For the assessment Human Rights and Environmental Issues‚ I have chosen to describe the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for human rights and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental issues. NAACP The mission for the NAACP is to ensure the political‚ educational‚ social‚ and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. The Vision Statement for the NAACP is to ensure a society in which all
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In the Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf there are different ladies with different colors. Every lady and every color is very significant to this book. This text by Shange is full of symbols; each lady can be described differently. I believe each lady can be identified with a more specific description or feeling throughout the different poems that can be related to their color for example: passion for red‚ sadness for blue‚ fun for orange and
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The Jim Crow Laws were made to segregate the whites and colored people. Colored people weren’t treated the same whites based on these laws passed in the southern states. Lots of people went to jail or even killed. People couldn’t go to the same bathroom as whites‚ or even use the same entrance as the whites. Some blacks were servants for whites‚ and whites would use other names for colored people that weren’t nice. Whites believe the black were cursed and chosen to be servants for the whites. And
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27‚ 2011 Interest Group News Piece This is Elvina Scott reporting to you live from Channel 12. I am here in Baltimore‚ Maryland at the national headquarters investigating an interest group named the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary an interest group can be defined as a group of persons having a common identifying interest that often provides a basis for action. We want to examine the connection and the relationship between
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“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” By Zora Neale Hurston This is an analytical essay on “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston. She summarizes the ways she sees black and white people‚ when she was living in a town of mostly blacks‚ and when she moved to Jacksonville where it was the opposite and then she was outnumbered by white people. Insert opinion here. She lived in a town called Eatonville‚ where she speaks about the only time she would see white people was then they drove
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Remembered as one the of most successful and most significant African-American authors‚ folklorist‚ and anthropologists in the 20th century‚ Zora Neale Hurston captured the attention of others through her numerous essays‚ short stories‚ plays and novels. Born on January 7‚ 1891‚ Hurston spent most of her life in Eatonville‚ Florida. Her father was a preacher while her mother was a Sunday School teacher. Early in her childhood‚ Hurston’s mother passed and her father remarried soon after. Without the
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Question: Do coloured candles burn faster than white ones ? Purpose : I’m doing this experiment to find out if the white candles burn faster than the colored candles. This will help everyone in life because if u want to put candles on your cake you might want to use the candles that burn slower‚ because by the time you blow your candles you don’t want candle wax on your cake! The birthday cake doesn’t really take that long but if there was blackout you would want to buy the candle
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Pill Bugs Attraction to Colored Lights Introduction: This experiment was conducted to see which colored light pill bugs would prefer more out of red‚ blue‚ yellow‚ and green lights. If pill bugs went to the green and yellow lights more than the blue and red lights‚ then this means they like brighter lights more than gloomier lights. For the experimental group‚ the colors used were blue‚ red‚ yellow‚ and green. The controlled group was the middle chamber. It got regular light from the classroom. The
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I Have A Dream Speech Martian Luther king Jr was a outstanding man in a religious world and for the colored communities. In his speech “I Have A Dream” in August 28th 1963 he discusses the issues that are affecting millions of Americans’ daily. The subject that even though slavery ended a hundred years prior that colored people are still mistreated. He feels that if Americans can see this issue in a different point of view that everything can get better. Martian Luther King Jr uses repetitive
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whites had different schools‚ water fountains‚ restaurants‚ bathrooms‚ and on the bus colored people had to sit in the back or give up their seat should a white person come on bored. Not only was everything separated‚ but the condition of the bathrooms‚ schools and water fountains for the colored were rundown‚ used‚ and unsanitary. There were several hate groups such as the KKK that went around and set fire to colored homes and churches and sometimes even public lynching’s as a warning to black Americans
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