Bell Hooks intended to tell a story about a rebellious girl trying to find herself. ... You get to see her personal thoughts and feelings through the stories that she tells. ... When she talks about different issues involving sex, boys, and relationships her religion dominates her ruling that she'll never get married or have sex, because it's wrong. ... She begins to express her sexual feeling through masturbation, because she feels that to have sex is a sin. ... She is telling the story of her childhood. ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Color is not only the reason of being discriminated: other reason such as language, and sex. ... According to a news story, a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco against Wal-Mart stores. ... Gender discrimination must be stop, so that sex differences will be equal Other than discrimination of nationality and gender, discrimination of religion is also a part of racism. ...

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The stories of the internment camps are withheld from the normal history class because the history that we are taught was written by an educated, upper-middle class white man. ... The prostitutes in New York had evolved into an elite group of women selling sex. ... Some of these women would tell slaves that if he didn't have sex with her, she would tell her father that he tried to rape her. ... The woman of the South demanding sex from a black man and a woman in New York selling sex to "gentlemen- have huge differences. ... However, the women of the Victorian era in America were all exp...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Spike Lee overwhelmingly gave you a good look at the how sex, age, race, work, health, and crime played key roles in the interpretation of the film. ... The Internet can be used for sex, age, race, work, health, and crime. ... He makes his movies, commercials, and videos with the intent of bringing the true realism without trying to appease those who might be shocked or disgusted by his way of telling the story. ...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The story of Langston Hughes" life is one of great success. ... At night they would read him stories from such works from popular black authors such as W.E.B. ... It doesn't matter what race, sex, or religion you are. ... He went on to write many more poems, short stories, and plays. ... He's a true success story because the power of his own life helped make the world a better place....

• Word Count: 1483
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The beginning of the story is a systematic preconception for me, as the reader emphasizes his feelings based on his historical background and question myself if he is going through a hard moment, since he feels guilt and confused about what his grandfather told his father while dying in bed. ... The naked girl symbolizes America's degraded value system( white power over African-American people) and many others abstracted symbols are described by the narrator such as the tattoo of the American flag representing liberty, freedom, and equality or the car advertising token symbolizing...

• Word Count: 751
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Walker's story is filled with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, physical abuse and verbal abuse, prejudice, the oppression of women, and hatred. ... Through both mediums, people realize that the sexual abuse Celie endures from her stepfather and husband represents how all women should break free from this cycle so that they can be seen as individuals and not sex objects. ... The female characters make the transition from page to screen largely unscathed, but by sacrificing the complexities of the male characters, the film makes them seem less human and robs the story o...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

From my point of view, no one sex, race, or religion is better or worse than another is. ... I spent every other weekend at my grandparents' three-story house in Jersey City, NJ. ... Just by telling me this story, he was getting very angry. ...

• Word Count: 976
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Song of Solomon CHARACTERS: Macon "Milkman" Dead - the protagonist of the novel. He is a young African-American man who begins trying to escape from family ties and ends by embracing them. Macon Dead - Milkman's father. He is a landlord of poor housing. Pilate Dead - Macon's sister. She...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to devise"2. ... A header in Douglass" newspaper once read, "Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color."7 Frederick Douglass broke free from the shackles of slavery, and with his relatively small amount of Freedom ac...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After all it is these younger generations which were raised knowing that discrimination is wrong and everyone is equal no matter what their race or sex. ... The story of Coleman Watson, a 22-year-old student at Georgia Tech, is a promising one. ...

• Word Count: 1292
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a fictional story that took place in the South during the early to mid 1900's. ... She was objectified and used for sex by her father until the day she was married off, where she was then treated the same by her husband, Albert. ...

• Word Count: 931
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Mandela's story proves to people that even barriers from society can prevent individuals from belonging, they still have the choice to overwhelm these obstacles in order to live a better life. ... Last month, the government of United States of America has just legalised same-sex marriage throughout the country. ...

• Word Count: 903
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. ... Toomer was angered by Frank's choice of marketing as he thought that by mixing elements to create a story it would work as symbolism of the racial mixtures present in America. ... Toomer makes his position clear by contrasting the two locales, asserting that the black American roots are founded in the agrarian south since the story starts and finishes there. ...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

Divided We Fall John Davis, a 28 year old African-American software engineer who has an annual income of $110,000, waits for a real estate agent in front of a beautiful two-story house in Kirkwood. ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Stories such as this are repeated over and over in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States: In January 1961, James Meredith, an African-American, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. ...

• Word Count: 6633
• Approx Pages: 27