She also relates her story to the story of "Sleeping Beauty."" ... In this story the conflict occurs when the family, in fear for their safety and the safety of their material possessions, keeps adding security to their home, the home they think of as their "palace."" ... "Once Upon A Time,"" relates to the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty."" ... The "razor thorns"" are surrounding their home, keeping people from entering just as rose thorns surrounded the palace in "Sleeping Beauty,"" and just as the weapons keep the black people from entering the white people's section of South Africa. ....

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• Grade Level: High School

The assignment instructs: Go home and write A page tonight. ... The poem takes place at his desk in his home and follows his train of thought to the end, where he decides that his brainstorming is as honest an opinion as he was ever going to get. ... He tells us that he was the only "colored student in my class-, Then he takes us on his journey home where from that prestigious establishment of Columbia he returns to Harlem through a park, crosses St. ... He likes to, "eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... So, even though he is "colored-, they are connected in needs (eat, sleep, drink and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

We are escorted to West Block which I was told will be my home until they find a place to keep me. ... Man, I want to go home. ... It is empty and I think, "Great, I don't have to worry about being killed in my sleep!" ... The cell, which has everything you would need at home except a stove, is packed in this 5"x6" room. ... And here is the catch: we were told not to sleep with our heads near the bars for reasons I can only imagine but my only other option is to sleep by the toilet. ...

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Her novel is based on how the black women are discriminated against by racism, which makes them second-class citizens in the larger society, and they are oppressed by their fathers and husbands, which makes them second-class citizens in the home. ... Celie says "he just do his business, get off, go to sleep," shows that she doesn't have ownership of her body. ... They where thought to be second-class citizens in the community and also in their own home. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

We just started talking about this in class, yet at home I've been talking about this since the day I could speak. Everyday, mom and dad coming home talking about another long, hard, day of work with "the man", getting a lot of shit from co-workers, bosses, police for being black... ... Don't think for one second that blacks are "lazy" because there's no outcome, because not all blacks sleep in class. I"m not saying all whites will, after years of hard work, finally get their dream home in Jamaica, But what I am saying is there's a crack in our system, and in our culture. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When bigger arrives to the Daltons home a white maid welcomes him inside. ... Bigger then proceeds to take Mary back home but she is drunk and talking a lot. When bigger arrives to the Daltons home Mary is sleeping. ... When Richard takes his first job in the home of the white women, Richard experiences first hand the prejudices he has only heard or dreamed about. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Bigger's own home is estranged for the young man who feels out of place and unwanted. ... They would tell Bigger that the reason he feels this way is that he "'[thinks] too much'" (24) and here his friends would rather get drunk and sleep it off instead of doing something about their situation. ... However, just like in his own home Bigger is unable to make this dominance clear. The Dalton home and white society creates a sense of superiority and perfection. ... While at home he acted tough, the would-be hero. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The assignment reads, "Go home and write/ a page tonight/ and let that page come out of you/ then, it will be true" (lines 2-5). ... "I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love/ I like to work, read, learn, and understand life" (21-22), he says. ...

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They would come out of hiding from their secret meetings at night, when the former slave-owners were in their nice, comfy, cozy beds, sleeping; dreaming of the day to come. ... They were emotionally down from what had been happening, so they would ride around town at night in home-made costumes like clowns, making faces, etc. ...

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Finally the fourth time his mother gives him a stick to take with him, and Richard defends him self with it, and finally gets the groceries home. ... This becomes so bad for him that he sleeps with a knife under his bed for a week, because of the threats by his own family that they were thinking about killing him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If she snored, talked in her sleep, or ground her teeth then that was reason for returning her to the dealer. ... None of the slaves in the Egyptian society were used in agriculture or food production, with the exception of some light gardening in the private home of the master. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

SANLC members were kept in closed compounds and were strictly forbidden to enter the home of a European while CAHT (Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport) companies were not even allowed to speak to a white woman and were only allowed alcohol one hour a day supervised by a non-commissioned officer present. ... Britain was concerned with the dishonour they would suffer by having their white women sleeping around with men they hardly deemed as human. ...

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His mother, a woman who could pass for white, stayed at home with the children while her husband, Earl, went around preaching the word of Marcus Garvey. ... The government felt that by her asking for this help they had the right to invade her home, tell her how to raise her children, and when the time came they put her in an insane asylum and separated her children, sending them to different homes. The state workers felt Malcom was a delinquent child, and the state sent him to live in a home run by a white couple for wayward children. A home were Malcom was the "mascot," a home were the wor...

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• Grade Level: High School

Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th century in the novel, The Color Purple and how these can be related to postcolonial feminist criticism. The novel can be looked upon as a strong censure of the bigotry and sexism that defrauded African- American women in the American South. The novel declares that the American culture is a b...

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• Grade Level: High School

Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. Davis, Angela, et al. If They Come in the Morning Voices of Resistance. The Third Press: New Yor...

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To this day, the systematic oppression of the black man and woman as a result of their kidnapping and being forced into slave labor has eternalized itself in our society and has found its home within the minds of the vast majority of white citizens. ...

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