The main theme in The Test is a very disturbing one of racism. The United States of America is a clever place to set a story that's theme covers racism because of America's horrific history and racist past. ... Marian gets so angry she yells at the driving instructor and therefore fails the test. ... We find this out through the chatting in the car during the driving test between Marian and the driving instructor. ... The car is firstly being driven to Marian to the driving test before she drives in the actual driving test. ...

• Word Count: 1005
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Derek's dad says "Oh is it Black History Month". ... His dad asks if its black history month, then asks if the school was making them read black literature because of Affirmative Blaction. ... In the dinner scene with his father he warns Derek to read the literature Sweeny makes him, take the test, Ace the test, but don't believe any of the information Sweeny is telling him or the literature there reading. 12. ...

• Word Count: 1172
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It has been fifth teen years since the release of the controversial movie, American History X. ... Their fathers hate and rage is shown when he talks to his sons about how a nigger got a promotion over a white man who had studied hard for the test. ... Danny is assigned to write an essay in his history class. ... The name of his new history class is called American History X. ... I'm just tired of it" (American History X, 1998). ...

• Word Count: 2014
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Three subsamples were chosen for testing. ... The next test given was the Self-Harmful Behavior Scale (SHB). ... Five questions were asked to find the history of suicidal behavior. ... The SSB is a 5-point scale that scales the lifetime history of suicidal behavior. In this study, (1) indicates no history of suicidal behavior, (2) a history of suicidal ideas, (3) a history of suicidal behavior, (4) a history of mild suicidal acts, and (5) a history of at least on serious attempt (Pfeffer et al., 1979). ...

• Word Count: 1467
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

These images have continued to haunt us according Sarkar who says that throughout history, the image of railroad worker and valorization show that the idea of emasculated has existed for years. ... By looking at a brief history of how Asian males are portrait by the white society, the image of Asian males can be better understood through these two short stories. ... The narrator tests it on Amanda, but she doesn't like it and says "it smell[s] dirty (Louie 80)." ... On the other hand, one critic argues that " the emasculation of the heterosexual Chinese-American man notably thus seems to ...

• Word Count: 1245
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Archeologists used ground-piercing radars and other equipment to test the soil for unmarked graves to determine how many people are buried there. The tests picked up dozens, if not hundreds of bodies outside the cemetery ("Archaeologists"). ... Tulsa Times A Pictorial History: The Boom Years. ...

• Word Count: 1259
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In one way it is symbolic of the African Americans' struggle for equality throughout this nation's history. ... This represents what happened in this nation's history as well. ... I am thinking that maybe they did this just to test his patience and pride. ... It is representative of the many struggles and hardships that this nation's African American population endured throughout their history since the end of slavery when they started advocating for their equality, and "Batlle Royal" is one of those many stories written by some african american to illustrate their strugg...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This idea that the slave holder was a sort of father figure developed due to the history of Brazil and it's colonial relation with Portugal. ... In the United States Slavery was of some of the most brutal and suppressive recorded in history. ... In the history of the U.S. there was little record of slave revolt or any type of organized slave body. ... These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The United States has had a long history of racial discrimination dating back to it's colonial days under the Britis...

• Word Count: 2418
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In this story, postwar middle-American black communities use the image of Shirley Temple in the same way southern creoles created the infamous "paper bag test- to exclude darker skinned blacks from the higher tiers of African American society. ... Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. ...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This was an important moment in black history because it marked the first time a black person had been admitted into an all white college. ... Lawrence, was caught saying that black students do worse on the SAT tests because they are genetically inferior to other students, particularly white ones. ... Probably one of the biggest school riots in history was at the University of Massachusetts on October 27, 1986. ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

"Jim Crow Laws" or racial segregation was soon to play an important roll in history. ... Because disenfranchising blacks was impossible due to the Fifteenth Amendment, poll taxes and literacy tests accomplished this task indirectly. ...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

They are faced with struggles that test the conviction of personal beliefs. ... The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is well over one hundred years old lady that relates a personal history that spans the time from the Civil War and slavery up through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. ...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Its victory was so complete that event through those outrages took place within the living memory of the baby boomers, they seem like ancient history. ... It was the first time since Reconstruction that a president sent federal troops to overrule a state segregation law, and the event marked a turning point in civil-rights history. ...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While Whites looked back proudly on their achievements in history and culture, Blacks were denied their identity. Their kingdoms and complex societies were ignored in the white man's interpretation of history, there were few publications about their culture and history. ... To keep Blacks from registering to vote, poll taxes were raised, comprehension tests were held and the grandfather-clause was put into practice. ...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Walker's collection of composing is described by particular intermittent themes, of which the most clear is Walker's regard for the Black woman as a creator and how her endeavor to become whole relates with the community as a whole as can be seen in her novel as the primary subject; an alternate theme that is seen is her requirement on examining the relationship in the middle of battle and change, a testing that incorporates the torment of black peoples' lives. ... The word advocates the racist and classist facets of the white feminism and seeks to acknowledge the black women&#...

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School