Pecola is hated and picked on because she is black, she gets made fun of really bad because her skin is a lot darker than most black people. ... Claudia plants marigold seeds when Pecola is pregnant. She thinks if the seeds live the baby will live. ... Claudia uses the seeds in comparison to blacks. The seeds didn't grow and blacks aren't getting a chance to grow because they live in a society that won't take care of them because they are racist. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But how can you have these stereo types to black people because of a few bad seeds? ... Because being raised around crime all your life, you have to find some way to forget all the bad things that's happening around you. ... They make it seem like all basketball player are bad people these is also not true I know some basketball player who are very good people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She will also not take any bad talk about her friends while she is around. 6. ... Claudia and Frieda are changed because they do not sell the marigolds sells instead they plant the seeds and they said if they grow everything will be alright, but if they do not grow something bad will happen. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Also slaves lived in such bad conditions that they caught diseases such as Yaws, measles, whooping cough, dropsy and dysentery. ... To grow cotton and to pick, gin (remove seeds from the white fluff) and bale took a great deal of work. ...

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. The people of society were classified in different ways and the differences between the classes defined the way that each saw ...

• Word Count: 2825
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate