If the original Kung Fu rode to prominence on the coattails of Bruce Lee and the "kung fu craze- of the early 1970s, then, the revamped series also reflected a new commercial interest in martial arts film represented by the Brandon Lee vehicle Rapid Fire (1992) and a biography of his father, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993). ... Rapid Fire takes up some of this imagery in its narrative about Jake Lo (Brandon Lee), who was in Tian'anmen with his father during the demonstrations, and who reluctantly gets embroiled in a gang war involving a Chinese drug smuggler who also happens to support...

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This line stresses the idea that the family, and more the father and son, plant corn every Spring together as a business and tradition. ... The father seems to intend to open his son up to a new horizon and the possibility of other occupations. At one point in the poem, the father finds a nest of tiny mice and shows them to his son, "my father stopped at one point/to show me an overturned furrow/the plowshare had unearthed/the burrow nest of a mouse." ... The father in this piece appears to want a different path for his son, one in which he has the ability to choose his own identity, one that ...

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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth to her son. ... When, at age fifteen, she went to spend the summer with her father, several experiences quickened the pace of her maturation. With her drunken father asleep in the back seat, she commanded a bucking automobile down a mountain road out of Mexico. Then, after a fight with her father...

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The story begins with the narrator who remembers the advice that his dying grandfather gave to his son (the narrator's father) and his remembrance of a cruel betrayal that confirms the grandfather's advice. The grandfather divulges to his son how he has survived in the white man's world and counsels his son to agree with what the white man says and always answer with a compliant attitude. ...

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" As reported by Glenda Gilmore, the generation of the African American women emerged in the 1890s to become diplomats to the white community after their husband, brothers, and fathers were deprived. The African American women would try to obtain jobs for their husbands, brothers, and sons. While, the white women wanted to obtain jobs from their husbands, brothers, and sons. ...

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Maya's father, Bailey Johnson was a navy dietitian and her mother, Vivian Baxter was a nurse. ... Years later, Angelou and her son Guy, intending to migrate to Liberia, ended up settling in Ghana where she worked as the assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama at the University of Ghana while Guy attended the University. ...

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King was born in Atlanta (Georgia), January 15 of January 1929, older son of a minister Baptists. ... To the following year left its pastorate in Montgomery to exercise with its father to permit him to participate more efficiently in the leverage national of the prospering civil movement of rights. ...

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Paul didn't stay in this town very long when he was just a young boy his father, Rev. Robeson, moved himself and his youngest son Paul to the nearby town of Westfield, New Jersey which had even fewer blacks than the previous town of Princeton. ... Following in the footsteps of his father, who was very well educated himself, and his older brother, who went off to medical school, Paul was anxious to learn and it was shown through his grades. ... He later went on to be one of only 3 graduating blacks from College and still managed strive and surpass the level of educational excellency that...

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She is constantly reminded that her father deserves no respect because of the deep black color of his skin, and Emma Lou's stepfather's "only satisfaction in life was the pleasure he derived from insulting and ignoring the real blacks" (16). ... Alva is in a sad state of depression and has been abandoned by the mother of his crippled son. ... s black mammy" (206) and finds no love in the rekindled relationship with his father. ...

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The history of the United States corresponds with the history of basketball. The game of basketball had been created in 1891; it was until 1950 when the game became racially integrated, allowing black men to play on white teams. In 1892, a Gymnastic instructor, Senda Berenson Abbott, adapts to the b...

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"With so many of their brothers, sons and fathers away from war, black women increasingly found work outside the laundry and domestic service which had previously had been their lot."6 Black men and women are not only increased in numbers via employment, but union membership increased as well. ...

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In 1923, two brothers from Chicago, Illinois, founded the Disney Brother's Cartoon Studio. Over the course of nine decades, this studio, founded by Walt Disney and older brother Roy, has evolved into one of the world's largest multinational mass media corporations. Disney's animated films are renown...

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"With so many of their brothers, sons and fathers away from war, black women increasingly found work outside the laundry and domestic service which had previously had been their lot."6 Black men and women are not only increased in numbers via employment, but union membership increased as well. ...

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Helene fails to provide Nel with the sense of the unique self-worth when she makes her daughter pull her "broad flat nose" which Nel inherited from her father (Morrison 18). ... Still, the revelation that there exist people who do not worship her mother and are not under her control pleases Nel: "She [Nel] felt both pleased and ashamed to sense that these men, unlike her father, who worshiped his graceful, beautiful wife, were fuming with a hatred for her mother" (Morrison 22). ...

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Dark and dismal is the cloud that hangs over thee; for thy cruel wrongs and injuries to the fallen sons of Africa. ... The children grinned, laughed, showed their white teeth, and evinced very plainly that none of them knew what that wonderful prayer meant, nor that they had a father in heavan.16 Though there were many prominent black Christians during this era such as Richard Allen, David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Daniel Payne, the notion that a mass conversion of slaves took place in the antebellum period must be evaluated with prudence.17 Because slaves shared time primarily with...

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Because of his decision to worship Satan "not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness he became the father of an inferior race"2. ... The prophet Joseph Smith and the early elders of the Church believed that the seed of Cain continued through the flood by the wife of Ham, a son of Noah4. ...

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