I quietly snuck down the stairs, and out the door with what felt like a thousand kilograms of luggage on me, I stood outside the front door staring at the long illuminated road ahead of me and myself am I doing the right thing? ... 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. He looked at me with his dead eye sand asked me with a very narrow damp and weak hissing voice and demanded give me some change you don't know what its like over here I cant spare you some change he looked at me with disa...

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Black slacks, a white collared shirt with a black tie, he seemed professional. ... It was only years later when I realized that I shouldn't mope over these situations because they only keep me from happiness, they mold me as a person, and there's a future that awaits me. ... This was a new beginning for us, for me. ... Sometimes I feel like I've used up all my tears in the past, and that's why it's hard for me to crack a tear. ... I feel like a robot, sometimes even a zombie. ...

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In the film, a 17-year old girl's dreams are deferred but, her dreams do not dry up like a raisin in the sun. ... The strength of this black family, immediate and now extended, is the foundation for positive images within the black community and thus the culture. ... This advice from Shantell's parents is interpreted by me, as negative. ... Like most black woman, Shantell realizes that she has made a mistake and wants to rectify it with very little help. ... In short, I would definitely recommend this movie to all black families. ...

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That picture was taken over sixty years ago, but it seems that painful memories are like forgotten thorns that prick us with their wicked barbs when we least expect it. ... I am no longer that young, frightened child watching her world drift from her sight in a black 1940's Studebaker. ... I remember my father's strong hands as he would pick me up and kiss my checks calling me his "beautiful princess" as he lavished warmth and affection on me. ... I turn the faded, black and white photo over with my shaking, wrinkled hands that reflect the ravages of time. I smile at the handwritin...

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I had to go through training just like each of you. ... She had a black eye, but what stuck out the most was the scar on her leg. Later we found out the black eye came from her dad punching her because she was watching television, and her mom was drunk one night and pushed her into a window. ... She looked up and me and asked, "Why do you care so much about to what happens to me?" I replied, "I was once in a similar situation like you are in, and I wish I had someone to fight for me like Gracie's Choice fights for you because you deserve so much more" However, I am a...

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She lived on one of the top floors and had the most putrid looking furniture and served me Tomato juice. ... I was kind of like a state side military brat, but without the benefits. We were in fact, more like Gypsy's. ... I grew up learning that black people were no good, that they have no rights and that they have nothing to offer the world. ... Color was never an issue for me, just people's behaviors and actions that would leave me with certain notions that sometimes others, black or white, were not the best people to be around. ...

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It did not exactly have me sitting on the edge of my seat in suspense, but it also didn't bore me to death and leave me trying to keep my eyes open through out the whole thing. ... He is the local doctor in this all black community, and he provides his mostly married female patients with more than just medicine. ... Poor Mozelle is upstaged by someone with a genuine gift for prognostication, and who would like to snuff out cheap fakes like Mozelle. ... To me Eve's Bayou was a well written, and directed movie, that at times made you feel as if you were in the actual movie. ... It was ...

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She complains about Maggie's "brown skin as it makes her look like a mulatter"(13). and her hair that will not hold a curl. Maggie sits, "tossing her head to keep the dark, heavy locks out of her gleaming black eyes"(13), while her mother complains to her father stating that Maggie is "a straight black-eyed wench"(13). Throughout the novel, words like "black" and "dark" are common in Maggies descriptions. These words are uncommon when used to describe characters like, Lucy, and even Maggie's brother Tom. ... [] Folk'ull think ...

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Like Father, Like Son The Play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Vivian Hansberry covers the hardship and the sacrifices that a small black family must make in order to survive through the segregation struggles. ... Therefore, he doesn't see himself as a role model to his son and not the strong black man of the family. "I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy Mama," (Hansberry 254). ... Rather than acting like a man he has turned into a money hungry drunk who has Ruth, his wife, saying "He makes me sick to my stomach" (Hansberry 253), and even his mom seeing her ow...

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That's me. ... Society regards Antoinette and her family from a binary point of view, as she is neither European nor black. ... They tell her she is mad, they act like she is mad. ... In this story, binary thinking refers to thoughts coming from two very separate societies - white and black. These contrasting societies both disregarded Antoinette and her family because of their tendency to group and label people who werent like themselves. ...

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When I was young I was a really crazy kid that liked danger and was always getting in trouble for trying new things that are not good. ... I was a quick learner and my dad decided to buy me a bike when I was four years old, the bike my dad got me was a mean glossy black bike with a horn that could be heard miles away. ... I was four years old so grounded was literally only for like three days and I guess my dad saw that I really wanted to learn so he convinced my mom and fixed my bent handlebars from the accident and bought me a helmet. ... I wasn't a considered a big kid so when I rode ...

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Instead, Ruth decided to follow her heart and marry a country black man. ... She didn't want the family she raised to see black and white like the family she grew up in did. ... For example, when James would go outside after it was dark and get caught, Ruth would "have hands on hips, whipping belt in hand, eyes flickering angrily back and forth to the window, then to me, lips pursed, trying to decide if it was light or dark outside"" (McBride 28). ... My parents did it to me and I started to learn real quick that if I didn't want the belt, then I should stop repeatedly doing things I...

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There was a single moment that made me rethink and get the basic idea of the play. For me that was a Moment of emotion. ... Since for me the main reason for Oya's broken dreams and melancholy status later on in the play was due to the decision she made early on in the play. ... The entire play was performed in a black box and was rather vibrant although it was dark. ... I would like to end by saying that the main reason this scene plays an important role and is a moment of emotion is because this is particular moment from which Oya's misery comes to take place one by one....

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Although her instinct told her to stay home and stay close to everything she was used to it was overcome by her intense desire to become an independent and successful young black writer. This battle of opposing forces showed me why teenagers wish to leave their parents as soon as they possibly can. ... I suppose everyone is born with an instinct entwined in his or her hearts to be free and to start a life of their own and to break out of their parent's molds and their expectations of what your life should be like. ...

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I am from Wichita, Kansas, the middle of the map; more like the middle of nowhere. ... I remember it like it was yesterday, October 1, 1998 my dad received a call on the phone that seemed to work him up a bit. ... I asked him about the car and how he got it and why he got it and he kept making a nstrange noise as like he didn't understand what I was saying. ... The creature sat and stared at me waiting on me to make a move. ... He walked me into the darkness for me to see lots of people dressed in all black and lots of creatures like the one that was sitting next to me in the car. ...

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I was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, a country surrounded by Romania, Turkey, Greece, Mace and the Black Sea. ... Of course, adjusting to school was hard for me. ... She was my parent's favorite, maybe it is because she was the baby girl, or maybe it could be that she wasn't running around screaming and fighting like my brother and I were. Meeting my family was most exciting for me. ... I am blessed to have a family that loves me and has accepted me into their family. ...

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Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. ... Like Ruth had said, "We worked in there from morning till night, except for school, and Tateh had us timed for that. He"d be standing in the road outside the store with his hands on his hips at three P.M. sharp, looking down the road for me and Sam, and later Dee-Dee, as we ran the six blocks home from school. ... Her situation of being with a black guy was pretty conflicting because blacks and whites didn't go together. ... He treated her like no one had ever treated her before. ...

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When I was young and weak, the memories often took over me and tormented me. ... My father's brother was a guy who stole any things that had a value, and sold it in the black market. ... Let me take an example. ... The kids there liked to pick a fight with other kids who seemed to be weaker than they are. ... When I attended school, I could not participate in any sports that relied heavily on your legs like skating or soccer. ...

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"How can a guy grow up in a circus like that?" ... "You"re tearing me apart." ... 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 UC Chapel Hill, by the rulings of a federal court judge, by nineteen fifty six, the pop song "My Prayer" sung by the black band the Platters hits number one on the charts. ... Not even the music was sincere, as Gitlin points out, the music is taken from the black side of town, bleached, stripped of some kind of soul and mass produced by white boys. ... The ...

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The invitation went on to say dress attire "Please do not wear clothes that contain white, black, or blue. ... she said, "I have invited you to my house to display how wrong you were about me, Mrs. and Mr. ... "I would like to introduce my husband, Neil. ... You always believed in me, but your parents did not." ... "John, I would like you to meet my daughter, Aria. ...

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She is an 8th grader at Scribner Middle School, and yes we fight like sisters but in the end we both know that we love each other! ... My family is really supportive, and I honestly feel like I can tell them anything. ... Everyone there is just so welcoming, and you just feel like you're at home when you walk through those doors. ... Even though sometimes I don't feel like taking Diego outside or playing with him, I will always love him and I know that he will be there for me whenever I need him. ... I could not handle the melancholic feeling of it, so I kept crying like a baby. ...

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Living in America and being Black, Latino or Chinese may cause a duality of identity that makes a covenant impossible. ... He, her own brother, was already talking as if she was dead, like she was a memory" (573). ... McKay published this piece in 1921 (Shuman) when blacks were trying to find their place in American society. He speaks passionately of his new country and how "Although she feeds me bread of bitterness/And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth" (1-2) she is his mother who nurtures him. Like the mother of an unwanted child, "Her vigor flows like tides int...

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I was snow white of color with dark black hair. ... Around two years of age I started to develop my language, I would say things like "Ana bade boa" which in Arabic means I want water (boa) is not the whole word it was part of the baby's language which everyone understood. ... I liked every school I went to when growing up, even here in America because I had my other Arabic friends to help me. ... There are many people in my life that have influenced me, but there is only one person that made me what I am today. ... She is a very hard working woman, and one day I wish to be just...

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He would cheat on the blacks to the limit. ... Ruth was even punch in the face by a white lady for being white and being married to a black man. ... In this church events are occurring like any other memorial. ... James never even knew what his father sounded like. ... He did have a little idea of what he was like. ...

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When Ray rescued Father Tom from the water, she surprised me. ... She is mixed with black and Indian. ... She would dress in clothes that make her look like a "tomboy." ... The people who didn't like her didn't know what they were missing in a friend. ... It seems to me that Ray would have forgot about Christine since she did that to Ray. ...

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