A raisin in the sun really did a good job in addressing race inequality and gender equality in the 1950s. ... Beneatha also speaks of how she feels no need to be married, this along with trying to be a doctor where though of as radical ideas in the 1950s. ... Racism also plays a strong role in the story. most obvious would be how the family only associates with black people because interracial relationships were unheard of. ... Walter wants to have a successful business so he can rise out of the poverty that he has always live with. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Raisin in the Sun is a play that has many themes on pride and dreams. ... Not just a dreamer, Mama is also a doer. ... He wants to invest in a liquor store, so that he can help himself and his family to rise above the poverty. ... Also, pride is also an important theme of the play. ... Also, Mama is very proud of her family. ...

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Excerpts from The Invincible Man also show how race is defined in American history by showing the stereotype of the black race. Finally, in Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, race defines the division of culture between Americans and Spaniards. ... In Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, the American race, represented by Jake, is looking in on itself and seeing that it is like a wasteland with no apparent values. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

So, music was not only a marker of identity and blackness but it was also a way for deliverance from the harsh treatments of slavery. ... Moreover, during slavery the songs of the slaves were also used as a part of a sacred tradition from Africa. ... An example of one of these songs would be the Quitting Time song which goes like this Ooooh, the sun going down, And I won't be here long, Ooooh, the sun going down, And I won't be here long. ... This song inspired workers to work until the sun went down. ... During the period of slavery, music helped enslaved blacks to rise out of the...

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Wells was not only willing to sacrifice for this cause, but also to die for it. ... Because both are motivated by similar economic, social, and psychological forces, it is only logical that those who sought to undermine Blacks were also the most virulent antifeminists 2." ... I rise I rise I rise." ... Well's father was also a race man in Mississippi who refused to be intimidated by the politics of his town. ... "Out of the huts of history's shame I rise" The "huts of history's shame" in stanza eight also makes an allusion to the oppression that African-American wome...

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The poem not only shows her upbringing but also comes from life experiences and her own likes and dislikes. ... Some of the poetry Angelou has written is "Still I Rise", "Men", "Remembrance", "A Conceit", "Touched by an Angel", "Refusal", and "The Lesson" (Alanofdale 1)... This is a part of the song "When it Looked Like the Sun Wasn't Going to Shine Anymore, God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds",1 which she sang to open a lecture she gave at Weber State University. ...

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Also, I"ll give my insight on what book and movie I feel can help someone understand the culture of the United States. ... Damion told me that most houses are solar dependants and some people depend on the sun to complete various outdoors and indoors chores. As you can see the solar energy is evidently an inexpensive way to live, but I really cannot see myself where my home-life depends upon the sun, but it is evident that if there was not a sun, we would have no energy. ... Ultimately, beginning to rise in society blacks now spoke freely and was involved in rallies and organizations. ... Mal...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the great factors in the quick rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the literary movement with the contribution of writers such as Langston Hughes. ... For all the writers and artists from Harlem, liberty had its importance, because they could talk about their experiences and also about the differences between the cities of the north and the rural south where injustice was still in practice. ... Furthermore, Langston Hughes loved Harlem and described it in his writing but also absorbed the rhythms of the Blues and the Jazz in his poetry. ... Through the poem he asks questions, like so...

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• Grade Level: High School

Next to taking care of her master's son Tom, Roxy also has to look after her own son Chambers. ... Finally I would say that Mark Twain was both influenced by the opinion of his parents, but also by the general attitude people had towards slaves in those days and especially in the South. ... "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson- is introduced by a description of a peaceful, calm town seemingly harmless and full of harmony: "In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one- and two-storey frame dwellings whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangle...

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For me the American dream is not only about me or my success and happiness but also the success and the happiness of those who surround me. ... The American dream is not only to accomplish your goals but to also feel comfortable and secure once they have been accomplished. ...

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Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. ... Pinsker also states that Harris and Molesworth biography also does not falsify the facts of Locke's nearly four decade long relationship with Howard University, subsequent biographies of Locke will surely be written in the next ten or twenty years but not without fully taking the Harris-Molesworth into account. ... Sun Feb 26 21:38:27 EST 2012. ...

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Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. ... Pinsker also states that Harris and Molesworth biography also does not falsify the facts of Locke's nearly four decade long relationship with Howard University, subsequent biographies of Locke will surely be written in the next ten or twenty years but not without fully taking the Harris-Molesworth into account. ... Sun Feb 26 21:38:27 EST 2012. ...

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When America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than white prisoners because of their skin-colour. ... They became more radical and turned to organisations, which preached black pride, black self-esteem, and black nationalism, but also stressed the need for an internationalisation of the fight because of the interdepence of all nations in the modern world. go to top Martin Luther King, jr. ... But he was also well aware of the fact that the movement towards th...

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• Grade Level: High School