Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. ... Binta then gives birth to a boy that brings great joy to the whole family that was present. ... The mother decides to call him baby boy till the Omaru decides on the name in eight days. Omaru asks the chief weather to name the boy based on a person or a thing. ... When Captain Davies finds out that his cargo would consist mostly of slaves it brought a dead silence to him and to have a worrisome look come about. ...

• Word Count: 677
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He started to call to the boy where he trudged ahead and then he looked about at the gray country and the gray sky and he dropped the coin and hurried on to catch up.... The arrowheads that the man and his boy find symbolize what humanity once was. ... In the world the boy knows there is no use or need for such a concept. ... This shiny object covered in the black enamel of this meaningless world can be chiseled away and return it to its original value of meaning. ... The man and his boy find the old man as they are traveling. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The book is in essence about the hopes and dreams of a young boy that was affected by the outside world and how the outside world changes the values and beliefs of a person. In the novel "Weep not Child" by Ngugi Wa Thiong"o, the young boy, Njoroge, grows up in the mist of the Mau Mau war and the conflict between the African natives and the British colonial rulers. ... This is illustrated when Ngotho, speak about Mrs. ... Howlands could make herself cheap enough to go with black men for money? ... In his opinion as stated a white women is above a black male therefore, she must lower herself to...

• Word Count: 1124
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Life for whites in apartheid south Africa was a paradise; fueled by cheap black labor and plentiful natural resources; as the advertising jingle had it: " they go together in the good old RSA: braaivleis; rugby; sunny skies and Chevrolet". ... Greg, Joao, ken and Kevin (the uncle of a present Michaelhouse boy) all became press photographers, professional witnesses (if you like) to the bloody and vicious civil war that consumed the south African townships in the late 80's and 90's; Their job was stressful, terrifying, extremely dangerous yet deeply exciting. ... Suddenly a boy no o...

• Word Count: 816
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

White-dominated South Africa arose on the wealth of the gold and diamond mines, using blacks for cheap labor. ... One day, the little boy climbs into the razor wire coil with innocent intentions, only to be severely injured. Gordimer uses the boy as a metaphor for the next generation of white South Africans who have been shielded from the vicious reality of apartheid. ... Her writing is unrelenting in its exploration of the unvarnished truth about South Africa's depressed social conditions in all its complexities. ...

• Word Count: 1030
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Black Social Movement "Hip- Hop as a Revolution" Music has played a significant role upon culture for Black Americans. ... Every pop group and boy- band that is selling albums today is attempting to be part of the revolution that is hip- hop. ... Hip- hop is speaking out about a struggle. ... "- Method Man Method Man, and his group the Wu- Tang Clan has raised many issues in the lives of Black Americans. ... Isn't this what life is about? ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A few examples of the downhill spiral the book takes, would be Okonwo kills Ikemefuna, the boy that comes to live with him and his family. ... They only want the parts they want and they don't care about the rest. ... They have no say in the men's choices, and can not do anything about it. ... This is significant about the image. ... They did not refer to the Africans as people or human beings, instead they referred to them as "black limbs" or other names (Achebe). ...

• Word Count: 1332
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The arrival of the white man brought about the introduction of Christian missionaries and it is at this point that things begin to "fall apart" in the African society as the white man attempts to "civilize" the Africans. ... This essay also examines Achebe's representation of the decline of African civilization brought about though Africa's colonial period. ... The Oracle was so powerful that a young boy, Ikemefuna, was sacrificed because it said it must be so. ... The first European appears in the village about two-thirds into the novel. ... The new religion caused Blacks to re...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School