Judge Me Not, Love Me, Seek No Revenge Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption, centers on the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. ... Dimmesdale tells Hester that "the old mans revenge has been blacker than my sin. ... The people of the town saw her as a teaching tool, "the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast, at her, the child of honorable parents, at her, the mother of a, that would hereafter be a woman, at her, who had once been, as the figure, the body, the r...

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Romiette is black and Julio is Mexican and their love angers many people including their parents. ... I loved the plot of the story because it was like a modern Romeo and Juliet. ... All in all though the plot interested me and I couldn't wait to see what would happen at the end. ... I liked the way the story kept me tied up and wasn't just a predictable fairy tale. ... I liked the way she kept me interested in the characters while also dealing with more serious issues such as violence and gangs. ...

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She would not look at me" -Pg. 163. ... Give me some answers. Give me some answers -today. ... Vivian retorted, "Who is me?" ... This inevitably would bring the white and black community together making Grant and her own marriage more of a reality. ...

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Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with mine own blood!... "Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, to-morrow noontide?... Pearl doesn't like the hypocritical and selfish Dimmesdale. ... Pearl's innocence and sincereness also serves as a foil to Chillingworth's evilness which is blacker than the sin because of the revenge. ... "(p225)It's like a process of pursuing the happiness. ...

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Good afternoon, my name is Alex Wu and today, I would like to take the necessary time to praise the most deserving woman in my life, my mother, whose willpower and perseverance is like that of a tugboat, whose loyalty and support is like that of a faithful dog, and whose love is like that of the raging Niagara Falls. The willpower and perseverance my mother has reminds me of that of a tugboat. ... Whether it been swimming in pitch-black ocean water to hide from pirates, barely scraping by on small desolate islands for days until she and her siblings could be rescued. ... And despite my sadne...

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"The passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles, " the narrator says. ... "The roof came down steep and black like a cowl, " the narrator says, and the shade of oak trees surrounding the dwelling suggested that it was a tomb rather than a house. ... She immediately writes a letter to Madame Valmonde, saying, "My mother, they tell me I am not white. Armand has told me I am not white. ... Finally, like other Old South plantation owners, he viewed the blackness of ...

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Not lost as if my only way of survival was hunting deranged bear or self-cannibalization, but lost like I knew the way but I couldn't find it as if something wouldn't let me. As I came off the road on to the bank of this river I saw a boy in black, with a head of white playing perfectly a violin of brown. ... We frolicked like lambs and ran like bulls through the city. ... Opportunity was calling me. ... My bags sat beside me. ...

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She was 17-years-old when she had me. ... Looking at pictures of her as a teenager, I see a woman who dealt with the pressures of a child at 17 and carried herself like a mature woman. ... She put the fear of God in me. ... She uses derogative names towards black people and is very closed minded against gays and lesbians. ... However, she loves to have lunch with me and my 24-year-old friends. ...

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Why did God do this to me. ... But you know me I hate everything. ... I have feelings, but do I have a heart that's not black and full of animosity?" ... Why did God just want me to be in complete misery?" ... I plan to live in a big black hole. ...

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The play "Medea" reminds me a lot of two movies - "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman"" and "Waiting to Exhale. In the movie "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman", the main character was cheated on by her husband and then put her out of their home and she was left with nowhere to go. In the movie "Waiting to Exhale', another woman was also cheated on by her husband and also went through a deep depression just like Medea. ... One passage that particularly stood out to me was lines 200 -220 on pages 849 and 850. ... That line made me think about women who are or have been in domestically violent ...

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The bright midday sun, casts long black shadows under the cars, and this along with a different style of muted trumpets makes the procession look almost like a funeral. The long black cars used, and also the number seemingly endless current of cars from the bottom of the shot highlights the funeral procession theme. ... She replies "you don't love me, you want me to love you...[mimicking] I"m Charles Foster Kane, whatever you want name it and it's yours, but you gotta love me!" ... Her line "don't tell me you"re sorry" declares her inability to forgive him, underlining the futil...

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Than why don't you settle down and stop acting like it" (Morrison 1996, p.121). ... What Thérèse means here is that there is a deep history that unites all black people. ... She doesn't have the black background like Son does and that is a vital role in why they arent compatable. ... For example, Jadine had an encounter with a black woman dressed in yellow. ... All of this being said, thinking about todays society makes me question whether or not two people from completely separate spheres would be able to make a relationship work or fail like Son and Jadines. ...

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His favorite color is black, enjoys football, he loves eating at a Texas Roadhouse because he says their steaks are the best. I've been with Drake for 10 months but it feels like only yesterday that we started dating. ... He has been there for me, cared for me, and loved me like no one else ever has. ... We can talk forever, like when we text we don't text just three words, we text to each other like a one page essay. ... My parents also really like German, they tell me he is an outstanding person and he is a really the right match with me. ...

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"Mum, do you know what you are asking from me? ... Also, the facts are shown to us: Black markets rose, "Coffee, cigarettes and gasoline stolen from UNPROFOR depots appeared on the black market at 10 or 20 times their original price." ... Bosko's partner in the black market betrayed him and went off to the other side, "Misa Cuk was disappearing, fleeing out of Sarajevo, carrying with him a gun, a two-way radio and secret military codes from his units in the Bosnian army." ... I live in a country at civil war and just like Admira and Bosko I can fall in love at a new year's eve party....

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Codin is a full breed black Chihuahua, he has a white paw, white chest, and he has a curly tail that is never straight. ... My boyfriend hated that I didn't like dogs and basically forced me into choosing a dog of my interest or he would've gifted me the ugliest one he could find. ... Nobody at home receives me the way he does. ... Makes me sad to even remember that I didn't like dogs, think of all the times I neglected other dogs just horrifies me. Dogs, just like humans, want love and affection. ...

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Dispute between different beliefs about black rights, was a spark that started the racial war. During those years numerous hate groups had been formed, from KKK, and the Blood Brotherhood to the Black Panthers. ... Symbols like the swastika, and expressions like "white power" are still used today to express racial hatred. ... To me this means that hatred is as strong as love, and that person with extreme hate is willing to go as far as the person with extreme love....

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To make her feel like she is in fact an individual and that she was not like everyone else. ... This was especially true for black women such as Janie. ... Brother Logan Killicks, he's a good man.......You answer me when Ah speak. Don't you set dere poutin" wid me after all Ah done went through for you!" ... This book is very relevant to the course in that it shows and explains the hardships of a woman, in this case a black woman, in the real world. ...

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"Driving Miss Daisy" is a play from the late era of Ku-Klux-Klan, when the discrimination against Jews and Blacks has shoved up its tasks. ... When the times are hard and tears in your friends' eyes, you should be able to say, "Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water, I will lay me down". In my country, old people have told me that for your friend you have to "make yourself Boat and Bridge". ... Like most Americans usually does is they like old things. ... A oath of friendship is like a holy promise that sounds like the poem "For ever and ever without break or decay When Heaven and Earth mingle...

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"So you wouldn't have married me if I'd been black."" ... He expects to buy her like a man would buy a prostitute, like a man would buy a car. ... When she states, "shadow softening the harsh outlines,"" she puts the focus on the blacks in the community, and how they too have potential to make significant contributions. ... This line is symbolic because it refers to the fact that like Powther and Mamie, these two characters in Wolff's story no longer know each other. ... Petry's purpose for using character's like Link and Camillo, like Wolff's purpose, attempts...

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Losing an unborn child made me love my girlfriend for the better, take more responsibility of my actions, and never take good things around me for granted. ... Seeing her pictures with her new boyfriend on social media made me realized it was time for me to finally let her go. ... She had this profile picture wearing a grey shirt and wavy long black hair put out to her left side sitting in her mom's car. ... She did not tell me right on the spot, but when I got home I found a message where she wished me the best of luck. ... I told my mother what I had done and she advise me to talk thi...

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This is another fatherly-like characteristic which Henry possesses. ... Victor thinks to himself "I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky" (44). ... The monster says to Victor "you purpose to kill me. ... "Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind" reasons the monster (83). ... Henry is a friend to Victor and also a father-like figure. ...

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She likes men, and she dose not like sleeping alone. ... He was running the show and the wife did not like it at all. ... She sees these black sharp rocks in the ocean and asks why these are here? She worries about the black rock for if her lord returns home he might not see the rocks and crash into them. ... She said to Aurelius if you remove every black sharp rock out in the ocean she would be his. ...

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Taking this subject one step further, Hurston also throws out a question; "What would marriage be like without love?" ... Even though Killicks looks like "some ole skullhead in de graveyard" (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.13) to Janie's eye she has to marry him to obey her grandmother's wish. ... He wants to find a place that he can lead black people in a white dominated world. ... Responding to Janie's expectation, Starks soon becomes the Mayor of a colored town, and starts to lead all the black people with his great leadership. ... As she puts back Tea Cake's flowe...

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They spent a lot of time together playing like children. ... Catherine says to him "Why how very black and cross you look! ... Every thought she spends on Linton, she spends a thousand on me"(149). ... Catherine herself then compares her love for Edgar and her love for Heathcliff: "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. ... Yes, you may kiss me and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears...you loved me-then what right had you to leave me? ...

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People would rather be in the presence of someone that they like than some person that they dislike because people favor to be in an atmosphere where hate does not present itself. ... Furthermore, I became friends with someone else when he was useful to me rather than me helpful to someone else. When I went through depression over the death of my father, my friend Long helped me to go on with my life and stopped me from inflicting any more damage to my soul and body. ... He helped me to wake up from the black hole that I had made of depression because he said things to encourage me to live ...

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