Clare's desire to return to her African American heritage is obvious. ... Irene feels that there is nothing sacrificial in Clare's idea of life, nothing beyond her own immediate desire. ... The desire to do this begins when she is young. Her African American father dies, and she is left with her white aunts. ... Clare tells Irene that she "nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery [her daughter] was born for fear that she might be dark" (168). ...

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Her parents are detained for their political beliefs; her father dies in prison and her mother, whose health suffered from her time in jail, eventually dies. ... While Rosa is quiet and desires to stay out of the spotlight, Lionel is a tiresome radical that fights for what he believes in no matter the consequences. ... Being imprisoned and later dying in jail in the name of the victims of apartheid, her father will go to any length for his nation. ...

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This chaotic life is not one of desire for the young man who wants to be alone and be able to be himself in peace. ... This only leads to the desire to fight for ones rights which only leads to defeat again. ... Bigger desires the life that Mary and Jan possess and cannot understand how they would be willing to throw it all away to know about the ways in which the blacks live. ... 'I don't want to die I don't want to die'" (336). ...

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After 37 years of pastoring, Reverend Williams died of a heart attack, passing the pastorship onto Martin Luther King, Sr. ... At first, King had no desire to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather by joining the ministry. ... Both him and Coretta had the desire to return to the South. ... King died, he had been arrested 14 times, had his home bombed three times, and received and average of at least one death threat per day. ...

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When Emma died, Katharine wrote to her spiritual director, Reverend James O"Conner, who in turn advised her to, "Think, pray, and wait." ... She desired to be in a cloistered order, but once when she visited the Pope to request missionaries, he suggested that she, herself become a missionary, and encouraged that she start an institution to further her mission. ... Katharine died twenty years later, on March 3, 1955. ...

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Immediately after the crowd responded with near pandemonium, he said, "Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings, and he died because of that effort." This helped a lot because it brought many to the quick realization that Martin Luther King Jr. did not die in vain, but in fighting for a cause that was valuable to all of them. ... For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence their evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. ...

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His great-grandfather flew for his freedom, his grandfather died for his beliefs, and his father traded goodness for power and wealth while all along trying to attain one thing acknowledgment from the white race as equals. His ancestors flew, died, and lived a life of greed all to try to develop some small part of the black male identity. ... You can't even die unless it's about them. What good is a man's life is he can't even choose what to die for?... Guitar, on the other hand, is weak and lacks the stability and desire to search for anything, much less himself. ...

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In one of her most popular poems, "On Beings Brought from Africa to America," Wheatley writes 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught me benighted soul to understand That there's a god, that there's a savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their color is a diabolic die." ... She recognizes that many whites believed Africans' dark skin color was representative of the devil, as she refers to what many whites see as "diabolic die." Here, die is another spelling for what we now call dye. ...

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Another son born two years earlier had died. ... When Langston was twelve years old his grandmother died, and he went to live with some family and friends. ... His desire to make money separated Hughes from radical politics. ... On Smith 6 May 22, 1967, Hughes died at the age of sixty-five. ...

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When he has the desire to return to the South and live as a black man again, the millionaire shuns the black culture. ... Shortly, after his wife died. ... "My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise". (p100) He misses his black heritage, but for the sake of his children he will hoard those feelings of nostalgia and keep them in a burrow, tucked away where he can be free the desire to go 5 back. ...

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Mrs Dubose's morphine addiction and her desire to beat it even though she knows she will die parallels Atticus" fight for justice, even though he is facing certain failure "It's when you know your licked before you begin and you see it through no matter what. ... Calpurnia is a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird" whose only fault is her desire to fit into both the white and black society. ...

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In Nella Larsen's book, "Passing", it tells a story of two very similar African-American women who have two different experiences in dealing with their race. Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield were both brought up as African-American women in a time where race was a social issue and of confusion. In ...

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Jean Kilbourne talks about this issue in, "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence" by stating, "Sex in advertising is pornographic because it dehumanizes and objectifies people, especially women, and because it fetishes products, imbues them with an erotic charge- which dooms us to disappointment since products never can fulfill our sexual desires or meet our emotional needs.... We think that if we have very little money when we die, then we failed in life. People seem to forget that money doesn't come with us when we die. ...

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At the age of twelve, his grandmother died and he went to live with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, where he attended high school. ... After leaving college, he greatly desired to travel. ... Langston Hughes died on May 22, 1967. ...

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He was an outstanding student and it showed, so he desired to attend Harvard like most other students of his caliber; but do to poor family resources he was unable to attend. ... DUBIOS died happy and free yet he died on the eve of the march on Washington it's a shame he wasn't able to see it. He died at the ripe old age of 93 on august 27, 1963. ...

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In the document entitled Seeking the Right to Fight, 1861, Jacob Dodson, wrote a letter to the Secretary of War stating, "I desire to inform you that I know of some three hundred reliable colored free citizens of this City, who desire to enter the service for the defense of this city.... Remember if I die, I die in a good cause" (Pg.112). ...

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Fear and paranoid led to the Whites believing that the Blacks desired all the whites had, including their women. ... This is fed by: wwbg bgw esbgbgs aybg bgba nbg kcbg bguk; Fear - Children are frightened of Boo Radley; an outsider to society whom they have never seen Rumour - Children have heard rumours from Miss Stephanie and other children about Boo Superstition - Views such as ghosts and stories they have been told whilst growing up feed their fears of Boo When the children mature and realise that Boo is a real person, capable of suffering like everyone else, the prejudice ...

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Ignorance is one of several things in life that is very damaging. Many people have heard the saying "ignorance is bliss;" this is the same as saying "boys are stronger than girls." Both sayings are said on a regular basis, but are misleading. Ignorance is the farthest thing from being bliss. It is a...

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As Janie begins her story, she sits aside her dying Nanny, as she is presented with the challenge of never being a "spit cup" (37)* for any man, black or white, and of sitting in that high chair that her Nanny never was never allowed to sit in. ... Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... When Jody dies, Janie is officially free to abandon her ...

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There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the nature of the sea and its meaning. ... This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died- - thus falling victims of the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers" (From The Interesti...

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A few characters come along and try to change it, however, their attempts fail, and they either die or are killed in the process. ... He said he wanted to devise a creature that would drive man to destruction in his desire to control it. ...

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This setting is appropriate since most of the characters are displaced people, migrating north, whether uprooted by desires of opportunities or fleeing the tyranny of the South. ... Then Bynum encounters a distorted image of his dead father, who tells him that there many "shiny men," and he if ever sees another, his work will be complete; he can die a happy man. ...

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(Jacobs 1) when Jacobs was six, her mother died. ... " " I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two million of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered, and most of them far worse. ...

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Often children do not consider the consequences of their actions; they act on instinct and desire. ... Unfortunately, Hughes died feeling as though his writing did not help his race, and that his legacy was to be forgotten. ...

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The forefathers of the United States came to this country with the desire for freedom. Although the United States often associates itself with notion of freedom, the United States has not always lived up to this image. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many people of other skin colors and ra...

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