Throughout the awful events of the black girl, Maya's life, she stayed patient and strong. ... She became the first black woman to work on the Market Street Railway Company. This was a big deal considering that people back then wouldn"t hire black woman to do that job. ... She offered to have sex with a random boy and became pregnant. ... After everything she went through she was still thankful to have such a wonderful baby boy come into her life. ...

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The Battle for the Little Boy In November of 1997, my brother's wife, Angie, gave birth to a baby boy. ... Two years prior, she and her husband had welcomed another bouncing baby boy into their home. ... During the separation it was revealed that this adorable little boy was not my brother, Troy's, child. ... We got to see a disturbing picture of him and saw he had a black eye and a patch of hair literally yanked out from his fragile head. ... He looks just like any other five-year-old boy on the outside, but what lies within his little body from the hel...

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The strength of this black family, immediate and now extended, is the foundation for positive images within the black community and thus the culture. ... At first Shantell dates one of the boy in the project but later, she finds a boy who lives in a house and who owns a car. ... The fact that Shantell becomes pregnant at age 17 is a negative factor on the black family. ... All things considered, Shantell and her baby's father is a model of a strong black family. ... In short, I would definitely recommend this movie to all black families. ...

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The theme of the play is about boy chooses the accepted values of society over a strong friendship. ... He decides to treat his black servants, Sam Semela and Willie Malopo, with disrespect rather than the equality that a normal friendship requires. ... Sam's presence in Hally's life resembles an ideal father figure and role model, which was absent in the young boy's life. ... Sam says, "That's not the way a boy grows up to be a man!... In Athol Fugard's adulthood he supported equality and rights for black people, so there is hope for Hally. ...

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At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught under the bed with one of her boy friends, the column in the paper says it is just a stage. ... Alongside the starched, flattened, white-boy blues came the first inklings of racial integration. The same year Rebel without a Cause came out, Rosa Parks was dragged from the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and three black students were let into U...

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At the beginning of the book Maya is a confused little girl suffering from the associated with being a black child in America. ... Maya is smart and ingenious, but she always feels like other people judge her for being black. She feels very misunderstood and she hates being black. ... She realize that she have to learn to think not just in terms of black and white. ... But in the end she learns to trust her own abilities, like in the end of the book when she realizes that she will be able to care for her newborn baby boy. ...

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Although Joy Moore inflicts pain on her boy to instill her beliefs into him, it stuck with Wes Moore through life and he learned his lesson to never abuse a girl. ... In black, crime filled areas, there are a handful of stereo types that are aimed at the men and women that live in those neighborhoods. It is not unusual to witness a black family living in a bad area lacking of a fatherly figure in a household. Studies state that 64% of black children are raised in a home with the birth father being absent2. ... The men are also believed to mistreat and leave women they impregnate as roughly 7...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird sings is an autobiography written by Maya Angelou one of many great voices of contemporary African-American Literature. I know why the caged bird sings starts off in Stamps, Arkansas. When their parents are at the pint of getting a divo...

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A yellow organdy dress to wear for her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suite that she made from an old suite someone had given her." (2128) She was well educated and knew what life had to offer her so she was determined to get it no matter what she had to do. ... Then she would sit with him at the kitchen table" (66) Jameel (Jimmy), his son, on the other hand was a boy who knew how to watch someone and learn how to do it. ... They are both two independent people, even though Jimmy is a little boy. ... "Some day the boy will own his own business and sell all the f...

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Maya was an African American girl with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth. ... Momma Henderson was a woman of substance, who was respected for being the only black female entrepreneur in town. ... She questioned herself if she might be a lesbian but decides to prove she is not by having sex with a neighborhood boy. Unfortunately, Maya soon learns that she is pregnant by the neighborhood boy. ... She gave birth to a baby boy which became the love of her life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are many themes in the novel "Secret Life of Bees" like Female Power/Black Mary, Mothers and many others. ... In chapter seven, Lily meets Zach, a negro teenage boy who works for August. He wants to become a Lawyer and changes how Lily sees the world when she tells him she never heard a black lawyer before. ... She realized that it is a community she loves and that it does not matter that her "family" members are black and she is white. ... Lily didn't think that there could be an educated and smart black woman because she was naive by the way Rosaleen acts around her. ...

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Harold, or Hally, is the true example of a precocious white teenage boy, and "the boys," Sam and Willie, are black men, who work for Hally and his family. ... The status of their relationships can be determined not only because Hally is white and Sam and Willie are black, but also because it is known that the boys play servant roles just from the title of the play. ... Try out a few ideas, but sooner or later I would end up in there with you fellows," shows that Hally established early a defining core relationship to the boys and truly cared for them, despite society's word on forbidden...

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I felt someones presence behind me, I made a slow turn as I saw an old man who had an torn robe and a black hat which had seen better days. ... What happened to you boy how did your glasses brake You know the reason, my bum of a dad, well I ran away from home so I can get you to talk to my old man. ... I opened the door and I was more nervous than I had ever been as I saw my dad watching the football game with not a care in the world with a beer in his left hand and the remote control on the other, I looked at him and saw things I hadnt noticed before such as how his eyes where black like h...

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He would cheat on the blacks to the limit. ... Dennis is black who loves Ruth but they both are in a situation where its wrong for them to be together because of there race. Ruth was even punch in the face by a white lady for being white and being married to a black man. ... He was a young boy when his father died. ...

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They say that a boy's best friend is his mother. ... I don't want my boy to be hounded by those women; I safely keep him in the house, away from any possible danger with hefty draperies drawn across the glass windows to forbid any possible view of one and any possible attraction to one. ... Black and brown mould, dots the ceiling in clusters, evident of rain seeping through the roof. ...

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Ha"penny is a mosuto, which is a member of the Black South African people. ... All in all, the author uses his background, actions, and motivations to reveal to the reader just how life is like for a young twelve-year old orphan boy. ...

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Rosa Lee`s parents were black rural share croppers from the South who moved to Washington D.C. in order to escape racial oppression, economic exploitation and segregation and to find a better life and work there. ... That is an example for racism and colour consciousness within the black community. ... At the age of seven, Bobby got raped several times by a neighborhodd teenage boy who used to babysit him and his younger brothers and sisters. ...

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I lived in Juarez until I was ten years old and kids on my block didn't have a TV or a phone, game boy, etc.., but what they did have where bicycles and bikes where how kids have fun until the moment they wake up until they have to go back home, so having a bike was mandatory. I was a quick learner and my dad decided to buy me a bike when I was four years old, the bike my dad got me was a mean glossy black bike with a horn that could be heard miles away. ...

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In the foster home there were other kids, amongst them were a few babies and one seven year old little black boy named Harmon. ... As this happened Janie got to name her self and she named herself after her case worker's daughter, whom had also died, Leshaya, she did not only want this name because of who's name it was also because it was a black girl's name and she always wanted to be black she taught her self to talk slang so she sounded more black and also told everyone that her daddy was black even though her skin was so pale with blonde hair and blue eyes. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was found in the bin behind a 17th Street medical clinic, the next day - soft light-brown skin, a shock of unruly black hair, weighing 7 pounds and measuring 21 inches." ... "On the night of her senior prom, Melissa Drexler gave birth to a full-term baby boy in a bathroom stall, placed the infant in a garbage can and returned to her date on the dance floor in a doomed attempt to return to her former life- (Roberts) It's just another tragic story of a teen who hid her pregnancy and disposed of the child, trying not to be found out. ...

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Marjane's mum interrupts the group before they can attack they boy with nails between their knuckles, and gently tells Marjane, "It is not for you and me to do justice. ... In this short series of events, Marjane begins to learn how the complexity of viewing the world in black and white. ...

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In this scene he shows how bad he felt about his son and says, "Homer I've been confuse about you, I've been mad at you, but boy that is the fist time I'm shame of you I in my life." ... This passage is shown when the mother mentions "Some times I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress failing off her in little black papery flakes" This also let Maggie in a state of inner insecurity scene the fire had caused scars physically and mentally as well. ...

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My life was happy and carefree, until the day the planes began dropping bombs from the sky and the men with the shiny black boots came marching into our city. ... Eventually a met a boy named Joshua who was very kind and offered to help me with my work. ...

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She yelled at Wes, until Wes's father reminded her that although "he [needed] to learn what [was] acceptable and what [was] not, that cursing at a young boy wasn't the most effective way of making a point " (6). ...

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• Grade Level: High School