Women of shape, women of color, women of old and women of new together all fight for understanding, respect and feminism. ... I know girls that only eat salad, girls who would do anything to have the figure that graces the new fashion magazine. A young girl not older than me sat on my corner bloody and shamed after a violent scene with her boyfriend, a few moments later he returns to hold and console her, now this upsets me! ...

• Word Count: 637
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Curley's wife, alone all day, cooped up in her house, with not a single person to talk to other then her husband, and never being able to meet new people. ... Without friendships the characters in this story sat around and waited for something to happen and when nothing did they would create something, sometimes it was all in good fun and sometimes is was hurtful. ...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

" those who dreamed in childhood of fishing for salmon...woke up as adults in line for U.S.D.A. commodity food opened up cans of commodities and wept over the rancid meat, forced to eat what stray dogs ignored." (14). " Thomas dreamed about television and hunger he sat, all hungry and lonely White people owned everything: food, houses, clothes, children. ... "How they are brave and intelligent, how they are the new warriors. ...

• Word Count: 804
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Poverty The Young girl thought to herself as she sat under the Cypress tree in the blazing sun watching the heat waves shimmer above the blinding brightness of the hot sand, "I wish I had food in my stomach. ... Also, higher education gives one the opportunity to create new ideas and from here new businesses arise. ...

• Word Count: 2145
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

One of these is Okonkwo's son, Nwoye: The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul - the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed. ... (TFA, p.129) Nwoye had begun to feel uneasy about the brutality of certain aspects of tribal life and the new religion seems to hold some relief for him. ... The new religion appeals to the victims and the doubting members of the tribe. ...

• Word Count: 2919
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School