The media and research should provide the public with information that reveals the true essence of the family structure and how it is changing. ... If there is something we want, we know that we must work diligently to obtain it. ... For instance, when a person's relative dies, after the funeral service is over that day, and in some cases, for weeks after, people from the church will bring the bereaved family food so that nobody in the house has to be concerned with what is for dinner. ... When the preacher says something we agree with, we respond with a loud "Amen!" ... We have unshak...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to this historical context, we can know that the national pride of blacks grew in this era. ... Many people may think there only the negative responses of whites in the Harlem Renaissance because according to Claude Mckay who was one of the most important poets and writers in the Harlem Renaissance, his poems If We Must Die and America both illustrated the negatives responses and whites in that time. ... So how whites got attentions for the Harlem Renaissance? ... So we can see white patronages had a significant role in the Harlem renaissance. ... As we can see, Whites wrote two nove...

• Word Count: 1512
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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. ... Unable to question or to seek his own answers to complex issues and lacking a sense of identity, the narrator does not have a clear sense of who he is nor how he fits into society, nor doe...

• Word Count: 769
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The poems we studied in class reflect the ways in which society's expectations and social stigmas complicate a person's quest towards identity and true personhood. ... This poem, which the reader gathers is about a father's quest to set new path for his son, is great example of how social expectations can complicate a person's search for identity in adulthood. While reading this poem, it's easy to see that this family is and has been in the farming business for generations, which is stressed in the line, "we planted corn one Spring at Acu/we planted several times/ b...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There were several events that directly or indirectly stirred up the indignation that motivated the Movement, and the aftermath was quite significant to America, as we know it today. ... Now, hostile whites, who did not know how to treat blacks as equal human beings, surrounded, and still held authority over, freed African Americans in the South. ... The modern Civil Rights Movement was, without a doubt, the defining chapter of American civil rights, as we know them. ... Hundreds died, and thousands endured physical, emotional and verbal abuse, simply to gain the freedom that the Constituti...

• Word Count: 1230
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Challengers courage and his strength to not conform to then societies of how relationships should be shows though though you may be different from others, you can still learn and be able to love and cherish one another. ... While there are many cultural and ethnic differences between every race, we are all human and should explore and embrace the diversity of all cultures when it comes to religion, family views, peers, and community. ... Later on, her boyfriend died. ... Race, color, how people identify doesn't really cross my mind" Research has shown that younger adults today ha...

• Word Count: 1895
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, in the movie Where the Spirit Lives, we learned that Native-Americans were looked upon as being savages and very illiterate in the past. ... Moreover, Europeans beliefs and their literacy were forced upon these indigenous cultures, and, in many cases, cultures were being forcefully taught how to engage upon literacy from a European standpoint. ... Alice writes, "Your daddy didn't know how to git along, he say. ... Because so many children were sent off to the boarding schools, and many elders died when they were away, a lot of their "own" cultural identity and literacy was ...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate