The assignment instructs: Go home and write A page tonight. ... The poem takes place at his desk in his home and follows his train of thought to the end, where he decides that his brainstorming is as honest an opinion as he was ever going to get. ... He tells us that he was the only "colored student in my class-, Then he takes us on his journey home where from that prestigious establishment of Columbia he returns to Harlem through a park, crosses St. ... He likes to, "eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... So, even though he is "colored-, they are connected in needs (eat, sleep, drink and ...

• Word Count: 581
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

You make me sleep near the animals You don't respect the pride I may have in myself I'm more alone than the rest of y'all Ain't nobody ever cared 'bout me You isolate me from everyone else You make me feel like my skin color makes me less of a man I'm cast out with not a friend in sight I ain't had nobody for a long time You call me a nigger; heck got me callin' myself that now You let me stay because of my bad back and I've seen them all come and got I see no one cares to say Hi to the lil ole colored man Nobody come in a colored man's room...

• Word Count: 870
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He often visited King's home and held informal conversation with King about political issues, faith, and spirituality. ... Coretta, who was born in Marion, Alabama, had also ventured far from home. ... Nixon, who was an influential activist in the radical black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping care Porters and Maids, was the one who signed bail to get Rosa Parks out of jail. ... King died, he had been arrested 14 times, had his home bombed three times, and received and average of at least one death threat per day. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the way to my friend's home on Park Avenue I frequently passed it, a mighty towering structure looming proud above the street, in a city where thousands were poor and unemployed. ... The hotel opened at the very time when people were sleeping on newspapers in doorways, because they had no place to go. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"Back door man" is a phrase used in Southern culture to describe a man who sleeps with married women while their husbands are gone, then slips away, usually out the back door. In the song "Back Door Man" Howlin Wolf sings about how he is sneaks in mens' house when they aren't around: "Well the men don't know, but the women understand/ when everybody's tryin' to sleep/ I'm somewhere making my midnight creep." "I Get Around" is also a phrase about men (or women), who sleep with more than one person. ... Howlin Wolf does som...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

As a result, after school classmates would grab stones and tin cans from the ally and chase him home. ... James Presley notes "one summer in Chicago when he was a teen-ager Langston Hughes felt the American Dream explode in his face; a gang of white youths beat him up so badly that he went home with blacked eyes and a swollen jaw. He had been punished for cutting through a white neighborhood in the South Side on his way home from work. ... She forced him to go home with her where she ordered Roger to wash his face. ... It can be described as an area that there is nothing to do "except get dru...

• Word Count: 1559
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. ... Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ... He starts by owning up to the traditionally stereotypical traits of blacks, as attributed by society ("I like to eat, sleep, drink-) but his description soon begins to expand beyond the boundaries of stereotype to include several different cultural norms ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. ... Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ... He starts by owning up to the traditionally stereotypical traits of blacks, as attributed by society ("I like to eat, sleep, drink-) but his description soon begins to expand beyond the boundaries of stereotype to include several different cultural norms ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There is great racial and ethnic diversity all threw out the world. Race, religion, age, and sex are ways to identify humans. Many countries around the world are populated with people of different cultures and from different countries. The United States of America is an example of. The "melting pot"...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the last chapter of the novel, Nel finds herself surrounded by a new and changing world that she is not familiar with; it is a world that Sula, the consummate rebel, would be more at home in. ... This is why she is able to watch her mother burn without flinching, and does not realize that sleeping with her best friend's husband is wrong. ... Having taken what she needed from her (the ability to achieve self-actualization without the need for male validation), Sula removes Eva and sends her away to an old age home, then posits herself in Eva's old room as if it were a captured thro...

• Word Count: 2386
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sleeping too little or too much. 3. ... They come home cooked full course meals, not just hot dogs and chips, clean their homes, take care of at least four to five children. In addition, be pleasing to their husbands if she has one in the home. ... Mental illness is a subject that is not widely discussed among African Americans in their community or home. ...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Leadership The founder of the Church of the Creator, Ben Klassen, once a State Legislator from Florida, committed suicide in 1993, by taking four bottles of sleeping pills. ... He joined the "church- and maintained contact with the home chapter in Otto, North Carolina on a regular basis. ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They were taken from their homes, and what little family they had, and put on plantations and forced to work against their will. ... It was compared to "waged slavery" because the women were working for a place to eat and sleep, both of which were supplied by the employer. ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Moving to the United States was one of the biggest circumstances that influenced my American dream because I came with the idea that this was the land of opportunities but when we arrived to this country my family and I lacked so many resources; like money, clothes, and a stable home. ... I got used to having my mother home every time I arrived home from school but when we moved to this country she had to start working and my siblings and I would not see her as much. When we were in school she would be sleeping and when we were dismissed from school she was already on her way to work. ... When...

• Word Count: 2444
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He has stopped hating Ruth as much as he had before even though he notices that she still spends occasional nights away from home. ... He thinks of a night last week when he returned home from a party in the early morning and saw his mother walking down the street. ...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The steady loss of orientation of the social and political position of African Americans in America and the growing exodus of blacks from their homes in the south to the northern cities are issues that the Harlem writers tried to work through in their stories and poems. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School