There are multiple scenes in Django Unchained where Django is riding into various towns on a horse. ... The white man then proceeds to ask Django to spell his name, questioning Django's intellectual capacity. Django then spells his name for the man clearly and effectively. ... There is still a significant amount of tension amongst whites and blacks throughout the United States. ... Observing this scene on top of a building, Colonel Shaw is shocked at first but responds with an adamant claim that if none of the black soldiers accept a monthly wage, he won't either. ...

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Pieter receives more than his share; Nella receives very little; Stephanie none at all. ... There are three features of South African society that are presented in Too Late the Phalarope: first, Afrikaner nationalism as seen in Jakob van Vlaanderen; second, moderates like Sophie who outwardly appear to offer an alternative to the ideology of apartheid but inwardly live with it; and third, there is a sense of hope or potentially resistant forces at work within South African society. ... "Then I went off to the kitchen," she writes, where old Izak and Lena, who for all their blackness were good...

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In some situations, there may be a sense of oddity present, however those situations are very likely to be seen in reality. ... None of his mother's actions is free of racial overtones and she is ostentatiously racist in disregarding the wishes of Carver's mother. ... The narrator describes her eyes as "sky-blue, [they] were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must have been when she was ten" (397). ... O'Connor's use of violence is almost as though she were trying to shake the reader awake, since it is so sudden and stark. For example, "Then all at once she ...

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This quote demonstrates the idea that there was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against the blacks, the fact that white individuals treated these black soldiers in a lowery manner, demonstrated how blacks felt hatred against whites and felt as if they were lesser beings. There was also a great amount of generals who did not think that the blacks were capable of being relied on to defeat the enemy in the south, but Colonel Shaw always maintained his faith and defended them. ... "If you men will take no pay... then none of us will." ... As time went by, the 54th regiment began assimilati...

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Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. ... Additionally, there are seven Black males in prison for every one white male.3 More than half of all black males are under the supervision of the justice system in some way.4 These two factors indicate a very important trend. ... Secondly, and perhaps more significantly, the high rate of incarceration, upon further examination, leads to conclusions about its causes which then shed light on the discussion of jury nullification. ... There are several levels within the ...

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