted the life of African-American tremendously. The activist used nonviolent protest and disobedient toward unequal civil rights to bring a change in the system. The impacts of the civil rights movement includes lots of protest from African

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    the reference to ‘land’ recurrently describes a person’s being or body as its actual meaning. In addition, Hephzi-bah, in Hebrew means ‘my delight is in her’ and Beulah means ‘husband/married.’ Unfalteringly, this clear expression of land, meaning wife or married transpires in the book of Jeremiah, saying, Specifically, could the “Promised Land” in the Old Testament that the LORD appears to be leading the Israelites to obtain; in essence, also be their sexual bodies (their land within) – to plausibly

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