Joe Louis had a disadvantage of being black, at a time when it was difficult for African Americans to get opportunities for education and employment. ... When Joe Louis began his career John Roxborough sponsored him, who was the king of illegal betting in Detroit's black ghettos. ... White sportswriters gave him nicknames like, Brown Bomber, the Dark Destroyer, and the Tan Tornado. Louis was the only black boxer in the white world. ... Louis answers President Roosevelt by saying: "Let me tell you that was a thrill. ...

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Some blacks were introduced to this discrimination when they tried to enter the war effort, like Lowell Steward. ... I was the only black on my basketball team. ... When I went down to sign up, they didn't know what to do with me. That's when they decided to what they could do with me. ... Advertisements also had a big role in changing the perception of women, as ads like "Rosie the Riveter" was created to show that a woman could do a man's job. ...

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Blacks and Hispanics found job opportunities increase, as the century grew older. ... I liked the details of the industrial revolution and women in the work force. Other than that the rest of the movie strayed my awareness and left me uninterested....

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She reveals that even well educated, modern, cultured people, and societies can be led down the path to true evil, people like you and me can act like this! ... Boys will be boys, and boys like to throw stones. ... On the day of the drawing, the villagers gather, eager to find out whom the black box and the black spot picked. ... We all like to be a part of the group. ... Individuals like this are the small steps for humanity to realize what is right from wrong. ...

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At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... To some degree, she also questions the benevolvence of nature, as when Claudia wonders whether the earth itself might have been unyielding to someone like Pecola (p. 164) The House The novel begins with a sentence from a Dick-and-Jane narrative: "Here is the house." ... The Breedlove appartment used to be a storefront the furniture was dilapidated no love and comfort (no good memories) cold (like the cold atmosph...

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The Problem We All Live With is one of Rockwell's most famous illustrations concerning civil rights; it embodies the hardships that black children went through during the period of desegregation in schools. He shows a young, black girl walking to school surrounded by U.S. marshals, and a tomato is smashed on the wall behind her. ... I feel that Norman Rockwell's artwork is something that I can look and that looks at me. It invites me in with its humor and positive feel, and tells me a story that I will never forget. ... Norman Rockwell was dedicated to his work and his life like ...

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Heller writes humorously of a fight, "He called me a wise guy and punched me right in the nose. ... Just like that." ... Heller has Captain Black start a loyalty oath "crusade" in reference to that of Senator McCarthy in the 1950's and Chief Halfoat make references to being "red" talking about communism, not skin color (Telgen 104). ...

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The "bloodsucking bat" takes life out, like people who use, take advantage of you and drain you of your positive energy and everything you have. The "rat", an animal that rings on plague, disease and infection, like evil cursed people who bring trouble, torment and disaster. The "stoat", a sly, sharp-toothed, quick-footed animal like a person who leads you into traps and deserts you when you need them most. ... The line "club-footed ghoul" creates an image of an awful person that haunts and hassles you, with an eerie, low moan-like sound created by the assonance. ... The third line of the seco...

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While World War II was over, the war against racism is still being fought between black and white Americans, which put a strain on the family dynamics of the Younger family, both financially and emotionally. ... She also goes on to say, "But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back-And didn't none of it happen" (Hansberry 45). ... He feels like Ruth should be understanding and supportive of his dreams, but sadly she's tired of everything. ... I think Ruth feels like the only way that things wil...

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History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. ... It is rather consist of different shadow of gray, as it is one of those acts which can be turned into the black from white and back. ... Official reasons for this war seem very controversial for me. ... He like many people of that had doubts what is true reason why United States entered Vietnam War. ... Yet, no one wants to experience the same again, and let's hope that war like this would never happen again. ...

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He said "people around me have been dying like flies and there is nothing else to paint but myself." ... Many of these took the form of large format triptychs, including "Black triptych" series that expressed Dyer's passing. ...

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My high school biology teacher once told me, "Your source is always suspect." He explained to me just because a source claims to know the answer or be the truth and has a lot of evidence to back it up does not always mean they are correct. ... Like that saying says, "Old habits die hard.... For example they have a big influence on what food we like, what holidays we celebrate and the type of people we choose to hang out with. A lot of the minorities, Hispanics and black are seen as objects. ...

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"They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing but earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation - This quote shows Conrad's sympathy for those who are being exploited for the benefit of others. ... Conrad's, like Golding's, work was deeply shaped by his own personal experiences with the darkness of man's soul. ... It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream- sensation - Conrad's goal is to make the reader see' Kurtz. ...

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Robert Kashiwagi stated: As far as I'm concerned, I was born here, and according to the Constitution that I studied in school, That I had the Bill of Rights that should have backed me up. ... Black said, "All legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect. ... Many people back then did not like Japanese people pre and post World War II, In the photo "Japs Keep Moving - This is a White Man's Neighborhood," there is a woman standing outside of a structure that will not allow Japanese people to enter with a sign in the windo...

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But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can not feel at home amongst these things. ... The breath of desire that then arose from the colored backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. ... Some ask no questions, some are very curious as to how life is at the front, and others pretend to know what it's like. ... And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole wo...

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"These men and women came of an age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over the land like a plague. ... "They gave us the best deal, if you didn't like it, you could quit" (Brokaw 18). ... A few months later, Holmes and his fellow black tankers were shipped out for Europe as the 76Ist Tank Battalion. ... "These men and women came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over the land like a plague. ... I enjoyed the fact that I could experience the Veterans" lives with them, I was reliving their history and it made the book more personal for me. ...

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"There were two people inside me," he continued. ... "If the former prisoners want, I would offer to let them come here and hit me, to beat me" (Hillenbrand 393). ... The day after Martin Luther King Jr. died, a black rights activist named Jane Elliot divided her students up by eye color to teach racism. ...

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Presently it grew altogether dark: the air itself seemed black and heavy to breathe. ... He first saw one with the corner of his left eye, a wisp of pale sheen that faded away; but others appeared soon after: some like dimly shining smoke, some like misty flames flickering slowly above unseen candles; here and there they twisted like ghostly sheets unfurled by hidden hands. ... For a moment the water below him looked like some window, glazed with grimy glass, through which he was peering. ... There was a great battle long ago ' (Tolkein, Two 296-297) In addition, Sam Gamgee witne...

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Each of my aunts and uncles are all married with at least one child, so during my visit I had plenty of tour guides to show me around. ... But there are expected cultural differences, simple things like, taking shoes off in homes and restaurants where you sit on the floor, placing chopsticks at the side of the dish or resting across the top of a bowl when not using them, not blowing your nose in public, and not littering. ... I got a bit of a lecture about this from my uncle after he witnessed me throw a cigarette into the street. ... Rice is served with every meal unless its at an internat...

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Rumors of revolution and a government take over by the communist shattered Hitler. " I lay there broken with great pains, although I did not let on how I felt; for it was repugnant of me to cry out at a time when you could feel that a collapse was coming." A short while later on November 9, an elderly pastor announced the news of an all out revolution broken out in Munich. " It became impossible for me to sit still one minute longer. Again everything went black before my eyes and I tottered and groped my way back to the dormitory, threw myself on the bunk, and dug my burning head into ...

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One of the more popular war poets is Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), who began his career as a poet sometime before the War, and whose earlier style of writing, observed in poems like 'Sonnet Written At Teigmouth, On A Pilgrimage To Keats's House' (1911) was derived from that the Romantic ideology, which stated that poetry 'should be personal (to the point of appearing confessional), sincere (which meant limitations on satire and humor) and richly loaded with imagery' (Purkis 82.) ... Thus, snow which is of course white, seems to color the air black and is conveyed as host...

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Never, it seemed to me, was it more thoroughly demonstrated that winning a satisfactory peace, even a temporary one, is more difficult than winning a war." ... The political demonstrations of a year before were organized by black associations and herded along by Korean MPs. ...

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Never, it seemed to me, was it more thoroughly demonstrated that winning a satisfactory peace, even a temporary one, is more difficult than winning a war." ... The political demonstrations of a year before were organized by black associations and herded along by Korean MPs. ...

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The choices he made through this period illustrate his ability to impose his ideas on changing circumstances, and his preference for continental, not global expansion.(7) Hitler began his political view as a revisionist, much like the overwhelming majority of the German public after the Great War. ...

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