With her life in danger, Dana quickly goes back through time into the present muddy from her ordeal. ... Soon enough Dana goes through time and finds the same young boy, Rufus, in his room with burning curtains. ... As a slave she endures the torture and mistreatment that comes along with being a slave. ... Knowing full well the consequences in teaching a slave how to read, she ignores them and goes about her teaching. ... Dana goes throughout the novel, trying to find her Husband who left her side after she was transported back into the present leaving him behind. ...

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Maximus goes on with the help of "his men" to defeat all the Caesar can throw at him. ... A plan to earn his freedom and come back to defeat the evil Commodus is squashed when Commodus catches on. ... With all those character-building shots of the dog, I expected it to come back as an important story element. Another example is when Maximus comes home to find his family dead. ... The historical inaccuracy in this movie was rampant, but would go unnoticed with out some knowledge of the time period. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jessie asked one of the sailors where was he going and the sailor told him they are going to go on a voyage to Africa, he then asked when will he return home and he said if he is lucky he"ll be back in four months. ... Finally the day had come when they had reached the coast of Africa. ... Before they would attempt to eat it Jessie thought, the chicken must have come from a farm where there are more chickens. ... Jessie was unsure about what would happen next, would he go home and go back to the way he was, being gone for four months his mother worried about him thinking he is dead he did not ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When he gets back to the Widow Douglas' house he finds Pap sitting in his room ready to take Huck and get his money. ... When it comes close enough they climb aboard so that they can try to salvage anything in the house. ... After hearing about her suspicion Huck returns to Jim as fast as he could to warn Jim that they need to get off the island as soon as possible; before search groups come to search the island. ... Back in Huck's time most religious people would have thought that black people were made as a lesser race. ... Back in those days a slave would have been considered prop...

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Denver goes for help and gets a job. When her employer comes to pick Denver up, Sethe mistakes him for Schoolteacher and tries to kill him while Beloved runs away. ... Paul D comes back and the story ends with everyone trying to forget that Beloved ever existed. ... This novel contained more of a creepy plot about a ghost who comes back to haunt the house and family so it's understandable that it gave some kids the creeps. ... In Beloved, Sethe is afraid of going back to slavery and a life for her kids in slavery so she kills one of them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To hear of the horrible ties that comes with slavery. ... Covey was a slave breaker and he was going to try to break Frederick. ... Covey found him and screamed at him to come back, or he would be severly punished. ... He arrived at his Master's place and let Douglass spend the night, but he had to go back in the morning. ... Covey called for Hughes to come and help him out. ...

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That night after the slaves had come back from the fields to the quarters John asked for some chewing tobacco, Sarny of course had some but she had learned not to give away things but to trade things. ... A slave by the name of Alice got caught going into the main house. ... He was caught walking back to the quarters. ... Waller whipped her to make her go faster. ... Waller ordered John to go to the spring house and put on the shackles. ...

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Also, when it comes to both Stowe and Douglass writing styles are very different. ... He did not hold anything back, while writing this story. ... Douglass did not refrain from going deep into details about what was happening. ... My day will come yet, if he doesn't look out." (3.24-26). ... Once he had escaped, he felt like he must give back to those who helped him. ...

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This need for learning not only fueled his mind, but his struggle to over come his personal struggle with slavery. ... Douglass is chosen to go live in Baltimore which has many impacts on not only his mind, but on his body. ... This new found knowledge gave Douglass a strong will and determination that would come very handy in his fight for freedom. ... One day, when Covey decided to try and punish Douglass, Douglass fought back. ... Not set back by his first failure at freedom, Douglass resolved to try again and again until he eventually triumphed. ...

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Then the movie comes to Annapolis, Maryland in 1765, fifteen years after Kunta Kinte was born, to Mr.Vilars hiring Captain Davies to sail a ship to carry cargo. ... When Captain Davies finds out that his cargo would consist mostly of slaves it brought a dead silence to him and to have a worrisome look come about. ... We then are brought back to Africa to find Kunta to be the size of a fifteen year old boy and have responsibilities of taking care of the families goats. ... While Kunta was guarding the heard of goats he comes across a lepord that had captured the goat that was pregnant. ... When...

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The spark of hope that things will get better always kept the "blue-collared" crew of America going. ... The workers of America, who never had the "American dream" come to a reality knows freedom is a whimsy thought which one day might come true. ... The price to come to America created indentured servants, working until they no longer owed any money. ... We need to "bring back our mighty dream," only then will be have America or our country will die "of our own gangster death." ... The thoughts of a dream, freedom, and love are not only ideas which need to be brought back but actions w...

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As soon as I got down here I could already tell that it was going to be a lot different. ... We went to go watch Alabama play LSU in football. ... " I said yes, he followed by saying "You old enough to go to a nigger whore house?... " He then followed up by saying "you look old enough to go to a nigger whore house.... She has lived through the most racist time period and it comes out in her writing. ...

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To over come such mental disposition the slaves would sing or write poetry on the outputs on what exactly is going on around them. ... While this was going on the only thing the slaves had to fight back was either their own wit or their physical power. ... Another aspect was to fight back. Fred Douglas took this theory of fighting back to his own hands and it worked. Fighting back gave him the upper hand not to mess with him, in which he didn't. ...

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When people think of the 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, accomplishments like leading the union to victory in the civil war or freeing the slaves are most common to come to mind. ... Doesn't being honest come with the responsibility of always staying true to your opinion? ... On September 22, 1862, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves and "pronounced slavery a moral evil that must come to an end.... His whole lifetime Lincoln wanted to free the slaves and send the different people back to where they belong. ... Years after in 1862,in an a...

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Abstract There is an unknown silent war going on in the world today. ... If we can all come together to try and alleviate this problem, then I personally believe that we can make a difference. ... Every country has outlawed this ugly elephant, but it won't go away! ... This type of slavery has been traced back to the ancient civilization and has continued to grow. ... This problem dates back to the ancient days and will continue to grow into modern day if we don't wake up and make changes. ...

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When the four horsemen, including school teacher from Sweet Home, came to 124, Sethe was terrified that she and her children was going to be brought back to the plantation. ... Nobody was going to nurse her like. ... Sethe's choice to kill her daughter and go to jail rather than going back to Sweet Home was what saved Denver and her brothers from a much harder life. ... I couldn't lay down nowhere in peace, back then. Now I can She come back to me, my daughter, and she is mine....

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In order to achieve these objectives "going global" is seen as the only solution. ... The set aims and objectives tend to vary within each different organisation although most goals come back to maximizing profit to the owners of the organisation (the shareholders) and in turn the workers of the organisation. ... Well there isn't all winners when it comes to globalisation. ... Globalisation has been going on for thousands of years just under different titles. ... How far will we let it go? ...

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After meeting the Duke and King Jim had a easier time of hiding out, yet his search for freedom took a back seat to the Duke and King's greedy exploits. ... In the end Huck finally realized he needed to help Jim and this time he was going to do it knowing he was helping Jim as where before he didn't realize it. ... Yet with the freedom to do what they want the two do not experience complete freedom because they have to worry about being spotted during the day and Huck would be sent back to Pap and Jim back to slavery. ... Huck speech shows his simplicity and his roughness like the wa...

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He does so, and the Africans are granted passage back to Africa, and the remaining crew of La Amistad is arrested for illegally obtaining slaves. ... This appeal could very well reverse the decision, which would mean that the Africans would have to go on trial for mutiny and murder. ... Letting the slaves go free would set a precedent that could very well lead to civil war. With Adams" help, they are able to convince the Supreme Court to let the Africans go free or return to Africa if they so choose. ... This movie made me think about whether or not we have come far as a nation in our ide...

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Although their original goal in coming to Virginia was to search for gold and find other natural resources their site would come to be known as Jamestown, the widely regarded first permanent English settlement in America. The crucial task of establishing a society in a new and foreign land did not go without its fair share of tribulations. ... Once Smith was injured in an accident he was sent back to England. ... This system also allowed people that couldn't afford to pay for the passage to come over and work as an indentured servant for seven years. ...

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Julian tries to prove a point to his mother, that they aren't living back on some plantation with slaves. ... When that didn't go as planned he sat there and thought of ways to really get under his mothers" skin. He thought of how upset she would get for him to come home with a black woman. ... To fairly judge her views, one must understand where she comes from. ...

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Willie would go on to plead guilty in a family court and sent to a juvenile prison. ... The author also goes into depth about past generations of the Bosket family dating all the way back to 1896 discussing the harsh realities that each generation Bosket had to go through and what turned them into the monster that soon developed Willie Bosket. Butterfield states that he traced the Bosket family back to a county in South Carolina called Edgefield. ... Standing up for himself and showing signs of ignorance by not listening to his Landlord would make Pud lose his job as well as fighting back to t...

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• Grade Level: High School

The slave was to receive a beating, but ran away into a pond and refused to come back to land. The master threatened to shoot the slave if he did not come back for his beating. ... The master doing the whipping, beat her before breakfast, left the poor woman tied up until after dinner, and beat her again, lacerating her back in places already raw for earlier. ... The female slave was one of the toughest lives to live back in the 1800's. ... How could a sane person not feel bad for what slaves had to go through? ...

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For as Amy says to Sethe in Chapter 3 about Sethe's throbbing feet, "Anything dead coming back to life hurts. " They both realize that by opening up and bringing back old memories, they will be able to move on without fear. ... Sethe realizes that Halle isn't going to return and contemplates starting a new life with Paul D. ... In "I know why the Caged Bird sings", Maya Angelou goes through something similar. ... Before long Sethe and Beloved's roles merge and invert as Sethe comes to act like a child while Beloved looms over her like a mother. ... In the story the community and...

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This quote has come from a slave himself. ... "There goes 100 guineas to the sharks," said the captain of the slave ship shown on Roots. ... Guineas are the money that the slave traders used back then. ... This also goes towards the Middle Passage. ... The slaves tried to defend themselves by planning attacks on the white people in order to kill them, and then return back to their tribes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School