Americans may be fanatical about gun ownership. ... One of the biggest problems is guns being sold illegally on the black market. Most criminals buy guns on the black market or steal them, making gun control virtually impossible (Polsby and Brennen). ... After an argument, a twelve year old New Jersey boy shot three times at a classmate. When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms questioned the boy he stated that he paid three hundred dollars for the gun three days earlier. ...

• Word Count: 648
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. ... She knows everything about keeping the Whitted family happy and healthy. ... While the women cooked and gossiped, the men talked and boasted, and the whole thing appeared incredibly dramatic and magical through a young boy's eyes at that time. As time passed and I began to get older, I wasn't thinking about my grandma aging as well. ... The green house was really an amazing and shocking topic to hear about because I had never heard anythi...

• Word Count: 3405
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Yet their methods of bringing about this change differed greatly in principle. ... Malcolm X on the other hand believed that change must be brought about "by any means necessary." Malcolm X was involved in more violent organizations including the legendary Black Panthers and the Black Muslims. ... In order to bring about change, each man took initiative by generating rallies and speeches. ... Years had passed by where the black race has bowed their heads to the white man in defeat, and he felt that the black race needed retribution for the white man's iniquitous actions. ...

• Word Count: 1185
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of this short story, Timhead shoots and kills a 12 year old boy during a firefight. ... When Lavender was killed, the soldiers make jokes about his death. ... When he uses the metaphor about his "going away party", he tries to make his wife feel that this should be a celebration. Back in those times, it was hard enough to be black man in America, so being a black man in the war was another challenge he had to encounter. Joe wanted to make a statement that black men can do whatever the whites can, and that they all have a job to do. ...

• Word Count: 786
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As a young boy, one of Lincoln's jobs was clearing the forest. ... Until he was about twenty three he was almost constantly handling an axe. ... As a boy, he would often read at night by the light of the fire in his family's cabin. ... But, almost immediately, Governor John Reynolds of Illinois called for volunteers to put down a rebellion of the Native American Sauk and Fox peoples led by Chief Black Hawk. ...

• Word Count: 810
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The black community is represented first by the Finch's maid, Calpurnia. ... One thing that impressed me about Reverend Skyes was that he never described himself or his congregation with the word "nigger/s". ... Lastly, Tom Robinson is the married, handicapped character that attended Purchase Church since he was a boy and worked for Mr. ... It came down to the word of the "poor-white trash" Ewell family against an upstanding black citizen. ... Bush - refused an invitation to visit Jasper to speak about the racial murder because he did not want to offend the Christian Coalition and othe...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In Malcolm X's speech "The Black Revolution," he is addressing to a group of white liberals about the oppression blacks have gone through and what it will take to provide racial equality. ... All throughout his speech, Malcolm X continuously talks about a bloody revolution that is to take place in America, which sticks to the minds of his listeners. ... Malcolm X says that all of the people in the world care about the injustice the black people are going through in America. X is falsely reporting that his people care enough to rise with the African-Americans in this revolution that Mal...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. ... Black History Month takes on a paramount significance as we approach the 21st century. Civil rights laws and celebrations such as Black History Month have exposed the legal consequences of overt discriminatory practices and racial harassment. ... He later attended Fisk University, then transferred to Ha...

• Word Count: 3305
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

As a boy, Thurgood was always driven with the desire and the will to succeed from his parents. ... William Marshall was the first black person to serve on Baltimore's Grand Jury. ... Thurgood was still undecided about what to do. ... Howard Law School was the country's first black law school. ... The man that was in charge of the all black law school was Charles Huston. ...

• Word Count: 3527
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The books are full of black curves, dots like the eggs the boll-weevil lays each monsoon in furniture-cracks in Ludhiana. ... This little boy did not understand what the teacher was saying and this was not his fault. ... Every Immigrant who comes whether they are black, white, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, or a mixture of many things, they will all be put through some type of questioning by people, themselves, their peers, or the ones they love about who is an American? ...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Our argument lasted for about fifteen minutes because she felt she had a legit reason to put me into the Vietnamese category. ... She responded with, "Most of them have slanted eyes, jet black hair and thin lips." ... Another categorizing confusion is the black people in the United States, why are they called African-American when most of them are just simply American? ... He was a young Latino boy who grew up with a majority of White kids. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - American writer, known for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poetry. ... William Carlos Williams- The American writer avoided artificiality and sentimentality in his work by producing clear, direct verse about common, everyday subjects. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin, though controversial in his own time due to his homosexual writings, became a leading black commentator on the suffering and abuse of his people in the United States, which he believed symbolized universal conflicts. ... It was only when Baldwin began writing about his own personal experiences did he become an accomplished writer. ... He felt as though he was "too black" as well as isolated, and all of these insecurities constituted for his leaving Switzerland after only two weeks (Als 141). ... His most famous novel, Got Tell It on the Mountain published in 1953, is an unus...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His birth mother, Nancy Lincoln died when Abraham was a very young boy. ... In July, of 1831 Abraham separated from his family and moved to New Salem, Illinois where he continued doing handy jobs until he joined the Black Hawk War in April of 1832. ... Abraham spoke out very bluntly about the verdict in the Dread Scott decision in the Supreme Court, because he felt the decision was an injustice. ... Soon after hearing about the election of Lincoln, Southern States become doubtful of the future of their nation because their newly elected President was for the abolishment of slavery. ... Pres...

• Word Count: 1062
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Truth and Bright Water is a coming of age tale focusing on the life of a 15 year old boy, his community and the art therein. ... But he and the reader remain largely in the dark about several other story lines. ... It is through working for Monroe that Tecumseh begins to divine the answer to many of his lingering questions about the world. ... Just wood and two tiny black stones for the eyes. ...

• Word Count: 965
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? ... As observed by King, "one touch of horror makes the whole world kin."31 The Puritans of America's early days did not understand much about their universe. ... Almost everyone in the town jumps to the conclusion that she has been put under a witch's spell.37 One of the first things Goody Putnam asks about Betty is "How high did she fly?"... The fact that they even have an expert of the demonic arts speaks volumes about their superstitious way of life. ... This novel does not deal s...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Citizens in Massachusetts suggested Mann's idea and paid taxes for hem to build a better school. as a boy in Massachusetts Horace Mann only spent 10 weeks a year in school in the 1800's. ... African Americans only had a few options. when prudence Crandall accepted a black person in the school white people took their kids out. ... Another main contributed was all Benjamin Franklin when he herd about this terror he rushed to the government for a fix. ...

• Word Count: 1039
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

There are about five hundred tribes remaining in the United States today (Harvey 11). ... One example is the narrative of Black Elk called Wasichus in the Hills; it tells the story of a Sioux holly man (Riley 97-106). ... It describes the experiences of his friends at a Presbyterian Mission School in Bellevue, Nebraska and shows the nature of an Indian boy (Riley 117-133). ... Walters, a Pawnee-Otoe, called "I am of the Earth", talks about Mother Earth. ... This includes short stories about her people. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

DEAD MAN WALKING Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a Catholic nun who exemplifies the compassion of Jesus in her work with death row prisoners. While teaching in a Louisiana ghetto, she begins corresponding with Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), who has be...

• Word Count: 2281
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Whether it is the controversial lyrics or the vicious murders of many artists, violence appears to be an everyday element of this "bad-boy" lifestyle. ... Black Entertainment Television reports that [The New York Post] speculates "Jam Master Jay may have been killed for a dispute over money, and fingered an individual named Curtis Scoon as the prime suspect in the investigation, and the man wanted by police for questioning" (Creekmur, BET). ... Wallace and his recording label Bad Boy Entertainment, Inc. had strong influence in the eastern area of the United States, while Shakur and Death Row R...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The average number was about seven to ten. ... Up until about the age eight, boys and girls wore the same thing. ... After a boy reached the age of eight or nine, he would begin to help out with the father's job, which was farming, and a dress would not suit the job very well. ... One of the most surprising facts about hygiene in the colonial society was the lack of oral care. ... Sexuality at first was relaxed and not thought about. ...

• Word Count: 3125
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As scheduled, the Enola Gay took off of the Tinian runway at 2:45 am, sharp, and began its course over the Black Sea. About 15 minutes later, the final assemblies of the bomb were made. ... Exactly 60 seconds after the activation, the world's first atomic bomb, ironically nicknamed Little Boy, began its fall towards the ground. ...

• Word Count: 2436
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. ... This movie puts a positive twist to war in that the blacks took up arms too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before. ... At this time the labor force in the South had about 4 million slaves. ... The Serbs responsible for it were members of Black Hand, a Serb terrorist orga...

• Word Count: 4263
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

People talk about individual freedom, but when they see a really free individual, it scares them.' ... His live-in girlfriend is a simple-minded, attractive waitress named Rayette Dipesto, played by Karen Black. ... During a break at work, Elton tells Bobby about the joys of a family and reveals that Rayette might be pregnant. ... Palm goes on about how filthy everything and everybody is. ...

• Word Count: 3296
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And yet, when Noriega was finally indicted in Miami in 1988, all the charges except one were related to activities that dated back before 1984, when he was our boy, helping with the U.S. war against Nicaragua. ... Among other things, he seems to have been dragging his feet about helping the U.S. in the contra war. ...

• Word Count: 3327
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School