Janie begins this search when she was just a young girl sitting under a pear tree in her backyard beginning her long walk into adulthood and feeling the emotions that come along in everyone's life when they reach that certain age. To Janie this pear tree symbolized love. ... Janie felt that, "Joe was the bee for her bloom," a reference to the earlier mentioned pear tree. ... Starks gives Janie the very best that money could buy but once again Janie is starved for emotional support and affection. ... Joe doesn't allow Janie to talk and fraternize with the town folks and this give...

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In the corner of the stage there is an industrial pipe tree that is covered with artificial moss in Act I that is later transformed into a futuristic tree to represent the effect of time passing. ... The lines and dynamics are very clean but there is somewhat of an imbalance with the placement of the tree to the choreography. ... I genuinely believe Abraham intended to give a clear point across to the audience. ...

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The black man (raisin) refuses to give in and thus turns into a "sore". ... This imaginary urn is bordered with leaves and trees, men chasing women, a musician sitting under a tree, lovers, and a priest and his congregation leading a heifer to sacrifice. ...

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Harry Crews was not old enough to work on the farm so he spent his days playing in the shade under the oak tree watching his mom, his brother, and Willalee Bookatee pick the worms off the plants. ... Willalee however knew his place in the relationship, "Willalee almost never argued with what I decided to do, up to and including giving away the worms he had spent all morning collecting." (396) The story suggested that Harry, being a young boy, could not comprehend why Willalee was not allowed to eat at his house while he could go over to his freely. ... "Jim grabbed the newest hoe for himself...

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I think the beginning of the Civil Right Movement began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. ... Their street with lined with green trees and green grass, and they were clean. ... People giving rides to and from the voting poles, lots of cheerful people gathering around the voting poles making sure that everyone casted a vote if they did not see you at the pole someone would go and find you and bring you to the pole to vote. ... However we still known that we were being denied our basic privileges and our rights as citizen of the United St...

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King was giving a speech at his college sometime in the month of February, on the year 1956. ... The hoses, which had not been used the day before, sprayed the demonstrators with water pressured to denude tree bark." this is a perfect example of a one-sided story. ...

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This was the case when they had to coordinate their efforts for hauling a fallen tree or any heavy load. ... John Lovell lists the purposes of the spiritual in this way: To give the community a true, valid, and useful song To keep the community invigorated To inspire the uninspired individual To enable the group to face its problems To comment on the slave situation To stir each member to personal solutions and to a sense of belonging in the midst of a confusing and terrifying world To provide a code language for emergency use (John Lovell, Black Song: The Forge and the ...

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Through a crystal-clear depiction of Southern life in the twentieth century, strongly suggestive vocabulary, and the pure illustration of the divide between the races, Hurston gives the audience a captivating taste of segregation. ... Not only is the religious element evident in the underlying theme of good versus evil, but is shown in many allusions such as the song about the River Jordan, the constant mention of the snake, and the reference to the Chinaberry tree. ...

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They started giving orders as soon as they got over the sight of Mr. ... He never stops to chat with anyone, he never gives anyone a lift, it never breaks down so the kids can help push it, in short, the car is only a show piece. ... When she was finished, he came out from behind a tree, and asked her if she had come to lie on her father's grave. ...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...

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Meetings, exhibitions, lectures and symposia were organized to climax the scientific study of the African experience throughout the year in order to give a more objective and scholarly balance in American and World history. ...

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Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. Walker and Marshall write about an identity they have found with these women because of their exposure to the African culture. These women were searching for independence and freedom. Walker expresses independence as found in the creative spirit, and Marshall finds it through the spoken word. Walker...

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• Grade Level: High School