This is figured as death, the ultimate thing that smothers all life, leaving the persona alone. ... The "benighted snow" is obliterated with dark and night. ... "Design" is set in the morning, which is a time of rebirth, but here it is made a time of death. ... What but design of darkness to appall"(1009)? ... The reader knows that man is alone because the persona has "outwalked the furthest city light" (1010), which means he has gone so far that there is nothing but darkness which, in turn, is loneliness. ...

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During our viewings the issue regarding conflict in color, light skin and dark skin, did not strike me in any of the two movies. ... There is a distinct difference in behavior between light skin versus darker skinned complexion. In "Within our Gates," the alcoholic character was portrayed a darker skinned man. ... After Gridlestone was shot and killed by a white farmer Efram was the one to run around town to accuse Jasper in order to gain favor of the white men who would be looking to avenge his death. ... Darker-skinned people are portrayed as unintelligent and corrupt like the butler, Efram....

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The comparing between light and dark refers to the isolation between whites and blacks. ... Essentially, Kimbro has placed the narrator back into darkness. ... Only after the death of Tod Clifton does the truth come to the narrator. ... The light and dark contrast shows how the narrator now fully understands the truth of isolation. ... His leader was truly in the dark, unable to see the light of the world around him. ...

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Lighter-skinned blacks in this story act superior to darker-skinned blacks. ... She teaches at the local school to a group of "common blacks," as they are called because they"re skin is darker. ... The flint can be used to symbolize the light within Ned after his mother's death. Witnessing her death as well as many other injustices in his time, Ned uses the "light" within him to seek out moral justice and fight oppression. ... His death is a prime example of how the society in which he lives in not only oppresses blacks, but others as well. ...

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The theme of colonialism is present before anyone of the so called 'dark races' appears: right from Jane's childhood at Gateshead. ... Susan Meyer continues saying 'the novel compares the rebellious Jane, without much differentiation between them, to an entire array of 'dark races', something that shows the parallels between the British class system and treatment of foreignness. ... It is almost like her alter ego, Bertha, lives inside her as the spirit of change, so when she falls to her death, the spirit of the African slave inside Jane dies. ... To draw on S...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The way Homer describes death shows his attitude toward violence and death in war. As noticed in the epic poem, "And darkness covered his eyes", is the standard phrase applied when a man dies in battle. This poetic turn of phrase makes it hard to take any death in the epic lightly. ...

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The narrator, who suspects that Bledsoe is keeping the veil in place to ensure that the students remain in the dark, is unfortunately greatly influenced by him. ... The narrator's grandfather tells him the best way to succeed in the world of white men is to, "overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open" (prologue), in other words, it is best to play the part rather than rebel. ...

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The brother of Billy-Ray Cobb, Fred Cobb, seeks out the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to help avenge his brother's death by making sure Carl Lee Hailey receives the death penalty. Upon the first meeting between the KKK and Fred Cobb, a picture is painted of a dark, rundown abandoned building. ...

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Many writers began exploring the darker side of this movement with literature that concentrated on the negative parts of race issues in America. ... Clare tells Irene that she "nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery [her daughter] was born for fear that she might be dark" (168). ... This, not her eventual death, becomes Clare's ultimate tragedy. ...

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They would storm the jail and abduct the prisoner, in many cases without a challenge from the guard, take him out and hang, shoot, dismember and beat the prisoner to death. ... In order to bring light on this dark part of American history, James Allen and John Littlefield wrote "Without Sanctuary". ...

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America is known as the land of opportunities. Thus, people from different parts of the world flee to America for that reason. Although we cannot consider ourselves a nation because we share nothing in common except for our government. The definition of a nation, as found in the dictionary, state...

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Baldwin used light and dark colors to show the difference between good and bad, the way society accepted a person and the way a person would be treated. It is very poignant that such event has to end with death just because of color....

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The cultural climate of Texas in the 1800s contained a generalized distaste for diverse peoples, and racist attitudes and actions were exceedingly prevalent. In the novel, "They Called Them Greasers," Arnoldo De Leon forcefully illustrates the segregation and ferocious treatment of Mexican Americans...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The crowd didn't even leave the elderly, the found one black elderly person, and burned him to death. They also found a 84 year old shoemaker who was married to a white woman, he was dragged to the yard, hung to the tree and hacked to death with knives. ... President Woodrow Wilson made conference against lynching 1930 The NAACP made protested against the supreme and demanded a law on discrimination of colored people (African American (dark skinned Americans)). ...

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This is the very unfortunate result of urban decline, and if America doesn't act quickly and efficiently, then more cities are at risk of being next on this slow, economic death march. ... Racism isn't born, it's taught, and if we want to save this country from a dark and desolate path, we need to be teaching acceptance, tolerance, and open-mindedness instead of hate, racism, and bigotry. ... The drug trade is infamous not by the selling of drugs, but by the violence and the death that follows those drugs. ...

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It is so much easier dating someone who is African-American because whether you're a light-skin or dark-skin African-American, you still get the same treatment from everyone else who are against interracial relationships. ... Dealing with her boyfriend's family wasn't easy after his death and they wanted nothing to do with her or the baby. ... Its crazy because some of them were dark-skinned, they didn't want us there just because I'm African American.... The women says, "I'm pretty dark-complected. ...

• Word Count: 1895
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room. ... Because religion emphasizes how pleasant life will be after death, Bigger believes that religion allows black society to escape the horrible reality of the oppressed life they are living. ... All of the characters that Bigger says are blind are living in darkness because the light is too painful. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many experiences like the death of his karate teacher and the attempted murder on his friend Jerome sheds light on what it really is like to grow up in the city. He is also able to see how much more privileged white people are than darker skinned people. ...

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American History X Imagine this, you are lying in your bed trying to fall asleep when you hear a sound as if a window just got shattered, you look out your window to see a black man breaking into your brother's car. Running into your brother's room, you interrupt him while he is having sex with hi...

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" Brabantio says this to Roderigo as he would prefer Desdemona to marry Roderigo of white coloured skin over Othello of dark coloured skin. ... Othello is constantly being differentiated from the other characters and therefore feels alone, which causes him to believe the lies of Iago and causes Desdemona's death as well as his own. ...

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Orlando Patterson noted that this tradition was forced upon slaves to mark the morning of their own death: 'the shorn head of a slave was a permanent condition of liminality and that he the slave must forever mourn his own death'.20 Toomer uses the aesthetic of hair to show the ways in which his characters mourn their own social death within society, that they essentially have no social position because they are Negro. ...

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As a result, people said she was lucky to be alive, and since it was evident from the marks around her neck, it was definite that the two men virtually put her near death. ... What I mean by craziness is such an innocent moral man drawn into darkness by two white men. ...

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She associates dark with words like "defilement," "foolishness," and "desecrators" (216). ... At the end of Janie's trial for Tea Cake's death, it is the black community that continues to reject her. ...

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It is not enough for other people outside of a race or culture to have ill feelings, but when you have to defend yourself from people of your own race because you are not tall enough, dark enough, light enough, etc it makes some people develop these feelings of hate. ... Death came in a number of ways: lethal gassing, and incineration. ...

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There were some whites in Louisiana who was not racist but they would still have to follow a strict code of segregation and social guidelines or risk social or bodily death. ... The death of his mother while living in France when he was eight years old may have had a precarious effect on his character. ... Desiree compares her skin color to that of Armand who is much darker than she is but he is not bothered by this inconsistency in his reasoning. ...

• Word Count: 1926
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