Written by August Wilson a half white half black man that grew up in the racist town of Pittsburgh, shows his audience how life was for slaves trying to earn a living after being set free. Boy Willie and Berniece are two such characters. ... The piano is the main point of conflict between Boy Willie and Berniece because of Berniece's past, Boy Willies plans for the future, and both want what is best for the family. ... Both Boy Willie and Berniece want what is best for their family. ... On the other hand Boy Willie wants to buy some land and start a farmers life. ...

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Throughout the awful events of the black girl, Maya's life, she stayed patient and strong. ... She became the first black woman to work on the Market Street Railway Company. This was a big deal considering that people back then wouldn"t hire black woman to do that job. ... She offered to have sex with a random boy and became pregnant. ... After everything she went through she was still thankful to have such a wonderful baby boy come into her life. ...

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The Battle for the Little Boy In November of 1997, my brother's wife, Angie, gave birth to a baby boy. ... Two years prior, she and her husband had welcomed another bouncing baby boy into their home. ... During the separation it was revealed that this adorable little boy was not my brother, Troy's, child. ... We got to see a disturbing picture of him and saw he had a black eye and a patch of hair literally yanked out from his fragile head. ... He looks just like any other five-year-old boy on the outside, but what lies within his little body from the hel...

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The strength of this black family, immediate and now extended, is the foundation for positive images within the black community and thus the culture. ... At first Shantell dates one of the boy in the project but later, she finds a boy who lives in a house and who owns a car. ... The fact that Shantell becomes pregnant at age 17 is a negative factor on the black family. ... All things considered, Shantell and her baby's father is a model of a strong black family. ... In short, I would definitely recommend this movie to all black families. ...

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Many white people wanted to have nothing to do with blacks. ... The white players refused to play on a team that consisted of blacks along with a black coach and vice versa. ... "Listen to me, Sophia-reading's not only no good for a black boy like Fred; it would do him harm, make him discontent, miserable, unhappy with his lot..." ... "I ain't selling that piano, Boy Willie. ... She felt that her and Boy Willie's dad died for the piano and they owed it to his memory to keep it in the family. ...

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At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught under the bed with one of her boy friends, the column in the paper says it is just a stage. ... Alongside the starched, flattened, white-boy blues came the first inklings of racial integration. The same year Rebel without a Cause came out, Rosa Parks was dragged from the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and three black students were let into U...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning of the book Maya is a confused little girl suffering from the associated with being a black child in America. ... Maya is smart and ingenious, but she always feels like other people judge her for being black. She feels very misunderstood and she hates being black. ... She realize that she have to learn to think not just in terms of black and white. ... But in the end she learns to trust her own abilities, like in the end of the book when she realizes that she will be able to care for her newborn baby boy. ...

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His father then brought the boy to Louisiana. ... Madame is surprised at how the child, a boy, has grown. ... A quadroon boy is fanning him. ... She dismisses the boy. ... Women are subordinate to men, he believes, and persons with a black in their family tree are little more than subhuman. ...

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In the dentist office he was very impressed by the boy sitting reading a book. The boy was a college student that was dressed very nice, and spoke his mind and was not afraid of to do so. ... Dave is a seventeen-year-old boy who is very selfish. ... The dentist office where all the blacks went and received the worst service is another. Then having to walk to the other side of town to eat in the black restaurants. ...

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Although Joy Moore inflicts pain on her boy to instill her beliefs into him, it stuck with Wes Moore through life and he learned his lesson to never abuse a girl. ... In black, crime filled areas, there are a handful of stereo types that are aimed at the men and women that live in those neighborhoods. It is not unusual to witness a black family living in a bad area lacking of a fatherly figure in a household. Studies state that 64% of black children are raised in a home with the birth father being absent2. ... The men are also believed to mistreat and leave women they impregnate as roughly 7...

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• Grade Level: High School

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird sings is an autobiography written by Maya Angelou one of many great voices of contemporary African-American Literature. I know why the caged bird sings starts off in Stamps, Arkansas. When their parents are at the pint of getting a divo...

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Faulkner places heavy emphasis on the sensational details that the boy feels. ... The boy says that "If I had said they wanted only truth, justice, he would have hit me again" (p.167). ... He forces his boy to submit to the pull of blood by making him his accomplice. ... The terrifying images of rigidity and blackness are gone. The boy listens to his father telling a story and we see him divide the food with his two sons. ...

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The attitudes the characters have towards the blacks are relevant to the time period. ... Luster, a boy that works for the Compsons, is looking for a quarter he lost. ... Jason rides around town searching for her and the show boy she ran off with. ... Resolution: Jason never finds Quentin or the show boy she runs off with. ...

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A yellow organdy dress to wear for her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suite that she made from an old suite someone had given her." (2128) She was well educated and knew what life had to offer her so she was determined to get it no matter what she had to do. ... Then she would sit with him at the kitchen table" (66) Jameel (Jimmy), his son, on the other hand was a boy who knew how to watch someone and learn how to do it. ... They are both two independent people, even though Jimmy is a little boy. ... "Some day the boy will own his own business and sell all the f...

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There are two main families in the novel, one consisting of Mother, Father and their little boy who are part of the upper class society in New Rochelle. ... In this novel the narrator is anonomyous but left up to the reader it could be the upper class little boy, Tateh's little girl or perhaps both. ... Back in the upperclass family, Mother finds a baby buried alive in thier backyard; she finds out it is a black washwoman named Sarah's baby. ... A black man named Coalhouse Walker stops by the family's home in New Rochelle, asking to see Sarah, but she refused to see him...

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Maya was an African American girl with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth. ... Momma Henderson was a woman of substance, who was respected for being the only black female entrepreneur in town. ... She questioned herself if she might be a lesbian but decides to prove she is not by having sex with a neighborhood boy. Unfortunately, Maya soon learns that she is pregnant by the neighborhood boy. ... She gave birth to a baby boy which became the love of her life. ...

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For example, the boy is wearing a pair of shoes and his older brother tells him that they look like girl shoes. This will make the boy think and doubt and would not want to wear them again. ... On the boys section we will see dark colors such as red, black and blue where the toy packages have boy characters performing different gestures. ... Nowadays some people judge girls that try to take a roll of a boy or vice versa making children to become scared of experiencing different rolls because they are scared of being judged and not be accepted. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Boy cousins race around the yard like wild Indians shrieking, passing footballs and tackling each other in the green grass. ... The Head Man's wife gazes at me with her jet black eyes as though she could see to the bottom of my soul. ... The boy's faces light up when I produce a mini-football for a game in the cool afternoon breeze. ...

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Since I was a little boy we have had our own time together fishing, hunting, camping, riding dirt bikes, driving in the desert and just having father-son talks. ... The second verse shows how the young boy grows into a teenager, getting a drivers license and his father gets him his first car. ... My dad found an awesome, 2006, black, lifted, Jeep Wrangler. ...

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I felt someones presence behind me, I made a slow turn as I saw an old man who had an torn robe and a black hat which had seen better days. ... What happened to you boy how did your glasses brake You know the reason, my bum of a dad, well I ran away from home so I can get you to talk to my old man. ... I opened the door and I was more nervous than I had ever been as I saw my dad watching the football game with not a care in the world with a beer in his left hand and the remote control on the other, I looked at him and saw things I hadnt noticed before such as how his eyes where black like h...

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A young boy gets molested and killed in the parking lot of the local shopping mall. ... She had drawn snakes around its arms, made its breast into red-and-black targets, given it a verdant bush of green pubic hair surrounding a brown phallic blob. The face was colored half black and half purple. ... She also demonstrates knowledge of sexual behavior, telling Marsha that a boy's "thing" looks like a thumb. ... There are many examples of these in this story: Luann and her obviously bad experience with her parents; the molestation and murder of an innocent young boy; a family where the fathe...

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His parents, James Hughes and Carolina Mercer Langston, separated when he was a very young boy in 1903. ... At night they would read him stories from such works from popular black authors such as W.E.B. ... They would also tell him stories of black history, and encourage him to try to make positive changes someday. ... In his autobiographical novel, Hughes said as a young boy, "For the first time loneliness strikes me, strikes me terribly settling down in a dull ache round about, in the dusk." ... Even as a young boy he was ready to take chances in life. ...

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For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ... When the mother offered a little black boy a penny the mother of the boy took offence and shoved Julian's mother to the ground. ...

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He does have some amazing characterizations, one that stands out from Othello, black Moore created by Shakespeare. Aaron is proud of who he is and understand that his black skin gives him power. ... Now, by the burning tapers of the sky, that shone so brightly when this boy was got, He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point that touches this my first-born son and heir! ...

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My Antonia The book My Antonia is about a young boy named Jimmy and his long time friend Antonia. ... At the sane time a Bohemian family moves near his grandparents place on the out skirts of Black Hawk, Nebraska. ... Jimmy and his grand parents move to the town of Black Hawk in the beginning of Book II Chapter I PG. 93. ...

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• Grade Level: High School