The Souls of Black Folk

On Civil Rights Activists W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett On December 18, 1865, in Washington, D. C. , then U. S. Secretary of State William Seward made the formal proclamation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to be law, thus formally abolishing slavery in the United States. However,…

Title: Are All Men Created Equal? Word count: 1734        Abraham Lincoln argued that the claim in the Declaration of Independence that `all men are created equal` was a challenge to future generations of Americans. Lincoln’s argument has been proven right by the sustained struggle that had to be waged in order to get all…

The term “double consciousness” originated from an 1897 Atlantic Monthly article of Du Bois’s titled “Strivings of the Negro People. ” It was later republished and slightly edited under the title “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” in his collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk. This was a concept developed by the American sociologist and…

Walker Percy’s essay, “The Loss of the Creature” describes the experiences that each person goes through as either a genuine experience driven by own desires, or one that is already preconceived by experts. Percy believes that people can only learn from experiences that are driven by pure personal desire, and not experiences already preconceived by…