But the fact is-that we called you over here to tell you that-this is my son, and he makes like the sixth generation of folks in this country, and we have all though about your offer and I have decided that we are going to move into our new house and because-well-my father,he earned it for us, brick by brick. .(202)" Just as Walter illustrated his pride above, the play relates how each character in the Younger family deals with the idea of being black and poor. ... When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. ...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As the main characters in the story grow up, they learn that this unfavourable treatment happens in their everyday life. ... Merriweather played her voice like an organ; every word she said received its full measure: 'The poverty the darkness the immortality " nobody but J. ...

• Word Count: 778
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He takes two of nature's most innocent characters, the moth and the spider, and finds tragic randomness in their lives. ... Through these four poems, Frost concludes that nature lives, and spiritually supports us, even though it is composed in large measure of inanimate objects. ...

• Word Count: 837
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Beloved The setting, time, and main characters of the film Beloved all point to struggling aspects of African Americans and African American women in particular. ... Sethe takes a drastic measure and slays her two sons, harms her daughter Beloved, while her other daughter goes untouched. ... It gives you enough backbone for each character to make some connection with. ... The character I most identified with was Denver. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

But for this man she was just "an Evita or a Maria: merely a character in his cartoon-populated universe." ... The story of her career shows in full measure how the Latin women are seen in the USA and in England. ...

• Word Count: 1192
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The movie Separate But Equal is a true story about the myth that one race is superior to another race simply because of skin color which is called racism. Today, racism is a problem that everyone must face no matter what race a person is. Many attempts have been made by the government to ease racial...

• Word Count: 1380
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Since Louisiana always has had a heavy Catholic flavor, its past is a good measure of Catholic response to slavery and racism (Campion)". ... The characters are thrown into the situation to deal with race the way it is dealt with in the real world when they are removed from their established high society settings. ... Mallard has heart problems which made me view her as a naturally weaker character at the beginning of the story. ...

• Word Count: 1578
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There is nothing in the history of his race, nothing in his individual character, nothing in his achievements past nor his promise for the future, which entitles him to stand side by side with the white man at the ballot box We must repeal and modify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. ... Though William was a man of great character and class, he did not let his resentment of his Pullman car porter or steward job destroy him or humiliate him. ...

• Word Count: 4823
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Giovanni's Room and Another Country "featured characters struggling to define sexual, racial, and national identities, and the matter-of-fact depictions of gay relationships in both books surprised many readers" (ht! ...

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

s 1948 Convention on Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, "a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."... Characters in this book all struggle to survive through this genocide, but sometimes, they can no longer handle the pain and give up. ...

• Word Count: 2237
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School