Dana, the modern black women, is summoned to save and work for Rufus, a white son of a plantation owner, out of his misery. ... In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he snatched the book from me and threw me on the floor' 'I never saw where the whip came from; never even saw the first blow coming. ... She knew Rufus would try to physically abuse her bu...

• Word Count: 1077
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1226
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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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Pieter, an Afrikaner and the son of a fiercely conservative Afrikaner father, brings disgrace and destruction on both himself and on his family. Not only is he found guilty of violating the Immorality act, but he is also disowned by his father for violating society's ideal of racial purity. ... Pieter's father is chairman of the local National Party and reportedly wields considerable influence in the Parliament at Cape Town. ... Pieter's decision to take the "red oath" and fight with the British is a source of conflict between Pieter and his father. It also shows Pieter's...

• Word Count: 1438
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sexual abuse from slave owners caused a serious problem for slaves and caused women to feel father apart from men. ... It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched....

• Word Count: 734
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Only later is the reader told that the farmhand was actually the farm owners secret son. ... The true conflict comes in the heart of the main character and his handling of the situation in the aftermath how does this man realistically deal with the loss of his son from such a tragic accident, and equally as important to the anti-apartheid group of people, how does he handle the remainder of the situation with the country in high tension over anything involved in race. The only resolve ever really felt by the reader comes from the truth of the relationship of the father to his son, and why h...

• Word Count: 1018
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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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Douglass however lacks this kind of information, he is not sure who his father was (he only knows that he was white), and his memories of his mother are vague. ... Even if the father was white, by the "one drop rule" the child was considered to be black and thus "followed the condition of the mother"(Douglass 311). ... One of the main virtues of "The Cult of True Womanhood" was submissiveness either to husband, father or guardian, but in order for a slave woman to remain "pure", which is another virtue of the cult, she would have to resist her master, a thing that contradicted the virtue of su...

• Word Count: 1523
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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"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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"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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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...

• Word Count: 1954
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. ...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate