Everyone can improve his or her writing ability. Effective essay writing is an acquired skill. It is not a subject so much as it is a process based on techniques. The techniques can be incorporated into one's consciousness and drawn upon according to one's particular needs and at one's convenience. The questions, answers, and examples presented here are intended to aid in the acquisition of these skills. Dr. Erskine Peters received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. He is a graduate of Paine College and has also studied at Yale University and Oberlin College. He was Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Peters is also the author of "William Faulker: The Yoknapatawpha World and Black Being" and "African Openings to the Tree of Life."

Fundamentals of Essay Writing: AN ORIENTATION MANUAL - Questions, Answers, And Examples Concerning Effective Essay Writing

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African Openings uncovers the universal essence and life generating principles of African religion, philosophy, mythology, folklore, rituals, and symbolism, ordered and crystallized. These principles pertain to one's total development, relating on different levels to the person, the family, the social group, the spiritual group, the neighborhood, the community, and work organization. These principles are intended to orient one toward understanding, seeing and living life as an on-going process. The principles may be used to deal with, or simply reflect upon life in its many aspects. Certain principles when turned over in the mind and meditated upon may provide solutions to a vast range of problems. The second portion of the book is an invaluable, concise essay on the profound significance ideas and symbols have upon the building of cultures, civilizations and personalities.

African Openings to the Tree of Life

Religion & Spirituality

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

African Americans in the New Millennium explores the entire panorama of the African American experience touching on social, political, historical, economic, religious and spiritual aspects as we proceed toward the millennium. Dr. Peters uses a very accessible question and answer format to examine topics relevant to Americans. In a flowing conversational style, Peters looks at time, circumstance and history to see where past blueprints have worked and where they havent. By knowing ones blueprints, Peters believes, we can begin to alter our consciousness and behavior patterns to produce effective change in individuals and society. 
The underlying focus of African Americans in the New Millennium is self development and spirituality. A generation after the riots of the sixties and passage of the Civil Rights Act, it is time for African Americans to dig deep within themselves and become free of their doubts and victimizations. Dr. Peters believes that ultimately African Americans will claim their greatest power by recognizing and understanding that all humanity exists as an experience in being, all having their own world views but also a common bond transcending the modes of race, sex or religion.

African Americans in the New Millennium: Blueprinting the Future

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Regent Pr

8 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Black &amp; white photographic illustrations throughout, references, catalog of images. Color pictorial cover. This was a catalog made to accompany an exhibit of art from the collection of Janette Faulkner at the Berkeley Art Center, September 12 - November 14, 1982. Faulkner's collection "reflects the persistent use of caricature as an art form designed to support a theory of racial inferiority." The book includes essays by Faulkner, Robbin Henderson, Leon R. Litwack, and Erskine Peters. Many photographic images from the collection. Catalog entries for each image at the back. Images extend back as far as 200 years.

Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind

Faulkner, Janette

Henderson, Robbin

Litwack, Leon

Berkeley Art Center

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