This movie helped everyone understand how Jesus Christ was really treated. ... African American in today's time did not experience what Jesus Christ went through, but their ancestors suffered with the same problems as Jesus Christ suffered. ... This movie is telling about the story of Jesus Christ, and I think that Mel Gibson did not disrespect Jesus Christ in no way at all. He was only talking about the life of Jesus Christ. ... I feel as if Mel Gibson did not have any intentions on disrespecting Jesus Christ in any way, Tony Hendra just can not accept the life of Jesus Christ. ...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

A Persecuted Name: Faulkner's Jesus and Jesus of Nazareth When thinking about history, most people can conjure up some knowledge about the history of Black Americans and Jesus of Nazareth. ... Thinking about Jesus also invokes ideas and feelings about Jesus" persecution and struggles as well. ... By choosing a black man named Jesus for a character in That Evening Sun, Faulkner uncovers and illuminates the relationship between the White Majority of the Old South, and the Roman and Jewish majority at the time of Christ. ... Jesus of Nazareth signifies the same thing in the metaphor...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Interpreting God in The Color Purple Historically, in Christian religions God and Jesus have been represented as white men. ... White men were drawn in pictures to represent the images of God and Jesus. ... All her life Celie has seen the pictures of the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and God they have all been of white people. ... "Pictures of Christ, the Apostles, Mary, the Crucifixion Maybe one day I"ll put them up, but once, when I held them up to my fabric and mat covered walls they made me feel very small and unhappy, so I took them down. Even the picture of Christ which generally looks good...

• Word Count: 945
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Master Harold and The Boys "Master Harold and the boys", by Athol Fugard focuses on 17 year old Harold and his struggle to understand racial tensions in South Africa during the 1950's. While Harold's mother is out to visit his father in the hospital, Harold engages in a series of heated debates ...

• Word Count: 428
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Importance of Society In the novel A Lesson Before Dying Grant Wiggins struggles with society because of his race, prejudices, and the woman he loves. He is angry about being a black man in a racist white community. He can"t help his own prejudice against mulatto's (part white part African Ameri...

• Word Count: 573
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Then when the National Society for Colored Affairs turned their back on him for his communist affiliations, he founded an organization which he believed would help him affect social change "The Resurrected Church of the Black Jesus Christ of America, Incorporated. ... Then when the National Society for Colored Affairs turned their back on him for his communist affiliations, he founded an organization which he believed would help him affect social change "The Resurrected Church of the Black Jesus Christ of America, Incorporated. ...

• Word Count: 1992
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Philip's diary he said "On Christmas Day, being Monday, ye 25th of December, in the year 1752, the Lord shone into my soul by a glimpse of his redeeming love, being an earnest of my redemption in Christ Jesus to whom be glory forever and ever. ...

• Word Count: 1124
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Introduction Slaves were treated very badly in the 19th century. They were never really left with the same owner; they got sold on many times. They would be taken away from their family and brought into slavery because they were black. White people were the controllers of the slaves and there wer...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Many Aspects of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, an author of many writings, uses his voice well, the most important tool an author has. To understand Langston Hughes, the reader must first understand the time-period he wrote in, and the movement he was a part of. Hughes was part of the "Har...

• Word Count: 1296
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet published in the United States. The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. She believed that through finding God in one's life, salvation and mercy would follow. She was constantly overcoming stepping-stones to prove her literary talents and ability. Phillis Wheatley's perseverance and strong character, allowed her to find God in her own life and seek salvation. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Declaration of Independence of the United States states " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain enaliable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." So why then are people of a di...

• Word Count: 2342
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

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

To begin with, King was a preacher who spoke in biblical cadences ideally suited to leading a stride toward freedom that found its inspiration in the Old Testament story of the Israelites and the New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ. ...

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