" Those lines were sang with passion and almost were being screamed when she was singing. ... He would always tell me he was going to come home and then never did. ... This is most likely because I have never been cheated on nor have I ever felt the wrath of someone I have cheated on. ... " This song is about a girl growing up in a country town with a tough father. It focuses purely from a women's perspective about the lessons her father told her. ...

• Word Count: 1879
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Later on he lived with his mother and his father for a short period and he did not like either of them. ... The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. ... Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. ... Just like how African Americans were never given a voice, or rights, they were counted as worthless and always looked down at. ... "I tried to write poems like the song they sang on Seventh Street (these songs had the pulses beat of the people who keep on going" An example of this is his poem "Harlem Sweeties" the sound and tone as the poem is being read has...

• Word Count: 934
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the winter of 1944-1945, he met the distinguished black writer Richard Wright, who became a mentor and father figure to him. ... It was the nonfiction books - Notes of a Nation Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), and The Fire Next Time (1963) - "that secured his reputation as an important American writer and social critic" (http://www.africana.com, pg. 1). ... The world is white no longer and it will never be white again" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 13). ... My Dungeon Shook contains advice to a young black male who is the author's nephew and is about to enter the area of ...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. ... Part I Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks To Slavery CHAPTER ONE What is Race? ... Well there is one biblical story that I have gathered from my readings, that not many people agree upon and that is the story of Noah's sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. ... Then another interpretation taken from the Bible states that Noah was drunken from wine and lay naked in a tent and Ham was the first to see this and did not cover his father. Instead Ham went to tell his two brothers and Shem and Japheth went to c...

• Word Count: 3801
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School