Baldwin writes that "One is responsible to life: it is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return" (Baldwin, 106). ... " So it is difficult to simplify things in the manner that West does. ... He does not believe that simply sitting around and praying things will be better. God is not on anyone's side and the only use for him is how the concept of him will change an individual from within. ... If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him" (Baldwin, 61). ...

• Word Count: 1135
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By Celia being Newsom's sexual partner she was privileged to some things other slaves were not to. One of those privileges was a special cabin close to the main house, whereas other slaves stayed further away with smaller and poorer living conditions. ... Being as the man that would be doing these things were the master or someone in the family Power relationships during this time were virtually non-existent. ... This was a very god book about the woman's side of things during slavery, that I would recommend to my peers....

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"There was the great joke that I felt God played on cats and dogs by making them lap their milk and water with their tongue" (Wright 1944). It seems that he commiserates pity for the animals because they only receive a small portion of drink, while we as people can devour large mouthfuls. ... Children look at the little things that make life enjoyable. ... I suppose one reason why his parents would show him these things is to give him a crude awakening of what he is to expect in life, which is not all dreams and fantasy. Wright as a boy, which includes other children as well, see things m...

• Word Count: 1034
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Grant buys Jefferson a small notebook to write down his thoughts and Jefferson agrees to use the items. ... Grant sees the benefits that persistence and continuation can lead to as he observes Jefferson using his notebook to write things down. ... (Gaines 186) Grant did not believe in God so for him to say this is very crucial. His statement shows how he is beginning to learn some things while teaching Jefferson. ... (Gaines 249) Since Grant did not know what a man really was while he teaches Jefferson, he himself begins to learn a few things. ...

• Word Count: 1062
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

At around the age of twenty or so, Linda escapes and ends up in very small garret only nine foot long and seven foot wide. ... She doesn't want them to go through the same things that she has so she wants them to die, but since she loves them so much she doesn't want to become like other slave mothers by losing her children. ... Why doesn't God kill me?" Linda explains that things like this happen daily, even hourly. ... Although it wasn't everything she though it would be, the most important part was that she was free and able to do the things that she wanted to do. ...

• Word Count: 1014
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Many of the people who play smaller roles in Atticus and Tom's life each do their part to help. ... Again, I thought her strange: she was talking like the rest of them 'It's the same God, ain't it?' ... Even though many of the acts performed by supporting characters are small and seemingly irrelevant, they make a huge impact on Atticus, Jem, Scout, and Tom's life. The moral of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is that one should stand up for what they believe in, even if it is through smaller gestures because little things can make a significant differe...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He started off small; just having legitimate jobs and playing numbers, but then he got a job on a train which allowed him to live in Harlem a few nights a week. ... When he was in Boston things finally caught up with him and he was arrested with Shorty for robbery. ... He made many black and white people unite, in his later days, to try to make things better for all oppressed people in our society. ... As he grew older he didn't believe in a God or Allah. ... Malcolm and most of his friends, in their early days, were very deviant characters, doing all kinds of bad things. ...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This ordeal is what broke Langston Hughes's initial faith in God. ... Through constantly writing about his country he almost felt morally obligated to help with the war effort even if in a small way as he did. ... A person can find many different things significant about Hughes's writing, because he relates facts of black hardships and political struggles in his work. ...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Grade Level: High School

Mary Rowlandson sees this instance as an act of the devil and since the Puritan religion would condone such acts, she believes that even God sees the Puritans as a better race the Native Americans. ... Twain uses a small boy to show what the white human race is like without the corruption of society and slavery. ... He is defining the black race from the standpoint of another race by showing what it is really not; that they are really not all those things. ...

• Word Count: 1155
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• Grade Level: High School

Soon it was obvious to the owners of the bus company and to the white community that the Blacks were not going to ride the buses unless their terms were met They wanted only three things: courteous treatment from drivers; seating on a first-come, first-served basis, and the employment of Black bus drivers. ... Nonviolence was the path to a "Beloved Community-, the actualization of the "Kingdom of God-, a society "in which men and women live as children of God should live a kingdom controlled by the law of love-. ...

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

For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. ...

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

Black women have full time jobs receiving minimum wages and small encouragements from their family. ... Her greatest insight was to take her troubles to God. God could relieve her of all problems whether mentally or physically. ... She then realizes she cannot do all things that have been put upon her to do. ...

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

Also during my exchange year in the United States, Minnesota, in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to discover several things about "The American Way of Life". ... Mays, changed King's mind about many things especially his future. ...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The essay Stranger in the Village has been much collected; it reported on the author's unique experience of being the first black man encountered by a small Swiss village, and it became the instrument for expressing forcefully and gently the basic premise of the racial revolution in the twentieth century: "the people who shut their eyes to reality simply in! ...

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