The Right To A Free Trial One of the most important freedoms in the American judicial system is the right to a jury trial. ... Throughout this essay, a comparison of a real jury, a simulated jury, and Hollywood's perception of a jury will be discussed. ... The Hollywood version, titled 12 Angry Men, revolved around a teenage boy who was accused of murdering his father and could possibly lose his life if found guilty. ... Black? ... It was not until key points expressing doubt in the boy's guilt appeared that everyone realized their significance. ...

• Word Count: 1518
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This essay goes through the struggle I had a kid, and relates it to sibling stereotypes and also gender stereotypes that I experienced. ... For example when boys are brought into this world they wear outfits that have sports teams on them or have very masculine colors and tones; blue, black. ... I want to put a twist to this because nothing for me has ever been just black and white. ... Some act by getting very involved with sports at a young age, which I did, some do boy scouts, which I did also, and some just stayed chained to their parents because again 95 percent of parents believe they k...

• Word Count: 1944
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. ... Hughes's poems, short plays, essays, and short stories began appearing in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". ... We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free withi...

• Word Count: 2112
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Berry, faith, Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem, Citadel, 1992 Langston Hughes spoke for most of the writers and artists when he wrote in his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain- (1926) that black artists intended to express themselves freely, no matter what the black public or white public thought A number of factors contributed to the decline of the Harlem Renaissance in the mid-1930s. ... For example "Mother to Son- the mother says "So boy don't you turn back, don't set you down on the steps cause you find its kinder harder, don't you fall now-. ... In...

• Word Count: 1518
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through Hughes" works that included: poetry, short stories, novels, and political essays, Hughes brought his words to life and educated many people. ... 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. ... Even as a young boy he was ready to take chances in life. ...

• Word Count: 1483
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• Grade Level: High School

And all that Bigger wants to do is "to merge himself with others and be a part of this world, to lose himself in it so he could find himself, to be allowed a chance to live like others, even though he was black" (226) and not have to continue being the black boy who is expected to conform to the accepted black stereotype. This longing to be free from the constraints of his home-life expresses Bigger's need to be free from the constraints of which society holds over him. ... What has this seemingly petty black man done? ... He defied a country, he represented every white persons fear, t...

• Word Count: 1638
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. ... The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. ... An example of this is in The Wizard of Oz, when the movie goes from black and white to color, showing a visual symbolic death. ... In the end, Jim is captured and Huck decides to free Jim by breaking him out of the confinement. ... The caterpillar starts ou...

• Word Count: 1370
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• Grade Level: High School

The young poet's earliest work attracted the attention of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press newspaper in Newburyport, Massachusetts, who asked him to contribute articles. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes- Initially known in the Boston area for his cultured, witty verse, the American physician and writer gained wider popularity with the publication of his essays in 1858. ... Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - American writer, known for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poetry. ... Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - American poet and biographer, known for his unrhym...

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

Susan Isaacs writes about this very thing in her essay entitled, "Brave Dames and Wimpettes". ... Further yet, away from the female presidential role I am seeking, is the strong, deceitful black widow-like role. ... What about the movie that Stanley Kaufman critiques in his essay, "Primal Stuff"? ... In Jenn Schreve's essay, "Honor Thy Daughter", she brings new light to my issues with Disney. ... It is about a young Chinese girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to fight in a war. ...

• Word Count: 1671
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Malcolm X or Malcolm Little has become one of the leading black movement leaders. ... The three major changes in Malcolm X's life that will be examined in this essay are his life in Boston, his life in prison, and his pilgrimage. ... It is through this exploration that he sees the stark contrast between the middle class blacks, including his sister, and the blacks who live below the hill. ... Following this, it is his job as a shoeshine boy that develops much of Malcolm's life during this time. ... His mind opens up and he develops a sense of freedom, "In fact, up to then, I n...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Huck Finn is a novel that incorporates the struggles of a young boy, Huck Finn, with that of a cruel, careless world, on his travel down the Mississippi River in attempt at finding his own identity. In this essay, I will present textual evidence that proves that the Seven Deadly Sins are directly associated with the types of evil in the novel, making Huck's world one of violence, terror, and death. ... An example of his Pride is seen when an inebriated Pap verbally attacks free blacks in the States. ... The wondrous adventure that Huck assumes he will take on at the beginning of the n...

• Word Count: 1675
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

and died in 1895 as a freed man named Frederick Douglass. In my essay I am going to just overview the book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, which was written by him-self. ... Douglass remembers his mothers name being, Harriet Bailey the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey who both were black. ... One incident that Douglass speaks of describes the Colonel riding along the road when he ran into a colored man and said: "Well boy, whom do you belong to?" ... Now a free man, Douglass would go on to speak in 1841 at an abolitionist meeting in Nantucket, Massachus...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The following essay will be in chronological order. ... The Native Indians quickly became extinct, and black slaves were imported from Africa; the distinct ways of the pre-Columbian colony became a mystery. ... The institution of slavery divided the country into three main classes: white, mulatto, and black. ... Dessalines Haiti became the first black republic to declare its independence. ... After Christophe committed suicide, General Boyer took over the country. ...

• Word Count: 2441
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

When all clothing and toiletries were unpacked from our suitcases in our small but comfortable rooms and my parents decided to free me from their tight unyielding grasp, I realized I was alleviated of all my tedious duties. ... While shooting some hoops on the basketball court I befriended Henrik, a tall blond haired sweetish boy who I immediately began to like as we both had a passion for fitness. Two days after me and Henrik met, we decided to cool off in the pool from our sweaty basketball match and that's where I met my friend Marc, he was a rather short boy with black hair and a cool...

• Word Count: 2493
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• Grade Level: High School

My life was happy and carefree, until the day the planes began dropping bombs from the sky and the men with the shiny black boots came marching into our city. ... Our hometown Warsaw has finally been set free by the Russian soldiers and he will now return to find us a place to live. ... Eventually a met a boy named Joshua who was very kind and offered to help me with my work. ...

• Word Count: 2372
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School